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Attorneys general from every US state, excluding California and Alabama, as well as DC and Puerto Rico, launch an antitrust investigation into Google — KEY POINTS — Texas will lead a joint state investigation into Google over antitrust concerns, state Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank urges WeWork to cancel IPO following cool reception from investors, amid fears it could affect SoftBank's Vision Fund fundraising efforts — SoftBank, the biggest outside shareholder in WeWork, is urging the lossmaking property group to shelve its hotly anticipated initial public offering …
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Apple says it's now handicapping its own apps in App Store search results after analysis finds they have ranked first for at least 700 search terms — If you opened the App Store on an iPhone in May 2018 and typed “podcast” in the search box, you would have seen something like this.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils a redesigned To-Do app, now just called To Do, to look and feel more like Wunderlist, which it is set to replace — Microsoft encourages Wunderlist users to switch to its To-Do app — Microsoft is making some big tweaks to its To-Do app this week, with a redesign …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Ahead of iOS 13, which will warn users of apps that collect location data in the background, Facebook publishes a blog post explaining how it uses location data — KEY POINTS — Facebook has published an informational blog post about how its app collects and uses background location data from smartphones.
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Photos and videos on private Facebook and Instagram accounts can be shared publicly by followers via source URLs, even after Stories expire or media is deleted — Photos and videos posted to private accounts on Instagram and Facebook aren't as private as they might seem.
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
900+ Amazon employees have pledged to walk out September 20 to protest Amazon's huge carbon footprint, demanding a commitment to get to zero emissions by 2030 — Nearly 1,000 employees have pledged to walk out September 20 to demand the company go to zero emissions by 2030.
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Wired, Medium, The Seattle Times, CNN, Engadget, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, CNET, Mashable, The Daily Dot, and Vox. Tweets: @amznforclimate
| Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News: |
Privacy International finds popular period tracking apps, including MIA Fem and Maya, are sending monthly timings, contraception use, symptoms, more to Facebook — Period tracker apps are sending deeply personal information about women's health and sexual practices to Facebook, new research has found.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Federal appeals court rejects LinkedIn's effort to stop hiQ Labs from scraping public profile data, reaffirming a ruling from August 2017 — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday rejected LinkedIn's effort to stop a San Francisco company from using information that users … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Shopify acquires 6 River Systems, which offers fulfilment automation for e-commerce and retail operations, for ~$450M in cash and stock — Shopify today announced it is acquiring 6 River Systems, a startup focused on fulfillment automation for e-commerce and retail operations.
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Shopify, Reuters, ZDNet, Bloomberg, PE Hub Blog, TechCrunch, and BetaKit
| Steve Moser / MacRumors: |
Based on an internal build of iOS 13, 2019 iPhones will include an R1 sensor coprocessor, adding support for more sensors than the existing M-series coprocessor — Apple is planning to add a new coprocessor, codenamed both “Rose” and “R1,” to the A13 series chips in its upcoming iPhones set to debut on Tuesday.| Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times: |
Profile of Dawn Ostroff, Spotify's chief content officer, as the company invests heavily in podcasts to gain an edge over rivals — When Dawn Ostroff began working the graveyard shift at a Miami radio station, her parents assumed her career in radio would be short-lived.
Tweets: @caseyriankelly, @eclaireoh, and @rowanc
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Stellar Foundation says it will give away 2B XLM tokens, currently worth ~$120M, to users of Keybase's chat app over the next 20 months — Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), the non-profit organization behind the Stellar blockchain network, has set the stage for yet another sizable airdrop, according to an announcement Monday.
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keybase.io, Fortune, and Crypto Briefing
| Anna Escher / TechCrunch: |
Brazil-based QuintoAndar, an online marketplace that lets users search, book, and advertise rental properties, raises $250M Series D led by SoftBank — QuintoAndar, the Brazilian real estate technology developer, has secured a massive $250 million Series D led by SoftBank …
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Profile of incoming Alibaba chairman Daniel Zhang, who replaces Jack Ma during a tricky time for the company as it delays its $20B Hong Kong stock offering — Daniel Zhang isn't worried about replacing Jack Ma. He's worried about replacing Alibaba. — For months, Daniel Zhang huddled …
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