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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Lina Khan overruled FTC staff to sue Meta over its Within acquisition; the FTC didn't take sworn interviews of company execs in the nine-month inquiry — Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan led her fellow Democrats in the agency's majority vote to sue Meta Platforms Inc. this week …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
FTC chair Lina Khan's attempt to block Meta's Within acquisition upends decades of antitrust standards and may shift how DC enforces competition in nascent tech — Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
A Delaware judge rules that Twitter's case against Elon Musk for attempting to exit his $44B takeover will go to trial from October 17 to October 21, 2022 — Everybody's going to the Court of Chancery — We have a schedule for the Delaware Court of Chancery trial over T witter's lawsuit …
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| Amanda Seitz / Associated Press: |
Twitter says it fielded nearly 60K legal demands globally in H2 2021 and complied fully with ~40%; the US accounted for 20% of account information requests — WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter warned Thursday that governments around the globe are asking the company to remove content or snoop … | Apple: |
Apple reports record Q3 revenue of $83B, up 2% YoY, vs $82.8B est., net income down 11% to $19.4B, iPhone revenue up 3% to $40.7B, Mac revenue down 10% to $7.4B — iPhone and Services drive June quarter record revenue — Active installed base of devices reaches all-time high for all major product categories| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons proposes offering customers a free hot drink and baked good as a settlement for collecting their location data for over a year — The wholesome Canadian chain caused a scandal when its privacy violation was revealed, and now it's proposing a free coffee and a baked good as restitution.
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| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Sources: a Chinese government PR unit asked for a stealth TikTok account targeting Western audiences with propaganda; TikTok declined the “sensitive” request — A Chinese government entity responsible for public relations attempted to open a stealth account on TikTok targeting Western audiences …
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Insider, The Guardian, and PCMag
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue down 22% YoY to $15.32B, vs. $17.92B est., a $454M net loss, and Datacenter and AI revenue down 16% YoY to $4.6B; stock drops 10%+ — - Intel slashed its full-year guidance and turned in worse-than expected quarterly results. — The company launched new chips …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Amazon plans to shut down Drive, its cloud storage service launched in March 2011, at the end of 2023 to focus “on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos” — In an email to customers this morning, Amazon announced that its “Drive” cloud storage service is shutting down at the end of 2023.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
In an email to Twitter Blue subscribers, Twitter says it is increasing the price of the service; in the US, the price will jump from $2.99 to $4.99 per month — Who would pay for Twitter? — People frequently express their amazement that Twitter is free, but for some people, it isn't …
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
As Congress debated the $280B CHIPS Act for 13 months, China's semiconductor industry surged ahead, making a 7nm chip that may be based on, or stolen from, TSMC — While Congress argued over whether and how to support American chip makers and research in other technologies China was surging ahead.| Pete Schroeder / Reuters: |
US banking regulators order Voyager Digital to cease and desist from making “false and misleading” claims that its customers' funds were insured by the FDIC — U.S. banking regulators have ordered crypto firm Voyager Digital to cease and desist from making “false and misleading” …
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CoinDesk, Board of Governors …, PYMNTS.com, Protocol, Bloomberg, Bitcoin News, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Web3 is going just great, CoinGape, and Micky. Tweets: @claritytoast
| Manu P Toms / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Ola and Uber are discussing a merger, four years after a deal fell apart, when common investor Softbank pushed for it; Uber denies merger talks — Both companies had held conversations four years ago as well, when common investor Softbank had pushed for a merger. A deal did not materialise back then.
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Reuters, Inc42 Media, and Gadgets 360
Tweets: @bhash, @manutoms, @anirbanblah, and @datta_arvind
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon's direct workforce declined by 99K in Q2 to 1.52M, a record QoQ drop, primarily due to attrition in its warehouses after the pandemic-driven expansion — Amazon's direct workforce declined by 99,000 employees from the first to the second quarter, to 1.52 million people … | Amazon: |
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