Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is defending his decision to keep Dave Chappelle's controversial special "The Closer" on the streaming service despite backlash over his transphobic comments. The comedian drew criticism for his comments about the transgender community, including his defense of author J. K. Rowling's idea of changing one's biological sex was a threat to her own gender identity.

Fount, a robo-advisor startup in South Korea, has raised a $33.4 million Series C round to beef up its machine learning-based platform development and hire staff, bringing its total funding to about $58.5 million. CEO Youngbeen Kim said the company's valuation is now estimated at $209 billion.

Facebook is expanding the Live Audio rooms feature it launched in the US in June to a global audience, making the feature available to groups as well as public figures and creators. People will now be able to listen to Live Audio Rooms on desktop, but still have to use a mobile app for creation.

Microsoft Word was the de-facto option for drafting text, but on October 11th, 2006, Google launched Google Docs and Spreadsheets in beta. The applications were cloud-based applications that also let you collaborate with others in real time, which was a big part of the company's wildly successful Office suite.

Instagram is testing a feature to notify users of outages or technical issues directly on the photo-sharing app, days after two outages disrupted the social media giant's services. The test will run in the United States and will go on for a few months.

Russia accounted for most state-sponsored hacking detected by Microsoft over the past year, mostly targeting government agencies and think tanks in the U.S. followed by Ukraine, Britain and European NATO members. The devastating effectiveness of SolarWinds, which mainly breached information technology businesses, boosted Russian state-backed hackers’ success rate to 32% in the year ending June 30.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that the relationship with Seattle-based Amazon and the city council of its headquarters have been going through a rough patch for several years. While Jassy maintains that the retail giant will always have folks in the area, Amazon is looking outside The Emerald City as it expands and there are no guarantees that Seattle will remain home base.

Universal Studios Japan is partnering with the Pokémon Company to develop "groundbreaking" entertainment starting in 2022. This follows the opening of Super Nintendo World and the announcement of a new Donkey Kong expansion. The Pokémon Company is technically separate from Nintendo, but Nintendo does own a big chunk of it.

Google will no longer allow advertisers, publishers, and YouTube creators to monetize content that denies the existence of climate change. This includes content referring to climate change as a hoax or a scam, claims denying that long-term trends show the global climate is warming. Google will use automated tools and human reviews to enforce the policy.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the company will be moving its headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Austin, Texas, a city that has recently seen a flood of tech companies and remote workers, increasing its output at its Fremont gigafactory by 50% although he didn't elaborate on how he would achieve such a ramp up in production.

Pepsi continues to iterate around its Dig In platform, which it first launched in January 2021, providing Black-owned restaurants with templated brand materials and other business resources through a microsite. This effort comes as several major marketers have committed to helping Black- owned businesses overcome systemic barriers in various industries.

Nvidia has offered concessions in a bid to secure EU antitrust approval for its $54 billion acquisition of Arm, sparking concerns in the semiconductor industry over whether Arm could remain a neutral player licensing intellectual property to customers and rivals.