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Meta briefed some creators on Instagram's decentralized text-based app that may launch in June 2023 with a Twitter-like design, Mastodon compatibility, and more — Meta's hosting secret meetings with select creators to share details — [a sneak peek at Instagram's new text-based app]| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung suspends an internal review into replacing Google with Bing as its mobile devices' default search engine, citing business relations with Google — Samsung Electronics suspends internal review that contemplated changing its smartphones' default search engine from Google to Microsoft's Bing| Financial Times: |
Sources: top shareholder SoftBank demanded compensation from Revolut after UK regulators told the startup to simplify its ownership to obtain a banking license — Minister to meet payment group's bosses amid fears UK's biggest tech group will leave the country| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple shares its first App Store Transparency Report, listing app rejections, government requests, and more, as part of a settlement in a 2021 developer lawsuit — Earlier this week, Apple shared an in-depth look at how the App Store helped prevent fraud and protect developers and customers alike.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple restricts the internal use of ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other external AI tools due to concerns about potential leaks of confidential data — The iPhone maker is concerned workers could release confidential data as it develops its own similar technology| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
The Australian Securities Exchange no longer plans to try to rebuild its software using blockchain, after “pausing” seven years of development in November 2022 — Australia's stock market operator said it will no longer attempt to rebuild its software platform with blockchain-based technology … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Hyundai agrees to settle with ~9M US Hyundai and Kia owners for $200M, after hundreds of car thefts inspired by the viral “Kia Challenge” on TikTok in mid-2022 — Most of the money from the settlement will go toward compensating theft victims. — Hyundai is putting … | Financial Times: |
A look at the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles; LinkedIn's transparency report says the company blocked 58M+ accounts in H2 2022, up from 22M in H1 — On the internet, nobody knows you bought a dog — William Grace-Hunter doesn't exist, though this may not be immediately obvious from his LinkedIn profile.| Financial Times: |
Sources: days after Linda Yaccarino's appointment, media agency GroupM tells its clients that Twitter is no longer “high risk”, a designation from November 2022 — WPP-owned GroupM removed designation of platform after appointment of Linda Yaccarino| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apollo Global Management and Fortress Investment Group are each investing ~$50M in competing groups that aim to restart Celsius under new management — Investors that buy and turn around downtrodden companies have largely shunned crypto — Two Wall Street heavyweights are locked … | Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Source: Instacart generated ~$740M in 2022 ad revenue, up 30% YoY; nearly 30% of the company's 2022 revenue came from its ads unit, which launched in 2019 — Instacart has become an advertising powerhouse. — The grocery-delivery firm's ad revenue totaled about $740 million last year … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
A look at SCOTUS' Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh rulings and why Justice Thomas' explanation for Section 230's existence bodes well for the internet — Our long national wait for how the Supreme Court would rule regarding Section 230 is over, and the answer is... we need to keep waiting.| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Jeff Jordan, a16z's fifth general partner who joined in 2011, steps back from active investments but will continue to work on his portfolio and board positions — Longtime Andreessen Horowitz venture capitalist Jeff Jordan is stepping back from active investments.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Restaurant365, which sells restaurant management software, raised $135M led by KKR and L Catterton at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $288M — The price of food continues to go up and up, but surprisingly that hasn't (yet?) played out as pressure on the wider restaurant industry.| Ezra Marcus / Grub Street: |
Restaurant chefs are increasingly designing food that plays well on video for influencers on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube that market to young diners — The most important social-media food genre of the past decade is photos of avocado toast, bright and colorful and clean.
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