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Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Twitter says it mistakenly suspended a dozen accounts after “coordinated and malicious reports” targeted researchers and journalists, launches a policy review — Far-right activists had urged their followers to use a new company rule to target anti-extremism...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta says it is testing a Split Payments feature for Messenger in the US that lets users share the cost of bills and expenses — Facebook Messenger announced today that it's starting to test out a new “Split Payments” feature that introduces a way for users to share...

Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: The FBI says Cuba ransomware actors earned at least $43.9M from ransom payments and breached at least 49 US critical infrastructure organizations this year — The US Federal Bureau of Investigations said today that the operators of the Cuba ransomware have earned...

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google says it will not require employees to return to US offices on January 10 as expected, but encourages employees to come in to build “muscle memory” — - Google's security VP, Chris Rackow, sent a companywide email Thursday that said Google will not require employees...

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: An anti-fascist researcher says her Twitter account was suspended after someone reported a 2019 tweet of hers following Twitter's new “private media policy” — Researchers fear the new ban on posts sharing people's private information will be ‘emboldening to the...

Reuters: Didi Global says it will begin the process of delisting from the NYSE and listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange — Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global (DIDI.N) said on Friday it will start work on delisting from the New York stock exchange and begin pursuing a listing in Hong Kong...

Tina Bellon / Reuters: Uber says it is launching an optional audio recording pilot program to enhance safety in three US cities this month, following a Latin America rollout in 2019 — Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) on Thursday said it will launch an optional audio recording pilot program in...

Washington Post: Planned Parenthood Los Angeles says a hacker gained access to its network in October, compromising the information of ~400,000 patients including clinical data — A hacker gained access to the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Planned Parenthood patients in October …

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: In its end-of-year threat report, Meta says it took down several global disinformation networks, including anti-vaccine groups and groups linked to state actors — The takedowns described in the company's latest threat report demonstrate how the...

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: In an internal Slack message, Marc Benioff says Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor will continue to report to him — Bret Taylor is co-CEO of Salesforce in name only, it turns out. The Information has learned that in his new role Taylor will continue to report to...

Matt Grossman / Wall Street Journal: Match Group says it will pay $441M to settle claims by Tinder founders and execs that Match undervalued the app to avoid paying up to $2B in mid-2017 — Company says it would pay $441 million to plaintiffs, including dating app's co-founders — Match Group...

Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: Crypto.com says it plans to acquire the North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex) and a ~40% stake in Small Exchange from IG Group for $216M in cash — - Small Exchange is backed by Citadel, Peak6, Jump Capital — Cash deal is expected to be completed in first...

Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: Qualcomm says it will integrate Google's Vertex AI NAS into its Neural Processing SDK, starting with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, to automate the creation of AI models — The tech giants will collaborate on neural networking to speed up and optimize AI models. — KONA, HAWAII...

Frank Chaparro / The Block: Bitcoin mining firm Griid says it will go public via a SPAC in Q1 2022 at a valuation of around $3.3B, including debt — Bitcoin mining firm Griid is preparing to become the latest company in the crypto market to go public, the Ohio-based firm announced Tuesday.

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS says four of its cloud-based analytics services, Redshift, EMR, MSK, and Kinesis, are now available as serverless and on-demand services in public preview — At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced that four of its cloud-based analytics services...

Jon Porter / The Verge: UK's CMA says Meta must sell Giphy, after finding the deal could harm social media users, rival platforms by denying access to GIFs, and UK advertisers — After its investigation found it could harm competition — The UK's competition regulator has officially ruled that...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union says the NLRB has authorized a new election for Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama — - The National Labor Relations Board has authorized a new union election at one of Amazon's Alabama warehouses, the labor union behind the...

Gleb Stolyarov / Reuters: Russia's Roskomnadzor regulator says its slowdown of Twitter on mobile, in force since March, will continue until all content deemed illegal is removed — Russia will continue slowing down the speed of Twitter (TWTR.N) on mobile devices until all content deemed illegal...

Financial Times: Sky Mavis says its crypto-based game Axie Infinity quadrupled DAUs in under 3 months to 2M in October, as some analysts question Axie's economic sustainability — Video game analysts are questioning the economic sustainability of pay-to-play ‘Axie’ — Eight months ago …