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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google grilled over their companies' market power at the nearly six-hour congressional subcommittee hearing — The leaders behind the tech giants testified before Congress virtually — The leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google took …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Sundar Pichai received bipartisan criticism during Wednesday's antitrust hearing, facing questions about Google's digital ads business, privacy practices, more — The leaders of four of the world's most powerful tech companies — Apple , Amazon , Facebook and Google …
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| Canalys: |
Analysis: Huawei shipped 55.8M devices globally, down 5% YoY, overtaking Samsung, which shipped 53.7M, down 30% YoY, to become the world's top smartphone vendor — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Thursday, 30 July 2020
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Tweets: @technikfaultier, @mohammadfarooq_, and @tariqkrim
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Emails between Eddy Cue and other Apple execs from 2011, revealed in House hearing, show Apple considered 40% cut of first year digital content subscriptions — - IPhone maker's Eddy Cue reached 2016 deal with Amazon's Bezos — In 2011, Apple executives weighed 40% fee for subscriptions
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple, saying Apple must “allow users to have the opportunity of downloading software outside the App Store” — Messaging company is latest company to criticise restrictions and fees — Telegram, the messaging app …
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| The Verge: |
Emails from Mark Zuckerberg, revealed by the House antitrust panel, show that Facebook wanted to buy Instagram at least partly to explicitly avoid competition — In late February 2012, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg emailed his chief financial officer, David Ebersman, to float the idea …
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| Shaurya Malwa / Decrypt: |
China arrested 109 alleged architects behind the PlusToken project, bringing an end to one of the biggest Bitcoin Ponzi schemes in the crypto industry — Local authorities in China made 109 arrests today in connection with the notorious PlusToken Bitcoin project, according to local news outlet Cailian News.
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| Shubham Agarwal / Digital Trends: |
TikTok says it will pay US creators $1B+ in the next three years, up from the $200M announced before, unveils $70M fund for creators in some European countries — After reports of Instagram poaching TikTok creators emerged, TikTok says it's ramping up its Creator Fund to over a billion dollars … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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| Ross Andersen / The Atlantic: |
An in-depth look at how China is using AI-powered tech to build totalitarian surveillance systems before exporting that tech to other regimes around the world — Northwest of Beijing's Forbidden City, outside the Third Ring Road, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spent seven decades building a campus of national laboratories.
Tweets: @zeynep, @edyong209, @theatlantic, @gladstein, and @privacyde
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Google debuts an iOS app letting users back up a phone's photos, videos, contacts, and calendar events using Google account storage, and a storage manager tool — Any Google user can now take advantage of the Google One phone backup feature, along with a new, free storage manager tool.
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung reports Q2 earnings with sales of ~$44.5B, down 5.6% YoY, and an operating profit of ~$6.8B, up 23.5% YoY, as demand for memory chips increased — Samsung posted 8.15 trillion won in second quarter operating profit, with its semiconductor business contributing 5.43 trillion won of that.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU antitrust regulators are set to open a full-scale investigation of Google's $2.1B bid for Fitbit after EC preliminary review ends August 4 — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are set to open a full-scale investigation into Alphabet Inc unit Google's $2.1 billion bid …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Candis, which develops software for automated accounting and payment processes, raises €12M Series B led by Viola Ventures and Rabo Frontier Ventures — Candis, a startup developing a platform for automated accounting and payment processes, this week closed a €12 million ($13.97 million) funding round.
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| Institute for Local Self-Reliance: |
Report: Amazon collects 30%, on average, of each sale made by independent sellers on its site, up from 19% just five years ago; seller fees netted ~$60B in 2019 — Amazon's dominance of online retail means that hundreds of thousands of small businesses must rely on its site to reach customers.
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Tweets: @pat_garofalo, @ronmknox, @jaai1234, @ddhitchens, @ronmknox, and @susanrholmberg
| Yasmin Hai / Rest of World: |
A look at Muslim matchmaking apps like Muzmatch, which are trying to “disrupt” the tradition of arranged marriages while adhering to Islamic cultural values — Shaymaa Ali was running out of time. She was unmarried and in her late 20s, an age where it's pitiful, if not shameful, to be single in Egypt.Sponsor Posts
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