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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
TikTok to pull its app from Google Play and App Store in Hong Kong in light of new security law, says it doesn't and wouldn't share info with Chinese government — TikTok said Monday night that it would pull its social video platform out of the Google and Apple app stores in Hong Kong amid …
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Facebook, Telegram, Google, and Twitter say they have suspended requests for user data from Hong Kong police, following a new national security law by China — The social network said it would review the city's punitive new national security law, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by a large American tech company.
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| Bloomberg: |
Big tech's faceoff with China risks sparking an exodus from Hong Kong and could have a much wider impact on Hong Kong's future as a financial hub — - Hong Kong announced sweeping new police powers on Monday — Facebook Inc., Google and Twitter Inc. — all of which are blocked in the mainland …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps amid rising tensions between US and China — - The U.S. is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday.
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| Andrew Anthony / The Guardian: |
Profile of Stanford law professor Jim Steyer, who set up the Stop Hate for Profit campaign that has led to about 800 companies joining an ad boycott of Facebook — With 800 firms now joining the Facebook advertising boycott, the man whose idea it was explains how the company could easily clean up its act| New York Times: |
Magic Leap hires Peggy Johnson, who led Microsoft's business development, as CEO, starting in August — Peggy Johnson, who led Microsoft's business development, will take over the struggling virtual reality start-up in August. — SAN FRANCISCO — Magic Leap said on Tuesday …
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Reframing “tech vs. journalism” discussion as “managers vs. employees” shows why journalists who have called attention to workplace activism have become targets — Last week, the worlds of technology and journalism were transfixed by a conflict that played …
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Palantir says it has confidentially filed an S-1 draft registration with the SEC for an IPO — Secretive surveillance startup Palantir said late Monday it has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. — Its statement for the secretive … | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Fraunhofer announces H.266/VVC, a new video compression standard that it says cuts file sizes by ~50% compared to its predecessor without compromising quality — Having engineered the popular music encoding format MPEG-3 before developing the widely-used video formats H.264 (AVC) and H.265 …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
A list of some tech companies the SBA says have received PPP loans of more than $150K; Bird and Index Ventures say they are wrongly listed — Scooter companies, AV startups, LIDAR manufacturers among companies receiving PPP loans — Bird, the beleaguered e-scooter company …
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| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Researchers say that 14.8% of Android users targeted with malware or adware last year were left with an infected system partition, making removal difficult — A healthy percentage of Android users targeted by mobile malware or mobile adware last year suffered a system partition infection … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber launches an on-demand grocery delivery service in 19 cities across Latin America and Canada, says it will be available in the US later this month — The announcement follows Uber's acquisition of Cornershop in 2019 and Postmates in 2020 — Uber is launching an on-demand grocery delivery service … | Abdi Latif Dahir / New York Times: |
Alphabet's Loon starts providing internet service to Kenya in the first-ever commercial deployment of the tech, extending 4G LTE to a ~31K square-mile area — A commercial deal in Kenya marks the first application of balloon-powered internet in Africa, the region with the lowest percentage of internet users globally.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US Secret Service warns it has seen an increase in hackers targeting managed service providers, which provide remote management software for companies — US Secret Service says hackers are breaching MSPs to orchestrate ransomware attacks, point-of-sale intrusions, and business email compromise (BEC) scams.
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| Reuters: |
US House Judiciary Committee says the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will testify at a hearing on July 27 related to an antitrust probe — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of Amazon.com (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook (FB.O) … | Varsha Bansal / WIRED UK: |
India's shutdown of TikTok has dealt a devastating blow to the careers of many influencers as some say it has “erased the last two years of their lives” — TikTok built an influencer base of over a million people in India in less than two years. Now, it's crumbling downSponsor Posts
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