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February 21, 2021
PE firm Carlyle Group invests $200M in Kakao Mobility, which offers South Korea’s most popular taxi-hailing service, valuing the company at about $3.1B (Joyce Lee/Reuters)
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February 20, 2021
For many services, moderating content has become an existential crisis; some services are even establishing rules that pre-empt the need for costly moderation (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Researchers discover macOS malware dubbed “Silver Sparrow” on at least 30K Macs, which includes a native M1 version and leverages the Installer JavaScript API (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
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Whatsapp says users who haven’t accepted its new privacy policy by May 15 can receive calls and notifications “for a short time”, but not read or send messages (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
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Facebook deletes the main page of the Myanmar military for “repeated violations of Community Standards prohibiting incitement of violence and coordinating harm” (Reuters)
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Facebook’s Australia ban is acute for people in places like Fiji, who rely on phone plans with cheap Facebook access as going to news websites costs more data (Sheldon Chanel/The Guardian)
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US video streaming giants are finding it more challenging to cash in on India, amid outcries over edgy content and difficulties in convincing consumers to pay (Financial Times)
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On This Day in Space! Feb. 20, 1962: John Glenn becomes 1st American to orbit Earth, ,
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