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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Emails between Eddy Cue and other Apple execs from 2011, revealed in House hearing, show Apple considered 40% cut of first year digital content subscriptions — - IPhone maker's Eddy Cue reached 2016 deal with Amazon's Bezos — In 2011, Apple executives weighed 40% fee for subscriptions
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| Robin Givhan / Washington Post: |
Democrats at the hearing focused on big questions about the power of Big Tech, while the Republicans focused on Google and how it is “unfair” to conservatives — The congressional hearing starring the country's tech titans began as so many video conferences have in the midst of a pandemic …
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
A recap of antitrust hearing, which was messy but overdue and showed us the beginning of Congress holding powerful tech CEOs to account based on actual evidence — Well, we had an antitrust hearing. — A long one, too. The House Judiciary Committee's investigation into the market power of Amazon …
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| Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post: |
An overview of attempts by tech CEOs to obfuscate and minimize during the hearing, claiming their companies are not that big and data remains under user control — No, Google, we're not really in control of our data. And yes, Facebook, you profit from harmful information.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Sundar Pichai received bipartisan criticism during Wednesday's antitrust hearing, facing questions about Google's digital ads business, privacy practices, more — The leaders of four of the world's most powerful tech companies — Apple , Amazon , Facebook and Google …
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| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
A trove of 1M+ documents from the House antitrust panel build a far better antitrust case against the tech giants than anything the CEOs said under questioning — - Wednesday's Big Tech hearing provided almost no new information or insight into potential antitrust activity by Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
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| Justin Wise / The Hill: |
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Canalys: |
Analysis: Huawei shipped 55.8M devices globally, down 5% YoY, overtaking Samsung, which shipped 53.7M, down 30% YoY, to become the world's top smartphone vendor — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Thursday, 30 July 2020
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple, saying Apple must “allow users to have the opportunity of downloading software outside the App Store” — Messaging company is latest company to criticise restrictions and fees — Telegram, the messaging app … | Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Sources: Infobip, which lets companies communicate with customers via text messages or apps like WhatsApp, raised $200M from One Equity, at a $1B+ valuation — (Reuters) - Infobip has raised over $200 million from private equity firm One Equity Partners in a deal which values …
| Shubham Agarwal / Digital Trends: |
TikTok says it will pay US creators $1B+ in the next three years, up from the $200M announced before, unveils $70M fund for creators in some European countries — After reports of Instagram poaching TikTok creators emerged, TikTok says it's ramping up its Creator Fund to over a billion dollars … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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| Shaurya Malwa / Decrypt: |
China arrested 109 alleged architects behind the PlusToken project, bringing an end to one of the biggest Bitcoin Ponzi schemes in the crypto industry — Local authorities in China made 109 arrests today in connection with the notorious PlusToken Bitcoin project, according to local news outlet Cailian News.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU antitrust regulators are set to open a full-scale investigation of Google's $2.1B bid for Fitbit after EC preliminary review ends August 4 — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are set to open a full-scale investigation into Alphabet Inc unit Google's $2.1 billion bid …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Moonbug buys Cocomelon, the most viewed YouTube channel, and Blippi, forming the largest network of kids channels on YouTube with 235M subscribers — Moonbug Entertainment Ltd. is building a kids media empire for the YouTube generation. — The London-based company has acquired … | Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung reports Q2 earnings with sales of ~$44.5B, down 5.6% YoY, and an operating profit of ~$6.8B, up 23.5% YoY, as demand for memory chips increased — Samsung posted 8.15 trillion won in second quarter operating profit, with its semiconductor business contributing 5.43 trillion won of that.| Ross Andersen / The Atlantic: |
An in-depth look at how China is using AI-powered tech to build totalitarian surveillance systems before exporting that tech to other regimes around the world — Northwest of Beijing's Forbidden City, outside the Third Ring Road, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spent seven decades building a campus of national laboratories.
Tweets: @zeynep, @edyong209, @theatlantic, @gladstein, and @privacyde
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