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| Kellen / Droid Life: |
Epic filing reveals that in a 2016 email Phil Schiller said “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us”, which Epic argues is proof of lock-in — Epic and Apple are preparing to battle it out in court over the App Store (remember that whole Fortnite debacle?) …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
A senior Apple engineer compared App Store's defenses against malicious actors to “bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight”, according to legal documents — Revelation part of legal documents released by Epic Games ahead of antitrust trial| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
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| The Markup: |
Investigation finds Google uses a secret blocklist to stop advertisers from making YouTube ad campaigns for hate terms; it worked less than a third of the time — Many well-known White supremacist and White nationalist terms and slogans were not blocked — First of two parts.
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Verizon is recalling 2.5M Ellipsis Jetpack mobile hotspots, ~1.3M of which are in use, after investigation found batteries could overheat and cause fire hazards — The CPSC says the devices' batteries are the source of the overheating — Verizon said Thursday it is working …
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| New York Times: |
Amazon widens its lead in the Alabama unionization vote on the second day of counting; union seeking to represent Amazon workers says 3,215 ballots were cast — With about half the ballots counted late Thursday, votes against unionization had a more than 2-to-1 advantage over those in favor …
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| Will Gottsegen / Decrypt: |
Robinhood says 9.5 million customers traded crypto on its platform in Q1 2021 compared to 1.7 million in Q4 2020, an increase of 458% — The online brokerage service Robinhood said on Thursday that 9.5 million of its customers traded cryptocurrency on its platform in Q1 of 2021.
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| Katie Canales / Insider: |
Report: hackers scraped data of 500M LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online; LinkedIn confirms the dataset includes publicly viewable info from its site — - Personal data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is reportedly for sale on a hacking forum.| Reuters: |
Facebook suspends 16K accounts for trading fake reviews and made more changes to prevent paid content, after UK competition watchdog intervened a second time — (Reuters) - Social media company Facebook Inc suspended 16,000 accounts for selling or buying fake reviews of products and services … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Amid a mental health crisis because of COVID-19, Stanford researchers found that most tech platforms have no policies related to discussions of self-harm — Exclusive: Amid a rising mental health crisis, Stanford researchers find many companies ignoring posts about self-harm
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Taiwan is going to great lengths to keep water flowing to chip factories of TSMC and others, including shutting off irrigation to legions of rice growers — The island is going to great lengths to keep water flowing to its all-important semiconductor industry, including shutting off irrigation to legions of rice growers.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Abu Dhabi's state fund Mubadala has started preparations for a US IPO of GlobalFoundries that could value the chipmaker at about $20B — - Abu Dhabi firm starts preparations for listing of chipmaker — Sovereign fund holds initial talks with potential advisers
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| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Orum, which speeds up ACH bank payments by using AI to assess risk, raises $21M Series A led by Bain Capital — Today you can load a movie on Netflix in a second, catch an Uber in a minute and get groceries delivered in an hour. You'd think money would move just as quickly—and some of it does.
Tweets: @nikmilanovic, @charleyma, and @sarthakgh
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Iyuno-SDI Group, whose ERP software offers media localization services like subtitles, dubbing, and accessibility features, raises $160M from SoftBank Vision 2 — Iyuno-SDI Group, a provider of translated subtitles and other media localization services, announced today it has raised $160 million in funding from SoftBank Vision 2.| Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: |
Community, which lets public figures, media outlets, and brands text with fans, raises $40M from Salesforce Ventures, bringing its total raised to $90M — The platform for brands and celebrities seeks to expand to more large marketers and small businesses — Community.com Inc. …
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| Amanda Macias / CNBC: |
US Commerce Department adds seven Chinese supercomputing entities to an export blacklist for allegedly building supercomputers used by Chinese military — - Commerce added seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a U.S. economic blacklist citing national security concerns.
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| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
Tencent-backed Linklogis, which helps facilitate supply chain finance transactions, rises 11% in its $1.02B Hong Kong IPO — - Linklogis priced $1 billion offering near midpoint of range — Too early to say city's IPO sentiment is recovering: UOB — Chinese fintech firm Linklogis Inc. rose …
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