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| Kellen / Droid Life: |
Epic filing reveals that in a 2016 email Phil Schiller said “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us”, which Epic argues is proof of lock-in — Epic and Apple are preparing to battle it out in court over the App Store (remember that whole Fortnite debacle?) …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
A senior Apple engineer compared App Store's defenses against malicious actors to “bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight”, according to legal documents — Revelation part of legal documents released by Epic Games ahead of antitrust trial| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon wins enough votes to beat union effort in Alabama; of the 3,215 ballots cast, there were 1,798 votes opposing the union and 738 votes in favor — - Amazon on Friday secured enough votes to defeat the unionization drive at one of its Alabama warehouses.
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| The Markup: |
Investigation finds Google uses a secret blocklist to stop advertisers from making YouTube ad campaigns for hate terms; it worked less than a third of the time — Many well-known White supremacist and White nationalist terms and slogans were not blocked — First of two parts.
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| Derrek Lee / Android Central: |
Sources: Google has canceled its rumored mid-range phone Pixel 5a due to the global chip shortage — Pixel 5a, we hardly knew ya. — What you need to know — The rumored Google Pixel 5a has reportedly been canceled. — Apparently, the global chip shortage has affected its production.
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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Researchers say Facebook's algorithms disproportionately show certain types of job ads to men and women; no evidence of gender skewing was found on LinkedIn — Researchers found the platform's algorithms promoted roles to certain users; company pledges to continue work in removing bias from recommendations| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Verizon is recalling 2.5M Ellipsis Jetpack mobile hotspots, ~1.3M of which are in use, after investigation found batteries could overheat and pose fire hazards — The CPSC says the devices' batteries are the source of the overheating — Verizon said Thursday it is working …
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| Will Gottsegen / Decrypt: |
Robinhood says 9.5 million customers traded crypto on its platform in Q1 2021 compared to 1.7 million in Q4 2020, an increase of 458% — The online brokerage service Robinhood said on Thursday that 9.5 million of its customers traded cryptocurrency on its platform in Q1 of 2021.
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| New York Times: |
Taiwan is going to great lengths to keep water flowing to chip factories of TSMC and others, including shutting off irrigation to legions of rice growers — The island is going to great lengths to keep water flowing to its all-important semiconductor industry, including shutting off irrigation to legions of rice growers.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Online mortgage service Better.com raises $500M from SoftBank at a valuation of $6B, up from a valuation of $4B during its $200M Series D last November — Digital mortgage lender Better.com has raised a $500 million round from Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank that values the company at $6 billion.
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| Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: |
Community, which lets public figures, media outlets, and brands text with fans, raises $40M from Salesforce Ventures, bringing its total raised to $90M — The platform for brands and celebrities seeks to expand to more large marketers and small businesses — Community.com Inc. …
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Facebook removed 16K groups trading fake reviews and made more changes to prevent misleading paid content, after second intervention by UK competition watchdog — (Reuters) - Social media company Facebook Inc suspended 16,000 accounts for selling or buying fake reviews of products and services …
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| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Orum, which speeds up bank payments by using AI to assess risk, raises $21M Series A led by Bain Capital — Today you can load a movie on Netflix in a second, catch an Uber in a minute and get groceries delivered in an hour. You'd think money would move just as quickly—and some of it does.
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| Katie Canales / Insider: |
Report: hackers scraped data of 500M LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online; LinkedIn confirms the dataset includes publicly viewable info from its site — - Personal data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is reportedly for sale on a hacking forum.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Amid a mental health crisis because of COVID-19, Stanford researchers found that most tech platforms have no policies related to discussions of self-harm — Exclusive: Amid a rising mental health crisis, Stanford researchers find many companies ignoring posts about self-harm
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Didi Chuxing is raising $1.5B in debt financing from banks ahead of a potential US IPO that could value the company at about $100B — - Ride-hailing giant signs revolving loan facility with banks — Debt deal to serve as stepping stone ahead of share sale| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Abu Dhabi's state fund Mubadala has started preparations for a US IPO of GlobalFoundries that could value the chipmaker at about $20B — - Abu Dhabi firm starts preparations for listing of chipmaker — Sovereign fund holds initial talks with potential advisers| Amanda Macias / CNBC: |
US Commerce Department adds seven Chinese supercomputing entities to an export blacklist for allegedly building supercomputers used by Chinese military — - Commerce added seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a U.S. economic blacklist citing national security concerns.
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