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- The Wild Wild Web, a shoot-first, aim-later era of tech strategy, is coming to an end, and a less willfully naïve, self-policing ethos is taking its place (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
- Evo, a renowned esports tournament that moved online in 2020 due to the pandemic, is canceled after parting ways with co-founder for alleged sexual misconduct (Neil Greenberg/Washington Post)
- Profile of investor Lee Fixel, the partner behind Tiger Global's investments in Flipkart and Peloton, who says he raised $1.3B for his VC firm Addition (Alex Konrad/Forbes)
- Some advertisers participating in the ad boycott remain unimpressed with Facebook's promises to better police hate speech, as negotiations continue (Washington Post)
- Interview with Troy Hunt, founder and sole employee of Have I Been Pwned, on his reluctance to retain breached data, future revenue streams, being pwned himself (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- A conversation between Wendy Liu and Alex Kantrowitz on the ills and promises of Silicon Valley, following publication of their contrasting books on the subject (Brian Merchant/OneZero )
- Analysts say that under the new security law, Hong Kong police won't need court orders to force ISPs to help with investigations or remove information (Phila Siu/South China Morning Post)
- Uber partners with three local cab companies to launch a taxi dispatch service in Tokyo, six years after entering Japan (Bloomberg)
- Internet Association publishes a wish list for a UK-US trade deal, including no unilateral digital taxes and protecting "intermediary liability protections" (Stefan Boscia/CityAM)
- LinkedIn says its iOS app is copying the contents of users' clipboards after every key press due to a bug and promises a fix, after iOS 14 reveals the snooping (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
- WhatsApp's private group structure encourages spread of misinfo and conspiracy theories as it enables higher levels of trust and solidarity among group members (William Davies/The Guardian)
- Apple is pulling away from the competition to a degree never seen before and has years' worth of competitive advantage in emerging categories like wearables (Neil Cybart/Above Avalon)
- UK government and India's Bharti Enterprises win an auction for bankrupt satellite broadband operator OneWeb for $1B; the parties will own a 45% stake each (Financial Times)
- Instacart raises $100M in new funding from T. Rowe Price, on top of the $225M round co-led by DST Global and General Catalyst last month (Dan Primack/Axios)
- Taiwan's Foxconn says customs clearing procedures in India have been resolved (Yimou Lee/Reuters)
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Silicon Alley Insider
- Why an early exec quit unicorn food delivery startup Deliveroo to launch a food business in the middle of a pandemic
- T-Mobile is outpacing the rest of the Big Four US carriers on value, loyalty, and satisfaction ? here's what consumers say is most important when selecting a mobile provider (TMUS, S, VZ, T)
- Read the pitch deck that buzzy startup Devoted Health used to reach a $1.8 billion valuation before it signed up a single customer
- How to watch 'Hamilton' on Disney Plus
- Siemens and Salesforce are teaming up to try to bring employees back to the office safely. Here's what top execs from each tech firm expect for the future of the workplace.
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck AI transport firm CitySwift used to raise $2 million in seed funding
- Meet Material Bank, a Bain-backed logistics startup disrupting the architecture industry. Here's a look at its vision for becoming the Amazon of design.
- From warehouses to office space, real-estate markets are being turned upside down. These are the winners and losers.
- Elon Musk once again denied knowing Ghislaine Maxwell, saying she 'photobombed me once' in a widely-shared 2014 photo
- 14 productivity and collaboration startups that are taking on the Microsoft Office suite and reinventing how people work, according to experts
- THE RISE OF CLOUD GAMING: Cloud-based streaming is the next frontier in the video gaming ecosystem ? here's why cloud service providers and telecoms are vying to tap the multibillion-dollar opportunity
- I've been using this $450 Android phone that has features even Apple's $1,000 iPhone 11 Pro is missing ? here are the best and worst things about it so far
- Amazon's $1.2 billion deal to buy Zoox shows just how hard building a self-driving car still is ?and why even more startups could become buyout targets (AMZN, UBER, WMT)
- Judi Dench is just like us: She uses TikTok to break up the monotony of coronavirus quarantine
- Google is closer than ever to having all the pieces for a wearables comeback, from a Pixel Watch to Glass 2.0. Here's how it could play out. (GOOG, GOOGL)
- This $100 million startup born out of Alphabet's secretive X lab and backed by Comcast wants to dig a hole in your yard that could save you more than $2,000 a year on energy bills
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck Lithuanian delivery startup Ziticity used to raise $2.5 million during coronavirus
- 4 times that major tech companies, from Apple to Google and Amazon, tried and failed to break into video games (AAPL, GOOGL, AMZN)
- The top 9 movies on Netflix this week, from 'Athlete A' to 'Eurovision Song Contest'
- Amazon and the creators of "Westworld" are making a TV series based on "Fallout", the hit video-game series
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