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How tech companies based in Kyiv, including Grammarly, Readdle, and MacPaw, are dealing with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine(Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
How tech companies based in Kyiv, including Grammarly, Readdle, and MacPaw, are dealing with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — Russia officially invaded Ukraine Thursday. The U.S. and its allies are imposing sanctions, but, as U.S. President Joe Biden said in a press conference Thursday … Source
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Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about the company’s vision for the metaverse and how it could become a dystopian nightmare(Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about the company’s vision for the metaverse and how it could become a dystopian nightmare — The metaverse, the concept of an alternative, shared digital world that originated in sci-fi, has bubbled up to the surface of tech chatter during the later days of the pandemic… Source
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Profile of Edwin Robbe, who hacked the Netherlands’ largest telecom KPN as a teenager and cost the company €3M, before being found dead in South Korea(Huib Modderkolk/The Guardian)
Profile of Edwin Robbe, who hacked the Netherlands’ largest telecom KPN as a teenager and cost the company €3M, before being found dead in South Korea — Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers… Source
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Something Awful administrator says founder Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka has died at 45; founded in 1999, SA’s influence over the contemporary web has been huge(Brian Ashcraft/Kotaku)
Something Awful administrator says founder Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka has died at 45; founded in 1999, SA’s influence over the contemporary web has been huge — Kyanka created the influential Something Awful website in 1999 — Longtime Something Awful forum administrator Fragmaster posted … Source
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Helsinki-based Yousician, which claims to have 20M MAUs across its music education app and guitar tuning app, raises $28M Series B led by True Ventures(Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Helsinki-based Yousician, which claims to have 20M MAUs across its music education app and guitar tuning app, raises $28M Series B led by True Ventures _ Thür (previously a laser researcher) recalled an early meeting with an investor who asked whether he and co-founder Mikko Kaipainen (an electrical engineer) were music teachers… Source
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Interview with Samsung VP Jaeyeon Jung on the new Galaxy SmartTag and how it fits into the SmartThings ecosystem, which as of December had 66M active users(Carolina Milanesi/Fast Company)
Interview with Samsung VP Jaeyeon Jung on the new Galaxy SmartTag and how it fits into the SmartThings ecosystem, which as of December had 66M active users — While the Apple world waits patiently for an “AirTags” announcement, Samsung is already shipping its remote location device, the Galaxy SmartTag… Source
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Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company’s plans, business model, open-source competitor RISC-V, Intel relationship, need to invest more in R&D, and more(Max A. Cherney/Protocol)
Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company’s plans, business model, open-source competitor RISC-V, Intel relationship, need to invest more in R&D, and more _ Arm CEO Rene Haas told Protocol that Arm will be fine as a standalone company… Source
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Dialog Semiconductor, whose clients include Apple and Samsung, is in advanced talks to sell the company to Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corp. for ~$5.9B(Bloomberg)
Dialog Semiconductor, whose clients include Apple and Samsung, is in advanced talks to sell the company to Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corp. for ~$5.9B — – Renesas prepared to offer EU67.50 per share in cash for Dialog — Dialog comments on bid in statement after Bloomberg report… Source
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Interview with GoPuff co-founder Rafael Ilishayev, on why the startup acquired BevMo, breaking into the California market, responding to drivers’ demands, more(Sam Dean/Los Angeles Times)
Interview with GoPuff co-founder Rafael Ilishayev, on why the startup acquired BevMo, breaking into the California market, responding to drivers’ demands, more — When an East Coast startup called Gopuff paid $350 million for BevMo in November 2020, it wasn’t immediately clear … Source
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In a letter to Tim Cook, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee “strongly urge” Apple to reconsider refusal to provide a witness for upcoming hearing on app stores(Makena Kelly/The Verge)
In a letter to Tim Cook, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee “strongly urge” Apple to reconsider refusal to provide a witness for upcoming hearing on app stores — ‘We strongly urge Apple to reconsider its position,’ the senators said — Senate Judiciary Committee leaders … Source
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