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EU lawmakers pass the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, seeking to regulate US tech giants, but limited resources could hamstring enforcement — EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to landmark rules to rein in the power of tech giants such as Alphabet (GOOGL.O) …
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Sequoia Capital China is about to raise $9B for four new funds, above its $8B+ target, the largest amount raised by a single China tech-focused VC firm — Sequoia Capital's Chinese affiliate is about to close $9 billion in fresh capital for four new funds, higher than its original target …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: TikTok abandons plans to expand its TikTok Shop live e-commerce program to Europe and the US, after internal problems and a lack of traction in the UK — Chinese-owned social media platform's foray into livestream shopping in the UK has struggled to gain traction
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| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Source: Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government content takedown orders through a judicial review, alleging abuse of power by officials — Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government orders to take down content, a source familiar with the matter said …
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| Taylor Nicole Rogers / Financial Times: |
Survey: 25% of Black American investors owned crypto at the start of 2022, compared to 15% of white investors, making them especially vulnerable to the downturn — Higher exposure to digital assets leaves owners vulnerable to downturn — The widespread losses caused by the cryptocurrency crash …
Tweets: @davidcrespo, @patbits, @ahcastor, @fisurgi, @parismarx, @jathansadowski, @financialtimes, @techwontsaveus, and @financialtimes
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros., and others are cutting costs and scrapping TV shows at record rates; 559 scripted shows were released in 2021, up by 200+ on 2013 — The sudden decline in Netflix's share price and the growing fear of a recession have forced Hollywood into a new period of fiscal austerity.
Tweets: @ampressman, @mattrosoff, @trengriffin, @lucas_shaw, @carnage4life, and @trengriffin
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google updates Chrome for Windows to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited by attackers in the wild, its fourth Chrome zero-day patch in 2022 — Google has released Chrome 103..5060.114 for Windows users to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited by attackers … | Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Synergy Research: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google accounted for 65% of the $53B in global cloud spending in Q1 2022, up from 52% in 2018 — Three companies account for about two-thirds of cloud spending and are using their size to maintain their hold on rapidly growing market
Tweets: @jeffnolan
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent, Baidu, JD.com, and other Chinese tech giants agree to a “self-discipline initiative” for NFTs, including ID checks and avoiding secondary marketplaces — In a new ‘self-discipline initiative’, China's biggest tech firms agreed to enforce real-name authentication …
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| Megha Paul / Tech.eu: |
Danish startup Onomondo, which offers an interoperable network for IoT devices in more than 180 countries, raised a $21M Series A led by Verdane — The Danish platform offers interoperable cross-border connectivity and performance management without operator constraints
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| Paul MacInnes / The Guardian: |
FIFA will introduce semi-automated offside technology at the 2022 World Cup, using 12 cameras and a custom soccer ball to track players and make offside calls — - Sensor in ball will send out location data 500 times per second — Fifa claim average decision time will fall from 70sec to 25sec
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China is rapidly censoring news of the alleged Shanghai police database breach exposing 1B+ people's data; WeChat and Weibo appear to be blocking the topic — Purported leak of personal information of more than 1bn people offered for sale for $200,000 — China is rapidly censoring news … | Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: |
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| Seb Joseph / Digiday: |
Digital ad and linear TV ad spending by the top crypto advertisers in the US plummeted in the last few months amid a sharp decline in crypto markets — Don't expect to see many crypto ads for a minute. The companies behind them are trimming down costs wherever they can, including advertising.
Tweets: @samro, @ahcastor, @existentialenso, and @davidgerard
| Reuters: |
French music streamer Deezer goes public via SPAC on the Euronext stock exchange, opening at €8.50/share before dropping ~27% to around €6.50 — Shares of French music-streaming platform Deezer plunged as much as 35% on its first trading day, in a blow to telecoms maverick Xavier Niel … Sponsor Posts
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