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Ubisoft sues Apple and Google for selling Alibaba's Area F2 game, which it claims is a “near carbon copy” of Rainbow Six: Siege — Ubisoft Entertainment SA sued Apple Inc. and Google LLC, accusing the companies of selling a ripoff of its popular video game “Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege.”
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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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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March — John Borthwick was one of Giphy's first believers. The company, which Facebook just bought for a reported $400 million, launched in 2013 out of Betaworks …
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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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| Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg: |
In a tweet, Trump accuses Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google of being controlled by “Radical Left”, says admin is working to remedy “illegal situation” — - U.S. President scolds Facebook, Google, Twitter in a tweet — Trump says he is ‘working to remedy this illegal situation’
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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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| Nancy Scola / Politico: |
Profile of Nick Clegg, Facebook's VP of Global Affairs and Comms, who led the creation of its Oversight Board and is now shaping the company's COVID-19 response — The company hired no less than a former deputy prime minister of the UK to fix its reputation and governance.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Conspiracy theories and misinformation about vaccines dominate Instagram's search results, and are made more visible by the app's recommendation algorithms — Instagram's efforts to curb health misinformation have done little to stem the flow of conspiracy theories and misinformation about vaccines.
Tweets: @harrymccracken, @mattk, @sachabaroncohen, @alfiekohn, @chelseaclinton, and @sykescharlie. Thanks:@jpmanga
| Alexis Ong / Wired: |
How members of the gaming community in Romania and Singapore helped lay the foundation for robust high-speed broadband networks in those countries — Romania and Singapore don't seem to have much in common, but they both owe their robust broadband in part to videogame fanatics seeking better connections.
Tweets: @campuscodi, @steppinlazer, @enothestrife, @wired, and @algovc
| Jina Moore / Rest of World: |
A deep dive into Sudan's 2019 internet shutdown, how telecom engineers disrupted the government's control over the internet, and the future of digital rights — How citizens, telecom employees, and activists in Sudan turned a battle for digital rights into a referendum on the government| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
The pandemic could accelerate consolidation in the scooter-sharing industry, as companies cut costs and lay off staff to cope with severe declines in ridership — Public transportation is on life support, as the pandemic makes people less inclined to want to cram themselves into underground metal tubes …
Tweets: @c_ehrlichman, @mikeelgan, @quan, and @ridereport
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
An overview of key challenges that need to be addressed to make Europe's various COVID-19 contact tracing apps interoperable for cross-border travel — A major question mark attached to national coronavirus contact-tracing apps is whether they will function when citizens of one country travel to another.| 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.
Tweets: @wired, @mantzarlis, @brooklynmarie, @stworg, @allspiritseve, @stworg, @carloshconde, @doctorow, and @wiczipedia
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