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News influencers survey: 20% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right-wing, and more (Pew Research Center)

News influencers survey: 20% of US adults say they...

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MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B in bitcoin (Dave Liedtka/Bloomberg)

MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B be...

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PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares back to investors, the lowest amount since 2011, and invested $60B more than they collected, a record (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of ...

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Roblox rolls out parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts with a child and banning text chat for under 13s outside games (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)

Roblox rolls out parental controls and gatekeeping...

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Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt begins an early trial of its digital wallet in Belgium to help deliver social services to 7M citizens, as he worries over AI's rise (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt begins an early trial of ...

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How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023 (New York Times)

How Substack is betting on politics content and re...

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Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, above ~$12.4B est., and a ~$738.5M net income, above ~$653M est., buoyed by growing smartphone and EV sales (Bloomberg)

Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, a...

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Sources and ads: Foxconn tells recruiters that help hire iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender, and marital criteria and its name from ads (Reuters)

Sources and ads: Foxconn tells recruiters that hel...

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Samsung unveils a $7.2B share buyback plan, its first since 2017, aimed at boosting its stock, which has fallen 30%+ in 2024 on concerns over Chair Lee Jae-yong (Financial Times)

Samsung unveils a $7.2B share buyback plan, its fi...

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Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on upcoming FCC chair Brendan Carr, the alliance between Trump and Musk and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more (Oliver Darcy/Status)

Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on upcoming FCC...

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How Wall Street is preparing to cash on AI hysteria; analysis say delivering on AI's promise will require $1T+ for data centers, electricity, and more (Bloomberg)

How Wall Street is preparing to cash on AI hysteri...

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Chinese smartphone manufacturers are ramping up their efforts in Europe to grab marketshare from Apple and Samsung with tech such as foldable devices (Financial Times)

Chinese smartphone manufacturers are ramping up th...

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Edison: 31% of US weekly podcast listeners say YouTube is their most used platform to listen to podcasts, surpassing Spotify at 27% and Apple Podcasts at 15% (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Edison: 31% of US weekly podcast listeners say You...

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Trump: FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the FCC; Carr has suggested limiting Section 230 of the Communications Act to curb Big Tech content moderation (Bloomberg)

Trump: FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair th...

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Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the agency; Carr can immediately assume control once Trump is inaugurated as he is already on the commission (John Hendel/Politico)

Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chai...

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Sources detail efforts by Google and Meta to sink KOSA, which passed in the Senate almost unanimously, by dividing US House lawmakers with culture war issues (Wall Street Journal)

Sources detail efforts by Google and Meta to sink ...

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Sources: Trump's transition team is looking for candidates to lead the US Department of Transportation and develop a federal framework for autonomous vehicles (Bloomberg)

Sources: Trump's transition team is looking for ca...

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Sources: CISA's director Jen Easterly and deputy director Nitin Natarajan plan to leave the agency on January 20, 2025, the day Trump will be inaugurated (Nextgov/FCW)

Sources: CISA's director Jen Easterly and deputy d...

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