Archive for April 5th, 2010
links for 2010-04-04
Posted by: amygdala on April 5, 2010
- An in-depth look at OnlyFans agencies, which manage hundreds of models' accounts and use teams of ghostwriters to chat with subscribers in private messages (Ezra Marcus/New York Times)
- Elon Musk says the Twitter deal "cannot move forward" until Twitter proves bots are
- Tech that is designed for marginalized and vulnerable groups from the start is better, safer, more innovative, robust, and integrative of privacy (Afsaneh Rigot/Wired)
- Paytm Mall, the e-commerce arm of Paytm, loses Alibaba and Ant Financial as investors, and its valuation drops from $3B to $13M (Entrackr)
- Survey: 44% of Americans think tech giants should be regulated more, down from 56% in April 2021, while 1 in 5 explicitly want less regulation, up from 1 in 10 (Emily A. Vogels/Pew Research Center)
- Regulatory filings show Tiger Global has sold its entire stake in Bumble, Airbnb, and Didi, and ~80% of its stake in Robinhood during 2022's tech stock sell-off (Financial Times)
- Filing: shareholders voted against Intel's compensation for its top executives; the vote is advisory and won't immediately affect the compensation of the execs (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
- Report: the real-time bidding industry exposes a person's online activity and location 747 times per day on average in the US and 376 times per day in Europe (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
- A California judge strikes down a 2018 state law requiring public companies in California to put female directors on their boards, citing it as unconstitutional (Theo Francis/Wall Street Journal)
- The US DOJ says that Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez, a cardiologist in Venezuela, created, rented to cybercriminals, and profited from Jigsaw and Thanos ransomware (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
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