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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]
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
China approves Microsoft's $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, bringing the total to 37 countries, including the EU and Japan — Thirty-seven total regulators have voiced approval thus far. — China's State Administration has approved Microsoft's attempted $69 billion acquisition …
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| 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
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
After Niantic's latest AR game Peridot got negative app store reviews and few downloads, a look at the company's metaverse games struggling to find an audience — Just a few years ago, tech evangelists were hailing Niantic Inc., the maker of the hit game Pokémon Go …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| Ariana Perez-Castells / Wall Street Journal: |
Some doctors, bird watchers, and others still use pagers due to their simplicity; paging company Spok has 800K+ pagers in use in the US, down from 6.6M in 2004 — Fans, including some doctors and bird watchers, appreciate the simplicity of the once-popular devices, even as others move on
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| Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: |
Inside the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami, attended by 12K+ people, down from 25K+ in 2022, which had a subdued yet positive mood, and no talks of moonshots — It turns out that the Bitcoin faithful still like to party even after the annus horribilis that shook the digital-asset world in 2022.| 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.| 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
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@thurrott and @garyblack00
| Reuters: |
Leaders of the G7 nations call for the development and adoption of global AI standards and to “take stock of the opportunities and challenges of generative AI” — Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Saturday called for the development and adoption of international technical standards …
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Filing: AT&T asks the FCC to block a SpaceX/T-Mobile plan that allows Starlink to service areas lacking T-Mobile coverage, saying “FCC's rules do not permit” it — AT&T and rural telcos say Starlink-fueled phone service would cause interference.
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