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Microsoft's Brad Smith says the CMA blocking the Activision deal was “probably the darkest day in our four decades” in the UK and will be “bad for Britain” — Microsoft's president has attacked the UK after it was blocked from buying US gaming firm Activision …
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The UK CMA's objection to Microsoft's Activision deal focuses on the nascent cloud gaming market, a departure from regulators focusing on mature markets — UK regulators blocked Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard Inc. over concerns it would harm competition in cloud gaming …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to add E2EE to Google Authenticator “down the line”, after researchers warned that its new feature to sync 2FA codes is not E2E encrypted — On Monday, Google Authenticator launched the ability to sync 2FA codes to your Google Account.
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Meta reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $28.6B, net income down 24% YoY to $5.7B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.02B for March 2023; META jumps 10%+ — “We had a good quarter and our community continues to grow,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Amazon shuts down its health-focused Halo division, discontinues its Halo Band, Halo View, and Halo Rise devices, and plans to lay off portions of the team — Amazon has decided to shutter its health-focused Halo division, The Verge has learned. Amazon has stopped selling its three Halo products …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox CEO says the company plans to lay off 16% of staff, or ~500 employees, citing slowing growth and because “the AI era of computing has finally arrived” — Cloud storage giant Dropbox today joined the fray of tech companies announcing layoffs.
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Mark Zuckerberg disputes the narrative that Meta is moving its focus away from a metaverse vision and sees AI tech working in tandem with the metaverse — Things are looking up for Meta. The company beat revenue expectations, reporting an increase in year-over-year revenue for the first time in three quarters.
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| IDC: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 14.6% YoY to 268.6M in Q1 2023, the seventh consecutive quarter of decline; Samsung fell 18.9%, Apple 2.3%, and Xiaomi 23.5% — NEEDHAM, Mass., April 27th, 2023 - Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 14.6% year over year to 268.6 million units in the first quarter of 2023 …
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A California judge tentatively rules Elon Musk must testify about his Autopilot statements, after Musk's lawyers argued he is a subject of many deepfake videos — A California judge on Wednesday ordered Tesla CEO Elon Musk to be interviewed under oath about whether he made certain statements regarding …
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Samsung reports Q1 operating profit down 95% YoY to ~$478.6M, its lowest since 2009, revenue down 18% YoY to ~$47.6B, and a ~$3.4B loss for its chip division — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) flagged a gradual recovery for chips in the second half of the year after its semiconductor business reported … | Russell Brandom / Rest of World: |
Twitter has received 971 government orders globally since Musk's takeover and fully complied with 808; before Musk, Twitter's full compliance rate was ~50% — The company has not refused a single request since Musk took ownership, according to self-reported data| The Guardian: |
Interviews with 70+ sources describe how Facebook and Instagram have become major sales platforms for child trafficking and can often be slow to remove content — Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex| Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired: |
Legal experts say Twitter is breaching US laws prohibiting false advertising by implying that some celebrities paid for Blue when they haven't — The law says you can't falsely claim that celebrities are paying for Twitter Blue. — Twitter's verification system debacle has had more twists … | Jeffrey Knockel / The Citizen Lab: |
An analysis of Baidu, Bilibili, Bing, Douyin, Weibo, and other Chinese search platforms finds 60K censorship rules, implemented differently by each service — This report has an accompanying FAQ. — Key findings — Across eight China-accessible search platforms analyzed — Baidu …
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
London-based Standard Chartered subsidiary Zodia, which provides custody services for crypto assets, raised a $36M Series A led by Japan's SBI Holdings — Standard Chartered's spin-off crypto custodial unit Zodia Custody Ltd. closed $36 million in new funding as part of a round led by Japan's SBI Holdings …
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Apple reports European MAUs for its App Stores: iOS has 101M, iPadOS has 23M, macOS has 6M, tvOS has 1M, and watchOS, Books, and Podcasts have under 1M each — In order to comply with the European Digital Services Act, Apple has been forced to reveal the number of monthly active user … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Germany is in talks to limit the export of chemicals used to make advanced chips to China, seeking to join US and EU allies in closing ranks on China — Germany is in talks to limit the export of chemicals to China that are used to manufacture semiconductors as Berlin steps up efforts … | Bloomberg: |
A profile of ASML, the most valuable tech company in Europe, as the US-China chip war escalates; ASML's next apartment-sized machine ships in 2025 for $380M+ — In 1984, Martin van den Brink, a young Dutch engineer, joined a newly created venture in a quiet corner of the Netherlands.
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| Sara Merken / Reuters: |
Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms, raised a $21M Series A led by Sequoia with participation from the OpenAI Startup Fund and others — With more and more lawyers at major law firms using fast-advancing generative artificial intelligence tools, legal AI startup Harvey … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Lookout agrees to sell its consumer mobile security business to F-Secure in a deal valued at around $223M, transitioning into a “pure-play enterprise company” — Lookout's long-running transition to becoming an enterprise security company is all but complete … Sponsor Posts
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