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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Facebook, Telegram, Google, and Twitter say they have suspended requests for user data from Hong Kong police, following a new national security law by China — The social network said it would review the city's punitive new national security law, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by a large American tech company.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
TikTok to pull its app from Google Play and App Store in Hong Kong in light of new security law, says it doesn't and wouldn't share info with Chinese government — TikTok said Monday night that it would pull its social video platform out of the Google and Apple app stores in Hong Kong amid …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
A list of some tech companies the SBA says have received PPP loans of more than $150K; Bird and Index Ventures say they are wrongly listed — Scooter companies, AV startups, LIDAR manufacturers among companies receiving PPP loans — Bird, the beleaguered e-scooter company …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Overview of US gov't data on Paycheck Protection Program loans received by 40+ blockchain firms, led by ConsenSys, which allegedly received $5M-$10M in April — More than 40 companies in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry collected at least $18 million in payroll loans from the U.S. government.| TechCrunch: |
Palantir says it has confidentially filed an S-1 draft registration with the SEC for an IPO — Secretive surveillance startup Palantir said late Monday it has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. — Its statement for the secretive …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Fraunhofer announces H.266/VVC, a new video compression standard that it says cuts file sizes by ~50% compared to its predecessor without compromising quality — Having engineered the popular music encoding format MPEG-3 before developing the widely-used video formats H.264 (AVC) and H.265 …
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newsletter.fraunhofer.de, TechSpot, Android Authority, MSPoweruser, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Michael Tsai
Tweets: @kawaljit, @chrismessina, @helgeklein, @whatthebit, @kdcloudy, @koroushghazi, and @rowantrollope
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps amid rising tensions between US and China — - The U.S. is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday.| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Reframing “tech vs. journalism” discussion as “managers vs. employees” shows why journalists who have called attention to workplace activism have become targets — Last week, the worlds of technology and journalism were transfixed by a conflict that played …
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The Overspill. Tweets: @caseynewton, @taylorlorenz, @loganlahive, @joshconstine, @kantrowitz, @htsuka, @cwarzel, @jason_kint, @ahmed, and @billt
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Uber buys food delivery service Postmates for $2.65B in an all-stock deal — - Uber agreed to buy Postmates, the fourth-largest U.S. delivery food service, for $2.65 billion in stock. — Uber had attempted to acquire GrubHub last month but talks failed.
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Tweets: @eringriffith, @brettbivens, @sallyshin, @blakeir, @danpriceseattle, @amyklobuchar, @faris, @alex, @mgsiegler, @adam22, @rotopat, @sm, @dkhos, @adambanksdotcom, @mdudas, @aditis90, @financedircfo, @shervin, @obrien, @sameer_singh17, @veenadubal, @katie_roof, @therideshareguy, @db, @pkafka, @danprimack, @jason1749, @fromedome, @amir, @astasiawill, @ryangraves, @shubham, and @semil
| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Researchers say that 14.8% of Android users targeted with malware or adware last year were left with an infected system partition, making removal difficult — A healthy percentage of Android users targeted by mobile malware or mobile adware last year suffered a system partition infection …
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Securelist, Dark Reading, and BetaNews
| Benjamin Wallace / Vulture: |
Inside Quibi's implosion, aided by the divisive management styles of Katzenberg and Whitman, compounded by a failure to understand its digital-native audience — The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13.
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Nieman Lab. Tweets: @tomgara, @dkthomp, @megancarpentier, @jakesherman, @adamsinger, @dkthomp, @donaldrichard, @nymag, @seldo, @henderson_joe, @liamstack, @mattzeitlin, @nymag, @harrymccracken, @davidnett, @jaybauman1, @kararbrown, @jumosq, @chrismessina, @mims, @thekendallbaker, @seyitaylor, @profjeffjarviss, @htranbui, and @walthickey
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands its TikTok rival, Reels, to India in the wake of the country's ban on Chinese apps — In the wake of India's decision to ban TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps over privacy concerns, Instagram has expanded its TikTok rival, known as Reels, in the region.| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SiriusXM is near a deal to buy Stitcher's podcasting unit from Scripps for around $300M — Deal would follow similar moves by Spotify and iHeartMedia to enter podcasting industry — Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is near a deal to buy E.W. Scripps Co. 's Stitcher Inc. podcasting unit …
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Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Seeking Alpha, and Deadline
Tweets: @donlday, @brianroemmele, and @richlightshed
| Ilya Banares / Bloomberg: |
Canadian privacy watchdog says Clearview AI will cease offering facial recognition tech in Canada and suspend its contract with RCMP — Canada's privacy watchdog said facial recognition software provider Clearview AI Inc. will no longer offer its services in the country …
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Tweets: @rmac18 and @ilyaoverseas
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