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Microsoft won't block users from getting Windows 11 on most old PCs if they install using ISO files, but they won't get Windows Updates, including security ones — 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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Filing in AGs' lawsuit against Google: the Play Store hit revenues of $11.2B in 2019, with $8.5B in gross profit and an operating margin of over 62% — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google generated $11.2 billion in revenue from its mobile app store in 2019, according to a court filing unsealed on Saturday … | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
EU's data protection supervisor recommends that personal data such as search queries and browsing history should not be used for the assessment of credit scores — The European Union's lead data protection supervisor has recommended on Thursday that personal data such as search queries …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple's “clarifications” as part of its settlement will not make much of a difference in the long run for developers or to how the App Store actually works — Apple isn't changing how the App Store works because Apple doesn't want it to change — Apple made waves this week …
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| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: a record 19 fintech startups in Europe have become unicorns in 2021 so far, bringing the total number of fintech unicorns on the continent to 39 — At the start of 2021, Europe had just one decacorn—a startup valued at $10 billion or more—in the fintech sector to speak of …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Amazon partners with Affirm to roll out monthly installments for purchases over $50 to some US customers; Affirm stock is up ~30% after hours — - Affirm's buy now, pay later checkout option will be available to certain Amazon customers in the U.S. starting Friday with a broader rollout in the coming months.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
CryptoSlam: CryptoPunks, an NFT platform with 10K pixel portraits, crossed $1B in transaction volume, with the cheapest artwork available for sale costing $450K — Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week we dove into Bezos's Blue Origin suing NASA.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
The City of Chicago sues DoorDash and Grubhub for allegedly deceiving customers and using unfair business practices — - The City of Chicago filed two sweeping lawsuits against DoorDash and Grubhub for allegedly deceiving customers and using unfair business practices.
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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 … | Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients — AI-powered characters based on real people can star in thousands of videos and say anything, in any language.
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| New York Times: |
Didi, which grew by moving in regulatory gray zones before the US IPO, became a bellwether for how far China is ready to go in Big Tech crackdowns — Didi pushed the limits and thrived in legal gray areas. Until China cracked down. — China's leading ride-hailing company, Didi … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
About 15 of top 20 posts in Facebook's Q2 content report were effectively plagiarized, showing the best path to virality on Facebook is to copy someone's idea — Being original on Facebook doesn't pay, according to its own data — The conventional wisdom around the “widely viewed content report” …
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