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Biden names Lina Khan, an antitrust expert who wrote the “Amazon Antitrust Paradox”, as FTC chair, after the Senate voted 69-28 to confirm her as commissioner — Ms. Khan, who first attracted notice as a critic of Amazon, was confirmed by the Senate as a commissioner on the agency on Tuesday.
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Ahead of Microsoft's event to unveil the next gen of Windows, a Windows 11 build leaks, showing a revamped UI, like a new taskbar with centered app icons, more — Screenshots have leaked online — Screenshots of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 11 operating system have appeared online today.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google unveils features for Android including end-to-end encryption for RCS-based one-to-one chats in Messages, starred messages, emoji mashup suggestions, more — Earthquake Alerts in more places and better accessibility — Google has announced seven new features for Android …
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Japan Display, which sold its smartphone screen factory last year, is pivoting to VR; LCDs are projected to dominate the VR headset market over the next 5 years — - Superseded on mobile, LCDs can better compete with OLED in VR — JDI believes headset business could grow into a linchpin
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The Oversight Board accepts its first policy advisory opinion request from Facebook, on the sharing of private residential info, issues call for public comments — It involves how it should handle private residential information
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Mark Zuckerberg says the original Oculus Quest will receive Air Link support in a post about the upcoming v30 update for Quest — He also showed off multitasking in VR — Owners of the original Oculus Quest will get the ability to stream from their PCs to their headsets wirelessly … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Nearly five months after his inauguration, Biden has yet to nominate a Democratic FCC commissioner to fill the empty fifth slot — Biden's failure to fill empty FCC slot has consumer advocates increasingly worried. — President Joe Biden's failure to break the Federal Communications … | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: |
IBM unveils the Quantum System One, its first quantum computer physically built outside of the US, in Germany in partnership with research institute Fraunhofer — Big Blue has, for the first time, built a quantum computer that is not physically located in its US data centers.
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Krafton, the company behind popular game PUBG and backed by Tencent, files for an IPO in South Korea, seeking to raise as much as $5B — - Krafton is selling shares between 458,000 won and 557,000 won — Company will have to prove it's more than a one-hit wonder
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Fox Corp. creates a $100M creators fund for the NFT market, as part of a broader effort that includes Blockchain Creative Labs, a new business unit to sell NFTs — - New blockchain unit will sell and manage digital goods — Dan Harmon's ‘Krapopolis’ animated show is first project
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Alibaba's Taobao was clandestinely scraped by a web crawler for 8 months, leading to a leak of 1.1B pieces of user data, including user IDs and phone numbers — Software developer scrapes 1.1 billion pieces of user data, including IDs and phone numbers, over eight months| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based payments app FamPay, which is aimed at teens, raises $38M Series A led by Elevation Capital; Sequoia Capital India and others participated — How big is the market in India for a neobank aimed at teenagers? Scores of high-profile investors are backing a startup to find out.
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| The Block: |
dYdX, which develops decentralized financial derivative products on the Ethereum blockchain, raises $65M Series C after a $10M Series B four months ago — Quick Take — A number of crypto liquidity providers have also invested in dYdX, which hopes to become one of the world's largest crypto exchanges … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Apna, whose Android app lets blue collar workers connect with others, upskill, and find jobs, raises $70M Series B led by Insight and Tiger Global — Indian cities are home to hundreds of millions of low-skilled workers who hail from villages in search of work.
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Investigation explores Apple's censorship or removal of LGBTQ+ apps globally; Apple's App Stores for Saudi Arabia and China are missing the most apps — As LGBTQ+ people around the world celebrate Pride Month, new report from Fight for the Future and GreatFire shows how Apple's App Store … | Ashley Lampard / Rest of World: |
A look at the rise and fall of Phan Huynh Anh Khoa, aka “The King of Squirrels”, who used Facebook to become one of Vietnam's most notorious wildlife traders — Phan Huynh Anh Khoa capitalized on Vietnam's digital development — and Facebook's negligence — to build a wildlife trading empire.| Kate Kaye / Digiday: |
Analysis: Amazon's properties, including Amazon.com, WholeFoods.com, and Zappos.com, are blocking Google's new FLoC tracking system from gathering data — Amazon is blocking Google's controversial cookieless tracking and targeting method. — Most of Amazon's properties including Amazon.com … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based 10x Future Technologies, which helps established banks add or retool their existing tech offerings via its SaaS platform, raised $187M Series C — As so-called neobanks continue to gain more traction in the market with their more modern takes on banking and other financial services … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q4 revenue of $11.23B, up 8% YoY, vs $11.04B est., with revenue from its Fusion ERP up 46% and NetSuite ERP up 26% — - Oracle called for less earnings guidance than analysts had expected as the company plans investments in cloud computing. — For the quarter, though, Oracle beat on the top and bottom lines.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
UK's CMA says it will launch an investigation into Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems over whether their market power is harming users — Today, the UK's competition watchdog (the Competition and Markets Authority) announced an official investigation into the mobile device ecosystem, citing Apple and Google's effective duopoly.
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| Jimin Kang / Reuters: |
Payments company dLocal and Amazon announce an agreement that enables international vendors to sell products on Amazon's Brazil marketplace for the first time — Uruguayan payment startup dLocal Ltd (DLO.O) said on Tuesday that it had struck a partnership with Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) …
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Brazilian payments company Ebanx receives a $430M investment from Advent International ahead of Ebanx's planned US IPO in the beginning of 2022 — SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Funds managed by Advent International are investing $430 million in the Brazilian payments company Ebanx …
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Bitwise Asset Management, known for managing crypto index funds, raises $70M Series B co-led by Elad Gil and Electric Capital and says it's now valued at $500M+ — - Valued at over $500 million, Bitwise has $1.5 billion-plus in assets under management, up 25% from the previous $1.2 billion AUM at the end of Q1
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| New York Times: |
Interviews with ~200 people show how Amazon's warehouse employment system, under strain before the pandemic, burned through workers and created huge confusion — Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires.
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