Techmeme: Daily Mail owner files antitrust suit against Google alleging it punishes publishers in search if they don't sell enough ad space through Google's marketplace (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Microsoft is revamping its Store app on Windows 10 and will let devs submit unpackaged Win32 apps, use third-party commerce platforms in apps, and more — Microsoft wants to bring life back to the Store app on Windows 10. — What you need to know — Microsoft is working on a new Store app for Windows 10.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Venmo adds support for buying, holding, and selling four types of cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash — Venmo is adding support for cryptocurrency, starting today. The company says it will begin to roll out the ability for Venmo's more than 70 million users to buy …

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S. Shah / Engadget:

Amazon is opening a hair salon in London, where customers can try on virtual hair colors using an AR color bar and shop beauty products using QR codes — Amazon reinvented supermarket shopping with its — checkout-less Go stores, now the e-commerce giant is applying its tech prowess to hairdressing.

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Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal:

Binance hires Brian Brooks as CEO, starting May 1; he was previously acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under the Trump administration — Brian Brooks, an acting head of Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under Trump, will become CEO of Binance.US

More: Business Wire, CoinDesk, Decrypt, coinspeaker.com, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin Magazine, The Block, and Cointelegraph

Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:

Internal Facebook emails, accidentally sent to a journalist, show its “long-term strategy” for data scraping incidents, framing it as a “broad industry issue” — More scraping incidents are “expected” in the future. — An internal email accidentally leaked by Facebook …

More: CNET, Insider, and Graham Cluley

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New York Times:

Governments around the world are moving to limit the power of tech companies with an urgency and breadth that no single industry had experienced before — Never before have so many countries, including China, moved with such vigor at the same time to limit the power of a single industry.

Tweets: @satariano, @davidakaye, @nytimes, @uniglobalunion, @patrickgaspard, @ron_fournier, and @katieharbath

Wall Street Journal:

An in-depth look at the reasons behind the chip shortage including focus on higher-margin, cutting-edge chips, stockpiling due to US China trade tensions, more — Semiconductor producers are trying to increase output, but the small gains are unlikely to fix the shortfalls hampering production …

Tweets: @wsj, @chinarealtime, @dimartinobooth, and @emilyzfeng

Nikkei Asia:

Taiwan's leading DRAM maker Nanya Technology announces plans to build a $10B chip plant to alleviate global chip shortage and capture demand for 5G components

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Tweets: @rjhcustbc and @tculpan

Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:

Daily Mail owner files antitrust suit against Google alleging it punishes publishers in search if they don't sell enough ad space through Google's marketplace — Publisher says its U.K. royals coverage was played down in search results; claims it was punished for not steering sufficient ad space to Google

More: The Hill, Reuters, Beyond Search, and cityam.com

Tweets: @asharma, @patiencehaggin, and @patiencehaggin

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Janko Roettgers / Protocol:

Q&A with Magic Leap CEO on its enterprise pivot and Magic Leap 2, 50% smaller and 20% lighter than its last AR headset, coming Q4 via an early adopter program — Magic Leap is getting ready to release the next version of its augmented reality headset through an early adopter program during …

More: CNET. Tweets: @jank0

Mitchell Clark / The Verge:

Nextdoor is introducing an anti-racism notification, which asks users to reconsider posting content if the app thinks it may be offensive — It calls the feature the anti-racism notification — Nextdoor is introducing a new anti-racism notification, which asks users to reconsider posting content …

More: Nextdoor Blog, Engadget, Mashable, SlashGear, and MUO

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Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch:

Clearbanc, which provides capital to e-commerce companies for a share of their revenue, rebrands as Clearco, and raises $100M Series C at a $2B valuation — The fintech company raises a $100 million Series C — After five years of providing non-dilutive financing for founders, Clearbanc is tired of being only a bank.

More: Reuters, BetaKit, Insider, and The Logic

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Ryan Browne / CNBC:

Source: Facebook-backed Diem is aiming to launch a pilot with a single stablecoin pegged to the US dollar later this year — - The Diem Association is aiming to launch a pilot with a single stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar in 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter.

More: CoinDesk, Gizmodo, coinspeaker.com, Cointelegraph, CNBC, and Engadget

Tweets: @1e9petrichor, @kfeng027, and @ryan_browne_

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Chargebee, which helps enterprises with billing, subscriptions, revenue operations, and compliance, raises $125M at a $1.4B valuation — A startup that enables businesses to set up and manage their billing, subscription, revenue operations and compliance has become the newest firm to earn the much coveted unicorn status.

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Tweets: @sub8u and @shashank_kr

Linda Sui / Strategy Analytics:

Strategy Analytics: global smartphone shipments rose to 340M units in Q1 2021, up 24% YoY, representing the highest growth since 2015 — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments were 340 million units in Q1 2021, up +24% YoY representing the highest growth since 2015.

More: Android Authority, phonearena.com, Gizchina, Telecoms.com, South China Morning Post, and Android Headlines

Sohini Podder / Reuters:

Classy, which builds fundraising software for non-profit institutions, raises $118M led by Norwest Venture Partners — Classy, a technology company which builds fundraising software for non-profit institutions, has raised $118 million in fresh capital from venture capital firm Norwest Venture Partners …

More: Crunchbase News. Tweets: @caseynewton

Rachel Levin / Outside Online:

As a disproportionate number of people who purchased homes in Tahoe in 2020 were tech employees from the Bay Area, locals worry about “Aspenification of Tahoe” — Rachel Levin is a San Francisco-based journalist who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker …

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John Seabrook / New Yorker:

As NYC selects Bird, Lime, and Veo for its e-scooter pilot program, a look at why NYC is seen as an invaluable proving ground for the scooter-sharing concept — Fleets of electric scooters have taken over city streets worldwide. With New York finally climbing aboard, do they represent a tech hustle or a transit revolution?

Tweets: @newyorker, @micromobilityco, @newyorker, @patrickmorgan, and @catgioino

Ed Caesar / New Yorker:

An in-depth look at North Korea's extensive and expanding hacking operations, almost always focused on generating revenue for the closed-off country — The country's cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts.

More: DataBreaches.net. Tweets: @runasand, @newyorker, and @mattysino

Monica Chin / The Verge:

Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 (15-inch) review: big performance gains, excellent battery life, and very light, but not many ports and no Thunderbolt support — Microsoft's newest Surface Laptop brings better battery life and a better chip — In look and feel, very little has changed from the last generation.

Tweets: @scaryifliteral, @dcseifert, and @tomwarren

Liz Lee / Reuters:

Microsoft to establish its first data center region in Malaysia as part of its Bersama Malaysia initiative, which aims to skill 1M Malaysians by the end of 2023 — KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Microsoft Corporation will invest $1 billion over the next five years in Malaysia as part …

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Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg:

Dogecoin rose ~10% in the past 24 hours driven by the #DogeDay hashtag for 4/20; it jumped 400%+ in the past week and now has a market cap of $53B+ — - DogeDay trends on social media, pushing prices near 42 cents — ‘Dogecoin is symptomatic of the zeitgeist,’ says Trenchev

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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Octopus Deploy, which develops a deployment automation tool, raises $172.5M from Insight Partners — Founded almost a decade ago, Octopus Deploy has grown to serve 25,000 organizations, including Microsoft, NASA, Xero, Disney and Stack Overflow, through bootstrapping.

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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Era Software, which created EraDB to help enterprises manage hyperscale, cloud-native workloads, raises $15.25M led by Playground Global — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — Era Software, creator of the EraDB time-series database architecture …

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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:

PayPal to launch a local wallet in China focused on cross-border payments; PayPal is the first foreign firm with 100% ownership of a payments platform in China — - PayPal plans to set up a local wallet in China focused on cross-border payments. — In January, the U.S. fintech became …

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