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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 … | 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.”
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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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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
WhatsApp is rolling out a View Once feature for photos and videos that disappear from the chat after the recipient opens it — There and gone — WhatsApp is rolling out its “View Once” feature today, which deletes photos or videos from your chat after they've been opened by the recipient.
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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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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Report finds attacks on 5 Southeast Asian telcos since 2017 are linked to 3 Chinese cyber-espionage groups, but found no signs of collaboration among the groups — At least five major telecommunication providers from Southeast Asia have been hacked over the past years by different Chinese cyber-espionage groups.
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| 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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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google consolidates its sign-in offerings with a new family of Identity APIs called Google Identity Services, including a new “One Tap” sign in prompt — Where supported, “Sign in with Google” is a convenient way to log in to third-party services without having to keep track of different passwords.
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| Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations — - Company says researchers of political ads were scraping data — NYU's Ad Observatory got cease-and-desist letter last October| Mike Dano / Light Reading: |
T-Mobile confirms that it will shut down Sprint's LTE network by June 30, 2022, following its decision to shut down Sprint's 3G CDMA network on January 1, 2022 — T-Mobile confirmed to Light Reading that it will shut down the Sprint LTE network by June 30, 2022.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based BharatPe, which helps offline merchants accept digital payments, raises $370M Series E led by Tiger Global at a $2.85B post-money valuation — Indian fintech startup BharatPe has raised $370 million in a new round of financing as it looks to aggressively scale its business in the next two years.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| 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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| 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 …
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| Joseph Marks / Washington Post: |
Overview of the severe shortage of cybersecurity workers across the US government and private sector, despite an unprecedented slate of hacking threats — Anchor of The Cybersecurity 202 newsletter — The government is struggling to hire cybersecurity workers at the same time it is facing an unprecedented slate of hacking threats.| 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.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Mexico City-based Yaydoo, a B2B software and payments startup, raises $20.4M Series A led by Base10 Partners and monashees — It's no secret that the technology for easy business-to-business payments has not yet caught up to its peer-to-peer counterparts, but Yaydoo thinks it has the answer.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rolls out three new AMD Radeon Pro graphics card modules for Intel-based Mac Pros; 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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| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Match Group reports Q2 revenue of $708M, up from $555M YoY, vs $694M estimated, and Tinder direct revenue of $399M, up 26% YoY, with 9.6M payers, up 17% — Earnings come in lighter than analysts expected, but quarterly revenue tops $700 million as paying customers of company's online-dating services increase to 15 million
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| 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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