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In a new filing, Epic says revocation of its developer tools by Apple will harm the developer ecosystem and adds a declaration of support from Microsoft — ‘An unlawful effort to... chill any action by others who might dare oppose Apple,’ new motion reads — Apple is threatening …
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| Stephen Warwick / iMore: |
Q&A with FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller and analyst Neil Cybart about the merits of Epic's lawsuits against Apple and Google, and the economics of the App Store — “Epic's complaints are very well-crafted, but the hurdle for establishing an antitrust violation is high”
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg stoked concerns about Chinese internet companies and TikTok in meetings with officials and several senators in Washington, DC last fall — Social-media tycoon emphasized threat from Chinese internet companies as he worked to fend off U.S. regulation of Facebook
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| CNBC: |
TikTok confirms it plans to sue the Trump administration as early as this week over executive order banning transactions with TikTok and ByteDance — TikTok is planning to sue the Trump administration over the president's executive order banning transactions with the popular video-sharing app …
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. WeChat Users Alliance, a nonprofit, files a lawsuit in district court in SF against Trump's executive order banning transactions with WeChat and ByteDance — Group of users of popular Tencent-owned app says Trump administration's planned curbs violate civil rights, target Chinese-Americans
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Apple says it won't require IAP in WordPress app “since the developer removed the display of their service payment options”, apologizes for confusion caused — “We [...] apologize for any confusion that we have caused” — On Friday, the internet erupted in a small way to learn …
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| Tomiwa Ilori / Slate: |
Content moderation is even harder in African countries, due to colonial legacies, authoritarian governments, and colonial laws that violate online free speech — This article was developed as part of a series of papers by the Wikimedia-Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information …
Tweets: @tomiwa_ilori
| David Berreby / National Geographic: |
A detailed look at some key developments/breakthroughs in robotics, amid an increasing interest in robots during the pandemic, and what to expect in the future — Machines now perform all sorts of tasks: They clean big stores, patrol borders, and help autistic children. But will they make life better for humans?
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National Geographic. Tweets: @techweez, @lunamoth, @mildrarobotics, @davidberreby, @davidberreby, @kengesr, @interlime, @kennelliott, @cccalum, @builtrobotics, @ianknowlson, @ieeedigitalreal, and @davidberreby
| Stella Yifan Xie / Wall Street Journal: |
Jack Ma's Ant Group, which owns Alipay, had profits of around $3.5B in the six months to March, ahead of planned concurrent IPOs in HK and Shanghai — Results show how lucrative the Chinese financial-technology giant's business has been as it gears up for blockbuster offering
Tweets: @wsjmarkets
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Freepik, a popular freemium stock photos marketplace, discloses data breach and says hacker obtained info of 8.3M users, including usernames and password hashes — Freepik is one of the most popular websites on the internet, currently ranked #97 on the Alexa Top 100 sites list.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Datasembly, which scrapes data to offer a real time pricing tool for consumer goods, raises $10.3M Series A led by Craft Ventures — Washington-based Datasembly aims to take the guesswork out of the pricing for consumer goods. — The company founded by Ben Reich and Dan Gallagher initially started … | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
China's IT ministry picks Gitee, a company that claims to have hosted 10M+ open source repositories, to build an alternative to GitHub amid US-China tensions — The technological decoupling between the U.S. and China has been a boon to Chinese firms from chipmakers for smartphones … | Wall Street Journal: |
As workspace usage of Slack and Microsoft Teams soars, lawyers see an uptick in harassment claims, as messaging is more informal and often misinterpreted — Chat applications have become a major way employees stay connected, but some see an uptick in agitation and bullying| Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero : |
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