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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: amid escalating rivalry, neither Google nor Microsoft are keen to renew a recently-expired truce to not use their lobbying firepower against each other — A non-aggression pact forged by their CEOs expired in April, threatening to add fuel to industry's antitrust battles
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
GAO report finds 20 out of 42 federal agencies surveyed use facial recognition tech and sheds light on how deeply the tech is integrated into federal agencies — Black Lives Matter protesters, Jan. 6 rioters and regular travelers are among those targeted by agencies using the tech, including the IRS and the Postal Service
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GAO, U.S. Government …, The Verge, Threatpost, Nextgov, Defense One, Bloomberg Law, and The Daily Dot
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Facebook unveils Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor, but is not yet accepting signups and says it won't take a cut of creators' revenue “at launch” — Facebook won't take a cut ‘at launch’ — Facebook is getting into the subscription newsletter game.
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Facebook, PCMag, New York Times, TechCrunch, Memeburn, About Facebook, TechRadar, phonearena.com, Silicon Republic, The Economic Times, Mashable, Ubergizmo, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Information
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Shopify drops Shopify App Store's cut to 0% on devs' first $1M in revenue, says app developer partners earned $233M in 2020, more than 2018 and 2019 combined — Following similar moves by Apple, Google, and more recently Amazon, among others, e-commerce platform Shopify announced today it's …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter says it fixed a bug that caused some users to lose access to its “Latest” chronological feed option on the web — Update: Twitter's Kayvon Beykpour says this is a bug that it's working on fixing. The Twitter Support account says the fix is rolled out.
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| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Google UK will only run ads for financial products from sources approved by UK's financial watchdog, from Sept. 6, after being threatened with legal action — Google is tightening its ad screening rules in the UK after a steep rise in fraudulent adverts online during the pandemic. The search giant has
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The Keyword, Search Engine Land, BBC, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, The Register, and Coinspeaker
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft and OpenAI announce GitHub Copilot, an AI-based tool to recommend code to software developers in almost any programming language — - GitHub, GitHub's parent company Microsoft and OpenAI have teamed up to deliver a tool that comes up with source code for programmers to use as they work.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
T-Mobile is letting owners of eSIM-compatible iPhones try out its cell network with a 30-day free trial just by installing an app; no billing info is required — Owners of newer iPhones can start a free 30-day trial just by downloading an app thanks to eSIM
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| Scott Rosenberg / Axios: |
Dismissals of FTC and state AGs suits against Facebook shows the difficulty of making antitrust charges stick and could spur lawmakers to toughen antitrust laws — A federal judge's decisions Monday tossed out antitrust lawsuits against Facebook — and threw cold water on the heated campaign …
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New York Times, The Guardian, Wired, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Electronic Frontier Foundation, National Review, FrontPageTech.com, and Bloomberg
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
After hackers wiped many of Western Digital's My Book Live devices, a look at the code suggests the manufacturer had removed authentication code — Western Digital removed code that would have prevented the wiping of petabytes of data. — Update 6/29/2021, 9:00 PM: Western Digital …
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Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @trycatchhcf, @dangoodin001, @howelloneill, @dabdine, @campuscodi, @dancow, @bergmayer, @hypninfosec, and @dangoodin001
| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
Senator Warren asks the FTC for a “broad and meticulous review” of Amazon's MGM acquisition, citing Amazon's anticompetitive history and growing monopoly power — Warren argues the deal could hurt consumers — Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling on the Federal Trade Commission … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Didi raised at least $4B in its US IPO, giving it a market capitalization of at least $67B — IPO values China ride-hailing giant at over $67bn as its domestic dominance comes under scrutiny — China's ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing will make its debut on the New York Stock Exchange …
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Pandaily, Coinspeaker, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, and equalocean.com
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Turkey-based Dream Games, which makes the popular mobile game Royal Match, raises $155M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Makers Fund at a $1B valuation — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. — Turkey has another unicorn on its hands.| Madeleine Hodson / PrivacySharks: |
Data on 700M LinkedIn users for sale on a forum, with info like names, addresses, inferred salary; LinkedIn says it seems some of the data is from other sources — Things are not looking good for LinkedIn right now. Just two months after a jaw-dropping 500 million profiles from the networking site …
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Tweets: @troyhunt, @jaycuthrell, @benlovejoy, @blueboxdave, @jgamblin, @can, @ambermac, and @benlovejoy
| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Outbrain files for an IPO aiming to raise over $100M, says it had $767M in revenue last year, $4.4M in net income, and funnels ads to 7,000+ websites like CNN — Outbrain, one of the top purveyors of clickbait ads, filed on Tuesday to raise at least $100 million through an initial public offering … | Luisa Beltran / Barron's Online: |
Chinese grocery delivery app Dingdong closed at $23.52, up just 2 cents from its offer price in its trading debut, after raising ~$96M in a downsized US IPO — Dingdong, the first of the week's roughly 16 initial public offerings, began trading Tuesday after cutting, and then increasing, the size of its deal.
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CNBC, Reuters, PR Newswire, caixinglobal.com, and Tech in Asia
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Shogun, which helps e-commerce businesses build their storefronts on platforms like Shopify, raises $67.5M Series C led by Insight Partners at a $575M valuation — E-commerce marketplaces continue to play a major role in how consumers buy goods online and how retailers show off and sell goods …
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The Information and PR Newswire
| Tarush Bhalla / Livemint: |
Quizizz, which helps teachers create gamified quizzes and interactive lessons that generate instant student feedback, raises $31.5M Series B led by Tiger Global — Education startup Quizizz has raised $31.5 million as a part of its ongoing Series B round led by US investment firm Tiger Global Management …
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The Economic Times, TechCrunch, TechCircle, Inc42 Media, Entrackr, and Tech in Asia
| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Gartner survey of public cloud services in 2020: AWS had $26.2B in revenue, up ~29% and a 41% share overall, followed by Azure with $12.7B in revenue, up ~60% — Amazon led the market with $26.2 billion of revenue in 2020 from IaaS public cloud services. — According to new data released … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows 11 will feature a new Dynamic Refresh Rate, designed to save laptop battery life and boost refresh rates when they're really needed — This feature looks like it's designed for a future Surface tablet — Microsoft is introducing a new Dynamic Refresh Rate (DRR) …
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Tom's Guide, Laptop Mag, Tom's Hardware, CNBC, mobilesyrup.com, TechSpot, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Annabelle Dickson / Politico: |
Critics say UK's Online Safety Bill gives disproportionate powers to the government in the name of protecting users, with worrying implications for free speech — The Online Safety Bill blurs the line between ministers and the independent regulator, say critics.
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New Statesman, Lexology, and inews.co.uk
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