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Facebook VP says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations, and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees — A lot has been said about Facebook this week. A series of articles published by the Wall Street Journal has focused …
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Report: India's antitrust authority found that Google abused the dominant position of Android in the country to illegally hurt competitors — Google abused the dominant position of its Android operating system in India, using its “huge financial muscle” to illegally hurt competitors …
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| New York Times: |
Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that coordinated protest voting, bowing to Russian pressure on the eve of an election — The app, from the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores as polls opened in the parliamentary election it was designed to sway.
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Telegram blocks Navalny's Smart Voting chatbot on the second day of voting in Russia's parliamentary election — Popular messaging app Telegram has suspended all chat bots used in the Russian elections campaign, in another blow to jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's Smart Voting initiative …
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
The dismantling of digital advertising based on personal data and cookies is reshaping revenue plans for ad and tech industries, publishers, and small companies — As Apple and Google enact privacy changes, businesses are grappling with the fallout, Madison Avenue is fighting back and Facebook has cried foul.
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| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
Amazon says it has closed 3,000 seller accounts backed by about 600 Chinese brands for review fraud — The closures did not negatively impact the overall growth of Chinese online merchants on Amazon, according to a senior company executive Amazon kicked off an extensive clean-up campaign in May …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
CEO of US-based cybersecurity company Exodus Intelligence says India bought and likely weaponized its Windows zero-day research to spy on China and Pakistan — A U.S. company's tech was abused by the Indian government, amidst warnings Americans are contributing to a spyware industry already under fire for being out of control.
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| Michael Berens / Reuters: |
A review of US laws governing the corporate use of biometric screening finds Illinois stands out in banning biometric data collection without consent — When night fell, a clerk at a bustling 24-hour MotoMart flipped a switch from behind the counter. — Electromagnetic locks sealed the doorway.| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Twitch's “hate raid” lawsuit raises questions about when tech platforms should unmask their own anonymous users and sue them for violating their speech policies — It isn't hard to figure out who the bad guys are in Twitch's latest lawsuit against two of its users.
Tweets: @protocol and @issielapowsky
| Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
Caresyntax, an AI-powered platform that aims to reduce deaths from surgery-related complications, adds $30M to its Series C, bringing the round total to $130M — - Digital platform for surgery adds to $100 million round — ProAssurance, Harmonix, Relyens Group also join fundraising| CK Tan / Nikkei Asia: |
Shanghai-based XTransfer, which provides currency and payment management services to 150K+ import/export SMBs, mostly in China, raises $138M at a $1B+ valuation — Company founded by Ant Group veterans raises $138m to expand reach — HAIKOU, China — XTransfer, a trade services startup founded …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google to bring an Android 11 feature that auto-resets permissions granted to apps that haven't been used in months, to phones running Android 6 and above — Resetting an app's permissions if it hasn't been used in a while — Android 11's auto-resetting permissions …
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