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VF Corp's The North Face, REI, and Upwork say they are committing to an ad boycott of Facebook in light of its handling of misinformation and hate speech — (CNN Business)Outdoor apparel brand The North Face has become the best-known company yet to commit to an advertising boycott of Facebook …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from WWDC 2020: transition to ARM Macs, iOS 14 with Car Key and a Google Translate-like feature, third-party music services on HomePod, and more — - Company to announce move to Macs running its own processors — Developers complaining about longtime App Store rules, fees
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| Jason Fried / HEY: |
HEY's Jason Fried responds to Apple, says the dispute is not about the money, but about how Apple forcibly inserts itself between developers and their customers — So far, much of the recent discussion around Apple, HEY, In App Purchase (IAP), Subscriptions, the App Store, and the iOS developer community has been about money.
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| Patrick Kulp / Adweek: |
Pandora will offer more stats to podcast hosts like where listeners live, how long they tune in to each episode, and the number of thumbs up/down they receive — Move makes the streaming service more competitive with Apple and Spotify — Key insight: — Podcasting has long suffered …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ARM ousted ARM China CEO Allen Wu after discovering that he had set up a competing investment fund; Wu maintains he is still in charge of ARM China — - Chinese corporation rules mean he will be difficult to remove — Wu maintains he is still in charge of Arm China Joint VentureThanks:@pelstrom
| Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review: |
The UK government's efforts to build a centralized contract tracing app from scratch were plagued by poor technical execution and chaotic personnel management — The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app will damage digital contact tracing efforts worldwide—but its troubles were the result of clear, specific errors.
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| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Big Health, which offers fully automated cognitive and behavioral mental health programs, raises $39M Series B, bringing its total raised to $54.3M — Startup Big Health believes individuals can improve their mental health through its technology that focuses on cognitive behavioral therapy versus medication …
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| Financial Times: |
A look at the top 100 companies according to market cap added YTD amid the pandemic, with Big Tech leading: Amazon gained ~$401B, Microsoft ~$270B, Apple ~$219B — The first in an FT series on corporate resilience in a year of human and economic devastation
Tweets: @francesca_bria, @financialtimes, and @daveleeft
| Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Proposals by Sen. Hawley and the DOJ to amend Section 230 protections would violate the First Amendment and bury tech platforms in legal cost and liability risk — Whether we know it or not, all Internet users rely on multiple online services to connect, engage, and express themselves online.
Tweets: @eff, @eff, @jess_miers, and @atrupar
| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
The IRS says it bought access to a marketing database of location data for millions of US cellphones to try to identify and track potential criminal suspects — The unsuccessful effort shows how anonymized information sold by marketers is increasingly being used by law enforcement to identify suspects
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Social media execs owe it to staff, users, and society to examine structural forces empowering racists online and how their platforms undermine social justice — Shows of support from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube don't address the way those platforms have been weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple is temporarily closing 11 stores across Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, and South Carolina amid COVID-19 spikes — Apple Inc. is temporarily shutting some of its U.S. retail stores again after cases of Covid-19 spiked in some areas across the country, Bloomberg News reports.
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