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| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Researcher: Twitter is working on Twitter Blue, a $2.99/month subscription offering with “Collections” to organize favorite tweets and an “undo tweet” function — Twitter has been working on its subscription service for a while now.
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Tweets: @wongmjane, @reem_abdellatif, @peterquill47, @lilykangaroo, @grantstern, @trengriffin, @tvtater, @sahilriz, @charlesarthur, @sethabramson, @exynoshd, @silentlyuncut, @baxiabhishek, @wongmjane, @db, @_jmcollins, @mkapor, @benedictevans, @bhatnaturally, @briannawu, @johnbiggs, @z4tann4, @martinsfp, @meganbjulian, @stevestreza, @caseynewton, @sophaskins, @alanaevansxxx, @fahrni, @iansherr, @gablcarroll, @mkbhd, @hypervisible, @bernievetting, @sarahintampa, @raju, and @bdex_david
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple has informed its US retail stores that a mask mandate and other COVID-19-related procedures remain, as it continues to evaluate health and safety measures — Apple Inc. has informed its U.S. retail stores that a mask mandate and other Covid-19-related procedures remain in place for now …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches miniTV, an ad-supported free video streaming service that is available within the Amazon shopping app in India — Amazon has long maintained that its video streaming service, Prime Video, helps it drive more sales on the shopping app. Now the e-commerce giant is testing …
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| Adriana Hamacher / Decrypt: |
Q&A with Dogecoin developer Ross Nicoll about its coming upgrade, and working with Elon Musk, who Nicoll says has been in touch with Doge developers since 2019 — They are working with him to make the cryptocurrency a cheaper, greener alternative to Bitcoin. — Dogecoin — In brief
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| Josh Sisco / The Information: |
Sources: DOJ's criminal antitrust prosecutor Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel is expected to lead FTC's antitrust enforcement unit handling Facebook and Amazon cases — A little-known criminal antitrust prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel …
Tweets: @joshua_sisco and @amir
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Top gamers are quitting esports to become Twitch and YouTube influencers as esports organizations and game publishers reallocate resources to streamers — Top players have left pro leagues to pursue streaming full-time as the industry veers more toward content creators.
Tweets: @epro, @unitedtalent, @cecianasta, @jacobwolf, @wiredculture, @rukizzel, @taylorlorenz, @danasissons, and @fairchild
| Reggie Ugwu / New York Times: |
A look at Spotify-exclusive “music and talk” podcasts, which let hosts avoid music licensing fees and fair-use legal fights via free access to Spotify catalog — Music-filled — and Spotify-exclusive — shows like “Black Girl Songbook” and “60 Songs That Explain the '90s” dance around copyright constraints.| Stephanie Chan / Sensor Tower Blog: |
After WhatsApp's privacy policy changes, in the first four months of 2021, Telegram's installs rose 98% YoY and Signal's first-time downloads were up 1,192% YoY — Popular mobile messenger WhatsApp encountered backlash in January when it was announced that users would need to accept … | AJ Dome / Manhattan Mercury: |
PE firm Insight Partners invests $290M for a majority stake in CivicPlus, which provides software and other technology to more than 4,000 municipal governments — A Manhattan software business owner says a multimillion-dollar investment into the company will not change the company's makeup.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DarkSide, the gang behind Colonial attack, claims it lost control of web servers and funds, as researchers wonder whether a US takedown or exit scam is to blame — A day after US President Joe Biden said the US plans to disrupt the hackers behind the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack …
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Krebs on Security, Intel471.com, The Security Ledger …, The Hill, Insider, DataBreaches.net, HackRead, blog.chainalysis.com, BleepingComputer, ZDNet, Flashpoint, Gizmodo, The White House, CyberScoop, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @snlyngaas, @garybasin, @chey_cobb, @eamonjavers, @justin_ling, @gregotto, @ahcastor, @octal, @shanehuntley, @harrymccracken, @hackingdave, @thegrugq, @juanandres_gs, @marypcbuk, @danprimack, @ericgeller, @briankrebs, @shanvav, @eamonjavers, @briankrebs, @gregotto, @gregotto, @gregotto, @gregotto, @gregotto, @kendilaniannbc, @gregotto, @helenkennedy, @gregotto, @zackwhittaker, and @kimzetter
| Dr. Tom Robinson / Elliptic Blog: |
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| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China ordered domestic app stores to remove 90 apps, including Maimai, a LinkedIn rival, following a new regulation on what types of user data apps can collect — The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology removed 90 apps from app stores on Thursday over the “irregular collection …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
NBCU-owned Rotten Tomatoes launches a streaming channel, currently available on The Roku Channel and which will later expand to Peacock and Comcast's Xumo — Rotten Tomatoes is continuing on its quest to grow into something substantially bigger than its Tomatometer movie and TV rating scores.
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Tweets: @eileentv, @scott_tobias, @loudmouthjulia, @tzm_tmt, and @markellislive
| @antoniogm: |
[Thread] Antonio García Martínez says he did not “part ways” with Apple, was fired in a snap decision, and Apple's statement on his exit is defamatory and false — I have thus far maintained my silence on the Apple situation as I've sought to settle things amicably with the company that I admired, and at which I hoped to build the future of ads privacy. As they however are not maintaining their silence on the matter, neither will I.
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Wall Street Journal, TK News, Gizmodo, iThinkDifferent, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Patently Apple, Insider, Bloomberg, Mercury News, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @williampietri, @antoniogm, @antoniogm, @inattani, @nikitabier, @antoniogm, @antoniogm, @wsj, @rising_serpent, @joshtpm, @hedgedirty, @benedictevans, @lexinterior, @mathewi, @pegobry, @pkafka, @nateliason, @antoniogm, @nateliason, @jhweissmann, @antoniogm, @davidsacks, @mtaibbi, @bdowney, @moorehn, @jason, @nikitabier, @eric_seufert, @davidsacks, @mtaibbi, @ricburton, @aghamilton29, @curiouswavefn, @spakhm, @pkafka, @pnjaban, @wolfejosh, @ggreenwald, @dwr, @epro, @eric_seufert, @edbott, @kfury, @markgurman, @patrickmoorhead, @razibkhan, @thatchrisryan, @lukejohnsonrcp, @joehewitt, @davidsacks, and @sarthakgh
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