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Sources: Tim Cook warned Pelosi that proposed antitrust bills were rushed, could hurt innovation; Google, Facebook, Amazon say bills would hurt SMBs, consumers — Executives, lobbyists, and more than a dozen groups paid by Big Tech have tried to head off bipartisan support for six bills meant …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter opens applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows for a small number of users, who will keep 97% of revenue after the IAP cut if making <$50K — Users initially keep 97 percent of their revenue — Twitter is opening applications for a limited test of its Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces features.
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Twitter Media, Gizmodo, FrontPageTech.com, TechCrunch, Mashable, The Information, PYMNTS.com, Japan Today, phonearena.com, Social Media Today, MUO, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, USA Today, Variety, 9to5Mac, Droid Life, and CNET
Tweets: @twittermedia, @jacknicas, @nbashaw, @rsg, @chrismessina, @timothybucksf, @chrismessina, @kirkburgess, @can, @derella, @sminero, @stockmktnewz, @arainert, @chrismessina, @bdsams, @backlon, @dangillmor, @seyitaylor, @keccers, @chrismessina, @mattnavarra, @wongmjane, @kantrowitz, @libshipwreck, @carnage4life, @adriana_lacy, @twittermedia, and @mwirigi
| 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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Brave Browser, CNET, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, Cointelegraph, The Register, MacRumors, fossbytes.com, CoinDesk, TestingCatalog, Daring Fireball, SlashGear, The Record, BleepingComputer, Protocol, Engadget, and gHacks Technology News
Tweets: @brave, @chrismessina, and @s8mb
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
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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| Reuters: |
DOJ says it has seized 36 Iranian media websites and sites for groups affiliated with Iran that are linked to Iranian disinformation for violating US sanctions — The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities …
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CNN, Associated Press, RT, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Associated Press, Insider, and Mediaite
Tweets: @presstv, @kevinghall, @maasalan, @jasonmbrodsky, and @mmasnick
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook says it is working on visual search for Instagram shopping to help users find info on products in images, and Shops is coming to WhatsApp, Marketplace — Facebook is working on visual search technology for Instagram as it doubles down on shopping features throughout its platform.
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Intel forms an Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics unit, and a Software and Advanced Technology unit, as part of the company's ongoing reorg — Intel's head of GPUs, Raja Koduri, will run the accelerated computing business, Sandra Rivera will run Xeon chips operations …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google, shifting to a hybrid workplace, debuts a Work Location Tool for staff to apply for an office move or to become fully remote and see how salaries change — Google on Tuesday rolled out a tool for its employees to request office changes or apply to become fully remote workers … | Bloomberg: |
Microsoft has become the second public US company to reach a $2T market value, after Apple did in August 2020 and two years after hitting its first $1T in value — - Shares of the software giant have gained 19% so far this year — Only Apple and Saudi Aramco had hit $2 trillion in value
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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, and as Amazon critic Lina Khan takes the FTC's helm
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The Verge, Variety, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Deadline, and Insider
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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 … | 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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HotHardware.com News, AMD.com, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, GPUOpen, TechSpot, TweakTown, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, SemiAccurate, Polygon, XDA Developers, TechRadar, BabelTechReviews, and Windows Central
Tweets: @radeon, @robeytech, @tvsben, and @pcgamer
| 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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Insider. Tweets: @tomgara, @noahpinion, @aspentrading10, @valaafshar, @leavittalone, @davidu, @tobi, @anildash, @sytses, @ppiipuu, @lizzywol, @carnage4life, @noahpinion, @sarthakgh, @digiphile, @morganhousel, @curaffairs, @rmac18, @carnage4life, @tolles, and @noahpinion
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Splunk raises $1B from Silver Lake in exchange for convertible notes, and says it will use the investment to fund buybacks; Splunk stock up 11% — Splunk Inc. today said that it has secured a $1 billion investment from Silver Lake to support growth initiatives and buy back shares.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
London's mayor says the Underground will have mobile coverage by the end of 2024 across its entire system, including 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 …
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Transport for London, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, Pocketnow, and The Register
| Bloomberg: |
YouTube Shorts, which launched new stars but is rife with clickbait and TikTok re-uploads, will use new metrics to pay creators via a $100M fund this summer — As a kid in Manchester, England, Dan Rhodes taught himself magic by watching tutorials on YouTube.| Kennedy Rose / Philadelphia Business Journal: |
Philadelphia-based Sporttrade raises $36M in funding, after emerging from stealth in May, for its upcoming app which provides a trading exchange for sports bets — Philadelphia-based startup Sporttrade has raised $36 million from investors ahead of the launch of its new app, which provides a trading exchange for sports bets.| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Aircall, which offers a cloud-based call center and CRM service, raises $120M led by Goldman Sachs Group's asset management arm at a $1B+ valuation — Call center software company Aircall is valued at more than $1 billion in a new funding round. — The company raised $120 million … | Joel Khalili / TechRadar: |
How Reddit uses its community-first approach to moderate content, relying heavily on its users instead of outsourced moderation farms — Reddit CTO: We don't want to be a ‘capricious arbiter’ of what is correct or not — One of the most difficult problems for Reddit … | Bloomberg: |
Full Truck Alliance closes at $21.50 per share on its first day of trading, up 13% from its initial price of $19, giving it a market value of ~$23.6B — - SoftBank, Tencent-backed firm adds to U.S. listing resurgence — Full Truck Alliance reaches market value of $23.6 billion
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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 … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Viva Republica, developer of Korean financial services app Toss, raises $410M at a post-money valuation of $7.4B, and says it's launching a neobank in September — Viva Republica, the Seoul-based fintech company behind Toss, a super app with more than 40 financial services … | 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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U.S. Securities …, Insider, BitcoinExchangeGuide, and Blockworks
Tweets: @cablecarcapital, @lex_node, @collins_belton, and @counternotions
| 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 …
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PR Newswire, Fully Distributed, and FinSMEs
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