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The UK's CMA plans a market investigation into Apple's cloud gaming restrictions via its App Store alongside Apple and Google's market power in mobile browsers — Apple and Google “hold all the cards” with interventions needed to give innovators and competitors a fair chance to compete in mobile ecosystems| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
As Axie Infinity's economy and the value of its tokens crumbled, and gamers' earnings crashed, Sky Mavis started downplaying financial aspects of the game — Over the course of his life, Alejo Lopez de Armentia has played video games for a variety of reasons.
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Memo: Activision Blizzard CEO says the company is opening collective bargaining negotiations with Raven Software workers who recently voted to join a union — Activision Blizzard will announce Friday that it is opening collective bargaining negotiations with workers in the gaming giant's Raven Software unit …
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Sources: some US news outlets prepare for shortfalls as Meta weighs ending fees for news; annual fees averaged $20M+ for NYT, $15M+ for WaPo, and $10M+ for WSJ — Social-media company pays more than $10 million a year to a handful of news organizations to feature their content on its news tab
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Sources: a Meta probe that began last fall is looking into Sandberg's use of corporate resources for personal projects, like support for the Lean In Foundation — Review focuses on the extent to which staffers worked on her personal projects — The lawyers investigating Facebook operating …
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Sources: delivery startup Gorillas, which raised $1B in October 2021, is cutting staff, reducing free-spending policies, and considering closing four warehouses — After Germany's rapid food delivery startup Gorillas Technologies GmbH closed a $1 billion funding round last October …
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Pixalate study: 67% of the most popular App Store apps and 79% of the most popular Play Store apps likely used by children send the ad industry personal data — Apple and Google just look the other way. Here's how we stop it. — Imagine if a stranger parked in front of a child's bedroom window to peep inside.
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Experts say Amazon's encrypted chat app Wickr is flooded with child sex abuse images and the company is not taking basic safety measures to prevent sharing — Court records show that Wickr Me has become part of a toolkit used by people who exploit children.
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Arduino, maker of open source microcontrollers popular with hobbyist hardware developers, raised a $32M Series B from Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Arm, others — Best known for its open source microcontrollers that have been wildly embraced by the developer community, Arduino now has its sights firmly set on the enterprise world.| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Alibaba drops as much as 8% after its Ant Group unit said it has no current plans to revive its IPO and a key regulator said it had not evaluated the listing — - Alibaba shares dropped 8% on Thursday after its financial affiliate Ant Group said there were currently no plans to revive a public listing.
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Sources: “AI transformer” startups Inflection, Cohere, Adept, and Anthropic, which collectively raised $1B+, recently poached dozens of scientists from Big Tech — - Four of the best-funded new AI start-ups — Inflection, Cohere, Adept and Anthropic — have recently poached dozens … | Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD updates its Zen architecture roadmap, including Zen 4 improvements in 2022 and Zen 5 in 2024 with a mix of 4nm and 3nm processes and AI and ML optimizations — Today is AMD's Financial Analyst Day, the company's semi-annual, analyst-focused gathering. While the primary purpose …
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin-focused venture TBD unveils plans to build a “Web 5” platform focused on decentralized identity and data storage for applications — TBD, the Bitcoin-focused venture first announced last spring, unveiled an ambitious effort Friday to build a decentralized Web platform dubbed “Web 5.”
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