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Twitter may start labeling your tweets based on how wrong you are. Twitter is one of many social media companies that's struggled to keep misinformation from running rampant on its platform over the years. (Alyse Stanley via Gizmodo)
Alibaba’s huge browser business is recording millions of android and iPhone users’ ‘Private’ web habits. If you went to download Alibaba-owned app UC Browser this month, whether from Google’s Android Play store or Apple’s iOS App Store, you would have been promised that with its “incognito” mode, no web browsing or search history would be recorded. Such guarantees, alongside promises of fast download times, have made the app, created by Alibaba subsidiary UCWeb, incredibly popular across the world, with 500 million downloads on Android alone. (Thomas Brewster via Forbes)
European insurtech startup Wefox grabs $650 million at $3 billion valuation. German startup Wefox has raised a $650 million Series C funding round led by Target Global. Following this funding round, the company has reached a post-money valuation of $3 billion. (Romain Dillet via TechCrunch)
Iran Now Hopes to See Nuclear Deal 'Fully Revived' by August. Iran says there are no obstacles but talks may take longer Oil markets focused on prospect of influx of Iranian supply Sign up for our Middle East newsletter and follow us @middleeast for news on the region. (Arsalan Shahla via Bloomberg)
Black Wall Street was shattered 100 years ago. How the Tulsa race massacre was covered up and unearthed. A century ago this week, the wealthiest U.S. Black community was burned to the ground. At the turn of the 20th century, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, became one of the first communities in the country thriving with Black entrepreneurial businesses. (Yun Li via CNBC)
KKR, CD&R Near Deal to Buy Cloudera. Private-equity firms KKR & Co. and Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC are nearing a deal to buy Cloudera Inc. and take the software company private, according to people familiar with the matter. (Miriam Gottfried via Wall Street Journal)
Capitol Hill staffers are fed up with unlivable salaries that hinder diversity and kneecap careers. Hill staffers have put up with low wages for years. Some start in the high $20,000s. Powerful Congress members want to give them a raise after a pandemic and the January 6 insurrection. (Kayla Epstein via Business Insider)
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