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A document from Facebook's law firm shows how the company might fight an antitrust lawsuit and any attempts to force a divestiture of WhatsApp or Instagram — Social giant prepares defense against antitrust scrutiny from federal enforcers — A government effort to break up Facebook Inc …
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| Jody Serrano / Gizmodo: |
As Twitter announced sweeping action against tweets wishing for Trump's death, many users noted years of light enforcement of its “abusive behavior” policy — Wishing someone else ill will or death is a disgusting act that makes the world worse.
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| Sriram Krishan / The Observer Effect: |
Q&A with Daniel Ek on his pledge to invest €1B in European moonshots, shadowing CEOs like Zuckerberg and Hastings, Spotify's impact on the world, and more — Welcome to the second interview on ‘The Observer Effect’. We are lucky to have one of the most influential founders/CEOs …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ola fails to get London ride-hailing license renewed over public safety concerns, says it will appeal and keep operating; Uber recently won its appeal in London — Just six days after Uber won its appeal against London transportation regulators to continue operating in London for another 18 months …
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| Surabhi Agarwal / The Economic Times: |
After pushback from Indian developers, Google says it will delay the enforcement of its 30% cut on IAPs from Play Store in India from Sept. 2021 to April 2022 — Bengaluru: Google deferred the enforcement of 30% commission on in-app purchases of digital goods from its Play Store in India …
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| Jada Nagumo / Nikkei Asian Review: |
Japanese electronics company NEC says it has agreed to buy Swiss banking software developer Avaloq for $2.2B — Japanese electronics company will use acquisition to drive growth in sector — TOKYO — Japanese electronics giant NEC will purchase Swiss banking software developer Avaloq …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google Nest Audio review: much improved audio quality, Assistant performs a lot of tasks, and attractive price, but bass and volume are limited — Google's latest smart speaker has good sound and an attractive price — Four years is an eternity in the modern tech product world …
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Android Police, TechCrunch, TechHive, CNET, Gizmodo, Android Authority, Android Central, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, Mashable, Engadget, and SlashGear. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook says it is rolling out shopping tools for IGTV globally and will add them to Reels later this year — Instagram is pushing its in-app shopping into even more parts of its app. The company is adding shopping tools to two new features: IGTV and Reels.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Ten US states, including NY and NJ, that account for ~21% of the US population have released a COVID-19 contact tracing app based on Apple and Google's API — - New York and New Jersey both released Covid-19 apps this week, bringing the total to 10 states which have published alert apps using technology …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GrubMarket, an online store that delivers farm produce to consumers and other stores, raises $60M Series D, sources say at a ~$500M valuation — Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge … | Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Ransomware attacks on ERT, IQVIA, and others involved in hundreds of clinical trials and work on a COVID-19 vaccine, has slowed some trials according to clients — No patients were affected, but the incident was another reminder of the risks in the increasingly common assaults on computer networks.
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Tweets: @carlquintanilla, @darlin, @sub8u, @billy_penn, and @nicoleperlroth
| Benedict Evans: |
US no longer sets the agenda for the internet, as 80%+ of users are now outside the US, and China has more smartphone users than US and western Europe combined — When Netscape launched in 1994 and kicked off the consumer internet, there were maybe 100m PCs on earth, and over half of them were in the USA.
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