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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube TV is raising its monthly rate to $65 from $50, due to “the rising cost of content”; some ViacomCBS channels are becoming available on the service today — YouTube TV is getting another price hike, making its live TV streaming service less competitive with the cable TV services it aims to replace.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google shares details on upcoming Sheets features that automatically clean up and complete data, through formula suggestions and more — Google today announced a couple of updates to Google Sheets that will make building spreadsheets and analyzing data in them a little bit easier.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Following the government's ban, many users have lost access to TikTok in India, its biggest overseas market, and the app is not in App Store or Play Store — A growing number of internet service providers in India have started to block their subscribers from accessing TikTok … | Bloomberg: |
India's app ban may present a model for other countries in Europe and Southeast Asia that seek to curtail China's access to their residents' data — - Ban shows the increasingly fractured nature of tech industry — Chinese firms may find themselves excluded from key markets
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| NBC News: |
Facebook says it's removed 220 FB “Boogaloo” groups and 95 Instagram accounts, weeks after feds said group members planned the murder of a federal agent on FB — Facebook announced Tuesday that it is removing groups dedicated to the Boogaloo extremist movement one month …
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About Facebook, New York Times, The Verge, CNBC, CNN, and TechCrunch
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook will change its News Feed algorithm to prioritize news stories with original reporting and demote ones that are not transparent about their authors — Beginning today, Facebook will be updating the way news stories are ranked in its News Feed to prioritize original reporting, executives tell Axios.
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| Abram Brown / Forbes: |
Chat app Discord raises $100M led by Index Ventures at a $3.5B valuation, up from $2.05B 18 months ago, and says it has ~100M MAUs, up 50% YoY — By shutting out white supremacists and reinventing itself to be more accessible, Discord has added millions of more diverse users—teachers …
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Tweets: @jasoncitron, @abebrown716, @glennf, and @forbes
| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon is boosting efforts to lure military and commercial space organizations as major users of AWS, hoping to benefit from rising spending in the sector — AWS's move comes during a multiyear surge in U.S. military and civilian agency spending on space projects
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| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber in talks to buy Postmates for ~$2.6B in a deal that could be announced next week if not sooner — A deal between Uber and the San Francisco-based food-delivery company could be announced next week if not sooner — Uber Technologies Inc. is in discussions to buy Postmates Inc …
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New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CNBC, TechCrunch, The Rideshare Guy Blog …, Reuters, VICE, Ubergizmo, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Financial Times, TechSpot, and Bloomberg
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK government plans to begin allowing rental e-scooter trials on roads from Saturday, in a bid to ease pressure on public transport during the pandemic — In light of COVID-19 and social distancing regulations, the UK has been working on making it easier for people to get from point A to B …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft unveils initiatives to upskill workers amid the “COVID-19 economy” including cash grants, affordable skill certificates, and a learning app in Teams — Microsoft has announced a slew of new initiatives designed to open up access to new digital skills, including cash grants …
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The Official Microsoft Blog, Thurrott, Financial Times, CNET, MSPoweruser, TechCrunch, Slashdot, Engadget, OnMSFT.com, and ComputerWeekly.com
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| Jeff Hunter / AnyList Blog: |
AnyList CEO details customer support challenges arising from implementing Sign In With Apple, which it won't support, complicated by its Hide my Email feature — Starting June 30th, Apple will be enforcing a new rule in the App Store requiring many apps to support Sign in with Apple.
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9to5Mac, Michael Tsai, Six Colors, and iMore
Tweets: @martinsfp, @jacobbennett, @dhh, @stshank, @morten_bo, @nixcraft, and @johnwilson
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on banning r/The_Donald and other problematic subreddits, after resisting for years — Steve Huffman, Reddit's co-founder and chief executive, says new rule changes will help the company fulfill its mission. — On Monday, Reddit …
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KnowTechie, Decrypt, and Fortune
Tweets: @apocalypticanow, @ultraviolet, @timoreilly, @kevinroose, @blackamazon, @shiraovide, and @fraying
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers found 25 Android apps, downloaded 2.3M+ times, stealing Facebook credentials through a phishing page overlay; Google has now removed them — The malicious apps were downloaded more than 2.34 million times. — Google has removed this month 25 Android applications … | Kelsey Sutton / Adweek: |
Bozoma Saint John, veteran of Uber, Apple, and Pepsi-Cola, is joining Netflix as CMO, succeeding Jackie Lee-Joe, who joined Netflix a year ago — Marketing heavy hitter succeeds Jackie Lee-Joe after just a year — Marketing powerhouse Bozoma Saint John is joining the streaming giant Netflix as chief marketing officer.| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Nearby Sharing, Android's long-awaited AirDrop competitor, is rolling out in beta — Android's long-awaited Nearby Sharing may be just about ready. The feature, which allows you to share files between Android devices quickly, easily, and wirelessly, has been compared to Apple's AirDrop … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify will launch real-time lyrics in 26 markets across Southeast Asia, India, and Latin America in partnership with Musixmatch, starting June 30 — Last November, Spotify confirmed it was testing real-time lyrics synced to music in select markets. Tomorrow, the company will announce …
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TechHive, iDownloadBlog.com, XDA Developers, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, Droid Life, 9to5Google, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Android Police. Tweets: @mehedih_
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is acquiring Canadian smart glasses company North, which is winding down Focals 1.0 hardware and canceling its plans to ship Focals 2.0 — Google confirmed today via blog post that it has acquired Canadian smart glasses company North, which began life as human interface hardware startup Thalmic Labs in 2012.
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Globe and Mail, XDA Developers, Android Authority, SiliconANGLE, International Business Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, PYMNTS.com, Silicon Valley Business …, and BetaKit
Tweets: @focalsbynorth, @benbajarin, @srlake, and @lucasmtny
| Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC: |
Netflix says it will put 2% of its cash holdings, currently ~$100M, toward financial institutions and organizations dedicated to helping Black communities — - Netflix announced plans to start putting 2% of its cash holdings into financial institutions and organizations to “directly support Black communities in the U.S.”
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Netflix Media Center, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, New York Times, and CNET
Tweets: @annie_parker, @cnbc, @jabarijyoung, @sallyshin, @jyarow, and @ttgbossmanszn
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Leading universities and tech firms back a new project to give scientists access to the data centers of tech giants and to public data sets for AI research — A proposal to give scientists access to huge data sets and powerful computers. — Leading universities and major technology companies agreed …
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VentureBeat and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo
Tweets: @counternotions, @repagonzalez, @nytimestech, @nytimesbusiness, @stevelohr, @jeffdean, and @repannaeshoo
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: consumer spending on apps reached $50.1B globally during the first half of 2020, up 23.4% YoY, and first time installs were up 26.1% YoY — Consumer spending on mobile apps and app installs grew significantly during the first half of 2020, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from Sensor Tower.| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
FCC officially designates Huawei and ZTE as risks to national security, and telecoms can no longer use federal subsidies to purchase equipment from them — Telecoms can no longer use federal funds to purchase their equipment — On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission officially …
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Federal Communications …, TechCrunch, Android Police, ZDNet, Android Authority, CyberScoop, ExtremeTech, OnMSFT.com, Gizmodo, Liliputing, Engadget, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @ericgeller, @sentedcruz, and @vikramchandra
| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Workspace collaboration company Monday.com launches an App Framework, letting third parties build tools atop its service — A new “Apps Framework” will allow third-party developers to start building their own apps on top of Monday. — For a while, Roy Mann and Eran Zinman just wanted to build a good project management tool.| Mike Murphy / Protocol: |
Founder of drone company Parrot says they only sell drones to ethical organizations, but it's not their place to determine whether police in the US are ethical — Henri Seydoux, the founder of the French drone company Parrot, explains why he's comfortable selling to law enforcement after the George Floyd protests.| Alex Barker / Financial Times: |
Survey of 58 WFA members, who are responsible for $90B+ of ad spending worldwide, finds ~33% will suspend or are likely to suspend spending on social media — Study reveals extent of revolt against Facebook and Twitter over hate speech — Almost a third of the world's biggest brands … Sponsor Posts
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