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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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Recording from a global Apple all-hands meeting reveals Tim Cook answered only two questions from staff about workplace and social issues — Hundreds of current and former Apple workers are complaining about their work environment, a rarity for the once tight-lipped company.
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Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines — Company documents show antivaccine activists undermined the CEO's ambition to support the rollout by flooding the site …
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Sources: Biden administration is preparing many actions to disrupt ransomware payments, including sanctions on some crypto wallets and exchanges next week — Biden administration hopes to disrupt digital finance infrastructure that facilitates ransomware cyberattacks, a threat traced to Russia| 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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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Cameo launches Cameo Calls, a native experience in the app for fans to video chat with influencers and celebrities for up to 15 minutes — If you really want to video chat tonight with William Hung of retro American Idol fame... got twenty bucks to spare? Yesterday, Cameo launched …
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Report: Commure, which provides APIs for vendors and startups to build healthcare apps, raised $500M over two rounds of funding, valuing the company at $3.5B — Human Capital and Greenoaks Capital led the latest round, according to Insider's reporting. — Healthcare software company Commure … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
GitLab files for a US IPO and says its revenue in the latest quarter grew 69% to $58.1M, while net losses grew to $40.2M from $9.4M a year ago — - GitLab, which was valued at $6 billion in a secondary share sale late last year, filed its IPO prospectus on Friday.
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Sources: US probe into Binance expands to include CFTC's review of alleged insider trading and market manipulation, following criminal probes by DOJ and the IRS — - CFTC examining whether crypto exchange exploited customers — Binance has said it has strict policies to prevent misconduct| 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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Elon Musk says Tesla will use a week of personal driving data to determine whether owners who paid for “Full Self-Driving” can access its latest beta version — Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will use personal driving data to determine whether owners who have paid for its controversial … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
General Motors says it is building direct relationships with chip manufacturers to address shortages, following production halts at six assembly plants — General Motors Co (GM.N) Chief Executive Mary Barra said Friday the largest U.S. automaker plans to make changes in its supply chain … Sponsor Posts
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