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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon says it will acquire MGM Studios for $8.45B, its second-largest acquisition since it paid $13.7B for Whole Foods in 2017 — - Amazon is buying MGM Studios, the companies announced, marking Amazon's most ambitious move yet into the entertainment business.
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
With its MGM acquisition, Amazon doesn't want to compete with streamers like Netflix but reduce Prime subscriber churn by providing enough blockbuster content — Amazon isn't competing with Netflix, but it is spending billions trying to figure out Hollywood. Maybe 007 can help.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government for its new social media regulations, saying they would break privacy protections — WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple removes an app, discovered by a developer, that required at least a three-star review before people could use it — An app that demanded at least a three-star review to function got through the App Store review process, it has been found (via The Verge).
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it will limit the distribution of all posts from personal accounts that routinely spread misinformation — Facebook Inc. will begin doling out harsher punishments for individual accounts that repeatedly share false or misleading posts, an expansion of the social network's efforts to crack down on misinformation.
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About Facebook, Protocol, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Reclaim The Net, and MUO
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook and Instagram now give users options to hide Like counts across all posts and to hide their own public Like counts from others — Facebook this week will begin to publicly roll out the option to hide Likes on posts across both Facebook and Instagram, following earlier tests beginning in 2019.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
USB standards body unveils its USB-C 2.1 revision, which supports power up to 240W, up from 100W currently, aimed at devices like 4K displays and gaming laptops — An upgrade to the USB-C standard will accommodate levels of up to 240 watts, an improvement that could let you plug power-hungry devices … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon says Andy Jassy will become CEO on July 5, which marks 27 years to the day that Amazon was incorporated — That's Amazon's 27th birthday — Andy Jassy will officially become the CEO of Amazon on July 5th, the company announced at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI's Sam Altman announces a $100M startup fund with Microsoft backing aimed at early-stage AI companies, with plans to invest in “probably not more than 10” — OpenAI is launching a $100 million startup fund, which it calls the OpenAI Startup Fund, though which it and its partners … | Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
PayPal to add third-party wallet transfer support, allowing users to send Bitcoin to PayPal and Venmo users as well as to Coinbase and outside crypto wallets — PayPal created a stir in the crypto markets last year when it announced its millions of users could buy and sell Bitcoin.
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CoinDesk, Reuters, The Block, Crypto Briefing, and Bitcoin Magazine
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| New York Times: |
An overview of Russia's increasingly aggressive attempts to control Google, Facebook, and Twitter, ordering them to store data in Russia and imposing fines — Its campaign is part of a global wave of actions by governments that are testing how far they can go to control online speech.
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Facebook says Russia is still the largest producer of disinformation, in a report that details 150 operations that the company has disrupted since 2017 — Report explores how issue has evolved in recent years — A Facebook report released Wednesday says that Russia is still the largest producer …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches a new shopping section called Drops, helping users find limited supply products, and will temporarily waive fees due to COVID-19 — Instagram today announced it's adding a new feature to help connect online shoppers to product drops through its app.| Patrick Sykes / Bloomberg: |
Iran says it is banning cryptocurrency mining until September 22 after a series of power blackouts across major cities — - Iran blames crypto mining and drought for recent outages — Government says 85% of mining activity is unlicensed — Follow us @crypto for our full coverage.
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| Melanie Evans / Wall Street Journal: |
Google partners with US hospital chain HCA Healthcare to develop algorithms to improve operating efficiency, monitor patients, and guide doctors' decisions — Tech giant expands health-sector presence in latest deal to develop tools to improve medical care, as privacy concerns arise
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HCA Today, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, and Tech Xplore
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: European Commission will open a formal antitrust probe into Facebook to investigate if it's undermining competition in the online classifieds market — European Commission will investigate if Facebook is undermining competition in the online classifieds market| Lauren Hepler / San Francisco Chronicle: |
San Jose approves Google's plans for a downtown campus with 4K new homes, 7M+ square feet of office space, 15 acres of parks, and 500K of retail and other space — After more than three years of negotiations, San Jose officials voted late Tuesday to approve Google's plan for a sprawling downtown campus … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salt Security, which develops AI-based software to protect API libraries from malicious use, raises $70M led by Advent International — APIs make the world go round in tech, but that also makes them a very key target for bad actors: as doorways into huge data troves and services …
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| Trefor Moss / Wall Street Journal: |
Tesla says it will store all data generated from cars in China in a new data center there, after facing scrutiny in the country for handling vehicle data — U.S. electric-car maker has faced scrutiny in China of its handling of potentially sensitive vehicle data
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Engadget, The Verge, WRAL TechWire, PCMag, and Gizmodo
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| Fadeke Adegbuyi / Cybernaut - Every: |
Gen Z students are studying together online across YouTube, TikTok, Discord, and Twitter, seeking inspiration, finding focus, and sharing academic anxieties — In late 2020, a 10-hour loop of a song from Mario Kart titled “Coconut Mall” started blowing up on Youtube.
Tweets: @lkherman, @dianelyssa, @heatherfro, @annehelen, and @dianelyssa
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
In a first, England's NHS says it will scrape medical histories of 55M patients, including info on mental and sexual health, to be shared with third-parties — 55m patients have until June 23 to opt out of having their health data scraped into a new database
Tweets: @foxglovelegal, @foxglovelegal, @financialtimes, @we_ownit, and @foxglovelegal
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia beats with record Q1 revenue of $5.66B, up 84% YoY, with Gaming revenue of $2.76B, up 106% YoY, and Data Center revenue of $2.05B, up 79% YoY — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Nvidia reported revenues of $5.66 billion for its first fiscal quarter ended …
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| Bloomberg: |
ZipRecruiter closes at $21.10 per share after opening at $20, giving it a valuation of ~$2.8B, up from its 2018 valuation of ~$1.5B — - Shares in ZipRecruiter opened at $20 apiece Wednesday — Company's direct listing follows Coinbase, Squarespace — ZipRecruiter Inc. rose … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rewatch, which builds tools to index, transcribe, and store enterprise video content, raises $20M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz — We don't hear as much these days about “Zoom fatigue” as we did in the first months after the Covid-19 pandemic kicked off last year … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Snowflake beats with Q1 revenue of $228.9M, up 110% YoY, net loss swelled to $203.2M from $92.6M last year; year to date, stock is down ~17% — - Snowflake's revenue beat estimates for the quarter as losses mounted. — Goldman Sachs upgraded Snowflake stock to buy earlier this month as its performance trailed that of the Nasdaq.
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| Martin Tisne / MIT Technology Review: |
Lawmakers focus on protecting individuals from big tech when they should develop laws focusing specifically on collective data rights to prevent harm to society — Protecting individual data is not enough when the harms are collective — Every person engaged with the networked world constantly creates rivers of data.
Tweets: @rafa_zanatta, @martintisne, @martintisne, @martintisne, @protonmail, and @ninanjira
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
SpotOn, a payments startup focused on SMBs, raises $125M Series D led by a16z, tripling its valuation from last September to $1.875B — Certain industries were hit harder by the COVID-19 pandemic than others, especially in its early days. — Small businesses, including retailers and restaurants …
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| DFRLab: |
Analysis of 40M pieces of QAnon content from 1/20 to 4/21: Facebook, Twitter, and others have successfully expelled most of the content after it peaked in 6/20 — The conspiracy's followers on alternative platforms have failed to out-post their counterparts on mainstream ones
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