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The Platform Competition and Opportunity Act, which ends Big Tech acquisitions, could backfire in several ways, like discouraging startups' productive behavior — Congress wants to stop most Big Tech acquisitions. But that won't neccesarily increase competition. — 5 hr ago| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
APK teardown of new version of Google Play Services suggests that Google is working to build an Android device network like Apple's Find My — Because Apple tightly controls the iOS ecosystem, they're able to build a massive, crowdsourced network of devices that can help locate other devices.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Spotify has acquired Podz, a podcast discovery startup whose tech helps podcasters promote their show using ML to select 60-second clips of key moments — Podcasts are all the rage, but podcast discovery is a challenge. Today, Spotify announced its acquisition of Podz …
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| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Roku says from May 20 to June 3, more Roku viewers streamed a Roku Original than Quibi users who streamed Quibi shows during the nine months of Quibi's lifetime — Roku has revealed viewership data for its original programming, much of which was powered by the acquisition of Quibi's library last January.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a formal investigation into Google's digital advertising business before the end of the year — EU antitrust regulators are set to open another front against Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google by launching a formal investigation …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau says OnePlus and Oppo will have more integrations moving forward, further hinting at a possible merger — OnePlus says it will ‘further integrate’ its business with Oppo. But what does that really mean? — OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has announced a “new journey” …
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European companies' reluctance to offer free software and services has resulted in the region being over-dependent on US and others for communication platforms — Europe's communication needs are currently almost exclusively delivered by Chinese hardware that connects us to US-based platforms.
Tweets: @chrisnahr and @nickdothutton
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Ukrainian police arrest members of ransomware gang Clop, the first time that a national law enforcement agency has carried out mass arrests of such a gang — Arrests of Cl0p hacker group members adds to pressure on other countries to follow suit — Ukrainian police have arrested members … | Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Fiddler AI, which makes tools to help engineers monitor machine learning systems, raises $32M Series B led by Insight Partners — Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning. — Investors are betting that a former Facebook engineer … | Emily DeRuy / Mercury News: |
California launches a digital vaccination record built using the open-source SMART Health Card Framework, with a QR code to show COVID-19 vaccine record — Vaccinated Californians now have a new way to show they are inoculated against the coronavirus without carrying around a flimsy paper card.| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Two major Chinese banks now allow customers to exchange digital yuan for cash at 3,000+ ATMs in Beijing, in an expansion of China's digital currency experiment — Two major Chinese banks now allow customers to exchange the country's new central bank digital currency (CBDC) …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
PUBG Mobile returns to Google Play Store in India with new name Battlegrounds Mobile India, after being banned for nine months on national security grounds — Krafton, which filed for an IPO earlier this week, has built a gigantic gaming empire. If the firm is able to raise the target $5 billion …
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