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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
With top 100 brands contributing only an estimated 6% of Facebook's revenue and Zuckerberg's voting control over the company, ad boycott's impact may be limited — (CNN)For years, Facebook (FB) has been viewed as one of the only truly indispensable digital advertising platforms for big …
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Starbucks says it's pausing ads on “all social media platforms”, but isn't joining #StopHateForProfit boycott campaign, will continue to advertise on YouTube — - Starbucks is the latest company to say it will pause advertising on “all social media platforms” …
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| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Organizers of “Stop Hate for Profit” Facebook ad boycott say they plan to take the campaign global, starting with Europe, after the campaign's success in the US — (Reuters) - Organizers of a Facebook Inc (FB.O) advertising boycott campaign that has drawn support …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple will not include earbuds or charger in iPhone 12 box, will introduce a 20W power adapter to be sold separately — Apple is set to be significantly slimming its packaging for its upcoming iPhone line. The analyst previously said that Apple will no longer include wired earbuds with the iPhone 12 …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers who flagged TikTok and 55 other iOS apps for clipboard snooping in March say the majority of apps they identified still continue the practice — Passwords, bitcoin addresses and anything else in clipboards are free for the taking. — In March, researchers uncovered …
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| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
Apple's two year timeline for Mac's transition to Apple Silicon is a demonstration of some of the most remarkable product engineering over time in history — Apple's announcement of “Apple Silicon” is important for many reasons. Delivering on such an undertaking is the result of remarkable product engineering.
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Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Apple Must, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Wired
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| New York Times: |
PizzaGate is making a comeback fueled by QAnon in Facebook groups and teens on TikTok and focusing on “global elites” like Justin Bieber, Bill Gates, and Oprah — The false theory targeting Democrats, now fueled by QAnon and teenagers on TikTok, is entangling new targets like Justin Bieber.| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Current and former employees at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative say Facebook's crises affect not only how the organization's employees feel, but what they do — Inside the unrest at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. — At an emotional company town hall last week that blew past its hour-long time limit … | Russell Flannery / Forbes: |
Agora, which helps app developers embed real-time voice and video communication, closed up 153% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $350M in its IPO at $20/share — Grocery chain Albertsons might have been the best-known IPO in the U.S. this week among American investors …
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SEC.gov, Seeking Alpha, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, TheStreet, TechCrunch, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @bgurley
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Virtual labs at WWDC and Microsoft Build lowered barriers to entry and for some felt more personal than live labs, but the conferences lacked communal elements — The end of WWDC marks the end of Big Tech's conference season. What did this virtual experiment reveal about the meaning of community?
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Wired, Hacking with Swift, and JLG
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| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
France-based startup ubble, which prompts users to capture a live video of their face and an official ID to verify identity, raises €10M seed round — A fledgling French identity verification tech startup that goes by the name of ubble has raised seed funding from Partech and Breega …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Data broker Mobilewalla touts tracking BLM protesters' cell data and the locations of evangelicals before 2016 election, and says it has data on 1.6B devices — A data broker that tracked Black Lives Matter protesters also tracked the locations of Evangelical Christians on election …
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