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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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: amid escalating rivalry, neither Google nor Microsoft are keen to renew a recently-expired truce to not use their lobbying firepower against each other — A non-aggression pact forged by their CEOs expired in April, threatening to add fuel to industry's antitrust battles
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Windows 11 preview: a new and refreshing approach, with welcome and simplified UI updates; Snap Layouts and Snap Groups improve multitasking — Microsoft's first Windows 11 preview looks promising — Microsoft's first version of Windows appeared more than 35 years ago … | 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 — Beijing, San Diego, Buenos Aires, London, New Delhi, Seoul - June 30, 2021 — Exactly 14 years ago, Apple disrupted …
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| 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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| 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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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
While a judge dismissing FTC's suit against Facebook was a setback, experts say the 30-day window to refile and prove Facebook has a monopoly should be enough — A judge dealt the Federal Trade Commission a setback this week in its quest to break the company up—but also provided a roadmap for how to proceed.
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| Scott Rosenberg / Axios: |
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Didi Chuxing opens at $16.65 per share on NYSE, up 20% from its $14 offering price, valuing the company at over $77B — - Shares of Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing giant, began trading Wednesday in its initial public offering. — Didi was most recently valued in the private markets …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
GAO report finds 20 out of 42 federal agencies surveyed use facial recognition tech and sheds light on how deeply the tech is integrated into federal agencies — Black Lives Matter protesters, Jan. 6 rioters and regular travelers are among those targeted by agencies using the tech, including the IRS and the Postal Service
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android App Bundle, introduced at I/O 2018, will replace APK as the default format for new apps published to the Play Store in August — Google introduced the Android App Bundle format in May of 2018 at I/O as part of its modern development push.
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| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Google UK will only run ads for financial products from sources approved by UK's financial watchdog, from Sept. 6, after being threatened with legal action — Google is tightening its ad screening rules in the UK after a steep rise in fraudulent adverts online during the pandemic. The search giant has| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram confirms it is working on tools to let creators share “exclusive” content to Stories for paying fans — Instagram is building its own version of Twitter's Super Follow with a feature that would allow online creators to publish “exclusive” content to their Instagram Stories that's … | 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 … | Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg: |
Buzzer, a live sports streaming service that launched in January, raises $20M Series A from investors including Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky — - Osaka, Mahomes also join $20 million funding round for Buzzer — Service sends alerts that draw viewers to live clips on phones| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft and OpenAI announce GitHub Copilot, an AI-based tool to recommend code to software developers in almost any programming language — - GitHub, GitHub's parent company Microsoft and OpenAI have teamed up to deliver a tool that comes up with source code for programmers to use as they work.
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| 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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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DOJ adds seven new charges against alleged Capital One hacker Paige Thompson, a former Amazon engineer; her trial has been rescheduled to March 2022 — - DOJ files seven new charges against the Capital One hacker, reveals four new victims. — Paige A. Thompson now faces up to 20 years in prison.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Moveworks, which automates enterprise IT tasks using chatbots, raises $200M Series C led by Tiger Global and Alkeon Capital at a $2.1B post-money valuation — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. — Moveworks, a platform designed …
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
FightCamp, which offers an interactive at-home boxing training system with smart sensors in the gloves and subscription training videos, raises $90M — FightCamp, an interactive at-home training system for boxing/kickboxing, is announcing this morning that it has raised a $90M round … | Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: |
Investigation of Ray Hushpuppi, a Nigerian influencer with a lavish lifestyle, who authorities say mastered business email compromise attacks, netting millions — For Ramon Abbas, the Instagram influencer popularly known as Ray Hushpuppi, @hushpuppi, Hush, or the Billionaire Gucci Master, birthdays were always a time for reflection.
Tweets: @doubleeph, @bw, @doubleeph, @bw, @zekefaux, @ev_rat, @doubleeph, and @bw
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Noname Security, which automatically discovers and remediates API vulnerabilities, raises $60M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing total raised to $85M — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. — Noname Security …
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TechCrunch, Globes Online, nocamels.com, Crunchbase News, CTech, SiliconANGLE, and SecurityWeek
| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Drone delivery startup Zipline raises $250M at a $2.75B valuation to further its expansion in Africa and the US — Drone delivery startup Zipline, a company that got its start delivering medical supplies across Africa, has raised $250 million in new funding.
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Morning Brew, Forbes, and The Robot Report
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Shogun, which helps e-commerce businesses build their storefronts on platforms like Shopify, raises $67.5M Series C led by Insight Partners at a $575M valuation — E-commerce marketplaces continue to play a major role in how consumers buy goods online and how retailers show off and sell goods …
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PR Newswire, PYMNTS.com, The Information, and diginomica
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Facebook releases Habitat 2.0, a simulator to help AI interact with the real world, and partners with Matterport to open source its indoor 3D scan data set — To train a robot to navigate a house, you either need to give it a lot of real time in a lot of real houses, or a lot of virtual time in a lot of virtual houses.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK's DCMS issues guidance saying social media platforms and private messaging services should “prevent” the use of end-to-end encryption on “child accounts” — For a glimpse of the security and privacy dystopia the UK government has in store for its highly regulated … Sponsor Posts
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