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Sources: before its probe into an alleged insider trading scheme, the SEC started investigating whether Coinbase improperly let Americans trade digital assets — Coinbase Global Inc. is facing a US probe into whether it improperly let Americans trade digital assets that should have been registered …
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Apple settles a patent case with Koss, which in July 2020 alleged that Apple's AirPods violate five of Koss' patents; the terms of the deal were not disclosed — Apple Inc. dodged a patent-infringement trial over its AirPods after reaching an agreement with headphone maker Koss Corp. to settle the case.
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Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services CEO Michael Stollery pleads guilty to raising $21M through a fraudulent initial coin offering between 2017 and 2018 — Michael Stollery admitted to carrying out a fraudulent initial coin offering in 2018. — Michael Stollery …
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Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon join the NIST's push to scrap the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation but can cause glitches — Syncing clocks with the Earth's rotation causes more problems than it's worth, according to Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon plans to raise its annual Prime subscription prices across Europe by up to 43% on September 15, citing “increased inflation and operating costs” — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) will raise fees for its delivery and streaming service Prime in Europe by up to 43% a year … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Internal docs from 2017 show Roblox's plan for expanding into China: censorship compliance, expecting to be hacked and copied by partners like Tencent, and more — Filtering games. Blocking maps with Taiwan. Handling “historical facts.” Roblox was prepared to go all in on Chinese censorship …
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao sues Bloomberg Businessweek's Hong Kong publisher for defamation, claiming a June 23 profile depicted him as running a “Ponzi scheme” — It's not the first time Zhao and Binance have sued the media. — Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Instagram's new TikTok-inspired UI, which has rolled out to some users, lifts some dark patterns from TikTok, like no longer letting users quickly mute videos — I, of all people, got a fresh new user interface in Instagram the other day. Although the company has not rolled it out to all users yet …
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| Edward White / Financial Times: |
Report: Chinese authorities have detained Zhao Weiguo, former chairman and major shareholder of the heavily indebted state-backed chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup — Former Xinjiang shepherd Zhao Weiguo is latest aggressive dealmaker to fall foul of Xi Jinping's government
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches Music Revenue Sharing to let US creators include licensed music in their 60+ second Facebook videos and earn a 20% share of in-stream ad revenue — Meta announced today that creators on Facebook can now earn money through their Facebook videos that use licensed music.
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Facebook, Meta, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Axios, Ad Age, Music Week, Bloomberg, Digital Trends, Neowin, and Adweek
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| Andrew Ackerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US House lawmakers delayed a tentative July 27 vote on a bipartisan bill to curb potential risks posed by stablecoins until at least September 2022 — Lawmakers continue to negotiate deal, but unable to complete work ahead of August break — What Happens If a Crypto Platform Goes Bankrupt?
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Congress plans to vote on a bill to ban firms that sell spyware from working with the US government; experts say the surveillance market will be hard to curtail — Congress is waking up to the growing threat of foreign spyware on the heels of several high-profile episodes involving … | Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Creators are forming groups on chat apps like Discord, Geneva, and Telegram, which they say offer a more intimate, community experience than social networks — Influencers are setting up groups on chat apps, like Geneva, Discord and Telegram, which they say offer a more intimate …
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