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Sources: before iOS privacy changes, Apple and Facebook discussed ways to share revenue, like an ad-free, paid version of Facebook and IAP for “boosted posts” — The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook
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| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
Dutch authorities arrest a suspected Tornado Cash developer in Amsterdam, two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixing service — - Dutch authorities arrested a developer suspected of involvement in Tornado Cash on Wednesday, two days after the US government sanctioned the crypto mixing service.
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple tells its assemblers to make 90M of the newest iPhones, on par with 2021, despite deteriorating projections for the smartphone market — Apple Inc. has asked suppliers to build at least as many of its next-generation iPhones this year as in 2021, counting on an affluent clientele …
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| The Guardian: |
Google agrees to pay $42.7M to settle a court case with Australia's ACCC over misleading some Android users about the collection of personal location data — The tech giant kept track of some Android phone owners even when their location history was set to ‘off’
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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung's Jay Y. Lee, who spent 18 months in prison for bribery, wins a pardon from South Korea's President, letting him regain his company leadership role — Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee won a presidential pardon from graft charges, allowing him to formally take the helm …
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| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Huawei reports H1 revenue dropped 5.9% YoY to ~$44.73B and net profit dropped to ~$2.2B, down from ~$4.7B in H1 2021, as smartphone and laptop sales weaken — Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) said on Friday its first-half net profit more than halved as a difficult economy curtailed demand from customers … | Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: meditation app Calm lays of 20% of its staff; sources say Calm employed ~400 people and approximately 90 were laid off; Calm was valued at $2B in 2020 — Cuts hit marketing department at tech ‘unicorn’ — Calm.com Inc., maker of popular meditation and wellness app Calm … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn rolls out new features to court creators, including a clickable link on images and videos, text post templates, and the option to mix images and videos — LinkedIn announced today that it's rolling out new features for creators that are designed to make it easier to share visual content on the social network.| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Singapore-based Merkle Science, a predictive crypto intelligence service with threat detection, risk mitigation, and compliance tools, raised a $24M+ Series A — The threat detection company added funding to its Series A round, which now totals more than $24 million.
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| Mike Freeman / Los Angeles Times: |
US federal prosecutors charge a former Qualcomm VP and three others over allegedly duping the company into paying $150M to acquire tech it putatively owned — Federal prosecutors unveiled fraud and money-laundering charges this week against a former Qualcomm research engineer and three others …
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| Sarah Donaldson / Wall Street Journal: |
A California bill targeting social media companies for features that could addict minors dies in legislature, after Meta, Twitter, and Snap lobbied against it — Measure, which would have allowed lawsuits against companies like Facebook, Snapchat and Tiktok for allegedly causing addiction, was killed without a public vote
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India seizes assets worth $46.4M from the local entity of crypto exchange Vauld for allegedly facilitating “crime-derived” proceeds from predatory lending firms — India's anti-money laundering agency has frozen assets worth $46.4 million from the local entity of Vauld for facilitating … Sponsor Posts
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