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Elon Musk brings Alex Jones and Infowars back on X after user poll

December 11, 2023

Elon Musk has restored the X accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media site Infowars. The X accounts of Jones and Infowars were “permanently banned” from Twitter by the previous management in 2018 for posting abusive content and violating the platform’s rules. Musk ran a user poll on X on December 9 asking whether […]

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SumUp taps €285M more in growth funding to weather the fintech storm

December 11, 2023

SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe, the Americas and Australia — has picked up some growth funding to navigate the choppy waters of the current fintech market, waters that have tipped and swayed SumUp itself. The startup, which has roots in Germany but […]

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Cruise faces fines, TuSimple exits the U.S. and a new reporter joins the TC transpo team

December 11, 2023

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. […]

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Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper’s ‘iMessage to Android’ solution

December 10, 2023

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage, until Apple shut it down. Warren, an advocate for stricter antitrust enforcement, posted her support for Beeper on X (formerly Twitter) and questioned why Apple would restrict a competitor. The post indicates […]

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Here are the newly minted fintech unicorns

December 10, 2023

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! We’re looking at a bunch of news — from new unicorns, to a fintech doing good, to one that shut […]

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How to push PaaS usage beyond 12-factor apps

December 10, 2023

Companies embracing the PaaS paradigm must recognize that there won’t be a one-size-fits-all workload solution.

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