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Trump adviser Jason Miller says Trump is having meetings with “numerous companies” to return to social media with his own platform in two to three months — Jason Miller tells Fox News' ‘#MediaBuzz’ the platform will ‘completely redefine the game’
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Texas jury finds Apple infringed a DRM patent held by Personalized Media, and orders Apple to pay $308.5M to the company — Apple must pay $308.5 million to closely held Personalized Media Communications after a federal jury in Marshall, Texas, decided on Friday that the tech giant infringed …
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Brazilian state of São Paulo fines Apple $2M for selling iPhones without a charger, allegedly misleading customers about the water resistance of iPhones, more — “Apple needs to understand that in Brazil there are solid consumer protection laws and institutions.
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| Trefor Moss / Wall Street Journal: |
How Pinduoduo leads China's adoption of social e-commerce by putting social media first, and gamifying the shopping experience so people win deals and discounts — Five-year-old company is first challenger to loosen Alibaba and JD.com's stranglehold over online consumption in the country
Tweets: @juokaz, @mdudas, @jchengwsj, and @wsj
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Court filing: Tim Cook, Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi, Eddy Cue, and ex-iOS software chief Scott Forstall are among witnesses to testify in Epic vs Apple trial — Apple today submitted its witness list for its upcoming bench trial with Epic Games, and several Apple executives will be testifying …
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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Google's plan to remove third-party cookies from Chrome does little to change the underlying dynamics of the surveillance-based behavioral advertising industry — The demise of surveillance capitalism has been greatly exaggerated. — GOOGLE GOT SOME good press a few weeks ago when it announced …
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Twitter says it will set up a legal entity in Turkey to comply with the country's social media law that took effect in October 2020 — Twitter accepted a requirement to appoint a local representative in Turkey as part of a new social media law that took effect in October 2020, according to a top Turkish official.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase will pay a $6.5M fine to settle with the CFTC, over allegations that it self-traded cryptocurrencies between 2015 and 2018 — Coinbase will pay a $6.5 million fine to settle allegations it self-traded cryptocurrencies between 2015 and 2018. — Crypto exchange Coinbase …
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| Yumiko Sato / Slate: |
Misinformation and historical revisionism are widespread on some non-English editions of Wikipedia, such as Japanese, which is the most visited after English — During World War II, Unit 731 of the Japanese military undertook horrific medical experimentation in Manchukuo (Northeast China).
Tweets: @edfrench, @yumikosatomtbc, @slate, @yumikosatomtbc, @yumikosatomtbc, @cambskeptics, and @martinsfp
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics — Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during …
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @raju, @jcstearns, @justinhendrix, @farkasjohan, @mikarv, @antoniocasilli, @bostonjoan, @seamushughes, @jason_kint, @shannimcg, @janiswong_, @funnymonkey, @trialbytruth, @alexanderabdo, @therriaultphd, @blackamazon, @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, @typewriters, @timgrieve, @jacob_montg, @lauraedelson2, @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, @shannimcg, @2ramyakrishnan, @mmasnick, and @mmasnick
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
REvil ransomware gang says it had breached Acer, sharing leaked images of internal docs on the dark web, and is demanding $50M; Acer says it is investigating — Taiwanese computer maker Acer has suffered a ransomware attack over the past weekend at the hands of the REvil ransomware gang …
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| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
After Citigroup erroneously sent $900M to lenders using Oracle's Flexcube, some are calling for simplified business software UX to match consumer-facing design — Citi's accidental payment makes a strong case for upgrading back-end technology to match consumer-facing design
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