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Alphabet settles shareholder lawsuit over its handling of sexual harassment claims, agrees to eliminate mandatory arbitration and limit Google's use of NDAs — - Alphabet has reached a settlement with shareholders in a lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct mishandling and cover-up by executives …
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Leaked email: Google informed its advertisers on Friday that it will block election ads referencing “the election, or its outcome” after polls close on Nov. 3 — Google informed its advertisers Friday that it will broadly block election ads after polls close Nov. 3, according to an email obtained by Axios.
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Stan Chudnovsky, head of Messenger at Facebook, says Facebook has asked Apple for years to give users an option to make Messenger the default iOS messaging app — Facebook executives have sharply ramped up their criticism of Apple in recent months, contesting the iPhone maker's restrictions …
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Sources: Google to issue new guidelines emphasizing that developers must use Google's own billing service for in-app purchases and subscriptions in Play Store — - Google and Apple's 30% cut of purchases is under scrutiny — Google to update developer rules to emphasize requirement| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Apple has agreed to allow Facebook to process payments for its paid online events feature via Facebook Pay, without taking a 30% cut, until December 31 — Last month, Facebook introduced support for paid online events — and since many of the businesses offering those events have struggled during …
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| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
Report: longtime Ubisoft veteran and Rayman creator Michel Ancel retired from the game publisher earlier this month while being investigated for toxic behavior — Rayman creator, Beyond Good and Evil 2 director, and longtime Ubisoft veteran Michel Ancel retired from the video game publisher earlier …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Source code of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has leaked online on various file sharing sites this week; Microsoft says it is “investigating the matter” — Windows Server 2003 source also included — Microsoft's source code for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has leaked online.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Epic acquires SuperAwesome, a UK-based platform offering devs a toolkit for implementing kids' safety features in their products; will remain standalone company — Epic Games, an American video game and software developer, announced Friday that it is acquiring SuperAwesome, a UK-based platform used to power kid-safe technology.
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DOJ files its opposition to TikTok's request to halt Trump ban, says blocking the ban will infringe on Trump's authority, calls ByteDance CEO mouthpiece for CCP — TikTok is seeking to stave off a ban set to take effect Sunday — The Justice Department filed its opposition Friday …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Alexis Ohanian is raising a fund called 776, with a target of $150M, three months after leaving Initialized Capital — According to an SEC Filing, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and early-stage VC firm Initialized Capital, is raising a new fund, named 776, with a target of $150 million.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google has announced the general availability of AI Platform Prediction, a service for developers to prepare, build, run, and share ML models in the cloud — Google today launched AI Platform Prediction in general availability, a service that lets developers prep, build, run, and share machine learning models in the cloud.
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| Katharine Schwab / Fast Company: |
Humane raises a $30M Series A led by Sam Altman and Lachy Groom, with Marc Benioff and others participating, to build some new kind of computing platform — Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno helped create some of Apple's biggest hits. Now their startup Humane is at work on something ambitious—and mysterious.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
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