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July 19, 2022, 2:50 PM

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Apple agrees to pay $50M to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming the company knew and concealed that its MacBook butterfly keyboards were prone to failure  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by customers who claimed it knew and concealed that the …
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg:
Affinity Credit Union files a proposed class-action complaint in California accusing Apple of illegally profiting from payment card issuer fees via Apple Pay  —  Apple Inc. was hit with an antitrust lawsuit over Apple Pay, accused of using its market power in the mobile device industry …
CNBC:
Delaware Court of Chancery grants Twitter its motion for an expedited five-day trial in Oct. in its suit against Musk, who wanted the trial to begin next year  —  - Twitter won its motion for an expedited trial in its lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday.  — Delaware Court …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google will let non-gaming Android apps provide alternative payments for IAP, with a 3% reduction in Google's Play Store cut, in the European Economic Area  —  Google said today it will allow developers of non-gaming apps on the Play Store to provide alternative billing systems for in-app transactions …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube rolls out new shopping features, including a partnership with Shopify to let eligible US creators link their Shopify store and YouTube channel  —  YouTube already soaks up billions of hours of the world's attention.  Now the video giant also wants to hoover up a bigger piece of consumers' online purchases.
Wall Street Journal:
Memo to staff: Facebook is reallocating resources from its News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy  —  Senior executive Campbell Brown told employees that products will be ‘put on the backburner’  —  Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook META 4.71%▲ …
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Through some “cryptic” puzzles posted on Twitter, Samsung appears to confirm the date of its next Unpacked event as August 10, 2022  —  Sure looks like the leaks were accurate  —  In a trio of images posted to its official Twitter account, Samsung Mobile appears to have confirmed …
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Amazon files a lawsuit against the admins of 10K+ Facebook groups that offer cash or goods to people willing to post bogus product reviews on Amazon  —  If the reviews of the last completely necessary and not at all superfluous thing you bought on Amazon looked like so much copypasta …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Amazon starts rolling out a Prime Video redesign for Android and connected TV devices, with a Netflix-like look, a top 10 list, a vertical navigation, and more  —  New navigation, a top 10 list, and a very familiar look and feel  —  Compared to Netflix, Disney Plus, and other major streaming services …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
BitSight: a popular GPS vehicle tracker made by Shenzhen-based Micodus can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines of at least 1M vehicles  —  Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines …

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