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Google employee activist says she been fired
Employee activist Rebecca Rivers (who was involved in a campaign pressuring Google to end its
Customs and Border Protection)said yesterday that she&d been fired
Google declined to comment but confirmed an internal note published by Bloomberg, which said the company fired a total of four employees for
repeatedly violating its data-security policies.
Earlier this month, Google put Rivers and Laurence Berland on leave for allegedly violating
Ahead of an employee rally last week, however, organizers said the &attack& on Rivers and Berland &is an attack on all people who care about
transparency and accountability for tech.&
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Facebook Viewpoints pays users for well-being surveys - tasks
People in the U.S
who are over 18 can now download Viewpoints and participate in a survey to help Facebook can learn to &limit the negative impacts of social
media and enhance the benefits.& Other opportunities include completing online chores on behalf of Facebook or trying out new apps or
devices ahead of launch so Facebook can refine them.
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Announcing the complete Disrupt Berlin agenda
Join us December 11 and December 12 as we sit down with CEOs from big-name companies such as
UIPath, Samsung and Naspers, as well as leading investors from Atomico, SoftBank and Index.
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Leavy.co, the app for millennials who want to rent out their room while traveling, discloses $14M funding
The Leavy.co app is described as a
&travel community and marketplace& that wants to help millennials travel more for less
At the heart of its offering is a way for travelers (dubbed &Happy Leavers&) to rent out their room or apartment when they are away to help
NASA second free-flying assistant robot gets to work
NASA activated a free-floating autonomous robot called ‘Bumble& earlier this year,
and now Bumble has a new companion called Honey
Both are Astrobee robots, cube-like &robotic teammates& for ISS astronauts, that are designed to help with experiments, day-to-day
Argentine fintech Ualá raises $150M led by Tencent and SoftBank
Founder and CEO Pierpaolo Barbieri, a Buenos Aires native and Harvard
University graduate, says his ambition was to create a platform that would bring all financial services into one app linked to one card
As it exists now, Ualá is linked to a prepaid, global Mastercard and allows users to transfer money, invest in mutual funds, request loans,
pay bills and top-up prepaid services.
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The herd sours on unprofitable unicorns again
Wasabi CEO David Friend looks at why venture and private equity funds have been chasing
unprofitable unicorns, and why they&ve soured on those unicorns lately
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