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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple becomes the first US company to reach a $2T market cap during intraday trading, two years after reaching $1T — Just two years after becoming the first U.S. company to reach a $1 trillion market capitalization, Apple has officially doubled its value to $2 trillion.
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| New York Times: |
Stocks of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook rose a combined 37% in the first seven months of 2020, while all the other S&P 500 stocks fell 6% — As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, the biggest tech companies are amassing wealth and influence in ways unseen in decades.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Zoom says it is adding support for Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal, and Google Nest Hub Max later this year — Zoom from even more places — Zoom is expanding to a variety of new devices later this year, with the company announcing that the Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal …
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| The Guardian: |
Avaaz: sites spreading health misinfo had ~500M views on Facebook in April; top 10 such sites had almost four times the views of top 10 reputable health sites — Research findings undermine firm's claims it is cracking down on inaccurate news — Websites spreading misinformation …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter successfully stopped the second “Plandemic” video from going viral, likely due to widespread announcements about its premier — The trick is getting the hucksters to announce a premiere date — One of the more hopeful developments at tech platforms …
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
How the “domestic aesthetics” of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses with little visible pushback from the platform — A blush-colored square filled with the all-caps advice SHOW UP EVERY DAY FOR SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE IN belongs to one of the least remarkable categories … | Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Facebook says it has further cracked down on QAnon, removing 790 Groups and restricting another 1,950 Groups, 440 Pages, and over 10,000 Instagram accounts — The social network also said it was restricting another 1,950 groups, 440 pages on Facebook and more than 10,000 accounts on Instagram related to the conspiracy group.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Facebook and Ankhi Das, a top exec in India, are facing questions from employees over content moderation, with calls to denounce “anti-Muslim bigotry” — NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) and its top lobbying executive in India, Ankhi Das … | Committee to Protect Journalists: |
Ankhi Das, a top Facebook exec in India, filed a criminal complaint against journalist Awesh Tiwari for sharing a WSJ article critical of Das on Facebook — Facebook regional director Ankhi Das should withdraw her criminal complaint against journalist Awesh Tiwari, and respect citizens' rights …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Trump expresses support for Oracle's TikTok bid, calling Larry Ellison “a tremendous guy” and Oracle “a great company”; Ellison has held a fundraiser for Trump — Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is Trump supporter, hosted fundraiser for the president
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| David Shayer / TidBITS: |
Ex-Apple engineer details working with a US Department of Energy contractor in 2005 on a customized “top secret” iPod, likely to build a stealth Geiger counter — It was a gray day in late 2005. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year's iPod.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram rolls out “suggested posts”, appearing when users reach the end of their feed, offering related content unlike Explore feed's adjacent content — You thought you were done — Instagram is expanding its feed today with the launch of “suggested posts.”
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers say a new P2P botnet FritzFrog is using advanced measures to infect millions of SSH servers around the world — Botnet is hard to detect and with no centralized control server, harder to take down. — Researchers have found what they believe is a previously undiscovered botnet …
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| Benedict Evans: |
With ~1B active iPhones and an est. ~500M weekly active App Store users, it's time for Apple to play by new rules and legal fights in EU and US might make it — I write a weekly newsletter around tech and media, picking the 10-20 pieces of news that actually mattered and explaining what they mean … | Paul Ford / Wired: |
How low-code database services like Airtable, a category often sneered at by professional programmers, let non-programmers create community databases — When people build a database to manage reading lists or feed their neighbors, that's coding—and culture. — It's a normal afternoon in July.
Tweets: @codeorg, @backchnnl, @wired, and @rozzie
| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 73% of US adults say it is very or somewhat likely social media sites intentionally censor political views; 90% of Republicans and 59% Democrats agree — Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say major tech companies favor the views of liberals over conservatives.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram starts rolling out QR codes for user profiles globally, a feature that it had first launched in Japan last year; Instagram is deprecating Nametags — Don't open Instagram to find a profile — Instagram is bringing QR codes to the app. Users can now generate QR codes that'll … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus will soon require all of its VR headset users to sign up with a Facebook account, removing support for new separate Oculus accounts in October — Support for separate Oculus accounts will end in 2023 — Oculus will soon require all of its virtual reality headset users to sign up with a Facebook account.
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| Nick Romeo / New Yorker: |
How Americans can draw upon European thinkers, like Dutch politician Marietje Schaake, to address issues of antitrust, Big Tech, and democratic governance — Last October, a couple of days before joining Stanford University as the international policy director at the Cyber Policy Center …
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Sources say the Twitter breach in 2015 involving access of internal data by employees yielded information that led to the disappearance of Saudi dissidents — Access of internal data by Twitter employees in 2015 presaged the disappearance of Saudi dissidents| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Profile of Color of Change, a civil rights group pushing Big Tech on issues of race that has gone from 1.7M members in May to 8M today — It felt hot in Brandi Collins-Dexter's attic, but nerves may have had something to do with it. — It was late June, and she was sitting in front of her computer …
Tweets: @birnbaum_e, @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, @brandingbrandi, @colorofchange, and @protocol. Thanks:@birnbaum_e
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI company SenseTime, blacklisted by Trump last year, says it saw its revenue surge 147% to $720M in 2019 and expects an 80% revenue growth in 2020 — - World's largest AI startup SenseTime sees business boom — SenseTime is said to expect 80% revenue growth this year
Tweets: @luluyilun and @retogregori
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based travel booking service Omio raises $100M, bringing its total raised to ~$400M, and says it's eyeing potential M&A opportunities in the sector — Multimodal travel platform Omio (formerly GoEuro) has raised $100M in late stage funding to help see its business through the coronavirus crisis.
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