🤫 How tech giants use secretive legal contracts for their employees to create a culture of silence in Silicon Valley
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How tech giants use secretive legal contracts for their employees to create a culture of silence in Silicon Valley. Insider reviewed 36 tech workers' nondisclosure agreements, providing one of the most comprehensive looks to date into the widely used contracts. The NDAs often contained overly broad language and many are likely unenforceable, employment lawyers… (Matt Drange via Business Insider)
Twitter 'acqui-hires' the team from subscription news app. Twitter's recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief. The startup from former Google engineers launched last year to offer a subscription-based news… (Sarah Perez via TechCrunch)
A Controversial Tool Calls Out Thousands of Hackable Websites. The web has long been a playground for hackers, offering up hundreds of millions of public-facing servers to comb through for basic vulnerabilities to exploit. Now one hacker tool is about to take that practice to its logical, extreme conclusion… (Andy Greenberg via WIRED)
Password management platform 1Password raises $100M as business booms. All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Password management platform 1Password has raised $100 million in an Accel-led round of funding at a $2 billion valuation. (Paul Sawers via VentureBeat)
Starbucks Is the New Talent Factory Powering Corporate America. When Starbucks Corp. announced the abrupt departure of its second-in-command in January, Wall Street was unsettled by the news. (Jeff Green via Bloomberg)
Apple set to report earnings after the bell. Apple is scheduled to report its fiscal third-quarter earnings after markets close on Tuesday. The June quarter is typically Apple's slowest of the year, but the company has recently seen a surge in Mac and iPad sales during the pandemic. (Kif Leswing via CNBC)
Billionaire Charles Koch On Why Cannabis Should Be Legal. Depending on whom you ask, Charles Koch is a titan of industry, dark money political bogeyman or the Marcus Aurelius of the libertarian movement. But soon Koch might be known as the billionaire who persuaded Republican and Democratic holdouts to legalize cannabis at the federal level. (Will Yakowicz via Forbes)
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