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Ad-measurement company Tenjin: following Apple's IDFA changes, spending on iOS ads fell one-third between June 1 and July 1, while Android spending rose 10% — Android ad prices have jumped, as iOS users opt out of being tracked, early data show — Advertisers have begun shifting …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
An attempt led by Baidu, Tencent, and ByteDance to circumvent Apple's privacy policies, called CAID, has failed to get traction after Apple blocked app updates — Tracking system for iPhones developed by Chinese tech groups fails to gain traction — A co-ordinated attempt by Chinese tech companies …
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| Joshua Zitser / Insider: |
GETTR, the new pro-Trump social platform, acknowledges it was hacked on its July 4 launch, with the usernames of prominent accounts being defaced — - GETTR, founded by former Trump aide Jason Miller, was hacked on the day of its official launch. — The accounts of Miller …
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Sources: weeks before Didi's US IPO, the Chinese regulator that eventually ordered Didi's app banned had suggested to the company that it delay the listing — Ride-hailing giant, under pressure to reward shareholders, pushed ahead with NYSE listing despite concerns of China's cybersecurity watchdog| Bloomberg: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Microsoft Store on Windows 11: UI overhaul and speed improvements are nice; addition of much-needed apps like Zoom and WinZip is a promising start — The Windows store is finally getting apps people care about — Microsoft's dysfunctional app store for Windows …
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| Julia Reda: |
GitHub Copilot's use of GPL code for training is not infringement; adopting a maximalist copyright stance will ultimately hurt the Free Software community — This is a slightly modified version of my original German-language article first published on heise.de under a CC-by 4.0 license.
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| Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair: |
After being canceled last year, Allen & Co.'s annual Sun Valley conference starts Tuesday with CEOs from Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix attending — All around, even as the Delta variant begins to sink its teeth into unvaccinated pockets of the U.S., there are signs of life getting …
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
SoftBank-owned Z Holdings has agreed to pay ~$1.6B to Verizon Media for perpetual use of the Yahoo brand and related tech in Japan in place of regular royalties — As firework volleys launched out of New York City harbor last night, a very different celebration was likely taking place …
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| Don Clark / New York Times: |
A look at Dutch company ASML, the global leader in $150M+ EUV chip-making machines, which are used by firms like TSMC and are subject to export bans to China — A $150 million chip-making tool from a Dutch company has become a lever in the U.S.-Chinese struggle. It also shows how entrenched the global supply chain is.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Pine Labs, a payments company and SaaS provider for merchants in India and SE Asia, raises $600M at a $3B valuation, says it plans to IPO in the next 18 months — - Pine Labs targets possible U.S. initial offering in 18 months — Singapore fintech company now valued at $3 billion, CEO says
Tweets: @amrishrau
| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Trade group representing Apple, Google, Facebook, others warns that the companies could stop their services in Hong Kong if planned anti-doxxing rules go ahead — A trade group representing Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and others said changes to a Hong Kong privacy law could stop firms from providing services in the city.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Katy Perry to offer NFTs via Theta Labs, a blockchain-based P2P video streaming network with 1M MAUs that gives out rewards in exchange for unused bandwidth — - Theta has built a peer-to-peer video streaming network — Katy Perry takes stake in Theta Labs, to offer NFTs to fansSponsor Posts
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