Archive for February 19th, 2009
emoticons, the early years
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hi, my name is Bob…
Posted by: amygdala on February 19, 2009
links for 2009-02-18
Posted by: amygdala on February 19, 2009
- UK-based travel software company Travelport says private equity companies Siris Capital and Elliot Management will take it private for ~$4.4B in cash (Sean O'Neill/Skift)
- A group of ten US tech companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter, have collectively denounced Australia's anti-encryption law (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- Google Lens is now rolling out to the Google iOS app with a live viewfinder that lets users tap on objects or text to begin a visual search analysis (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Verizon says 10K+ employees, or about 7% of its workforce, have accepted its voluntary severance packages which were offered to ~44K employees in September (Sara Salinas/CNBC)
- House report finds that Equifax's security practices and policies were subpar and that patching vulnerable systems could have prevented last year's data breach (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- YouTube says it has terminated the account of Gavin McInnes, the founder of far-right organization Proud Boys, due to multiple claims of copyright infringement (Joan E. Solsman/CNET)
- Amazon begins rolling out features that allow US Alexa users to set location-based routines and reminders, find and call local businesses, check email, and more (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- Facebook says it will now let individual developers not associated with a business go through its revised app review process to regain access to certain APIs (Anna Hensel/VentureBeat)
- Sources: Vishal Shah, a product exec who oversaw Instagram's shopping efforts, ad products, and IGTV, has been promoted to head of product for all of Instagram (Kurt Wagner/Recode)
- House Judiciary Committee posts Sundar Pichai's prepared testimony, where he talks about leading without political bias, taking users' privacy seriously, more (David McCabe/Axios)
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