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Facebook to buy Giphy, keep its branding, integrate with Instagram; sources say the deal is worth ~$400M, while Giphy was valued at ~$600M in its latest round — Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
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| Owen Williams / OneZero : |
Facebook's purchase of Giphy gives FB insight into how and where gifs are shared outside of its own apps, including device IDs and keystrokes in Giphy tools — GIPHY joins Facebook's data collection arsenal — Facebook announced on Friday that it will buy Giphy, a popular GIF search engine …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ and state AGs are likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google as soon as this summer, focusing on its ad business and search dominance — Both the federal and state investigations are focused on Google's ad business — WASHINGTON—Both the Justice Department and a group …
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| Reuters: |
US bans sales to Huawei of semiconductors and semiconductor designs made abroad using certain US software and technology — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies from global chipmakers, in an action that could ramp up tensions with China.
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| Global Times: |
China signals it is ready to retaliate for US' Huawei ban by launching investigations or imposing restrictions on companies like Qualcomm, Cisco, and Apple — China is ready to take a series of countermeasures against a US plan to block shipments of semiconductors to Chinese telecom firm Huawei … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sources: Clubhouse raised a Series A round from a16z, which includes $10M in primary capital and at least $2M in secondary shares, at a $100M valuation — Clubhouse is a voice-based social media app with about 5,000 beta test users. Prospective listeners have to sign up for a waitlist via Google form …
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Netflix begins restoring full quality streaming in Europe; Apple TV+ restored 4K streaming in late April — Netflix is gradually lifting coronavirus-related streaming quality limits in Europe. Netflix, Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video has all complied with a European Commission request …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
NPD: consumer spending on video gaming in the US hit a record $10.86B between January and March, up 9% YoY, with sales from video game content up 11% to $9.58B — New numbers from NPD confirm what we've known for a while: the first quarter of 2020 was a very good one for gaming companies.
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Singapore state investor Temasek joins Libra, along with cryptocurrency investor Paradigm and private equity firm Slow Ventures — - Singapore state investor Temasek is one of the latest organizations to join the Facebook-backed digital currency project libra.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Members of the anti-vaccine community are experienced at exploiting weaknesses of social media platforms and are primed to sow doubts about a COVID-19 vaccine — Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AppLovin paid ~$500M for mobile game developer Machine Zone, which was valued at ~$5B during its last funding round in 2016 — - It had raised about $725 million and had $5 billion value once — Machine Zone paid for Super Bowl ad starring Kate Upton| Stratechery: |
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