Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that an innocent Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted
and unleash chaos Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Sequoia partner spreads debunked Brown shooting theory, testing new leadership Media Matters for America : After the Brown University shooting, right-med...
Arab and Muslim workers at Meta detail frustrations over Meta's handling of internal discussions on the Israel-Hamas war, worrying it led to bad product choices
Wired : X: @marcowenjones , @nicolefroio , @evystadium , and @wired . Forums: r/worldnews X: Marc Owen Jones / @marcowenjones : This is an essential read in all the ways Meta silence empathy for Pale...
After the House vote, Chinese officials say the US has shown “robber's logic” toward TikTok, and Washington must “stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies”
TIKTOK IS LESS OF A DANGER TO THE USA THAN META (FACEBOOK!), WHICH IS A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. Jessica Kwong / Metro.co.uk : Trump's ex-treasury secretary is trying to buy TikTok amid ban threat Mo...
As some US VCs crash parties in the Middle East to find funding, some view their desperation poorly because the region's investors value long-term relationships
Bloomberg : Tweets: @matthew_petti and @jeffnolan Tweets: Matthew Petti / @matthew_petti : Now that Silicon Valley's American gravy train is grinding to a halt, tech executives are increasingly looki...
Telegram says it is blocking Kremlin-backed media outlets in the EU, including all RT channels, starting for users who signed in with an EU-based phone number
RT, in English, Spanish, Germany, French & Russia, have a colletive audience of over 1 million people via their official accounts. FWIW, these break EU sanctions https://www.politico.eu/... Derek Powa...
Profile of Abu Dhabi-based music streaming service Anghami, which has 1.4M paying subscribers and 70M total users, as it goes public via a $220M SPAC merger
the business model and the music we listen to https://restofworld.org/... via @restofworld Yinka Adegoke / @yinkawrites : @Mark_Mulligan ... As Universal Music digital EVP Michael Nash told me: “There...
Profile of Abu Dhabi-based music streaming service Anghami, which has 1.4M paying subscribers and 70M total users, as it goes public via a $220M SPAC merger
Anghami is a case study in how the music business is being gradually transformed from outside its core centers of New York, Los Angeles and London. Tweets: @yinkawrites , @yinkawrites , @restofworld ,...
SensorTower data shows Clubhouse has been downloaded 1.1M times in the Middle East, where its users see it as an open forum to discuss politics and taboo issues
New York Times : Tweets: @abdu , @curdistani , @nytimes , @asadabukhalil , @shahselbe , @rickgladstone , @naderalihashemi , @freddydeknatel , @mairavz , @farnazfassihi , and @evelyndouek Tweets: @abd...
Researchers detail a phishing campaign by Iran-linked hackers targeting US government officials that bypassed SMS-based 2FA protections in Gmail and Yahoo Mail
eg so you don't have to use the key every time you log on from the same computer at a known IP address. But if anything's unusual you do. Sensible thread http://twitter.com/... Elad Strohmayer / @elad...
A look at Emirati billionaire Mohamed Alabbar's $1B ecommerce venture Noon, a competitor to Amazon's Souq in the Middle East, founded in 2016
Real-estate tycoon Mohamed Alabbar launched Noon to compete with the U.S. tech giant for a foothold in the region's online shopping boom Tweets: @pwonacott and @paulpage Tweets: Peter Wonacott / @pwon...