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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 … | 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, Windows Central, Wired, Los Angeles Times, and Polygon
Tweets: @megan_nicolett, @stephentotilo, and @futterish
| 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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IGN, Yahoo News, Business Wire, Barron's Online, and CNN
Tweets: @papapishu, @side_questress, @nickstatt, @stephentotilo, and @zhugeex
| 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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| 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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PYMNTS.com, FinLedger, Barron's Online, mobilesyrup.com, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @markgurman and @markgurman
| 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, PCMag, CNET, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Social Media Today, Ubergizmo, and SlashGear
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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations — - Company says researchers of political ads were scraping data — NYU's Ad Observatory got cease-and-desist letter last October
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| 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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| 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
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.| 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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Ubergizmo, Engadget, TechSpot, and SlashGear
Tweets: @theinformation, @wcathcart, @bascule, @mshannahmurphy, @chrisbrogan, @markdistef, @rachelbovard, @alexhern, @jessicalessin, and @ackocher
| Mike Dano / Light Reading: |
T-Mobile confirms that it will shut down Sprint's LTE network by June 30, 2022, following its decision to shut down Sprint's 3G CDMA network on January 1, 2022 — T-Mobile confirmed to Light Reading that it will shut down the Sprint LTE network by June 30, 2022.
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MacRumors, The Verge, TmoNews, and Android Central
| 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
| 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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TechRadar, Fortune, phonearena.com, Digital Trends, Liliputing, 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, Droid Life, Pixel Envy, Forbes, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Android Headlines, Search Engine Roundtable, HotHardware.com News, The Information, Android Central, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, and @madebygoogle
| 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, and FedScoop. Tweets: @ron_miller
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Report finds attacks on 5 Southeast Asian telcos since 2017 are linked to 3 Chinese cyber-espionage groups, but found no signs of collaboration among the groups — At least five major telecommunication providers from Southeast Asia have been hacked over the past years by different Chinese cyber-espionage groups.Sponsor Posts
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