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Over 400 advertisers are due to suspend Facebook ads on Wednesday for a month, as sources say talks broke down; Zuckerberg will meet boycott organizers — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to vanish from Facebook …
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| Nikkei Asian Review: |
Sources: Apple is facing production delays of up to 1-2 months for its 5G iPhone range and will likely not need to postpone the launch until 2021 — US tech titan to make more older handsets to offset coronavirus disruption — TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, U.S. — Apple is pushing its suppliers …
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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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Facebook says it removed 220 Groups and 95 Instagram accounts dedicated to “Boogaloo”, weeks after US said Boogaloo members planned murder of a federal agent — Facebook announced Tuesday that it is removing groups dedicated to the Boogaloo extremist movement one month …
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| New York Times: |
Researchers say China's mobile hacking campaign against the Uighurs was broader and more aggressive than previously known, beginning as far back as 2013 — A new report revealed a broad campaign that targeted Muslims in China and their diaspora in other countries, beginning as early as 2013.
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
UK's Competition and Markets Authority calls for a “pro-competition regulatory regime” to monitor Facebook, Google, and other digital ad giants — The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has called on the UK government to create “a new pro-competition regulatory regime” …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has shifted the strategy of its Arcade gaming service, canceling contracts for some titles in development and seeking games with more engagement — - Company ends contracts for multiple future Arcade titles — Apple seeks games with stronger engagement to hook users
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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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| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
Leaked memo: Google will not reopen its US offices until September 7 at the earliest, pushing back its earlier plan to bring some workers back starting July 6 — - U.S. offices will stay closed until Sept. 7 at the earliest — Company had planned to begin returning employees in July
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| Jacob Silverman / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Over fifteen journalists describe covering Facebook, which they say lies on the record, has ghost-written op-eds, and received quote approval for interviews — One day in July 2016, Casey Newton, a tech reporter for The Verge, sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for the biggest interview of his career.| Synced: |
Yann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner, quits Twitter after getting involved in an acrimonious debate regarding racial biases in AI — This is an updated version. — Turing Award Winner and Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has announced his exit …
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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Spotify expands its Premium Duo plan, which allows ad-free streaming for two people for $12.99 per month, to 55 markets including the US — Streaming services have been offering family plans for years. While the terms and prices may change, the basic premise is the same …
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon Game Studios pulls its free-to-play PC title Crucible from wide circulation following negative reviews, an exceedingly rare step for a big-budget game — - Crucible was first big-budget release from Amazon Game Studios — Game will move to closed beta while developers work on changes
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Sources: Google told European publishers it will cut them off from its ad tools if they block it from harvesting their reader data — OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google upended plans by European media companies to block it from harvesting data about their readers …
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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
Apple freezes updates for tens of thousands of mobile games on the App Store in China, closing a widely used loophole, to comply with licensing regulations — Tech group under pressure from Chinese government to comply with local rules — Apple has frozen updates for tens of thousands …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Chicago-based The Mom Project, a job site aimed at women returning to work, raises $25M Series B led by 7CG, bringing its total raised to $36M — Women have long had the short end of the stick when it comes to employment, regularly finding themselves struggling to break through the glass ceiling … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
The 👁👄👁 stunt, a hyped beta of a fake app, exploited Silicon Valley's fixation on shiny new things, but raised $200K for charities — Last weekend, the stunt aimed to use Silicon Valley's love of shiny new things for charity. The result left people wondering about the memeification of movements.| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
SCOTUS rules 8-1 in favor of letting online companies trademark generic names, siding with Booking.com and rejecting federal government restrictions — Booking.com wins the right to trademark its own name in a case that was first considered by teleconference by the court amid pandemic
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
TransferWise says it has been given permission by UK regulators to offer investment products in the future — TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service recently valued at $3.5 billion, has secured an additional license with U.K. regulators to enable it to offer investment products in the future.
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Canadian Intelligence officials say China hacked Nortel, once a world leader in wireless tech, starting in the late 1990s, to promote companies like Huawei — Nortel was once a world leader in wireless technology. Then came a hack and the rise of Huawei.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook shuts down Hobbi, its experimental Pinterest-like app for documenting personal projects and hobbies — Facebook's recently launched app, Hobbi, an experiment in short-form content creation around personal projects, hobbies, and other Pinterest-y content, is already shutting down.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Fauna, which wants to make adding a database a simple API call, adds $27M to its $25M Series A, bringing its total raised to $57M — Databases have always been a complex part of the equation for developers requiring a delicate balance to manage inside the application, but Fauna wants …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
US Cybercom warns foreign state-backed hackers will likely abuse a recently discovered SAML vulnerability that allows unauthorized network admin logins — The window of opportunity to fix critical security bug is rapidly closing. — Foreign hackers backed by a well-resourced government … Sponsor Posts
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