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European Commission says it has opened an antitrust investigation into whether Google favors its own display ad tech over rivals — Brussels to examine whether US group broke rules by giving an advantage to its own services — The EU has announced a formal investigation …
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
After agreeing to be Facebook's first VR ad test partner, Resolution Games says it won't move forward with the test in its paid VR game Blaston — Resolution Games won't be moving forward with a Facebook advertising test in its paid VR game Blaston. — The studio may still consider testing ads in its free fishing game Bait!
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| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
Q&A with Marc Andreessen on his “It's Time to Build” essay, techno-optimism, Clubhouse and Substack's potential, “Augmented Intelligence”, crypto, and more — Marc Andreessen should need no introduction, but I'll do one anyway. He helped code the first widely …
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| Elad Gil / Elad Blog: |
CB Insights data: US added 154 new unicorns since October 2020, 67%+ of the global total, while Europe added 25 unicorns, India added 11, and China added just 9 — I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the last 8 months the number … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
London's mayor says the Underground will have mobile coverage by the end of 2024 across the entire network, with some popular stations by the end of 2022 — Popular stations like Oxford Circus, Euston, and Bank will connected by end of 2022 — By the end of 2024, passengers …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Privacy browser Brave launches a non-tracking search engine in beta, at search.brave.com, to offer an “all in one” alternative to Google Search and Chrome — Pro-privacy browser Brave, which has been testing its own brand search engine for several months — operating a waitlist where brave …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on its relationship with Apple and exception from App Store's 30% cut, supporting creators across platforms, and more — Today's guest on Decoder is Jack Conte, the co-founder and CEO of Patreon, a platform that allows people to pay their favorite creators directly … | Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin falls to around $30,000, its lowest level since January 28 after a $64,000 peak in mid-April, as China continues to crackdown on mining — The decline brings the year-to-date gain down to just 3%, according to CoinDesk 20 data. — Bitcoin dipped below the long-held support at $30,000 on Tuesday …
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Google confirms it is replacing its Engineering Residency, aimed at underrepresented participants, after employees said it enforced “systemic pay inequities” — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google plans to shut down a long-running program aimed at entry-level engineers … | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
How Monero, a cryptocurrency that obscures the sender and receiver, is increasingly being used by ransomware gangs wary of bitcoin's traceability — Untraceable ‘privacy coin’ is rising in popularity among ransomware gangs, posing problems for law enforcement| Kait Bolongaro / Bloomberg: |
Canadian lawmakers pass a controversial bill that would subject tech giants to the same requirements as traditional broadcasters; bill now heads to the Senate — - Move would prioritize Canadian content, echoing broadcast law — But critics say it threatens free speech on user-driven sites
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based Transmit Security, which is building a biometric-based authenticator, raises $543M Series A at a $2.2B pre-money valuation — Transmit Security, a Boston-based startup that's on a mission to rid the world of passwords, has raised a massive $543 million in Series A funding.
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| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the FTC will review Amazon's proposed acquisition of MGM, just as the commission gets a new chairwoman who has been critical of Amazon's expansion — Commission secures antitrust review after talks with Justice Department; scrutiny comes as Amazon critic Lina Khan takes helm of FTC| Vicky McKeever / CNBC: |
Dating app Bumble says it's giving all ~700 employees a “paid, fully offline one-week vacation” in June, recognizing the challenges endured during the pandemic — Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd has given the dating app's 700 employees this week off as paid vacation in an effort to help with burnout.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
UK government says it will test its new national Emergency Alerts system, starting with Android devices today before a smaller, regional iPhone test next week — The U.K. government on Tuesday will perform its first national test of a new Emergency Alerts system, but only Android users …
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GOV.UK, 9to5Mac, Macworld UK, techadvisor.com, The Register, LBC, The Independent, iMore, TechRadar, and ZDNet. Tweets: @jamesliamcook
| Jeremy Laird / PC Gamer: |
A look at AMD's new FidelityFX Super Resolution, which aims to upscale games to higher resolution and competes with Nvidia's DLSS technology — ...just maybe not in the way you might have thought. — AMD's long awaited answer to Nvidia's game-prettifying DLSS technology is here.
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The Verge, Tom's Hardware, HotHardware.com News, XDA Developers, PCWorld, SemiAccurate, Windows Central, TechSpot, TechRadar, TweakTown, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, AnandTech, BabelTechReviews, and VideoCardz.com. Tweets: @pcgamer
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oyster, which develops HR software for a distributed workforce, raises $50M Series B led by Stripes at a $475M valuation, up 6x from its previous valuation — The future of work is long on long-distance, and today a startup that's built a platform to help organizations hire global talent … | The Economic Times: |
E-commerce management service CommerceIQ raises $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $81M — Ecommerce management platform CommerceIQ has raised $60 million as part of its Series C round led by Insight Partners. — Existing investors Trinity Ventures … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based Mollie, which offers developers plugins and APIs to integrate payments, raises $800M at a $6.5B valuation led by Blackstone Growth — A payments startup whose backend was originally built by the founder while still living with his parents and bootstrapping the company …
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FinLedger, Mollie, CNBC, Coinspeaker, PYMNTS.com, Silicon Canals, and Finextra. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
Elliptic report: US regulators, led by SEC, have levied $2.5B against various crypto projects since 2009, mostly from unregistered securities offerings — A new report from Elliptic shows that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) leads U.S. regulators in monetary penalties against crypto firms by a wide margin.
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Blockworks, Elliptic Blog, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Cointelegraph, and Decrypt. Tweets: @counternotions
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
TikTok launches TikTok Jump to let creators enhance their videos by adding mini-app integrations from select partners including Whisk, Wikipedia, Quizlet, more — TikTok creators may no longer need to add a “link in bio,” at least to certain kinds of content. Today,
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
G2, which crowdsources enterprise software reviews and helps paying customers glean insights, raises $157M Series D at a $1B+ valuation — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Business software review marketplace G2 (formerly known as G2 Crowd) …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Merlyn Mind, which is building software and hardware teaching aids for K-12, exits stealth with $29M led by Learn Capital — We've chronicled, in great detail, the many layers of technology, services and solutions, that have been wrapped around the world of education in recent years …
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| Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: |
EU member states approve unimpeded data flows between EU and UK, deciding UK's regulations are as good as GDPR, avoiding complex legal paperwork for businesses — The EU has just green-lighted the free flow of personal data with the UK. But if the country now changes its data laws, it could bring an end to the agreement.Sponsor Posts
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