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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developers publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 — Meta said today that it finally launched its much-awaited API for Threads so developers can build experiences around it.
More: 9to5Mac, Meta for Developers, Mashable, GitHub, WinBuzzer, The Verge, Adweek, and NewsBytes
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple is set to settle a long-running EU antitrust investigation over payments, after the EU accepted measures that Apple committed to in January 2024 — Tech company willing to open mobile pay system to rivals in concessions that will help avoid antitrust fines from the bloc| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Margrethe Vestager says Apple has a number of “very serious” issues under the EU's DMA, and the EU will reveal conclusions of its investigation “hopefully soon” — WATCH NOW — Apple has a number of “very serious” issues under the European Union's sweeping rules aimed … | Wall Street Journal: |
Social media creators say earning a decent, reliable income is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about partnerships — Platforms are paying less for popular posts, brands are pickier about partnerships and a possible TikTok ban looms
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warns the EU's recent “upload moderation” proposal to detect CSAM “fundamentally undermines encryption” of messaging apps — A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan the private messages of citizens in a bid …
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| Amar Subramanya / Google: |
Google launches a Gemini app for Android in India, supporting English and nine other languages, and says Gemini will roll out to its iOS app in the coming weeks — Vice President, Engineering, Gemini Experiences — Gemini, your AI assistant from Google, has had an exciting first year in India.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
A look at Apple's upcoming CarPlay updates, aiming to be “a design toolkit for automakers” comprising UI layers: local, overlay, remote, and punch-through — Apple's been talking about its next generation of CarPlay for two years now with very little to show for it …
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| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
Maryland-based Huntress, an SMB-focused managed security platform, raised a $150M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and Sapphire at a $1.5B+ valuation — Cash infusion will go toward new product development for small businesses, CEO says — Cybersecurity provider Huntress …
More: Reuters, CRN, and Huntress Labs
| Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority: |
Adobe updates Acrobat with Firefly-powered AI image generation, AI Assistant supporting analysis of multiple documents, including non-PDF files, and more — Acrobat's AI Assistant is getting more useful, just months after its debut. — • — TL;DR| Ina Fried / Axios: |
A study of 10 chatbots, including from Perplexity and OpenAI, shows how often they repeat Russian disinfo and cite fugitive John Dougan's fake local news sites — - Entering 57 prompts into 10 leading chatbots, NewsGuard found they spread Russian disinformation narratives 32% of the time … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it will no longer offer Apple Pay Later, the BNPL service launched in the US in 2023, and will focus on installment loan features coming in 2024 — Apple has announced that it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the “buy now, pay later” service that launched in the United States last year.
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| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low profile for fear of attracting unwanted public attention; Shein has never published any photos of him — - Even by the standards of Chinese tech business leaders, the lack of public information about Xu Yangtian is unusual| María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg: |
Stablecoin provider Tether announces a synthetic dollar backed by gold that will trade as aUSDT via smart contracts on the Ethereum Mainnet blockchain — - Alloy by Tether designed to track dollar with gold collateral — Tether Gold has a $573 million market capitalization| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Xreal unveils the $199+ Beam Pro, a 6.5-inch device that powers Xreal's glasses, runs Android 14-based NebulaOS, uses a Snapdragon chip, and has two USB-C ports — Xreal has made a name for itself with some surprisingly nice-looking augmented reality glasses, which put a display in front … | Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raised a $200M Series B led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, after an $83.5M Series A in 2021, and aims for a full launch in 2025 — Waabi has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round, led by existing investors Uber Technologies (UBER.N) and Khosla Ventures …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their databases, raised $20M led by FirstMark and Georgian, taking its total funding to $26M — Brothers Tobie Morgan Hitchcock and Jaime Hitchcock spent years building cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems together …
More: SiliconANGLE and SurrealDB
| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more — Googling isn't what it used to be — Frustrated by their Google searches, people are funneling their queries to a site that isn't a search engine at all: Reddit.
More: Livemint, MakeUseOf, and TechIssuesToday.com
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more — TV isn't just competing with Netflix for your time — it needs to beat TikTok, too. … Today, I'm talking with Anjali Sud, the CEO of Tubi.| Lisa Du / Bloomberg: |
Blackstone plans to acquire Japanese digital romance comic provider Infocom in a $1.7B deal, in its biggest private equity transaction in Japan to date — - Offers to buy Japanese digital comic provider Infocom — Sees money-making opportunity stemming from original content| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Cambridge, UK-based CuspAI, which is developing AI-powered tech for designing new materials, raised a $30M seed and adds Geoffrey Hinton to its advisory board — Former Google AI researcher to work with CuspAI, which has raised $30 million to combat climate change with AI-designed materials.
More: TechCrunch, Tech Funding News, Fortune, FinSMEs, Silicon Canals, UKTN, and EU-Startups
| Pei Li / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Huawei is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on HarmonyOS and has discussed a ~20% fee with game developers, below Apple's and Google's 30% — - Chinese firm is looking at a lower fee structure than Apple — Huawei's profit surged 564% as it reclaimed premium share| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
Amazon Labor Union members vote to join forces with the 1.3M-member Teamsters union; ALU President Christian Smalls says Teamsters allocated $8M for organizing — An affiliation agreement between the Amazon Labor Union and the 1.3 million-member Teamsters signals an escalation in challenging the online retailer.
More: Engadget, Barron's Online, The Verge, CNBC, Teamsters, Bloomberg, and WinBuzzer
X: @derrickpalmer_, @uniondrip, and @teamsters
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