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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Threads will not “encourage” politics and “hard news” as such content brings scrutiny that isn't worth the “incremental engagement or revenue” — / Adam Mosseri ran Facebook's News Feed in 2016, and now he tells Alex Heath that politics …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Less than two days after launch, Mark Zuckerberg says Threads signups reached 70M, which is “way beyond our expectations” — - Meta's new Twitter competitor Threads has exploded in growth in its first full day since its public debut Wednesday night, fueled by Instagram's already massive userbase.
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| Turner Novak / The Split: |
Meta's Threads had the perfect launch thanks to a TikTok-like feed where the follower graph doesn't matter, easy Instagram-Threads cross-posting tools, and more — The Empire strikes back. Can Meta's new app live up to the early hype? — Hi everyone 👋 Turner back again with The Split.
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
With the launch of Threads, Mark Zuckerberg appeared to have some of his swagger back as the public face of the platform's rollout, amid chaos at Musk's Twitter — The Facebook co-founder is seizing the moment with a win after years of tumult — Elon Musk has done the once unimaginable …
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| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
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| Reuters: |
Filing: Google says Indian antitrust body CCI's ruling on Android market abuse is wrongly backed by Amazon's arguments that Google hindered Fire OS development — - Google has challenged India decision on Android market abuse — India antitrust body wrongly backed Amazon arguments-Google
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
X Corp. sues Wachtell to recover most of the $90M fee the law firm received from Twitter for defeating Elon Musk's bid to walk away from his $44B Twitter buyout — Elon Musk has sued the elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover most of a $90 million fee it received from Twitter …
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Gemini sues DCG and its founder; Cameron Winklevoss accuses Barry Silbert of being “the architect and mastermind of the DCG and Genesis fraud against creditors” — - Crypto exchange Gemini sued Digital Currency Group and its founder on Friday, accusing Barry Silbert of being …
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| Associated Press: |
A judge orders NYC to temporarily delay new minimum pay standards for gig workers pending a July 31 hearing, after Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub sued the city — A judge Friday ordered New York City to temporarily delay new minimum pay standards for app-based food delivery workers …
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| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
BotDefense, a project run by volunteer mods for removing spam bots on r/gaming and other big subreddits, ceases operations over Reddit's “antagonistic actions” — Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts. — The Reddit community is still reckoning …
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| Joe Brock / Reuters: |
A profile of New Jersey-based subsea cable company SubCom, which sources say the US military uses exclusively for its undersea internet and surveillance cables — SubCom, a New Jersey company born out of a Cold War spy project, has become a key player in the U.S.-China tech war.| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Ant Group is proposing a buyback of up to 7.6% of shares at a ~$78.5B valuation, almost 70% lower than the $280B market capitalization of its scrapped 2020 IPO — Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co. is proposing to buy back as much as 7.6% of shares in an effort to retain talent and offer an exit …
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| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
A look at assistive apps like Be My Eyes and Ask Envision, which integrate GPT-4 to give visually impaired users more visual details about the world around them — Assistive technology services are integrating OpenAI's GPT-4, using artificial intelligence to help describe objects and people.
Bluesky: @epro.social
| Nathan Crooks / The Block: |
Report: Binance General Counsel Han Ng, Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann, and compliance SVP Steven Christie quit over CZ's response to the DOJ's probe — - Top executives at Binance resigned this week over CEO Changpeng Zhao's handling of regulatory investigations into the company, Fortune reported, citing sources.
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