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Apple agrees to settle a class-action lawsuit and will let developers directly contact customers, inform them about purchase options outside iOS, and more — CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced a number of changes coming to the App Store that, pending court approval, will resolve a class-action suit from US developers.
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| The Verge: |
Apple's $100M settlement lets devs tell users about alt payment options using contact info from iOS app, but still won't allow adding the info inside the app — Developers can email you about payment options that bypass Apple's cut — A proposed agreement between Apple …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it won't block users from getting Windows 11 on most older PCs if they install directly using ISO files, and not via Windows Update — Windows 11 will run on older CPUs — Microsoft is announcing today that it won't block people from installing Windows 11 on most older PCs.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Interview with a16z General Partner Martin Casado as the company rolls out a new $400M fund focused on seed investments — Andreessen Horowitz has begun to announce new funds almost as routinely as some startups have begun announcing follow-on rounds. After announcing a third biotech fund …
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| Dina Temple-Raston / NPR: |
A look at China's alleged hack of Microsoft Exchange, which both US officials and Microsoft believe was in the service of China's AI ambitions — Steven Adair hunts hackers for a living. Back in January, in a corner-of-his-eye, peripheral kind of way, he thought he saw one in his customer's networks … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers that a now-fixed Azure Cosmos vulnerability might have exposed databases, but it saw no evidence it was exploited — Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies … | Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China plans to propose rules that would ban companies with large amounts of sensitive consumer data from going public in the US — China's stock regulator plans to propose new rules that could thwart internet companies' plans to list in the U.S. — SINGAPORE—China plans to propose …
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| Reuters: |
Waymo to end a two-year effort to sell lidar sensors to other companies as it rethinks strategy after failing to generate significant revenue for over a decade — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) self-driving unit Waymo said on Thursday that it has ended a two-year effort to sell light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors to other companies.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Dell beats in Q2 with $26.1B revenue, up 15% YoY, as net income fell to $880M; PC revenue rose to a record $14.3B, up 27% YoY, as servers rose 6% YoY to $4.5B — Commercial PC revenue surged 32% in the quarter to $10.6 billion and consumer sales of $3.7 billion was up 17% from a year ago.
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Firemaps, which uses drones to make 3D models of houses and provides a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires, raises a $5.5M seed round led by a16z — Wildfires are burning in countries all around the world. California is dealing with some of the worst wildfires in its history …
Tweets: @aravind_raves and @andrewchen
| Zeyi Yang / Protocol: |
China calls the “996” work culture, a weekly schedule of six 12-hour work days popular among Chinese tech firms, a “serious violation” of labor law — The “996” work culture — a 12-hour, six-day work schedule that had been popular among Chinese tech companies until recently …
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Tweets: @pingroma, @yangliuxh, @michaelxpettis, @yangliuxh, and @ruima
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
China plans to implement rules to control the recommendation algorithms tech companies use, forbidding practices that “encourage addiction or high consumption” — - Cyberspace administration makes 30-point proposal for changes — Companies affected could include ByteDance, Apple, Alibaba
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Tweets: @kendraschaefer, @justinhendrix, and @lisaabramowicz1
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Twitter starts rolling out Ticketed Spaces for some iOS users; hosts can charge between $1 and $999 for their ticketed rooms and set a room size cap — The beginning of paid live audio rooms — Twitter is beginning its rollout of Ticketed Spaces, or paid live audio rooms.| Josh Ye / South China Morning Post: |
A look at China's turbulent relationship with its domestic gaming industry, as it continues its crackdown on Tencent, while laying out plans for global growth — China's domestic gaming revenues in 2020 rose to 278.7 billion yuan with almost half of the country now playing video games …
Tweets: @therealjoshye
| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Head of the Reserve Bank of India says the central bank may launch its first digital currency trial programs by December — - The Reserve Bank of India may launch its first digital currency trial programs by December, governor Shaktikanta Das told CNBC. — RBI is studying various aspects …
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot demands records from Facebook, Twitter, Google, Reddit, TikTok, and other tech companies — - The House select committee investigating the deadly invasion of the Capitol on Jan. 6 said Friday that it is demanding a trove of records from 15 social media companies.| Washington Post: |
Analysis: targeted ad campaigns on Facebook, long criticized as invasive, have become powerful tools for health officials to persuade people to get vaccinated — Targeted ad campaigns, long criticized as invasive and divisive, have become powerful tools for health officials
Tweets: @willoremus, @washingtonpost, @drewharwell, and @tracyjan
| Financial Times: |
Sources: EU to launch a formal probe early next month into Nvidia's planned $54B takeover of Arm, as Nvidia sets formal submission date in the week of Sept. 6 — Brussels expected to open investigation in early September over competition concerns — Brussels is set to launch …
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Netflix is testing games in its Android app in Poland, starting with two existing Stranger Things games — Playing on Netflix's mobile app is new, but the games themselves — two pixelated Stranger Things games — have already been available off Netflix for years.
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Tweets: @netflixgeeked, @stevemoser, @tzm_tmt, @aaronlerch, and @exbeegames
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
YouTube is implementing picture-in-picture functionality in its iOS app, starting with a testing window for Premium subscribers through October 31 — YouTube is making good on its promise to — bring picture-in-picture viewing to iOS users. TechCrunchSponsor Posts
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