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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Sources: Instagram to launch an NFT pilot, with ETH, Polygon, Solana, and Flow integrations, on Monday in the US, will not charge users for sharing their NFTs — NFTs from some of the most popular blockchain networks for crypto art are coming to Instagram with the announcement of a pilot …
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In an email to staff, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the company will cut spending on marketing and incentives, treat hiring as a “privilege”, and more — - Uber will slash spending on marketing and incentives and treat hiring as a “privilege,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an email to staff on Sunday.
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Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy” — Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy. In a note to staff, he said “I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team.” He was likely the company's most cited ML expert.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google Play bans “downloading of paid apps and updates to paid apps” in Russia over sanctions, after halting purchases of paid apps and subscriptions in March — Google is now blocking Russian users and developers from downloading or updating paid applications from the Google Play Store starting Thursday due to sanctions.| Isabela Fleischmann / Bloomberg Línea: |
An interview with former SoftBank COO Marcelo Claure on his investment firm Claure Group, his current relationship with Masayoshi Son, helming WeWork, and more — Bloomberg Línea — For many, Bolivia-born Marcelo Claure (51), former SoftBank COO, was a kind of King Midas …
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WhatsApp announces Message Reactions, support for sharing files up to 2GB in size, and is rolling out the ability to add up to 512 people to a group — Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — After announcing to release the ability to react to messages to everyone on the latest versions of WhatsApp for Android …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Opinion: Apple has the technical chops to safely open up its NFC chip for third party payments apps, and the main reason it is not doing it is the revenue — Apple's latest antitrust battle is all about Apple Pay and how the company reserves the tap-to-pay feature for its own service.
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| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: as China restricts access during the pandemic, Apple is relying more on local engineers, using live streaming and AR to help US staff monitor progress — Tech giant passes more authority to local workers, uses live streaming and augmented reality to ensure products made in China come out on time
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| Omar Faridi / Crowdfund Insider: |
Czech Republic-based DoDo Group, which specializes in last-mile B2B logistics tech and has 2,000 couriers in seven countries, raises a €60M Series B — Czech company DoDo Group, “specialists” in last-mile B2B logistics tech, recently announced a €60 million Series B round led by EC Investments and J&T Capital.| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Egypt-based Paymob, which lets merchants accept digital payments online and in-store, raises a $50M Series B, bringing its total raised to $68.5M+ — Egyptian fintech Paymob, which enables merchants to accept digital payments online and in-store, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series B funding.
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Profile of AltStore, which has been downloaded 1.5M times since its launch in 2019, as it rolls out a curated section to make sideloading apps on iOS easier — The best way to install apps from outside Apple's App Store was only made possible because Riley Testut wanted to play Pokémon on his iPhone.
Tweets: @rileytestut, @harrymccracken, @altstoreio, @shut_up_syd, and @onejarednewman
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
If Roe v. Wade gets overturned, any location and search data about users collected by tech companies might be used in abortion-related criminal prosecutions — The treasure troves of data tech companies have spent decades accumulating could put them right in the middle of efforts … Sponsor Posts
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