More hate speech is a feature, not a bug, on today’s Twitter. So Adobe, Microsoft, and others can’t be surprised to find their ads next to neo-Nazi propaganda. Do they care? Do their customers care? Would the company’s new CEO have taken the job if she cared? So many questions.
When Adobe agreed last September to pay $20 billion for fast-growing web design platform Figma, the intent to remove a competitive threat seemed obvious. (Or not: see this opposing view.) A rumored U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust suit never appeared but the U.K. authorities opened an investigation in May and we now have reports that EU authorities are considering action as well. That’s what happens when you feed them meat
Seedstars Capital and Fondation Botnar have announced the launch of the Seedstars Youth Wellbeing Ventures mandate, to invest US$20 million in early-stage, purpose-driven companies with the aim to improve the wellbeing of young people in low-and middle-income countries across the continent.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.