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Reddit and Twitter join the fight against US demands for visa applicants’ online handles

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit and Twitter have filed supporting evidence in a lawsuit against the US government, which challenges the requirement that nearly all visa applicants submit their social media handles for scrutiny. The companies argue that this requirement will “unquestionably chill a vast quantity of speech” and that it “violates

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StubHub's co-founder Eric Baker bought back the company for $4B just days before the pandemic brought the live events business to a halt (Noah Kirsch/Forbes)

Noah Kirsch / Forbes: StubHub’s co-founder Eric Baker bought back the company for $4B just days before the pandemic brought the live events business to a halt  —  Fifteen years after Eric Baker was fired from StubHub, the ticketing giant he cofounded, he bought it back for $4 billion—weeks before coronavirus utterly wrecked the business.

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Indian government rejects Walmart-owned Flipkart's proposal to enter the food retail business in the country (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

{$inline_image} Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Indian government rejects Walmart-owned Flipkart’s proposal to enter the food retail business in the country  —  The Indian government has rejected Flipkart’s proposal to enter the food retail business in a setback for Walmart, which owns majority of the Indian e-commerce firm … Indian government rejects Walmart-owned Flipkart's proposal to

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Alibaba debuts AliExpress Connect, a service to pair influencers with brands and merchants, hoping to attract 100,000+ creators this year with a focus on Europe (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Alibaba debuts AliExpress Connect, a service to pair influencers with brands and merchants, hoping to attract 100,000+ creators this year with a focus on Europe  —  – AliExpress Connect links social media darlings with merchants  — Model replicates China success of Taobao’s live-streaming app Alibaba debuts AliExpress Connect, a service to

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