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Microsoft rolls out the Amazon Appstore Preview, offering over 1,000 apps, in the Microsoft Store, alongside other tweaks to Windows 11 — Last October, Microsoft began testing Android apps on Windows 11 PCs in partnership with Amazon and its app store. However, the feature was only available …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Facebook rebrands News Feed to just Feed after more than 15 years — The ‘News Feed’ is now just the ‘Feed’ — Meta is changing the name of Facebook's News Feed, the primary part of the service that users scroll through to see what their friends and family have shared.
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Google announces early access to Chrome OS Flex, a version of Chrome OS for businesses and schools that is designed to run on old PCs and Macs — It's made for schools and businesses — Google has announced early access to a new version of Chrome OS called Chrome OS Flex.
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| Bloomberg: |
After India banned Sea's lucrative Free Fire game, the Singapore-based company lost $16B+ in market value, its largest-ever daily drop — Sea Ltd. lost more than $16 billion of value in its biggest daily market drop after India abruptly banned its most popular mobile gaming title.
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| Maxwell Strachan / VICE: |
A look at the self-righteous anger in the Web3 community over the identification of the founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection — The self-righteous anger over the identification of the founders of a popular NFT club says a lot about the web3 battles to come in the years ahead.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel agrees to acquire Israeli chip company Tower Semiconductor for around $5.4B, or $53 per share; the deal is expected to close in 12 months — Intel Corp. agreed to acquire Tower Semiconductor Ltd. for about $5.4 billion, part of Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger's push into the outsourced chip-manufacturing business.
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| Mumbi Gitau / Bloomberg: |
After an animal rights group described Neuralink's tests as “invasive and deadly” for 23 monkeys, Neuralink defends testing on animals — Neuralink, the brain-computer interface company founded by Elon Musk, pushed back against criticism of its treatment of monkeys in research …
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Instagram will let users send a private like in response to a Story, expanding on DMs or emoji reactions — Meta's Instagram is introducing a new way for people to interact with Stories. Starting today, you can send a private like when someone shares an image or video that catches your eye.
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Android 13 Developer Preview shows two “Cross Device” service apps that will let users interact with Pixel's Android apps on a Windows 11 PC or Chromebook — Google has been preparing a way to stream apps and notifications from your Pixel phone to your Chromebook or PC …
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Nextdoor unveils a redesign to improve search and navigation, expand profile pages, and connect users with neighbors; Nextdoor says it has ~33M weekly users — Nextdoor, a social media platform for neighborhoods, hasn't changed much over the past few years but that could start to shift.| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC's first US chip plant is three to six months behind schedule due to labor shortages and difficulty obtaining licenses — Taiwan chip titan faces fight for workers as Intel also builds in Arizona — TSMC's construction delay in Arizona does not necessarily mean the schedule … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the SEC is probing if Binance properly disclosed to consumers the relationship between its US arm and two trading firms with ties to Binance's founder — Regulator is interested in trading firms with links to Binance's founder, people familiar with the probe say
Tweets: @jbenton and @joesaluzzi
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Court documents: Meta agrees to pay $90M in damages to settle a cookie privacy lawsuit filed in 2012, subject to court approval — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a long-running data privacy lawsuit over its use of cookies in 2010-11 to track users' internet use even after they had logged off.
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WSC Sports, whose AI software cuts video clips of live sports and distributes them in real-time, raises a $100M Series D; clients include Tencent, NBA, and ESPN — WSC Sports, a B2B sports video company, has raised $100 million in a series D funding round, led by ION Crossover Partners, to expand into new verticals and countries.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
LinkedIn profiles show TikTok has hired over 190 European content moderators from Accenture and others since January 2021, as its European business explodes — Short-form video app hires hundreds to help curb spread of harmful content — TikTok has poached hundreds of content moderators … | Martin Giles / Forbes: |
Cloudinary, which helps companies automate delivering videos and images at scale, raises $100M in a secondary sale from Blackstone Growth at a $2B valuation — Cloudinary, a nine-year-old digital media startup, has become a unicorn in a secondary funding round that values the company at $2 billion.Sponsor Posts
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