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Apple says allowing users to download apps directly onto their iPhones without having to use the App Store would harm customers by damaging privacy and security — Company says allowing users to download software onto their iPhones without using the App Store jeopardizes protections
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| Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: |
Apple's head of user privacy says sideloading is actually “eliminating choice” and would negate technical and policy defenses — Recently there have been growing calls for Apple to allow third-party app stores for the iOS and iPadOS platforms, which would enable a process known as …
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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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| 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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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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| Mark Nottingham / mnot's blog: |
How recent actions against Big Tech in the US, UK, and EU could inadvertently lead to more fragmentation and ossification of the internet — A big change in how the Internet is defined - and who defines it - is underway. — For a while now, it's been apparent that Internet and Web standards have stagnated at the ‘top’ of the stack.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
International coalition of consumer groups, digital and civil rights organizations, and data protection experts call for ban on “surveillance-based advertising” — An international coalition of consumer protection, digital and civil rights organizations and data protection experts … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Vercel, which develops the popular open-source Next.js React framework, raises $102M Series C led by Bedrock Capital at a $1.1B valuation — Vercel, the company behind the popular open-source Next.js React framework, today announced that it has raised a $102 million Series C funding round led by Bedrock Capital.
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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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| 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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| 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 … | Cam Wilson / Crikey: |
Australia's controversial Online Security Bill is about to become law, expanding the eSafety Commissioner's ability to censor the internet — The controversial Online Safety Bill will give broad censorship powers to the eSafety commissioner, and experts warn that it could harm those it purports to save.
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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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| 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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Business Wire, The Information, SecurityWeek, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, and ZDNet
| 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 …
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TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, FinSMEs, and Silicon Canals
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
CipherTrace, which helps track crypto crimes and sells compliance tools, raises $27.1M Series B — The hedge funder's latest crypto bet adds fuel to CipherTrace's growing crypto compliance and investigations business. — CipherTrace, a security firm that tracks crypto crimes …
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| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
Kuaishou now has 1B monthly active users globally, joining rivals ByteDance and Tencent, including on its Kwai and Snack Video apps — China's No 2 short video-sharing app operator joins rival ByteDance and Tencent as internet platforms with 1 billion monthly active users Kuaishou's tally covers …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce and AWS extend their partnership with new integration capabilities to make it easier to share data and build apps on their platforms — Salesforce and AWS represent the two most successful cloud companies in their respective categories. Over the last few years the two cloud giants have had an evolving partnership.
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Sprinklr, which builds tools to help brands interact with customers online, raises $266M in US IPO at about a $4B valuation — - New York-based company valued at $4 billion after pricing IPO — Sprinklr prices shares at $16, below marketed range of $18-$20| Peter Wayner / VentureBeat: |
PlanetScale, which builds a database-as-a-service offering on Vitess, the tech that helps scale YouTube, raises $30M Series B — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Some people who create a database like to start with a clean slate.
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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.| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Self-driving truck startup Embark says it is going public via SPAC merger at a ~$5.2B valuation — Embark is the latest self-driving truck firm to tap public markets in recent months, joining Plus and TuSimple — Embark Trucks Inc. is merging with a special-purpose acquisition company …
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