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Jack Dorsey says Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including through a subscription model — Washington (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says hackers accessed the DM inbox for up to 36 of the 130 high profile accounts targeted in last week's attack — Last week's hack of over 100 very high-profile Twitter accounts did in fact expose the direct messages of many of those accounts, the company admitted today …
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Tweets: @twittersupport, @leokelion, @briannawu, @thekarami, @kfile, @zackwhittaker, @sethweathers, and @twittersupport
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Some startups that took investments from Amazon or had discussions about one say the company used info it received in the process to launch competing products — Some companies regret sharing information with tech giant and its Alexa Fund; ‘we may have been naive’
Tweets: @oliviasolon, @danamattioli, @rachelbovard, @hshaban, and @mcwm
| BuzzFeed News: |
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built — On July 1, Max Wang, a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years …
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| Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
AT&T says its low-band 5G network is now available to 205M people, joining T-Mobile as a nationwide 5G network — The carrier is also adding 5G access to its cheapest unlimited plan. — AT&T's 5G network crossed an important milestone Thursday, with the telecom giant announcing …
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| Alexandra Garrett / CNET: |
Steve Wozniak and 17 others sue Google claiming YouTube repeatedly ignored requests to take down videos using their names and likeness to promote Bitcoin scams — The Apple co-founder says YouTube repeatedly ignored requests to take down a scam video. — Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance and its investors are mulling options like selling just TikTok's US business or splitting off ByteDance's international arm to save US TikTok — - Venture investors urge Zhang to sell a majority stake in app — Time is running short to avoid a crackdown from U.S. officials
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Plex launches 80+ free live TV channels across news, sports, film, classic TV, comedy, anime, and more categories, accessible by both free users and subscribers — Streaming media platform Plex announced today it's further expanding into live TV with the addition of over 80 free live TV channels accessible … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook now allows Messenger Rooms users to live broadcast video calls with up to 50 participants — - Facebook announced a new feature that will allow users to live broadcast video calls with up to 50 participants. — The ability to live broadcast Messenger Rooms calls could pose another threat …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Corning unveils Gorilla Glass Victus, says it can resist a six-foot drop and has twice the scratch resistance of the previous gen, will debut in a few months — Samsung will be the first to feature the new glass — Your next Samsung Galaxy or iPhone may soon include the toughest gadget glass Corning has ever created.
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @calebwatney, @corning, and @thurrott
| Bill Ready / The Keyword: |
Google Shopping goes commission-free for retailers and adds support for third-party providers, starting with PayPal and Shopify — Over the past few months, we've made significant changes to help businesses reach more consumers and help people find the best products, prices and places to buy online.
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Marketing Land, Shopify's pressreleases, 9to5Google, support.google.com, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @williamready, @retailgeek, @richontech, @delrey, and @daiwaka
| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Document obtained via FOIA request indicates Texas AG may be investigating Apple's trade practices as part of a multi-state investigation — Multiple states are investigating Apple for potentially deceiving consumers, according to a March document uncovered by a tech watchdog group.
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Reuters, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, CNBC, CCN.com, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @carlquintanilla
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
TikTok says it is launching a new $200M fund to pay creators directly for their content — The first major monetization effort from the company — As TikTok continues to grow in popularity and its personalities become mainstream celebrities in their own right, the company is trying …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Report: Trump campaign alleges suppression of political speech after AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile blocked its texts over fears they violated anti-spam rules — Campaign texts are annoying but legally murky territory — President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is reportedly fighting … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook can now simulate the actions of bad actors using AI-powered bots let loose in a parallel version of Facebook that researchers can then study — Bad bots roam free in a parallel version of Facebook — Facebook's engineers have developed a new method to help them identify …
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Tweets: @hypervisible, @moonalice, @jjvincent, @markhurst, @kateo, @rstephens, @alexvoica, @iansherr, and @tante
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Facebook to pay $650M to settle a facial recognition suit in Illinois, after judge says the original settlement of $550M did not adequately punish the company — Facebook has agreed to pay a total of $650 million in a landmark class action lawsuit over the company's unauthorized use of facial recognition, a new court filing shows.| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Internal doc: T-Mobile to require all new devices to support VoLTE from August 4, and stop supporting any non-VoLTE phones on its network from January 2021 — According to internal T-Mobile documents, the carrier plans to rapidly fast track plans to shut down its 2G and 3G voice networks … | Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
| ETtech: |
Sources: as JioMart gains steam in India, Amazon is in talks to buy a 9.9% stake in its parent Reliance Retail — JioMart, the e-commerce venture of Reliance's retail arm, was launched in May and poses a formidable challenge to Amazon's local unit and Walmart's Flipkart.| Peter Aldhous / BuzzFeed News: |
Hackers attacked GEDmatch servers and caused over 1M of its profiles to be opted-in for searching by law enforcement, which were previously opted-out — First GEDmatch, the DNA database that helped identify the Golden State Killer, was hacked. Then email addresses from its users were used …
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Associated Press, TechSpot, Engadget, MyHeritage Blog, Techdirt, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @asher_wolf, @blmohr, @webdevlaw, @campuscodi, @zackwhittaker, @tomasekeli, @dguido, @carnage4life, and @paldhous
| Lawfare: |
An overview of how COVID-19 contact tracing technology has fared around the world, as contact tracing apps retreat from the spotlight in the US — In May of this year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged the United Kingdom would develop a “world beating” track and trace system by June 1 to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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9to5Mac and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @jacob_r_schulz, @carnage4life, @hypervisible, @caparsons, @ruskin147, and @lawfareblog
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pandora expands interactive voice ads in beta for more listeners and advertisers and allows free users to unlock on-demand music search with their voice — Pandora is expanding the scope of its interactive voice-based advertising today, launching the service in beta for more listeners …
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The Verge and TechCrunch
| Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News: |
Personal info of 200K+ Instacart users is being sold on the dark web, including names and last 4 digits of credit card numbers; Instacart denies a data breach — The personal information of what could be hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers is being sold on the dark web.
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CNET, Lifehacker, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @janelytv, @janelytv, @buzzfeednews, and @janelytv
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