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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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%▲ …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram rolls out a new searchable map for exploring popular tagged locations, which can be filtered by restaurants, cafes, salons, and other categories — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is introducing a new searchable and dynamic map experience on Instagram.
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| Miles Weiss / Bloomberg: |
Capital Group cuts Instacart's valuation to $14.7B, below the company's $24B March valuation, becoming the second investor to cut the valuation in recent weeks — Instacart Inc. investor Capital Group Cos. cut its valuation to $14.7 billion, far below the online grocery-delivery firm's own calculation of $24 billion.| 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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Sources: China will impose a $1B+ fine on Didi over its cybersecurity practices and ease restrictions, letting Didi restore its apps and pursue a Hong Kong IPO — The move ends a yearlong investigation and will free up the company to pursue a second listing in Hong Kong
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Microsoft reverses its decision to ban the sale of open source software in the Microsoft Store, due to mounting criticism — Having previously upset software developers by implementing a ban on the sale of open source software in its app store, Microsoft has reversed its decision.
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Crunchyroll drops prices in nearly 100 countries and territories, cutting the Mega Fan plan by 25% in the UK, nearly 50% in the UAE, and nearly 90% in India — Crunchyroll is changing prices for users in nearly 100 countries and territories, but not in the way you'd probably expect.
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BeReal, the social photo sharing app launched in 2020 in France, is the No. 1 free app in the US App Store; Sensor Tower says it has topped 20M downloads — No doubt you've seen the innumerable recent hot takes about BeReal. The French photo app, launched in early 2020 as a kind of stripped … Sponsor Posts
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