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Internal letter: ~350 Twitter employees ask leadership to permanently suspend Trump and account for Twitter’s role leading up to the insurrection (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:Internal letter: ~350 Twitter employees ask leadership to permanently suspend Trump and account for Twitter’s role leading up to the insurrection  —  “Despite our efforts to serve the public conversation, as Trump’s megaphone, we helped fuel the deadly events of January 6th,” the employees wrote.

8 January 2021 0

Twitter has banned the accounts of several Trump advisers, including Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn, for violating its ban on “Coordinated Harmful Activity” (NBC News)

NBC News:Twitter has banned the accounts of several Trump advisers, including Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn, for violating its ban on “Coordinated Harmful Activity”  —  Twitter on Friday removed the accounts of Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and other high-profile supporters …

8 January 2021 0

Sources: Intel has held talks with TSMC and Samsung to outsource some of its high-end chip production to Taiwan; chips wouldn’t come out until at least 2023 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:Sources: Intel has held talks with TSMC and Samsung to outsource some of its high-end chip production to Taiwan; chips wouldn’t come out until at least 2023  —  – TSMC readies new facility that can serve Intel’s needs  — Intel holds out hope for late gains by in-house manufacturing

8 January 2021 0

Cisco sues optical interconnect equipment maker Acacia Communications for trying to end a $2.6B merger after Acacia said it failed to get approval from China (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:Cisco sues optical interconnect equipment maker Acacia Communications for trying to end a $2.6B merger after Acacia said it failed to get approval from China  —  Cisco Systems Inc. sued to stop Acacia Communications Inc. from ending a merger agreement, after Acacia said it failed to get regulatory approval from China in time.

8 January 2021 0

Substack says it plans to roll out a “multipub” tool, which will let users aggregate newsletters and podcasts they manage under one publication, in February (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:Substack says it plans to roll out a “multipub” tool, which will let users aggregate newsletters and podcasts they manage under one publication, in February  —  Substack is adding a long-awaited new feature today: the ability to change the look of newsletters.

8 January 2021 0

Sources: AT&T couldn’t get an HBO Max distribution deal for Amazon’s Fire TV devices before WarnerMedia agreed to extend its contract for AWS services (Jessica Toonkel/The Information)

Jessica Toonkel / The Information:Sources: AT&T couldn’t get an HBO Max distribution deal for Amazon’s Fire TV devices before WarnerMedia agreed to extend its contract for AWS services  —  For six months after WarnerMedia launched HBO Max, the growth of the high-profile new streaming service suffered because the company …

8 January 2021 0

Reddit bans one of its largest Trump supporting subreddits, r/donaldtrump, due to repeated policy violations with regard to the violence at the Capitol (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios:Reddit bans one of its largest Trump supporting subreddits, r/donaldtrump, due to repeated policy violations with regard to the violence at the Capitol  —  Reddit has banned the subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump,” a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.  —  Why it matters: While not an official group …

8 January 2021 0

Madrid-based digital temp staffing agency Jobandtalent raises ~$108M, bringing total raised to $290M, says it helped 80K+ workers with temporary gigs last year (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:Madrid-based digital temp staffing agency Jobandtalent raises ~$108M, bringing total raised to $290M, says it helped 80K+ workers with temporary gigs last year  —  Madrid-based Jobandtalent, a digital temp staffing agency which operates a dual-sided platform that connects temp workers …

8 January 2021 0

Kuo says there will be no improvements to main iPhone camera lens in 2021 and 2022, does not change forecasts for upgrades for ultrawide and telephoto lenses (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:Kuo says there will be no improvements to main iPhone camera lens in 2021 and 2022, does not change forecasts for upgrades for ultrawide and telephoto lenses  —  Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo previously predicted significant improvements to two of the three iPhone lenses in 2021 and 2022 respectively.

8 January 2021 0

Sources: China’s Baidu has selected CLSA and Goldman Sachs for its planned second listing in Hong Kong, which could raise at least $3.5B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:Sources: China’s Baidu has selected CLSA and Goldman Sachs for its planned second listing in Hong Kong, which could raise at least $3.5B  —  – Search giant aiming to raise at least $3.5 billion in listing  — U.S.-listed Chinese firms raised $17 billion in city last year

8 January 2021 0

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