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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard says president J. Allen Brack is leaving the company, replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra, as the fallout from CA lawsuit continues — Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra will take over as co-leaders — In the last week or so, we've learned about the state of California filing …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Activision beats expectations in Q2 with revenue of $2.29B, up 19% YoY, and net bookings of $1.92B, down only 7% YoY, notes risks of the sexual harassment suit — Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat Wall Street's and its own expectations with 19% revenue growth to $2.29 billion for the second quarter ended June 30.
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Activision Blizzard, CNN, Windows Central, GamesIndustry.biz, and Protocol
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard says that Blizzard's head of global human resources, Jesse Meschuk, has also left the company — Jesse Meschuk, SVP of global HR, has left — Blizzard president J. Allen Brack isn't the only executive leaving the company today after presiding over a culture now accused of fostering “constant sexual harassment.”| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan on monetizing Shorts, content moderation with Content ID, YouTube TV, competing with TikTok, and more — YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan joined Decoder this week to discuss YouTube's new $100 million fund to begin paying creators …
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The Verge, YouTube Official Blog, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, Social Media Today, The Streamable, Insider, Android Headlines, and The Wrap
Tweets: @samsheffer, @reckless, @mhbergen, @earcos, @reckless, @nealmohan, and @alexeheath
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft tells employees it will require proof of vaccination to enter a Microsoft building in the US starting September, with medical and religious exceptions — The full opening of its US offices will be ‘no earlier’ than October 4th — Microsoft has informed employees that it will require proof …
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PCMag, Vox, Windows Central, Thurrott, Silicon Valley Business …, StateScoop, GeekWire, CNBC, Gizchina, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @searyanc, @jonmasters, and @tomwarren
| Chong Koh Ping / Wall Street Journal: |
After Chinese state media criticized online gaming as “opium for the mind” in a now-deleted article, Tencent announces stricter rules for young users — Shares of NetEase and Bilibili also suffer steep falls — Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. and rivals plummeted Tuesday …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, CNBC, New York Times, GameSpot, Reuters, PC Gamer, TechSpot, NBC News, Associated Press, Tech Xplore, Kotaku, Forbes, Gamasutra, Bloomberg, Insider, and Al Jazeera
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple and Affirm's PayBright will launch a “buy now, pay later” program for iPhone, Mac, and iPad purchases in Canada on Aug. 11, according to a staff message — - Monthly installments to be offered in Canada on Apple devices — Company working on future service for all Apple Pay purchases
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mobilesyrup.com, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @markgurman and @markgurman
| Bloomberg: |
Q&A with SEC chair Gary Gensler on protecting cryptocurrency investors from fraud, regulating the industry, Bitcoin ETFs, and other SEC priorities like GameStop — It's become a parlor game in Washington, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley to figure out where U.S. Securities …
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Tweets: @senwarren, @novogratz, @secgov, @dickerson_des, @wsj, @anthony, @paulvigna, @lazerow, @mayazi, @apompliano, @jtseo9, @hkanji, @garygensler, @crypto, and @brucefenton
| Antoine Gara / Forbes: |
How Michael Dell oversaw Dell's expansion after taking it private, growing the company to $75B, by focusing on providing infrastructure to businesses and others — After years battling Silicon Valley skeptics and Wall Street adversaries, Michael Dell has pulled off the deal of the century …
Tweets: @antoinegara, @johnbyrnecso, @michaeldell, @danprimack, @martin_casado, @prefshares, @antoinegara, @forbes, @bgurley, and @chrishelman
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Spotify is testing Spotify Plus, a low-cost tier that includes ads but doesn't impose limits on track skipping and lets users pick specific songs to play — Spotify Plus is being piloted with a ‘limited number’ of users — Spotify Plus is a new $.99 subscription tier being piloted …
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Android Police, Neowin, Hollywood Reporter, Android Headlines, Digital Trends, Android Central, TNW, Tom's Guide, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechRadar, Phandroid, mobilesyrup.com, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, MUO, PCMag, TechHive, phonearena.com, KnowTechie, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, TechSpot, Livemint, AppleInsider, Engadget, iMore, Trusted Reviews, Mashable, and MacRumors. Tweets: @shiraovide
| Andrew Kersley / Wired UK: |
Sources: well over 100 UK-based employees at Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery unit have lost their jobs since 2019, as the company scales back its ambitions — Amazon has triggered mass redundancies and transfers as it winds down a huge part of its UK drone delivery business
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The Verge, New York Post, CNET, SlashGear, and DroneDJ
Tweets: @tashabernal, @hkanji, @markdistef, @jamestitcomb, @olifranklin, @sam_l_shead, @andrewkersley, and @rupertmyers
| The Information: |
Facebook confirms it is building a team of AI researchers to study ways of analyzing encrypted data without decrypting it, potentially helping better target ads — Facebook is bulking up a team of artificial intelligence researchers, including a key hire from Microsoft …
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Engadget, SlashGear, and TechSpot
Tweets: @theinformation, @wcathcart, @mshannahmurphy, @chrisbrogan, @markdistef, @rachelbovard, @alexhern, @jessicalessin, and @ackocher
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Citizen launches Protect, a $20/month service that offers access to a Citizen operator and other features, after a 100,000-user beta test — After months of testing with upwards of 100,000 beta testers, Citizen today is launching its premium Protect offering for all users.
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Reuters, CITIZEN, CNN, Engadget, Vox, The Verge, PCMag, and USA Today
Tweets: @pegobry, @gregghoush, @richardhanania, @eculliford, @hypervisible, @citizenapp, and @eculliford
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rolls out three new AMD Radeon Pro graphic card modules for Intel-based Mac Pros; the options range from $2,400 to $5,600 in build-to-order configurations — Apple has rolled out three new graphics card modules for the Intel-powered Mac Pro today. The new graphics card modules include …
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AppleInsider, Ars Technica, iThinkDifferent, The Verge, MacRumors, Macworld, PCMag, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, and iMore
| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood's stock closes at $46.80, up 24.2% on the day's trading, blowing past its IPO price of $38 and becoming the day's “top traded stock” on Fidelity — - Robinhood went public last Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker HOOD. — The stock priced at $38 per share, the low end of its offering range.
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Sources: NLRB probe found Amazon illegally interfered with workers organizing in Staten Island, NY; NLRB officer recommends election rerun for Alabama warehouse — The National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon illegally interfered with worker organizing at its Staten Island, New York warehouse in May.
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| Rainey Reitman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The confusing language in the infrastructure bill's crypto provision suggests that nearly any entity in crypto is a broker and must collect their users' data — The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden's infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States' roads …
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Washington Post, Jeremy Rubin, Bloomberg, Techdirt, CoinDesk, New York Times, Cryptonews, Tom's Hardware, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Decrypt, and Blockonomi
Tweets: @sentoomey, @eff, @opensecretsdc, @reptedbudd, @hshaban, and @technologypoet
| Boris Metodiev / Strategy Analytics: |
Xiaomi became Europe's top smartphone vendor in Q2 with 12.7M units shipped, up 67.1% YoY, followed by Samsung with 12M, down 7% YoY, and Apple with 9.6M — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Europe smartphone shipments grew a strong +14% YoY to 50.1 million units in Q2 2021 …
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
A bipartisan Senate investigation finds that, despite years of warnings, many US government agencies have not established effective cybersecurity programs — Several major federal agencies continue to fail to address recurring cybersecurity vulnerabilities or implement basic standards …
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Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, CyberScoop, Gizmodo, CBS News, The Hill, NBC News, Washington Post, Engadget, and FedScoop. Tweets: @ron_miller
| Rob Price / Insider: |
UK-based Emojipedia, an encyclopedia for emoji founded in 2013, says it has been acquired by smartphone software company Zedge — - Emojipedia has been acquired by smartphone software company Zedge for an undisclosed amount. — The online emoji encyclopedia was founded in 2013, and has 500 million-plus yearly pageviews.
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Emojipedia, Daring Fireball, and ACCESSWIRE
Tweets: @jeremyburge, @jeremyburge, and @emojipedia
| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Google's Rick Osterloh demos Pixel 6's Tensor SoC, which enables real-time object detection and HDR in videos as well as real-time translation and live captions — We sat down with Google's phone chief, Rick Osterloh, to see what the Pixel 6 has in store. — Alerts
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Fortune, Liliputing, Barron's Online, XDA Developers, phonearena.com, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @sundarpichai, @deitaone, and @atomicthumbs
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @chunkynerd, and @iupdate
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
After Chinese regulators halted its IPO, Alibaba's Ant Group reports Q1 profit fell to $2.1B, down 37% from the previous quarter — Ant Group Co.'s profit fell to $2.1 billion in the March quarter after Chinese regulators thwarted its record initial public offering and told it to overhaul its sprawling operation.
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