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Sources: Lina Khan overruled FTC staff to sue Meta over its Within acquisition; the FTC didn't take sworn interviews of company execs in the nine-month inquiry — Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan led her fellow Democrats in the agency's majority vote to sue Meta Platforms Inc. this week …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
FTC chair Lina Khan's attempt to block Meta's Within acquisition upends decades of antitrust standards and may shift how DC enforces competition in nascent tech — Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
A Delaware judge rules that Twitter's case against Elon Musk for attempting to exit his $44B takeover will go to trial from October 17 to October 21, 2022 — Everybody's going to the Court of Chancery — We have a schedule for the Delaware Court of Chancery trial over T witter's lawsuit …
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| Amanda Seitz / Associated Press: |
Twitter says it fielded nearly 60K legal demands globally in H2 2021 and complied fully with ~40%; the US accounted for 20% of account information requests — WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter warned Thursday that governments around the globe are asking the company to remove content or snoop … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons proposes offering customers a free hot drink and baked good as a settlement for collecting their location data for over a year — The wholesome Canadian chain caused a scandal when its privacy violation was revealed, and now it's proposing a free coffee and a baked good as restitution.| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Sources: a Chinese government PR unit asked for a stealth TikTok account targeting Western audiences with propaganda; TikTok declined the “sensitive” request — A Chinese government entity responsible for public relations attempted to open a stealth account on TikTok targeting Western audiences …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Amazon plans to shut down Drive, its cloud storage service launched in March 2011, at the end of 2023 to focus “on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos” — In an email to customers this morning, Amazon announced that its “Drive” cloud storage service is shutting down at the end of 2023.
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| Bloomberg: |
The SEC adds Alibaba to a list of Chinese companies facing delisting in three years if they don't comply with US auditing standards; Alibaba's stock is down 9%+ — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has moved a step closer toward getting booted off US stock exchanges for American inspectors not being able to access to financial audits.| Pete Schroeder / Reuters: |
US banking regulators order Voyager Digital to cease and desist from making “false and misleading” claims that its customers' funds were insured by the FDIC — U.S. banking regulators have ordered crypto firm Voyager Digital to cease and desist from making “false and misleading” …
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CoinDesk, Board of Governors …, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Protocol, CoinGape, Crowdfund Insider, Bitcoin News, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Micky, and Web3 is going just great. Tweets: @claritytoast
| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
As Congress debated the $280B CHIPS Act for 13 months, China's semiconductor industry surged ahead, making a 7nm chip that may be based on, or stolen from, TSMC — While Congress argued over whether and how to support American chip makers and research in other technologies China was surging ahead.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands App Store ads from the Search tab and Search results to the App Store's Today homepage and individual app pages — Apple is expanding its advertising business and adding two new ad slots to the App Store. Currently, the App Store has two ad slots: one on the main ‘Search’ tab and one in the Search results.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Krafton's battle-royale game BGMI gets delisted from the iOS and Android app stores after an Indian government ban; Krafton's PUBG was also banned two years ago — Google has pulled the popular battle royale game Battlegrounds Mobile India, more popularly known as BGMI …
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| Reuters: |
Apple expects a faster sales growth in Q4, citing easing parts shortages and strong iPhone demand; Tim Cook says Apple is also “being more deliberate” in hiring — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Thursday said parts shortages are easing and that demand for iPhones is unceasing despite consumers tightening …
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DCD, SiliconANGLE, CNET, London Evening Standard, MacRumors, iMore, and MacRumors. Tweets: @markgurman
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel is winding down its Optane memory business, incurring a $559M inventory impairment; Optane is the sixth non-core business Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has sold — 3D XPoint at the last crossroad. — Intel's Q2 2022 earnings report today was uncharacteristically disappointing …
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CRN, Gizmodo, DCD, The Register, AnandTech, PCWorld, Appuals.com, TechRadar, Neowin, and ServeTheHome. Tweets: @cscotta. Thanks:@paulyalcorn
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