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Apple rejects HEY appeal, noting email apps must work without paid subscription; Apple suggests offering in-app sub or to reconfigure app as IMAP and POP client — In a brief call today about Basecamp's Hay email app from the iOS App Store, Apple's Phil Schiller told me that there would currently …
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says some app stores are creating a far higher barrier to fair competition than Microsoft did when found guilty of antitrust violations 20 years ago — - Developers put at a disadvantage by unfair rules, Smith says — European Commission this week launched investigation of Apple| Seth Schiesel / New York Times: |
Sources: since February, Apple has rejected at least five versions of Facebook Gaming, citing rules that prohibit apps that primarily distribute casual games — Apple has repeatedly denied Facebook's new Gaming app from appearing in its App Store, citing its own rules.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with House antitrust committee chair Rep. David Cicilline who says Apple is acting like a monopolist and a bully whose App Store fees are “highway robbery” — Apple is acting like a monopolist and a bully, according to the chairman of the House antitrust subcommittee.
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| Media Matters for America: |
Facebook says it has removed ads from Trump's 2020 campaign that featured Nazi iconography; the campaign ran 88 ads with the inverted red triangle symbol — Update (6/18/20, 1:15 p.m. EDT): Facebook has removed the ads in question following this post and public backlash.
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
In a major U-turn, UK government abandons its own coronavirus-tracing app approach and shifts to the model based on Google and Apple's API — In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google.
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| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Facebook commits $200M to support US Black-owned businesses, plans to double Black and Latinx staff by 2023, and add “Lift Black Voices” section to app — Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on Thursday announced a series of new steps the social media giant is taking …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's Area 120 launches Keen, an automated, machine learning-based app similar to Pinterest that lets users track their interests — A new project called Keen is launching today from Google's in-house incubator for new ideas, Area 120, to help users track their interests.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Companies like Fitbit and Google's Verily are rushing out workforce health vetting and tracking tools for companies trying to safely reopen during the pandemic — As businesses grapple with how to safely reopen the workplace, companies like Fitbit and Verily, Google's sister company … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google releases Text Fragment extension that lets Chrome users generate URLs linking directly to a specific section of text on page — An easier way to use Chrome's Text Fragment feature — Link to Text Fragment is a new Chrome Extension from Google that lets you generate URLs to specific text …
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| Kerry Flynn / CNN: |
Colin Kaepernick joins Medium's board and will write for Medium publications; Kaepernick Publishing will create stories for Medium about race and civil rights — New York (CNN Business)Colin Kaepernick is expanding his media ambitions. — The athlete-turned-civil-rights- activist …
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| Jeremy Roebuck / The Philadelphia Inquirer: |
Court filings show how the FBI used a Philadelphia protester's Etsy profile, LinkedIn, and other internet history to charge her with setting police cars ablaze — As demonstrators shouted, fires burned outside City Hall, and Philadelphia convulsed with outrage over the death of George Floyd …
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| Financial Times: |
German payments group Wirecard says €1.9B cash is missing and that “spurious cash balances” might have been provided to its auditor by a third party — Shares of payments group crash as it says a third-party may have tried ‘to deceive’ its auditor
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| James Hercher / AdExchanger: |
YouTube announces new shoppable “storefront” video ad unit, with clickable product images that link to the advertising brand's product — Google released a direct response ad format for YouTube on Thursday that will make YouTube ads more shoppable, and more closely integrated with a brand's Google Merchant Center account.| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Facebook files lawsuits in the US and Europe against developers it alleges scraped user data, as the company increasingly turns to lawsuits to stop data abuses — Facebook is suing a developer it alleges was behind a data scraping campaign that took personal information, including login credentials …
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| The Markup: |
Investigation finds nearly 100 Amazon listings for products it bans, like drugs, weapons, and spy gear, some sold as “Amazon's Choice” and some by Amazon itself — The online giant bans products related to drugs, spying and weapons, but we found plenty for sale …
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GitHub. Tweets: @themarkup, @mutalenkonde, @juliaangwin, @asankin, @jonkeegan, @jonkeegan, @anniegilbertson, @themarkup, @emilybell, and @lkirchner. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
eBay's former CEO, Devin Wenig, denies cyberstalking of blogger, says he had “no knowledge, no private understanding, no tacit approval” of harassment campaign — Devin Wenig says he had “no knowledge, no private understanding, no tacit approval” of the harassment campaign.
Tweets: @voxdotcom
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Facebook acquires Swedish mapping startup Mapillary, which is building a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery — Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to the company's blog.| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Following public condemnation from two Black employees, Pinterest CEO says that it plans to add a person of color to its board, evaluate compensation, and more — - CEO commits to non-White board member by end of year — Company will evaluate whether Black employees are underpaid
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Social Media Today. Tweets: @ifeomaozoma, @malcomglenn, @sarahfrier, @shitfund, and @chrisj_lewis
| New York Times: |
US withdraws from international digital tax negotiations with European countries, saying it'll retaliate if they move forward with new taxes on US tech firms — The breakdown in negotiations could prompt President Trump to retaliate against countries that impose taxes on American tech firms.
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Financial Times and ComputerWeekly.com
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| Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers: |
Samsung begins rollout of blood pressure monitoring feature for the Galaxy Watch Active 2 in South Korea — Samsung has yet to enable the long-anticipated ECG support on the Galaxy Watch Active 2, but the company continues to work towards making the Galaxy Watch Active 2 more useful.
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