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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Starting July 1, Google will drop its cut of revenue devs generate from Play Store from 30% to 15% on the first $1M earned per year, after Apple's similar move — - Google announced on Tuesday that it will cut Google Play app store fees to 15% on the first million dollars a developer makes …
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| Noam Cohen / Wired: |
Wikimedia Foundation debuts Wikimedia Enterprise, a premium service for delivering Wikipedia content to companies like Google, but a free option will remain — The Big Four all lean on the encyclopedia at no cost. With the launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, the volunteer project will change that—and possibly itself, too.
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| Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times: |
A Florida teen who hacked well-known Twitter accounts last summer and used them to ask for BTC, netting $100K+ worth, was sentenced to 3 years in a plea deal — Graham Ivan Clark, 18, agreed to plea guilty to fraud charges for a hack of several Twitter accounts last summer.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Instagram says it's introducing new policies to limit interactions between teenagers and adults, including banning adults from DMing teens who don't follow them — Teen users will also be shown safety prompts when messaging ‘suspicious’ adults — Instagram is introducing …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces second-generation Nest Hub with sleep tracking, powered by a Soli radar chip, for $100, shipping on March 30 — In deciding to not put a camera on what was initially called the Home Hub, Google made its first Assistant Smart Display ideal for nightstands.
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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Internal FTC docs: 2013 decision not to pursue a Google antitrust investigation was based on faulty logic and a misunderstanding of the internet's potential — Few moments in the power struggle between Washington and Silicon Valley have inspired more anger and bafflement than one in January 2013 …
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| Financial Times: |
Huawei, Xiaomi, Tencent, and other Chinese internet companies remove Alibaba's popular UC Browser from app stores, following Xi's warning of a crackdown — Group accused over misleading advertising as Xi Jinping warns tech crackdown will continue — Chinese internet companies have pulled … | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Signal website and app communications are blocked in China, but the app is still available in the App Store; Greatfire: Signal's website was banned on March 15 — Chinese users of the instant messenger Signal knew that the good times wouldn't last long. The app, which is used …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple will let the Russian government pre-install iOS apps in accordance with a new law; users can deselect the apps during setup or delete them after — Starting next month, Apple will allow the Russian government to pre-install apps on iPhones, iPads and other devices starting next month.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel's 11th Gen desktop chips launch, with the flagship Core i9-11900K sporting eight cores, two less than last gen, and boosted clock speeds of up to 5.3GHz — Rocket Lake-S looks to combine the best parts of Intel's 14nm process with its 10nm designs — Intel's next-generation desktop chips …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook will begin testing its publishing platform, including website and newsletter tools, with a small group of writers, some of whom will be paid — Facebook will soon begin testing partnerships with a small group of independent writers for its new publishing platform, sources tell Axios.
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| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
eToro, which lets users trade cryptocurrencies, commodities, stocks, and more, says it will go public via SPAC, valuing the company at $10.4B and raising $650M — Quick Take — The investment platform is merging with FinTech Acquisition Corp. V — The SPAC merger follows years …
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Dropbox says Dropbox Passwords, a management tool introduced in 2020 for businesses, will be free for Basic accounts starting in April, with a 50 password limit — Maybe an upsell, maybe a introduction to password security — Dropbox is adding a new feature on top of its usual offerings …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
GoPro refreshes its main smartphone app, now called Quik, and adds new features, including a private feed for organizing media — Another new direction for the camera company's software — GoPro is releasing a new version of its main smartphone app that will now be called “Quik.”
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Leaked audio from a February 8 meeting reveals Parler's chief policy officer saying: “We are not going after misinformation in any way” — Leaked recordings of meetings detail role of Rebekah Mercer at social-media platform — Conservative donor Rebekah Mercer has been writing checks …
Tweets: @brianjjackson, @williamturton, and @williamturton
| Bloomberg: |
Huawei says it will start charging Apple, Samsung, and other manufacturers royalties for 5G patents, a potentially lucrative scheme as US sanctions bite — - Executives pledge to charge rates below its competitors — Company is keen to expand its clout in global 5G networking| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia confirms that a now-removed driver for developers to test the Windows Subsystem for Linux could unlock RTX 3060's Ethereum cryptomining performance — Nvidia probably didn't mean to do this — Nvidia implemented a special system to reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining on its new RTX 3060 graphics card last month.
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Tweets: @0xabad1dea, @moyix, @tomwarren, @eidelweiss, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Tencent and ByteDance are testing a new tool called CAID, developed by the China Advertising Association, to bypass Apple's IDFA ad privacy changes — ByteDance and Tencent see if they can keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Docker raises $23M Series B led by Tribe Capital as a new developer focus takes shape for the company after it sold its enterprise business in 2019 — It was easy to wonder what would become of Docker after it sold its enterprise business in 2019, but it regrouped last year … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Machine learning data management startup SafeGraph raises $45M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures and says it is used by over 7,000 data scientists — While there are plenty of companies selling data about physical locations, SafeGraph CEO Auren Hoffman said his startup is …
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Socure, a cloud-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup, raises $100M led by Accel at a $1.3B valuation — - Value is an increase from 2020, when it was worth $360 million — Socure helps verify that customers are who they say they are
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| Rachel Lerman / Washington Post: |
Despite progress in making social media accessible to deaf users, some creators say captioning can often be lackluster, leaving services inaccessible to many — Captioning on social media can be hit or miss, making the experience sometimes alienating for deaf users| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A growing number of Apple device owners say they are receiving FaceTime group calls from spammers and the built-in tools to deal with such spam are inadequate — Apple doesn't provide tools that effectively ease a major headache for FaceTime users. — FaceTime users are getting bombarded …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based Appfire, which develops apps to enhance collaboration tools like Atlassian's Jira and Confluence, raises $100M, following $49M in June 2020 — Appfire, a Boston-based provider of software development apps, announced Tuesday that it has received a $100 million investment from growth private equity firm TA Associates.| Bloomberg: |
French data protection watchdog says it is investigating Apple after a complaint by lobbying group France Digitale about Apple's personalized ad features — - Apple set to get French antitrust ruling as soon as Wednesday — Software update plan aims to curb web tracking in privacy push
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 14.5 beta code suggests Apple is working on a method for delivering standalone iOS security updates — Among all the new features introduced with iOS 14.5, which had its fourth beta released today to developers, there are also some changes hidden in the operating system's internal codes.Sponsor Posts
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