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July 21, 2020, 9:20 AM

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Ahead of next week's antitrust hearing, sources say the committee spoke with Microsoft's Brad Smith on his concerns about how Apple operates its App Store  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are all set to participate …
Apple:
Apple commits to be 100% carbon neutral across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030  —  Already carbon neutral today for corporate emissions worldwide, the company plans to bring its entire carbon footprint to net zero 20 years sooner than IPCC targets
Ranjan Roy / Margins:
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Macy Bayern / TechRepublic:
Linux Foundation announces initiative to help public health officials in pandemic battle, launches two COVID-19 tracker apps using Google and Apple APIs  —  The project will use the Google Apple Exposure Notification system to support public health authority's testing, tracing, and isolation practices.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Report: in Q2, US smartphone YoY sales fell 10% for Samsung, 23% for Apple, 25% overall; iPhone SE popular among people with older iPhones and Android switchers  —  New data from Counterpoint Research today highlights the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on smartphone sales.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Norway-based classified ads publisher Adevinta acquires eBay's classifieds business unit in $9.2B deal  —  Consolidation continues apace in the world of e-commerce, and today it was the turn of the classified ads market.  Today, eBay announced that it had reached a deal to sell off …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Adobe says it has hired Marc Levoy, a top researcher who developed computational photography for Google's Pixel line, to help it make a universal camera app  —  Marc Levoy is now at Adobe  —  Marc Levoy, the researcher who used software to turn Google's Pixel camera into a powerhouse …
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Coinbase says that, in the wake of Twitter's hack on Wednesday, it prevented over 1,100 of its customers from sending 30.4 BTC, or ~$275K total, to the hackers  —  Crypto exchange Coinbase has said that it prevented little over 1,100 customers from sending bitcoin to Twitter hackers …
Ian Sherr / CNET:
US accuses Nanchang O-Film Tech, a supplier for Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, of helping China's human rights abuses against Uighurs and places restrictions on it  —  The US Department of Commerce added 11 Chinese companies to its list of firms implicated in human rights violations …

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