WhatsApp is delaying a controversial update that further linked the encrypted messaging app with its parent company Facebook, prompting large spikes in downloads for rival apps. One beneficiary, Signal, went down completely for more than six hours Friday as a result of the surge in demand. The change to WhatsApp’s privacy policy, which users were recently asked to accept by February 8 or lose...
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A few months into his job as chief legal officer of Sonos, Eddie Lazarus was ready to wage war. When Lazarus joined the audio hardware company in late 2018, it was facing growing competition from tech giants like Amazon and Google. Both companies were selling cheap speakers capable of multiroom audio playback, a feature Sonos had pioneered on its devices more than a decade earlier. Sonos...
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