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In response to Oversight Board ruling, Facebook suspends Trump's accounts until January 7, 2023, and says it will then reconsider suspension if conditions allow — Last month, the Oversight Board upheld Facebook's suspension of former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts following …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook announces that politicians' posts will no longer be exempt from the company's rules that prevent users from engaging in harmful speech — - Facebook on Friday announced that politicians' posts will no longer be exempt from the company's rules that prevent users from engaging in harmful speech.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a new iPad Pro with MagSafe charging and a glass back, for release in 2022, and a redesigned iPad Mini for release later in 2021 — - Company plans Mini redesign and thinner entry-level tablet — Apple's tablet sales jumped 79% in first three months of 2021
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
EU and UK regulators coordinate to open antitrust investigations into Facebook's classified ad service Marketplace; UK is also probing Facebook Dating — Investigations into classified-ads service Marketplace ramp up regulatory scrutiny on the company in Europe
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Jack Dorsey says Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet — Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet, according to Jack Dorsey, CEO of the payments firm. — Such a product launch isn't a done deal, according to Dorsey, who previewed the concept in a Friday Twitter thread.
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
Biden issues an order banning US investment in 59 Chinese tech companies that aid surveillance, substantially expanding on an earlier order issued by Trump — The new order includes firms engaged in making and deploying the surveillance technology used against Muslim minorities and dissidents around the globe.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok adds a new section to its privacy policy saying the app may collect biometric data such as faceprints and voiceprints from its users' content in the US — A change to TikTok's U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app …
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Nigeria suspends Twitter operations after the site deleted tweets and videos of President Buhari making threats to the south eastern part of the country — The Nigerian government via its Ministry of Information and Culture today announced its decision to suspend the activities of social media platform Twitter in the country.| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Crypto exchange FTX to spend $210M over 10 years to rename the professional e-sports team TSM as TSM FTX, in one of the biggest naming rights deals in e-sports — The deal between TSM, which fields competitive video game teams, and the Hong Kong-based FTX exchange, rivals the kinds …
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| Andrew Perrin / Pew Research Center: |
Survey: since 2019, US smartphone ownership increased from 81% to 85% and broadband subscriptions rose from 73% to 77%; 30% of users report connectivity issues — Smartphone ownership and home broadband adoption are up slightly since 2019. And 30% of Americans say they at least sometimes …
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| Politico: |
AWS hired at least 66 former US government officials since 2018; AWS employee says such hires give the company a “leg up” in winning government contracts — Amazon Web Services is snapping up former government officials who can help them gain access to lucrative federal contracts.| Riley de León / CNBC: |
Cybersecurity company SentinelOne files for a US IPO, says revenue grew 108% YoY to $37.4M and net losses grew to $62.6M in the three months ending April 30 — - SentinelOne filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol S.
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Sources: Facebook plans to launch Bulletin, its Substack clone, at the end of June; it will live outside Facebook in part to evade Apple and Google's 30% fees — Facebook wants to launch its newsletter product later this month. But it doesn't want controversial writers using it — just the ones it's recruiting.| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Apple insults developers by denying the value apps bring to iOS and ignoring the part marketing and developer reputation play in attracting people to apps — Apple's leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: — That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Flink, a six-months old grocery delivery service built around its own delivery stores, raises $240M co-led by Prosus, BOND, and Mubadala Capital — On-demand grocery delivery, which really came into its own with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, continues to command huge attention from investors.
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