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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard says president J. Allen Brack is leaving the company, replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra, as the fallout from CA lawsuit continues — Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra will take over as co-leaders — In the last week or so, we've learned about the state of California filing …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Activision beats expectations in Q2 with revenue of $2.29B, up 19% YoY, and net bookings of $1.92B, down only 7% YoY, notes risks of the sexual harassment suit — Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat Wall Street's and its own expectations with 19% revenue growth to $2.29 billion for the second quarter ended June 30.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard says that Blizzard's head of global human resources, Jesse Meschuk, has also left the company — Jesse Meschuk, SVP of global HR, has left — Blizzard president J. Allen Brack isn't the only executive leaving the company today after presiding over a culture now accused of fostering “constant sexual harassment.”
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Bloomberg Law, Kotaku, PC Gamer, GameSpot, Polygon, and Los Angeles Times
Tweets: @megan_nicolett, @stephentotilo, and @futterish
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan on monetizing Shorts, content moderation with Content ID, YouTube TV, competing with TikTok, and more — YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan joined Decoder this week to discuss YouTube's new $100 million fund to begin paying creators …
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The Verge, YouTube Official Blog, 9to5Google, Social Media Today, The Streamable, Insider, Android Headlines, Ars Technica, and The Wrap
Tweets: @reckless, @samsheffer, @mhbergen, @earcos, @reckless, @nealmohan, and @alexeheath
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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Silicon Valley Business …, PNAS, Input, SlashGear, Engadget, Tubefilter, Engadget, Variety, and MUO. Tweets: @glenngabe
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple and Affirm's PayBright will launch a “buy now, pay later” program for iPhone, Mac, and iPad purchases in Canada on Aug. 11, according to a staff message — - Monthly installments to be offered in Canada on Apple devices — Company working on future service for all Apple Pay purchases
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FinLedger, Barron's Online, mobilesyrup.com, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @markgurman and @markgurman
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft tells employees it will require proof of vaccination to enter a Microsoft building in the US starting September, with medical and religious exceptions — The full opening of its US offices will be ‘no earlier’ than October 4th — Microsoft has informed employees that it will require proof …
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CRN, PCMag, Vox, Windows Central, GeekWire, CNBC, Gizchina, Thurrott, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @searyanc, @jonmasters, and @tomwarren
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google consolidates its sign-in offerings with a new family of Identity APIs called Google Identity Services, including a new “One Tap” sign in prompt — Where supported, “Sign in with Google” is a convenient way to log in to third-party services without having to keep track of different passwords.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
WhatsApp is rolling out a View Once feature for photos and videos that disappear from the chat after the recipient opens it — There and gone — WhatsApp is rolling out its “View Once” feature today, which deletes photos or videos from your chat after they've been opened by the recipient.
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TechCrunch, WhatsApp.com, About Facebook, Reuters, CNET, 9to5Mac, Engadget, PCMag, SlashGear, and Adweek
Tweets: @wcathcart, @fboversight, @alexeheath, @abhiiitdelhi, and @gyaigyimii
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Citizen launches Protect, a $20/month service that offers access to a Citizen operator and other features, after a 100,000-user beta test — After months of testing with upwards of 100,000 beta testers, Citizen today is launching its premium Protect offering for all users.
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Reuters, Wired, CNN, CITIZEN, Engadget, Vox, The Verge, PCMag, and USA Today
Tweets: @shaft, @jesselehrich, @antoniogm, @hypervisible, @pegobry, @gregghoush, @richardhanania, @eculliford, @hypervisible, @citizenapp, and @eculliford
| Bloomberg: |
Q&A with SEC chair Gary Gensler on protecting cryptocurrency investors from fraud, regulating the industry, Bitcoin ETFs, and other SEC priorities like GameStop — It's become a parlor game in Washington, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley to figure out where U.S. Securities …
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Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Decrypt, The Verge, Crypto Briefing, PYMNTS.com, Crowdfund Insider, AppleInsider, BitcoinExchangeGuide, CryptoSlate, and Politico
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Spotify is testing Spotify Plus, a low-cost tier that includes ads but doesn't impose limits on track skipping and lets users pick specific songs to play — Spotify Plus is being piloted with a ‘limited number’ of users — Spotify Plus is a new $.99 subscription tier being piloted …
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XDA Developers, Android Police, Neowin, BGR, Input, Hollywood Reporter, iPhone Hacks, TechRadar, Phandroid, TNW, mobilesyrup.com, Gizmodo, PCMag, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, TechHive, KnowTechie, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, TechSpot, Android Central, Livemint, Android Headlines, iPhone in Canada Blog, and MUO. Tweets: @shiraovide
| Antoine Gara / Forbes: |
How Michael Dell oversaw Dell's expansion after taking it private, growing the company to $75B, by focusing on providing infrastructure to businesses and others — After years battling Silicon Valley skeptics and Wall Street adversaries, Michael Dell has pulled off the deal of the century …
Tweets: @antoinegara, @jaycuthrell, @johnbyrnecso, @michaeldell, @danprimack, @martin_casado, @prefshares, @antoinegara, @forbes, @bgurley, and @chrishelman
| Chong Koh Ping / Wall Street Journal: |
After Chinese state media criticized online gaming as “opium for the mind” in a now-deleted article, Tencent announces stricter rules for young users — Shares of NetEase and Bilibili also suffer steep falls — Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. and rivals plummeted Tuesday …
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Tweets: @therealjoshye, @onlyyoontv, @onlyyoontv, @henrysgao, @richardhanania, @wsjmarkets, @noahpinion, @georgemagnus1, @therealjoshye, @georgemagnus1, @carnage4life, @jchengwsj, @therealjoshye, @michaelxpettis, @therealjoshye, @carnage4life, @georgemagnus1, @arjunkharpal, @davidinglestv, @therealjoshye, @kanghexin, @arjunkharpal, @arjunkharpal, @joshrogin, @georgemagnus1, @georgemagnus1, and @henrysgao
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rolls out three new AMD Radeon Pro graphic card modules for Intel-based Mac Pros; the options range from $2,400 to $5,600 in build-to-order configurations — Apple has rolled out three new graphics card modules for the Intel-powered Mac Pro today. The new graphics card modules include … | The Information: |
Facebook confirms it is building a team of AI researchers to study ways of analyzing encrypted data without decrypting it, potentially helping better target ads — Facebook is bulking up a team of artificial intelligence researchers, including a key hire from Microsoft …
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SlashGear, Engadget, and TechSpot
Tweets: @theinformation, @wcathcart, @mshannahmurphy, @chrisbrogan, @markdistef, @rachelbovard, @alexhern, @jessicalessin, and @ackocher
| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood's stock closes at $46.80, up 24.2% on the day's trading, blowing past its IPO price of $38 and becoming the day's “top traded stock” on Fidelity — - Robinhood went public last Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker HOOD. — The stock priced at $38 per share, the low end of its offering range.
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| Andrew Kersley / Wired UK: |
Sources: well over 100 UK-based employees at Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery unit have lost their jobs since 2019, as the company scales back its ambitions — Amazon has triggered mass redundancies and transfers as it winds down a huge part of its UK drone delivery business
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New York Post, The Verge, CNET, SlashGear, and DroneDJ
Tweets: @tashabernal, @hkanji, @markdistef, @jamestitcomb, @olifranklin, @sam_l_shead, @andrewkersley, and @rupertmyers
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
A bipartisan Senate investigation finds that, despite years of warnings, many US government agencies have not established effective cybersecurity programs — Several major federal agencies continue to fail to address recurring cybersecurity vulnerabilities or implement basic standards …
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Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, CyberScoop, CBS News, Gizmodo, The Hill, Engadget, FedScoop, and Washington Post. Tweets: @ron_miller
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Sources: NLRB probe found Amazon illegally interfered with workers organizing in Staten Island, NY; NLRB officer recommends election rerun for Alabama warehouse — The National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon illegally interfered with worker organizing at its Staten Island, New York warehouse in May.| Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The confusing language in the infrastructure bill's crypto provision suggests that nearly any entity in crypto is a broker and must collect their users' data — The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden's infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States' roads …
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Washington Post, Jeremy Rubin, Bloomberg, Techdirt, CoinDesk, Input, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Cryptonews, Tom's Hardware, and Decrypt
Tweets: @sentoomey, @documentingbtc, @reptedbudd, @opensecretsdc, @hshaban, @technologypoet, and @eff
| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Google's Rick Osterloh demos Pixel 6's Tensor SoC, which enables real-time object detection and HDR in videos as well as real-time translation and live captions — We sat down with Google's phone chief, Rick Osterloh, to see what the Pixel 6 has in store. — Alerts
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Fortune, Liliputing, XDA Developers, phonearena.com, Digital Trends, and Barron's Online
Tweets: @sundarpichai, @deitaone, and @atomicthumbs
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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mobilesyrup.com, Android Police, XDA Developers, Android Authority, Pixel Envy, Forbes, Android Central, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Droid Life, Android Headlines, Search Engine Roundtable, HotHardware.com News, The Information, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, and @madebygoogle
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
After Chinese regulators halted its IPO, Alibaba's Ant Group reported its Q3 profit fell to $2.1B, down 37% from the previous quarter — Ant Group Co.'s profit fell to $2.1 billion in the March quarter after Chinese regulators thwarted its record initial public offering and told it to overhaul its sprawling operation.
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