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Activision Blizzard says that Blizzard’s head of global human resources, Jesse Meschuk, has also left the company (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Activision Blizzard says that Blizzard’s head of global human resources, Jesse Meschuk, has also left the company — Jesse Meschuk, SVP of global HR, has left — Blizzard president J. Allen Brack isn’t the only executive leaving the company today after presiding over a culture now accused of fostering “constant sexual harassment.” Source
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Grab is setting up a drive-through vaccination service across Indonesia with the government, plans to vaccinate 2,500 drivers and 5K people/week in Bali center (Soraya Permatasari / Bloomberg)
Grab is setting up a drive-through vaccination service across Indonesia with the government, plans to vaccinate 2,500 drivers and 5K people/week in Bali center — – Grab’s Bali center is capable of giving 5,000 shots a week — Government targets to inoculate 70 million people by August. Source
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Q&A with Unity CFO Kim Jabal, about the impact from Apple’s upcoming IDFA changes, the tug of war between targeted ads and privacy, competition with Epic, more (Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat)
Q&A with Unity CFO Kim Jabal, about the impact from Apple’s upcoming IDFA changes, the tug of war between targeted ads and privacy, competition with Epic, more — Unity Technologies recently reported better than expected earnings for the fourth quarter ended December 31. Source
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Tel Aviv and Palo Alto-based Metrolink.ai, which is developing a data management service, raises a $22M seed led by Grove Ventures (Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat)
Tel Aviv and Palo Alto-based Metrolink.ai, which is developing a data management service, raises a $22M seed led by Grove Ventures — Israel- and Palo Alto, California-based Metrolink.ai, which is developing a platform for data management, today announced that it raised $22 million. Source
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A look at the rise of VPNs in Russia following its war in Ukraine; Apptopia: daily downloads of the top ten VPNs jumped from 15K before the war to 475K in March (Anthony Faiola / Washington Post)
A look at the rise of VPNs in Russia following its war in Ukraine; Apptopia: daily downloads of the top ten VPNs jumped from 15K before the war to 475K in March — A surge in virtual private network downloads is a challenge to Vladimir Putin and his version of the war. Source
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From BitClout to income share agreements at Lambda School, the future of work feels like a pyramid scheme where you can package and sell others’ potential (Dror Poleg)
From BitClout to income share agreements at Lambda School, the future of work feels like a pyramid scheme where you can package and sell others’ potential — The future of work is a pyramid scheme, where every person sells his favorite person to the next person. Source
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People are sending news about Ukraine to Russians using a website that randomly selects from a list of ~20M phone numbers and ~140M email addresses in Russia (Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal)
People are sending news about Ukraine to Russians using a website that randomly selects from a list of ~20M phone numbers and ~140M email addresses in Russia — Website developed by hackers is new initiative in West’s battle to counter Russia’s propaganda campaign. Source
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Yandex has lost 75%+ of its value in the past 6 months, despite not being directly sanctioned, as deals with Uber, Grubhub, and DuckDuckGo appear likely to end (Dave Lee / Financial Times)
Yandex has lost 75%+ of its value in the past 6 months, despite not being directly sanctioned, as deals with Uber, Grubhub, and DuckDuckGo appear likely to end — Western investors and tech partners are abandoning the group following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Source
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Insurer AXA is suffering ransomware and DDoS attacks on its Asia-based branches, a week after saying it would no longer reimburse ransoms paid by French clients (Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer)
Insurer AXA is suffering ransomware and DDoS attacks on its Asia-based branches, a week after saying it would no longer reimburse ransoms paid by French clients — Branches of insurance giant AXA based in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines have been struck by a ransomware cyber attack. Source
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BitPay adds Apple Pay support for its prepaid Mastercard which allows users to instantly convert their cryptocurrencies into fiat to pay for goods and services (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
BitPay adds Apple Pay support for its prepaid Mastercard which allows users to instantly convert their cryptocurrencies into fiat to pay for goods and services — Bitcoin wallet BitPay’s Prepaid Mastercard users in the US can now add their card to Apple Wallet and Apple Pay will now allow Bitcoin …
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