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Sources: Google to issue new guidelines emphasizing that developers must use Google's own billing service for in-app purchases and subscriptions in Play Store — - Google and Apple's 30% cut of purchases is under scrutiny — Google to update developer rules to emphasize requirement| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Leaked email: Google informed its advertisers on Friday that it will block election ads referencing “the election, or its outcome” after polls close on Nov. 3 — Google informed its advertisers Friday that it will broadly block election ads after polls close Nov. 3, according to an email obtained by Axios.
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Alphabet settles shareholder lawsuit over its handling of sexual harassment claims, agrees to eliminate mandatory arbitration and limit Google's use of NDAs — - Alphabet has reached a settlement with shareholders in a lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct mishandling and cover-up by executives …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Apple has agreed to allow Facebook to process payments for its paid online events feature via Facebook Pay, without taking a 30% cut, until December 31 — Last month, Facebook introduced support for paid online events — and since many of the businesses offering those events have struggled during …
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Stan Chudnovsky, head of Messenger at Facebook, says Facebook has asked Apple for years to give users an option to make Messenger the default iOS messaging app — Facebook executives have sharply ramped up their criticism of Apple in recent months, contesting the iPhone maker's restrictions …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
The European Commission says it will appeal the July 2020 ruling that reversed the original $15B fine against Apple and Ireland over State Aid and taxes — It's not over until it's over for Apple and its ongoing tax headache in Europe. Today the European Commission announced that it plans …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter has emailed developers warning that it may have exposed their private app keys and account tokens due to a bug that stored them in browser caches — Twitter has emailed developers warning of a bug that may have exposed their private app keys and account tokens.| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Alexis Ohanian is raising a fund called 776, with a target of $150M, three months after leaving Initialized Capital — According to an SEC Filing, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and early-stage VC firm Initialized Capital, is raising a new fund, named 776, with a target of $150 million.
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| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Former director at Facebook, Tim Kendall, told Congress Facebook “took a page from Big Tobacco's playbook, working to make our offering addictive at the outset” — “At worst, I fear we are pushing ourselves to the brink of a civil war,” he added.
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| Katharine Schwab / Fast Company: |
Humane raises a $30M Series A led by Sam Altman and Lachy Groom, with Marc Benioff and others participating, to build some new kind of computing platform — Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno helped create some of Apple's biggest hits. Now their startup Humane is at work on something ambitious—and mysterious.| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
About 25 academics, journalists, others say they've formed the Real Facebook Oversight Board, to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions — Some of Facebook's most vocal critics are tired of waiting for its independent oversight board — so they're starting their own.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Within3, an Ohio-based collaboration and communication service for the biotech and pharma industries, raises over $100M from Insight Partners and others — Within3, a collaboration and communication service for the biotech and pharma industries, has raised over $100 million in new financing, the company said.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Justice Department asks a federal judge to allow the government to bar Apple and Google from offering WeChat for download in US app stores pending an appeal — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge in San Francisco early on Friday to allow the government …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google has announced the general availability of AI Platform Prediction, a service for developers to prepare, build, run, and share ML models in the cloud — Google today launched AI Platform Prediction in general availability, a service that lets developers prep, build, run, and share machine learning models in the cloud.
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