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Facebook to buy Giphy, keep its branding, integrate with Instagram; sources say the deal is worth ~$400M, while Giphy was valued at ~$600M in its latest round — Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
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Facebook's purchase of Giphy gives FB insight into how and where gifs are shared outside of its own apps, including device IDs and keystrokes in Giphy tools — GIPHY joins Facebook's data collection arsenal — Facebook announced on Friday that it will buy Giphy, a popular GIF search engine …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March — Giphy investor John Borthwick on why the $400 million deal made sense and what this means for the company's other integrations.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ and state AGs are likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google as soon as this summer, focusing on its ad business and search dominance — Both the federal and state investigations are focused on Google's ad business — WASHINGTON—Both the Justice Department and a group …
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| Reuters: |
US bans sales to Huawei of semiconductors and semiconductor designs made abroad using certain US software and technology — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies from global chipmakers, in an action that could ramp up tensions with China.
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| Global Times: |
China signals it is ready to retaliate for US' Huawei ban by launching investigations or imposing restrictions on companies like Qualcomm, Cisco, and Apple — China is ready to take a series of countermeasures against a US plan to block shipments of semiconductors to Chinese telecom firm Huawei … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sources: Clubhouse raised a Series A round from a16z, which includes $10M in primary capital and at least $2M in secondary shares, at a $100M valuation — Clubhouse is a voice-based social media app with about 5,000 beta test users. Prospective listeners have to sign up for a waitlist via Google form …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
NPD: consumer spending on video gaming in the US hit a record $10.86B between January and March, up 9% YoY, with sales from video game content up 11% to $9.58B — New numbers from NPD confirm what we've known for a while: the first quarter of 2020 was a very good one for gaming companies.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
An overview of key challenges that need to be addressed to make Europe's various COVID-19 contact tracing apps interoperable for cross-border travel — A major question mark attached to national coronavirus contact-tracing apps is whether they will function when citizens of one country travel to another.
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Forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news could lead to uncritical reporting on tech; better approaches would tackle roots of media woes, including ad markets — Exponent — as promised! — will be back tomorrow, talking about podcasting, Spotify, and working from home. — On to the update:| Jina Moore / Rest of World: |
A deep dive into Sudan's 2019 internet shutdown, how telecom engineers disrupted the government's control over the internet, and the future of digital rights — How citizens, telecom employees, and activists in Sudan turned a battle for digital rights into a referendum on the government| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
The pandemic could accelerate consolidation in the scooter-sharing industry, as companies cut costs and lay off staff to cope with severe declines in ridership — Public transportation is on life support, as the pandemic makes people less inclined to want to cram themselves into underground metal tubes … | Wired: |
Facebook's reluctance to fact-check conspiracy theories is based on an outdated “backfire” theory; experiments show fact-checks and debunkings are effective — The biggest social network in the world has the wrong idea for how to fight Covid-19 conspiracies.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Spotify restores web player support for Safari after removing it in 2017 — Spotify users can once again use Safari to access the streaming service's web player, following the restoration of support for Apple's browser this week after over two-and-a-half years of incompatibility.Sponsor Posts
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