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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="http://www.techmeme.com/" target="frame0">Techmeme</a><br /><span class="rss-item">Tech Web, page A1</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210118/p11#a210118p11" target="frame0">Amateur digital sleuths have joined massive crowdsourcing efforts on social media to track violent Capital rioters, passing the evidence to authorities (Los Angeles Times)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:10:25 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Los Angeles Times: Amateur digital sleuths have joined massive crowdsourcing efforts on social media to track violent Capital rioters, passing the evidence to authorities&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The digital sleuths take to their computers in the moments when they can peel away from their real-world responsibilities &mdash; jobs &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210118/p10#a210118p10" target="frame0">Social media algorithms amplify the reach of incendiary, misinformation-filled, conspiracy theories, and users have no control over them (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:55:02 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: Social media algorithms amplify the reach of incendiary, misinformation-filled, conspiracy theories, and users have no control over them&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; What you see in your feeds isn\'t up to you.&nbsp; What\'s at stake is no longer just missing a birthday.&nbsp; It\'s your sanity&mdash;and world peace.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210118/p9#a210118p9" target="frame0">All-in-one HR service Personio raises $125M Series D at a $1.7B post-money valuation co-led by Index Ventures and Meritech (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:20:01 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: All-in-one HR service Personio raises $125M Series D at a $1.7B post-money valuation co-led by Index Ventures and Meritech&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; With the last year changing how (and where) many of us work, organizations have started to rethink how well they manage their employees, and what tools they use to do that.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210118/p8#a210118p8" target="frame0">AT&T, Verizon, and other bidders have spent a record $80.9B during the 5G spectrum auction, expected to lead to a wave of borrowing for the indebted sector (Wall Street Journal)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:55:03 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Wall Street Journal: AT&amp;T, Verizon, and other bidders have spent a record $80.9B during the 5G spectrum auction, expected to lead to a wave of borrowing for the indebted sector&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; AT&amp;T, Verizon expected to turn to bond markets and banks to finance bids in record-setting FCC airwaves auction');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210118/p7#a210118p7" target="frame0">Sources: Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab is considering an IPO in the US this year that could raise at least $2B (Anshuman Daga/Reuters)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:40:14 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Anshuman Daga / Reuters: Sources: Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab is considering an IPO in the US this year that could raise at least $2B&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab is exploring a listing in the United States this year &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210118/p6#a210118p6" target="frame0">Maps.me, an offline mobile map for travelers, raises $50M seed led by Alameda Research, aims to launch \"yield earning\" DeFi tools inside the app (Sebastian Sinclair/CoinDesk)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 Jan 2021 07:50:21 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: Maps.me, an offline mobile map for travelers, raises $50M seed led by Alameda Research, aims to launch &ldquo;yield earning&rdquo; DeFi tools inside the app&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The funding will go toward the launch of a multi-currency wallet on Maps.me, enabling decentralized finance (DeFi) features for 140 million users.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210118/p5#a210118p5" target="frame0">Tencent-backed Hike, once India\'s answer to WhatsApp and valued at $1.4B in 2016, says it is shutting down its messaging app Sticker Chat (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 Jan 2021 07:15:01 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Tencent-backed Hike, once India\'s answer to WhatsApp and valued at $1.4B in 2016, says it is shutting down its messaging app Sticker Chat&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; India\'s answer to WhatsApp has completely moved on from messaging.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Hike Messenger, backed by Tencent, Tiger Global and SoftBank and valued &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210118/p4#a210118p4" target="frame0">Samsung Electronics heir Jay Y. Lee was sentenced to 30 months in prison over bribery charges; Lee still faces a second prosecution related to succession (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 Jan 2021 07:00:39 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: Samsung Electronics heir Jay Y. Lee was sentenced to 30 months in prison over bribery charges; Lee still faces a second prosecution related to succession&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; - Lee sentenced to two and a half years in jail after court case&nbsp; &mdash; Samsung succession scandal has rocked South Korea for years');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210118/p3#a210118p3" target="frame0">Social platforms are neither communication services nor publishers, and society will have to evolve new norms to regulate speech on them (Benedict Evans)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 Jan 2021 05:35:00 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Benedict Evans: Social platforms are neither communication services nor publishers, and society will have to evolve new norms to regulate speech on them&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Facebook has close to 2bn users, posting over 100bn things each day.&nbsp; The global SMS system, at its peak, had 20-25bn messages a day.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210118/p2#a210118p2" target="frame0">A Harvard medical student used OpenAI\'s GPT-2 to submit comments on Idaho\'s Medicaid draft proposal; volunteers couldn\'t tell them apart from those by humans (Will Knight/Wired)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 Jan 2021 04:00:13 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Will Knight / Wired: A Harvard medical student used OpenAI\'s GPT-2 to submit comments on Idaho\'s Medicaid draft proposal; volunteers couldn\'t tell them apart from those by humans&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; A Harvard medical student submitted auto-generated comments to Medicaid; volunteers couldn\'t distinguish them from those penned by humans.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210118/p1#a210118p1" target="frame0">The dominant business model of social media platforms, which emphasizes scale over everything else, makes them particularly vulnerable to disinformation (Joan Donovan/HBR.org)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 Jan 2021 02:15:02 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Joan Donovan / HBR.org: The dominant business model of social media platforms, which emphasizes scale over everything else, makes them particularly vulnerable to disinformation&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Summary.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The attack on the U.S. Capitol building was the culmination of years of disinformation and conspiracy theories that had been weaponized on social media networks.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210117/p15#a210117p15" target="frame0">A look at the shady aspects of Tether, the stablecoin being probed by SDNY for over a year, widely used to buy BTC and other cryptocurrencies on many exchanges (Medium)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sun, 17 Jan 2021 23:25:09 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Medium: A look at the shady aspects of Tether, the stablecoin being probed by SDNY for over a year, widely used to buy BTC and other cryptocurrencies on many exchanges&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; This is the story of a Bitcoin trade &mdash; the most financially impactful trade I\'ve ever made in my life.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210117/p14#a210117p14" target="frame0">Frankfurt, Germany-based CLARK, which searches for the best insurance rates for its users, raises &euro;69M Series C led by Tencent (FinSMEs)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sun, 17 Jan 2021 22:30:04 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('FinSMEs: Frankfurt, Germany-based CLARK, which searches for the best insurance rates for its users, raises &euro;69M Series C led by Tencent&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Clark, a Frankfurt, Germany-based digital insurance manager, raised &euro;69m in Series &#8203;C funding.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The round was led by Tencent with participation &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210117/p13#a210117p13" target="frame0">Sources: in a flurry of parting actions against China, Trump\'s admin has notified Huawei suppliers including Intel that it\'s revoking licenses to sell to Huawei (Reuters)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sun, 17 Jan 2021 20:10:13 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Reuters: Sources: in a flurry of parting actions against China, Trump\'s admin has notified Huawei suppliers including Intel that it\'s revoking licenses to sell to Huawei&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration notified Huawei suppliers, including chipmaker Intel &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/210117/p12#a210117p12" target="frame0">Sources: Citrix is in advanced talks with Vista Equity Partners to buy Wrike for $2B+, after the PE firm acquired the work-management service for ~$800M in 2018 (Bloomberg)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sun, 17 Jan 2021 19:15:04 -0500</span><br />');
document.write('Bloomberg: Sources: Citrix is in advanced talks with Vista Equity Partners to buy Wrike for $2B+, after the PE firm acquired the work-management service for ~$800M in 2018&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; - Deal for work-management platform could be reached this week&nbsp; &mdash; Vista invested in Wrike at an $800 million valuation in 2018');
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