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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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| 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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| Amrita Khalid / Quartz: |
Questions of interoperability loom as Western nations diverge in contract tracing approach, potentially impacting the efficacy of global health data sharing — Looking at Big Tech as the next Big Oil. — When China, Singapore, South Korea, and other nations in Asia started using tracking apps …
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Forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news could lead to uncritical reporting on tech; better approaches would tackle roots of media woes, including ad markets — Exponent — as promised! — will be back tomorrow, talking about podcasting, Spotify, and working from home. — On to the update:| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Discord is in talks to raise new funds at a valuation of between $3B and $4B; the chat app was valued at $2B in December 2018 — Chat-tool provider Discord Inc. is in talks to raise new capital from investors at a time its business is booming because of stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Tweets: @katie_roof and @gilliantan
| 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| Wired: |
Facebook's reluctance to fact-check conspiracy theories is based on an outdated “backfire” theory; experiments show fact-checks and debunkings are effective — The biggest social network in the world has the wrong idea for how to fight Covid-19 conspiracies.| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
The Pentagon argues that a proposal from satellite company Ligado to meld satellite spectrum with a terrestrial 5G IoT network would interfere with GPS signals — Even as major players like Verizon and AT&T are rushing to roll out 5G, a little-known company is looking to build …
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