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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some of Apple's healthcare efforts, including a pilot primary healthcare service with Apple-employed doctors, have stalled due to internal concerns — Tech giant has envisioned hiring doctors to offer primary care, now focused on Watch — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Greenroom, an app that lets Spotify users worldwide join or host live audio rooms and turn those conversations into podcasts — In March, Spotify announced it was acquiring the company behind the sports-focused audio app Locker Room to help speed its entry into the live audio market.
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| New York Times: |
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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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Interview with Apple's VP for Technology Kevin Lynch on Apple Watch's evolution, future health capabilities through sensor fusion with AirPods, and more — Apple VP of Technology Kevin Lynch charts a path from Apple Watch's early days to the sophistication of Health today.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Overview of House lawmakers' recent antitrust-focused bills, which target consumer tech giants, vary in radicalness, and at times conflict with each other — From the Wall Street Journal: — These bills are the ultimate outcome of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust's investigation …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
DuckDuckGo says it raised $100M+ in “mainly secondary investment” in late 2020 from WhatsApp founder Brian Acton, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and others — Privacy tech continues cooking on gas. To wit: Non-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo has just revealed that it beefed … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook launches a new suite of tools for admins of Groups, including AI-powered Conflict Alerts that identify “contentious or unhealthy conversations” — Part of a suite of new tools for managing Facebook communities — Facebook is launching a suite of new tools to help group admins get a grip on their communities.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook partners with Michigan State University to create a method for reverse-engineering deepfakes by using AI to reveal the ML model that created it — The work could help future deepfake investigations — Deepfakes aren't a big problem on Facebook right now, but the company continues …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Waymo raises $2.5B from Alphabet, a16z, Tiger Global, and others, to advance its autonomous driving tech and grow its team — - Google sibling company Waymo announced a $2.5 billion investment round Wednesday, which will go toward advancing its autonomous driving technology and growing its team.
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| Mathew Olson / The Information: |
Around 150 of Mapbox's 222 US staff have signed CWA union cards; they assert maps are political, and workers should be able to refuse to work on some projects — San Francisco-based Mapbox offers tools and navigation data that can power just about any use of digital maps you can imagine, including augmented reality.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Amazon blames social media companies for its failure to remove fake reviews, saying they let bad actors use their platforms to buy and sell fake product reviews — Firm says sites are slow to act when warned that fake reviews are being solicited on their platforms| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Harry Stebbings, a 24-year-old Londoner with a popular podcast about tech investing, raises $140M fund from MIT, RIT Capital, and founders of Spotify and Calm — Harry Stebbings secures investment from MIT and Rothschild-backed RIT Capital Partners — A 24-year-old law school dropout … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Novo, a neobank targeting small businesses, raises $40.7M Series A led by Valar Ventures — Small businesses have traditionally been underserved when it comes to IT — they are too big and have too many requirements that can't be met by consumer products, yet are much too small to afford …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg drops off Glassdoor's Top 100 CEOs list for the first time since 2013, as worker sentiment declines, especially during last months of 2020 — - Co-founder fails to make Top 100 for first time since 2013 — Glassdoor ranks company leaders based on employee surveys
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| Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post: |
Apple's obsession with thin design has made the new M1-powered iMac less useful by removing ports and making it virtually impossible to replace components — A half-inch desktop computer shows how Apple's obsession with thin design can work against us — Apple's newly redesigned iMac measures just 0.45 inches thick.
Tweets: @campuscodi, @pinboard, @pinboard, and @pinboard
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
After years of pop-up experiments, Google says its first retail store, located in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, will open on June 17 — Pixel, Nest, Fitbit, and third-party accessories will be on sale — After years of pop-up experiments, Google is finally dipping its toes …
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Tweets: @jameshitchcock, @madebygoogle, @technacity, @stevekovach, and @stshank
| Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg: |
At a Senate antitrust hearing, Amazon and Google defended their smart home device businesses from criticism by Democrats and Republicans — Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Amazon.com Inc. defended their smart-speaker businesses as U.S. senators warned the grip the companies have over the market could harm competition and consumer privacy.| Joe Light / Bloomberg: |
US lawmakers and Fed officials have expressed concern over the risk to US financial system posed by stablecoins, as their total market cap crosses $100B — - So-called stablecoins cited as a risk to financial system — Consumers' money isn't adequately protected, lawmakers say
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cryptodaily.co.uk and Coin Journal
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
BrowserStack, a cross-browser website testing service for DevOps, raises $200M Series B led by BOND, at a $4B valuation — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — BrowserStack, a website testing platform for developer operations (DevOps) teams …
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon's planned new African HQ, located in Cape Town, has met with fierce resistance and protests by indigenous people, with 50,000 objections — - Khoisan group trying to stop building of $291 million project — City of Cape Town says venture will add jobs, boost economy
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Introhive, which offers SaaS tools to automate CRM, raises $100M Series C led by equity firm PSG, bringing its total raised to $140M+ — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Introhive, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) customer relationship management …
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BetaKit, TechCrunch, and Introhive
| David Cohen / Adweek: |
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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| Rest of World: |
In a bid to become neobanks, Grab and Gojek are offering buy now, pay later services, which critics say could get millions hooked on spending beyond their means — Gege Lin's finances have been a headache for years. A 30-year-old tutor working at an education startup in Jakarta …
Tweets: @restofworld and @restofworld
| 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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Tweets: @dw_politics, @akbarth3great, and @j__liang
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
In an email to creators, Facebook says it will launch its podcast platform on June 22; podcasters can link up RSS feeds and decide if users can clip shows — Along with podcast clips — Facebook is planning to start rolling out its podcast product next week, on June 22nd, and, eventually …
Tweets: @wongmjane, @ashleyrcarman, @lanceulanoff, @ashleyrcarman, and @ashleyrcarman
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