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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
With Netflix, Spotify, and others bypassing Google's 30% cut of IAPs, Google now says all Play Store apps must use its billing system, giving a year to comply — Some companies like Netflix and Spotify had avoided making the payment when people paid for something inside their apps.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase publishes a “clarification” of its mission, stating it won't take on activism outside of its focus or debate causes or political candidates internally — There have been a lot of difficult events in the world this year: a global pandemic, shelter in place, social unrest …
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| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Multiple Microsoft 365 services including Office, Teams, Power Platform, and Dynamic365 are restored after major global outage for several hours — Microsoft continuing to look into the problem after roll back fails to solve issue. — Microsoft is currently looking into an authentication error hitting its Office 365 systems.| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Amazon unveils Amazon One, a new biometric technology that allows shoppers to pay using their palm, to be first implemented at two Amazon Go stores in Seattle — And, it hopes, other retailers' stores in the future. — SHARE All sharing options — Amazon accounts for nearly 40 percent …
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| Channel 4 News: |
A leak of data used by Trump's 2016 campaign, spanning 5,000+ files and ~5TB, details ~200M Americans, with a “Deterrence” label applied to 3.5M Black Americans — 3.5 million Black Americans were profiled and categorised as ‘Deterrence’ by Trump campaign - voters they wanted to stay home on election day
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Meet adds noise cancellation on Android and iOS for G Suite Enterprise and Enterprise for Education customers, and adds attendance reports for schools — After rolling out to desktops in June, Google Meet can now filter out disruptive sounds, thanks to noise cancellation on Android and iOS.
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G Suite Updates Blog, The Verge, SlashGear, TechRadar, Android Central, MakeUseOf, Android Police, Engadget, and Neowin
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Judge proposes a jury trial for the Apple vs Epic case, likely to start in July 2021, while seemingly pushing back on some of Epic's key points in the hearing — During Monday's hearing for Epic and Apple's legal battle over the App Store and “Fortnite,” the judge suggested that the public's opinion …
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| Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
Wide-ranging interview with Elon Musk on Neuralink and the future of brain chip implants, his thoughts on AI being an existential threat to humanity, and more — (SINGING) When you walk in the room, do you have sway? — [MUSIC PLAYING] — I'm Kara Swisher and this is Sway. [MUSIC PLAYING]
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| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Vienna-based crypto brokerage Bitpanda raises $52M Series A led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, bringing its total raised to ~$100M — European crypto brokerage Bitpanda, based in Vienna and founded in 2014, is announcing the completion of a $52 million Series A led by PayPal legend Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures.
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Decrypt, TechCrunch, Tech.eu, CryptoNinjas, EU-Startups, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @tech_eu and @ryan_browne_
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Former Amazon exec and her family settle with SEC over insider trading scheme that led to profits of $1.4M, agree to penalties of $1M+ and to pay back profits — A senior manager in Amazon's tax department ran an insider trading scheme in which she, along with her husband and father-in-law …
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U.S. Securities …, ZDNet, TheStreet, Silicon Valley Business …, and CNBC
Tweets: @film_girl and @kennwhite
| Mike Murphy / Protocol: |
Interviews with small retailers, restaurants, and other SMBs in the US on how they are leveraging tech and e-commerce to see themselves through the pandemic — The software and hardware small businesses are using to stay afloat — and the challenges ahead. — Imagine your average Tuesday in February.
Tweets: @sarthakgh and @mcwm
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
French startup Exotec, which builds autonomous industrial robots for warehouses, raises $90M Series C led by 83North — French robotics startup Exotec has raised $90 million in a round of funding led by London-based VC firm 83North. — Founded out of Lille in 2015, Exotec develops …
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FreightWaves, The Robot Report, EU-Startups, PR Newswire, TechCrunch, Tech.eu, and Silicon Canals
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku launches a redesigned $100 Ultra with Dolby Vision, shipping in Oct., with plans to add AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support to some 4K Roku models later in 2020 — Roku is launching a redesigned version of its top-of-the-line Ultra player and announced plans to introduce a new standalone app for its free Roku Channel later this year.
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Roku, Business Wire, The Verge, Engadget, Android Headlines, MacRumors, Michael Tsai, Neowin, and TheStreet
Tweets: @roku, @roku, and @ron_miller
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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