Techmeme
July 19, 2022, 5:40 PM

Top News

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Apple agrees to pay $50M to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming the company knew and concealed that its MacBook butterfly keyboards were prone to failure  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by customers who claimed it knew and concealed that the …
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg:
CNBC:
The Delaware Court of Chancery grants Twitter an expedited five-day trial in October in its lawsuit against Elon Musk, who wanted the trial to begin in 2023  —  - Twitter won its motion for an expedited trial in its lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday.  — Delaware Court …
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $7.97B, vs $8.04B est., and a 970K subscriber loss vs an estimated 2M subscriber loss; stock jumps 5%+ after hours  —  Netflix shares jumped 6% after the company said it lost fewer subscribers than anticipated during the second quarter.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google will let non-gaming Android apps provide alternative billing systems for IAP, reducing Google's Play Store cut by 3%, in the European Economic Area  —  Google said today it will allow developers of non-gaming apps on the Play Store to provide alternative billing systems for in-app transactions …
Katyanna Quach / The Register:
Google and Oracle report some of their cloud services and servers in the UK went offline due to cooling failures amid the country's record-breaking heatwave  —  Clouds burst as nation hits 40C  —  Cloud services and servers hosted by Google and Oracle in the UK have fallen offline due …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube rolls out new shopping features, including a Shopify partnership to let eligible US creators and merchants link their Shopify store and YouTube channel  —  YouTube already soaks up billions of hours of the world's attention.  Now the video giant also wants to hoover up a bigger piece of consumers' online purchases.
Wall Street Journal:
Memo to staff: Meta is reallocating resources from Facebook's News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy  —  Senior executive Campbell Brown told employees that products will be ‘put on the backburner’  —  Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook …
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Amazon files a lawsuit against the administrators of 10K+ Facebook groups that offer cash or goods to users willing to post bogus product reviews on Amazon  —  If the reviews of the last completely necessary and not at all superfluous thing you bought on Amazon looked like so much copypasta …
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Samsung appears to use “cryptic” puzzles on Twitter to confirm its next Unpacked event is on August 10, 2022, as rumors suggest new foldables and smartwatches  —  Sure looks like the leaks were accurate  —  In a trio of images posted to its official Twitter account …
Christopher Zara / Fast Company:
BeReal, the social photo sharing app launched in early 2020 in France, is the No. 1 free app in Apple's US App Store; Sensor Tower: BeReal has 20M+ installs  —  No doubt you've seen the innumerable recent hot takes about BeReal.  The French photo app, launched in early 2020 as a kind …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Amazon starts rolling out a Prime Video redesign for Android and connected TV devices, with a Netflix-like look, a top 10 list, a vertical navigation, and more  —  New navigation, a top 10 list, and a very familiar look and feel  —  Compared to Netflix, Disney Plus, and other major streaming services …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
BitSight: a popular GPS vehicle tracker made by Shenzhen-based Micodus can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines of at least 1M vehicles  —  Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines …
Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
Blockchain security company Halborn, which works with Coinbase, Ava Labs, and others, raises a $90M Series A led by Summit Partners  —  Blockchain security firm Halborn has raised $90 million, the company told Bloomberg News.  The deal is an outlier in a climate where venture capital investing …

Sponsor Posts

Airtable:
Meet Airtable ProductCentral  —  The unified solution for managing your entire product development process in the AI era.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
Zoho SalesIQ turns 10: Transforming customer experiences since 2014  —  October marked a remarkable milestone for Zoho SalesIQ—our 10th anniversary.  What began in 2014 as a simple live chat tool has evolved …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy  —  Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 11/01 - ChatGPT Search
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:40 PM ET, July 19, 2022.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

More News

Earlier Picks

Martin Matishak / The Record:
Foreign Policy:
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: