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The company's Activision Blizzard merger might once have sailed through — but times have changed
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Techmeme: Q&A with Michael Siliski, a business lead at Stripe, on product culture, how written long-form documents facilitate the flow of information at Stripe, and more (Ken Norton/Bring the Donuts Newsletter)

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Techmeme: A look at the presentiment that social media is bad for society, as some researchers find the fears are overstated and others warn about effects on individuals (Gideon Lewis-Kraus/New Yorker)

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Techmeme: ID verification startup Incode Technologies raises a $220M Series B at a $1.25B valuation led by General Atlantic and SoftBank Latin America Fund (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme: Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as the app is no longer under development (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Vibes-based antitrust hits Microsoft - by Casey Newton

Vibes-based antitrust hits Microsoft - by Casey Newton

Techmeme: Wikimedia Foundation announces CEO Katherine Maher will step down as of April 15, says its annual budget doubled to estimated $140M in 2021 under her leadership (Felix Salmon/Axios)

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