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| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
DOJ is opening an antitrust review of whether tech giants are unlawfully stifling competition, examining search, social media, and retail services platforms — Inquiry signals Barr's deep interest in tech sector, poses threat to companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
FTC announces a $5B fine against Facebook for repeated privacy violations as part of a settlement that requires federal oversight of its business practices — The settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Facebook ends a 16-month probe that began after revelations of the tech giant's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Interviews, including with the dev who led the team that built the retweet button, discuss the power of retweets and shares and ways to limit their virality — Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter's retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day.| Ben Greenwood / The Keyword: |
Google launches Gallery Go, a lightweight 10MB photo gallery app for organizing and editing photos, designed to work offline — Today, at Google for Nigeria we introduced Gallery Go: a photo gallery, designed to work offline, that uses machine learning to automatically organize and make your photos look their best.
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
DoorDash CEO to change tipping policy “in the coming days”, says it will add all customer tips to driver's earnings, after a renewed backlash — Earlier this year, news reports exposed that not only did DoorDash (and others, like Instacart) sometimes lower its payout to delivery workers …
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| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
As streaming offerings get more expensive and convoluted, people are setting up their own platforms via Plex servers to share media, including pirated content — Have you heard about the best new streaming platform on the internet? It's totally customizable, works on any device, and, best of all, is basically free.
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| Washington Post: |
Fake accounts, pages, and groups purporting to represent or sell Libra digital currency have sprung up across Facebook and Instagram — A wave of fakes purporting to sell or represent Facebook's not-yet-available Libra currency have swept onto the social-media giant's platforms … | Bloomberg: |
Filings: Apple has asked the Trump administration for exclusion from import tariffs of 25% for components of a computer that is likely to be the new Mac Pro — - Trump has promised relief for companies in certain cases — High-end computer was only major Apple product made in U.S.
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| Patrick Klepek / VICE: |
Nintendo memo tells customer service to fix a Joy-Con in-game “drift” issue for free, even out of warranty, following a Kotaku report and a class-action lawsuit — The company will repair devices free of charge, even outside of the warranty period. — IMAGE COURTESY OF NINTENDO
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Netflix launches a $2.80 per month mobile-only subscription plan in India, restricted to one mobile device at 480p standard definition — Netflix has a new plan to win users in India: make its service incredibly cheap. The streaming giant today introduced a lower-priced mobile plan in the country that costs Rs 199 ($2.8) per month.| Kellen / Droid Life: |
Google Store page updates the availability of the Google Nest Hub Max, its $229 10-inch smart display, from 9/9 in the US, UK, and Australia to “coming soon” — Google's new Nest Hub Max arrives on September 9, folks. That date has now been confirmed by the Google Store … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q2 revenue of $388M, up 48% YoY, vs. $359.7M est., DAUs of 203M, up 8% YoY, and that its net loss shrunk from $353M to $255M YoY; stock jumps 9%+ — KEY POINTS — Snap, the maker of Snapchat, posted a loss of 6 cents per share, vs. an expected loss of 10 cents per share.
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: Apple's own apps rank first in 60%+ of App Store test searches; Podcasts, which had a 1.7-star rating before its reviews were removed, ranks #1 in US — Searches for ‘music,’ ‘audiobooks’ and other categories rank company apps first, a process some developers find unfair … | Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
The old enforcement mechanisms of regulatory agencies are no match for large companies and the unprecedented amount of lucrative personal user data they possess — The feds are no match (for now). — Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large. — In just the last month the Federal Trade Commission … | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
CERT-Bund discovers a serious vulnerability in VLC for Windows, Unix, and Linux that allows for remote code execution and hasn't been patched yet — The bug is present in VLC's latest release. — A serious vulnerability has been uncovered in the latest release of the VLC media player and no patch is available.
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