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Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to test video more broadly, calls TikTok and YouTube competitors, and says Instagram is “no longer a photo-sharing app” — - Facebook's head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds.
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The Verge, SiliconANGLE, BGR, The Hollywood Reporter, PCMag, and Input
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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TNW, 9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, and Input
Tweets: @alex193a, @alex193a, @alex193a, @taylorlorenz, @shiraovide, @stockmktnewz, and @kimmcnichol
| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it is seeking the recusal of FTC chair Lina Khan from matters related to the company, citing her history of criticism and antitrust arguments — - Online retail giant files petition saying Khan shows bias — FTC is reviewing Amazon's purchase of MGM movie studio
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Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Verge, VICE, The Economic Times, SiliconANGLE, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Ars Technica, and Gizmodo
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Florida's Stop Social Media Censorship Act from going into effect, which was scheduled for Thursday — A federal judge Wednesday put on hold a first-of-its-kind law in Florida that authorized the state to penalize social media companies …
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Northern District Court of Florida, Washington Post, CNET, Fox Business, Reuters, Sun-Sentinel, AppleInsider, Orlando Sentinel, Miami Herald, Reason, Politico, Gizmodo, USA Today, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Hill, Techdirt, The Verge, Axios, and Political Wire
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google updates its Passes API to let users store COVID vaccine cards on Android devices, starting in the US; Google will not keep a copy of the user's info — Google has announced today that Google Pay is now capable of saving and displaying COVID-19 vaccination cards on Android, starting with select providers in the United States.
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Google Developers Blog, ZDNet, Android Authority, Bloomberg, The Verge, SlashGear, Gizchina, Tech Times, XDA Developers, Phandroid, and Android Central
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
As iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 public betas arrive, an in-depth look at Focus, Safari's revamped UI, iPad multitasking, SharePlay, and other new features — For the past three weeks, I've been running the developer beta of iOS and iPadOS 15 on my iPhone 12 Pro Max and M1 iPad Pro, respectively.
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9to5Mac, The Verge, The Verge, Tom's Guide, Gizmodo, Engadget, phonearena.com, Laptop Mag, OS X Daily, and TechEBlog
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
AT&T joins T-Mobile in making Google's Android Messages the default app for SMS and RCS services on Android phones; Verizon so far has not made the switch — Verizon is the last big carrier not to switch — AT&T and Google have announced that all Android phones on the network …
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Cloud Blog, Livemint, MUO, Android Central, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Android Police, and ExtremeTech
Tweets: @android, @backlon, @googleworkspace, @lockheimer, @shiraovide, @snazzyq, @robpegoraro, @mishaalrahman, and @maxwinebach
| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fines Robinhood $70M for misleading customers and system outages, the biggest fine it has ever imposed — Online brokerage faulted for missteps related to options trading and technology outages; company neither admits nor denies allegations
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FINRA.org, Under the Hood, Forkast, Ars Technica, CNBC, Axios, The Overspill, CNN, The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Fortune, and The Register
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| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
iPhone 12 series sales crossed 100M globally in April 2021, seven months after launch, two months faster than iPhone 11; iPhone 12 Pro Max had a 29% sales share — Exactly 14 years ago, Apple disrupted the smartphone market as the first iPhone went on sale. There has been no looking back for Apple since then.
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BGR India, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, and FrontPageTech.com
Tweets: @tarunpathak, @gadgetfreak4u, @sarthakgh, and @tarunpathak
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Slack releases Slack Huddles, an audio chat tool, and details new features, including video messages and an enhanced company directory — Slack started talking about a new set of communications tools to enhance the text-based channels at the end of last year.
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Slack, Engadget, diginomica, and Android Headlines
Tweets: @julieliegl, @reckless, @chrismessina, @kyleturman, @mgsiegler, @eeismann, @slackhq, and @jowyang
| Riley de León / CNBC: |
SentinelOne closed up 21% at $42.50 per share in its debut, valuing the company at $10B+; SentinelOne had the highest valued cybersecurity IPO in history — - Cybersecurity company SentinelOne made its market debut Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and is now trading under the ticker symbol “S.”
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SentinelOne, Insider, Insider, Forbes, Reuters, Dark Reading, and MarketWatch
Tweets: @ramireyesvc, @spoonen, and @sentinelone
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Microsoft and AT&T say the carrier will run core parts of its 5G network on Azure; AT&T's newer networks rely more heavily on virtualization than hardware — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and AT&T Inc (T.N) on Wednesday said that the carrier will run core parts of its 5G wireless network on Microsoft's cloud computing platform.
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Microsoft and Android Central
Tweets: @satyanadella, @trengriffin, @quinnypig, @jlzander, @fiercewireless, @scottgu, and @rdrv3
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Shares of Didi Chuxing closed up 1% in its trading debut, giving it a market cap of $67.8B; stock spiked as much as 28.6% intraday — - Shares of Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing giant, began trading Wednesday in its initial public offering. — Didi was most recently valued …
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New York Times, PingWest, The Economic Times, Nikkei Asia, and The Information
Tweets: @asymco, @cnbc, @eeismann, @madhavchanchani, @nytimestech, and @asymco
| The Block: |
Twitter releases a set of seven NFTs, each available in 20 designs, and is auctioning them on marketplace Rarible — Quick Take — Twitter has released a set of seven NFTs, with 20 available in each design. — It's auctioning them on NFT marketplace Rarible.
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Bloomberg and Mashable
Tweets: @twitter, @twitter, @twitter, @twitter, @twitter, @jellybobuk, @twitter, @quinnypig, @columbiajourn, @adambrotman, and @iankar_
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Israel-based ironSource, provider of user acquisition tech for app devs, went public in the US on Tuesday via a SPAC merger that raised $2.15B at $11B valuation — Israeli mobile adtech firm ironSource went public on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday after closing its merger …
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| ACLU: |
Maine enacts the strongest statewide facial recognition law in the US, prohibiting the use of facial recognition tech in public schools and most police work — AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine has enacted the country's strongest statewide facial recognition law. Maine's law prohibits the use …
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Common Dreams
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Content recommendation company Taboola closed down 2% in its first day of trading after going public via merger with a SPAC — - Digital ad company Taboola began trading on the Nasdaq Wednesday following its merger with ION Acquisition Corp. 1, a special acquisition corporation.| Bloomberg: |
Twitter and Facebook are fighting new Indian rules they say curtail privacy and free speech; the regulations include potential jail terms for executives — - Government wants the power to decide acceptable speech online — Twitter's under scrutiny in one of its fastest-growing markets
Tweets: @jamewils, @vladsavov, @vladsavov, @super_crypto, @dhume, and @asxyzp
| BuzzFeed News: |
Clearview AI data shows GAO's recent report on government use of facial recognition overlooked usage by five agencies, including IRS, TSA, and US Capitol Police — In a government accountability report about facial recognition, five federal agencies said they didn't use Clearview AI.
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S.T.O.P.. Tweets: @stopspyingny, @rmac18, @caro1inehaskins, @buzzfeedpol, @rajiinio, @internetrebecca, @rmac18, and @rmac18
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Integral Ad Science, which helps keep digital ads non-fraudulent and “brand safe”, closes up 14% in its debut after its IPO, valuing the company at ~$3.3B — - Ad tech company Integral Ad Science began trading on Wednesday under the ticker “IAS.” — IAS pegs itself as a “verification company” for digital ads.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Czech on-demand grocery delivery service Rohlik raises €100M Series C led by Index Ventures at a €1B valuation — “Instant” grocery delivery has been a big theme among food startups in Europe, where customers can order from a limited assortment of items and get their purchases packed from … | Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: |
Goldman Sachs leads $32M Series A in Entera, a SaaS provider helping real estate investors find, buy, and manage single-family homes in 24 markets across the US — - Entera helps investors find, buy and renovate rental houses — Investors used software to acquire nearly $1 billion in homes
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| BBC: |
Tim Berners-Lee sells an NFT for $5.4M that represents time-stamped files of the source code for the world wide web and other items, via a Sotheby's auction — The original source code for the world wide web has been sold as a non-fungible token, making $5.4m (£3.9m).
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The Verge, CoinDesk, Wired, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, and The Guardian
Tweets: @mikko, @gutomartino, @susanlitv, and @mikko
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
TikTok says it removed 11M+ accounts during Q1 2021, including 7M+ for belonging to those under 13; around 62M videos were removed, or 1% of all uploaded — TikTok on Wednesday said it removed more than 7 million accounts “from the full TikTok experience” during the first quarter of 2021 …
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TikTok, Adweek, and Mashable
Tweets: @xpangler, @stokel, @jeremarketer, @stokel, and @sarafischer
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