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Sources: Zuckerberg told Facebook staff the ad boycott is more of a “reputational and a partner issue” than an economic one, expects advertisers to return soon — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees he was reluctant to bow to the threats of a growing ad boycott …
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| Reuters: |
400+ advertisers suspend Facebook ads for a month, as sources say talks with some advertisers broke down; Zuckerberg has agreed to meet with boycott organizers — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to vanish …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Rep. David Cicilline says Tim Cook will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee in late July, alongside Facebook, Amazon, and Google CEOs — Apple CEO Tim Cook, the last chief executive of four big tech companies targeted in a U.S. House Judiciary Committee antitrust probe …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
As part of UK antitrust investigation of Google, the CMA says Safari's use of Google as its default search engine is “a significant barrier to entry” for rivals — (Reuters) - The payments by Alphabet Inc's Google to Apple Inc to be the default search engine on Apple's Safari web browser create …
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| Joseph Tsidulko / CRN: |
VMware to acquire Datrium, which provides disaster recovery services for hybrid cloud environments, for an undisclosed sum; Datrium had previously raised $170M — The deal for the hyper-converged infrastructure startup looks to advance VMware's hybrid cloud standing with a cost-optimized solution for backing up data in the cloud.| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Google says it has discontinued the Pixel 3a and 3a XL, with remaining stock only available through 3rd parties; Google has yet to announce a rumored successor — In a statement provided to Android Police, Google has confirmed that its Pixel 3a and 3a XL smartphones are now discontinued.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says it will close 30 more US retail stores as COVID-19 cases spike, bringing the total re-closed stores in the US to 77 in recent weeks — - Apple will close 30 additional stores in the United States by Thursday. — Apple has already reclosed 47 stores in recent weeks …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Twitter removed a picture from a Trump tweet after receiving a DMCA complaint from the NYT, which owns the rights to the photo taken in 2015 — Twitter has removed a picture from a tweet by President Trump on Tuesday after it received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) …
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| Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
MIT apologizes and takes down its 80M-strong AI image training dataset, scraped from Google Images, that labeled some images with racist and misogynistic terms — Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics — Special report MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone launched a year and a half ago, on July 10 — Facebook is no longer betting on Lasso, an app it launched a year and a half ago, to take on TikTok . The social juggernaut's TikTok clone is shutting down on July 10, Facebook said.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
WhatsApp announces contact-adding QR codes, animated stickers, dark mode for desktop and web, and a new group calling button — Improvements to video calls are also on the way — WhatsApp has announced a collection of new features that are coming to the Facebook-owned messaging service in the coming weeks.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Dish has completed its acquisition of Boost Mobile from T-Mobile in a deal worth $1.4B — There's a new logo, too — Dish now owns Boost Mobile, bringing Dish — after years of speculation — into the consumer wireless market where it can start to compete with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Analysis of 1B+ leaked credentials: “123456” accounts for one out of every 142 passwords, making it the most commonly reused password over the last five years — The ‘123456’ password was spotted 7 million times across a data trove of one billion leaked credentials …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Vendia, founded by two former AWS executives and aiming to build a multi-cloud serverless platform, raises $5.1M seed led by Neotribe's Swaroop Kolluri — When the inventor of AWS Lambda, Tim Wagner, and the former head of blockchain at AWS, Shruthi Rao, co-found a startup, it's probably worth paying attention.| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell and executive Matt Hansen discuss Mountaintop, their new studio focused on multiplayer games — Nate Mitchell and Matt Hansen on anti-crunch, their multiplayer ambitions, and establishing a company culture without a central office| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
TuSimple is partnering with UPS and others to create a mapped network of shipping routes for its fleet of self-driving trucks that will extend across US by 2024 — Self-driving trucks startup TuSimple laid out a plan Wednesday to create a mapped network of shipping routes and terminals designed …
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Anduril Industries, founded by Palantir veterans and Palmer Luckey, raises $200M led by a16z at a $1.9B valuation for its AI-powered drone and surveillance tech — Anduril Industries Inc., a Southern California startup that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance … | Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Curv, which is building secure crypto custody management tools, raises $23M Series A from CommerzVentures, Coinbase Ventures, and others — Curv, a company that provides increased secrecy when it comes to holding crypto assets, has closed a $23 million Series A funding round.
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Decrypt, PR Newswire, Crunchbase News, Forbes, CTech, SiliconANGLE, and PYMNTS.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Report: Twitch topped 5B hours watched in Q2, up 62.7% QoQ, YouTube Gaming hit 1.5B hours, up 39.6%, and Facebook Gaming reached 822M hours watched, up 48.5% — Twitch had already broken viewership records in the first quarter of 2020 amid coronavirus lockdowns, surpassing 3 billion total hours watched … | Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Employees at tech companies say NDAs, widely used across the industry, are muzzling those who have endured racism and discrimination — Earlier this month, Pariss Athena appeared on a podcast to discuss her experiences as a Black woman in web development. During the wide-ranging conversation …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
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