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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Google's main economics expert says Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue earned from search ads via Safari, a figure that was meant to stay secret — Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google's defense at the Justice Department's antitrust trial in Washington.
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Epic v. Google: Google agreed to pay Samsung $8B over four years in 2020 to make Google Search, Play Store, and Assistant the default on Samsung mobile devices — - Google paid Samsung $8 billion over four years, jurors told — Epic Games is trying to show Alphabet unit undercut rivalry
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| Nathan Grayson / Aftermath: |
Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and cuts ~180 jobs, the unit's second round of layoffs in 2023 — Video game workers just can't catch a break — Video game layoff season - an extension of what has basically at this point become …
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Trump Media & Technology Group SPAC partner DWA's filing: Truth Social lost $73M on just $3.7M in net sales since its early 2022 launch and lost $23M in H1 2023 — The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out the ability for users to delete their Threads profile without having to delete their Instagram account — Meta is rolling out a way for you to delete your Threads profile without having to delete your Instagram account, too. You'll be able to access the new feature …
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| James Somers / New Yorker: |
A eulogy for coding, which has always felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after ChatGPT swallowed knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master — Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
More: Simon Willison's Weblog. Mastodon: @shish@techhub.social, @craigmod@mastodon.social, and @jgordon@appdot.net
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| Bloomberg: |
Foxconn reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$47.7B, net income up 11% YoY to ~$1.3B, and lowers the outlook for its components business to flat YoY — - It also revised down forecast for components business segment — Company beat average profit estimate in the September quarter
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| Tonya Riley / Bloomberg Law: |
In a letter to Chuck Schumer, over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups urge the Senate to not renew FISA's Section 702, set to expire on December 31, 2023 — More than 30 civil liberties and privacy groups wrote to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday urging …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers are collecting browsing data in much more detail than previously known, including for those in sensitive jobs — Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they upload realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including videos made using its tools, in 2024 — Site's creators who repeatedly fail to disclose AI use will face penalties — YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.'s Google … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Internal conversations reveal how Etsy struggled to develop moderation policies and manage employees' feelings around the Israel-Hamas war — The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers' wares. Some employees aren't happy| Reuters: |
Investigation: for over six months, the FBI has known the identities of 12+ hackers tied to the MGM and Caesars breaches, baffling experts at the lack of action — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that's … | Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU regulators plan to file anti-competitive charges against Adobe's $20B Figma deal as early as this week; Adobe announced the deal in September 2022 — EU preparing to file anti-competitive charges, according to people familiar with probe — Adobe's $20bn deal to buy Figma …
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| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Amazon reaches a deal with Snap that lets users buy Amazon products directly from ads on Snapchat, resembling Amazon's deal with Meta announced on November 9 — Amazon has reached a deal with Snap that will let people buy Amazon products directly from ads on the Snapchat app, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed.
More: PYMNTS.com and Reuters
| Reuters: |
Microsoft and Google do not plan to challenge “gatekeeper” status under the EU DMA, ahead of a November 16 deadline to object; sources say TikTok may challenge — Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google will not challenge an EU law that would require them to make it easier …
More: RTÉ and The Information
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber plans to test Uber Tasks, a TaskRabbit-like service that lets users hire people to complete household tasks, in Fort Myers and Edmonton in the coming weeks — - Firm to test ‘Uber Tasks’ in an effort to find new revenue — Tasks include furniture assembly, laundry and lawn mowing| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint: Chinese smartphone sales grew 11% YoY in October, led by Huawei, up 83% due to the Mate 60, and Xiaomi, up 33%; iPhone sales were unusually muted — - Inventory glut that plagued industry now in rear view mirror — Domestic brands picked up the slack while iPhone struggled
More: Reuters and Counterpoint Research
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
RIL, a nonprofit coalition of tech VCs and execs, releases a voluntary commitment for startups building AI responsibly, signed by Insight, IVP, and 33 other VCs — The new guidelines are part of an effort to enact some guardrails for potentially thousands of startups across the AI industry.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Uber rolls out new tools in the US to identify riders or Uber Eats users who consistently give bad ratings to get refunds, to cut down on unfair deactivations — Uber is introducing new features geared toward addressing the issues of unfair deactivations that ride-hail and delivery drivers often face.
More: The Economic Times, PYMNTS.com, and Fast Company
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Top500: the AMD-powered Frontier remains the fastest supercomputer at 1.194 Exaflop/s, fending off the Argonne National Laboratory's Intel-powered Aurora — Intel's oft-delayed Aurora remains a work in progress. — The Top500 organization released its semi-annual list of the fastest supercomputers …
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