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Biden names Lina Khan, an antitrust expert who wrote the “Amazon Antitrust Paradox”, as FTC chair, after the Senate voted 69-28 to confirm her as commissioner — Ms. Khan, who first attracted notice as a critic of Amazon, was confirmed by the Senate as a commissioner on the agency on Tuesday.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Ahead of Microsoft's event to unveil the next gen of Windows, a Windows 11 build leaks, showing a revamped UI, like a new taskbar with centered app icons, more — Screenshots have leaked online — Screenshots of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 11 operating system have appeared online today.
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Interviews with ~200 people show how Amazon's warehouse employment system, under strain before the pandemic, burned through workers and created huge confusion — Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires.
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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 53 people shed light on Airbnb's secretive safety team, made up of ~100 agents, some with military backgrounds, who handle emergency situations — The first-floor apartment on West 37th Street, a few blocks south of Times Square, was popular with tourists … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
UK's CMA says it will launch an investigation into Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems over whether their market power is harming users — Today, the UK's competition watchdog (the Competition and Markets Authority) announced an official investigation into the mobile device ecosystem, citing Apple and Google's effective duopoly.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Nearly five months after his inauguration, Biden has yet to nominate a Democratic FCC commissioner to fill the empty fifth slot — Biden's failure to fill empty FCC slot has consumer advocates increasingly worried. — President Joe Biden's failure to break the Federal Communications … | David Cohen / Adweek: |
The Oversight Board accepts its first policy advisory opinion request from Facebook, on the sharing of private residential info, issues call for public comments — It involves how it should handle private residential information
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| Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg: |
Fox Corp. creates a $100M creators fund for the NFT market, as part of a broader effort that includes Blockchain Creative Labs, a new business unit to sell NFTs — - New blockchain unit will sell and manage digital goods — Dan Harmon's ‘Krapopolis’ animated show is first project
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is asking for feedback on a new feature letting users “unmention” themselves as an anti-abuse tool and to help users control unwanted attentions — Twitter is looking at adding new features that could help users who are facing abusive situations on its platform as a result …
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| Kate Kaye / Digiday: |
Analysis: Amazon's properties, including Amazon.com, WholeFoods.com, and Zappos.com, are blocking Google's new FLoC tracking system from gathering data — Amazon is blocking Google's controversial cookieless tracking and targeting method. — Most of Amazon's properties including Amazon.com … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google unveils features for Android including end-to-end encryption for RCS-based one-to-one chats in Messages, starred messages, emoji mashup suggestions, more — Earthquake Alerts in more places and better accessibility — Google has announced seven new features for Android …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Andreessen Horowitz launches Future, a media property that will focus on informational and editorial content created by full-time staff and outside contributors — Today, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is officially launching its media property, called Future.
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Investigation explores Apple's censorship or removal of LGBTQ+ apps globally; Apple's App Stores for Saudi Arabia and China are missing the most apps — As LGBTQ+ people around the world celebrate Pride Month, new report from Fight for the Future and GreatFire shows how Apple's App Store … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon brings its cashierless tech to a full-size grocery store for the first time in a new 25K square foot Amazon Fresh location in Seattle — Amazon's newest physical grocery store opening in the Seattle area this week is unique as it will feature the company's “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology.
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dYdX, which develops decentralized financial derivative products on the Ethereum blockchain, raises $65M Series C after a $10M Series B four months ago — Quick Take — A number of crypto liquidity providers have also invested in dYdX, which hopes to become one of the world's largest crypto exchanges …
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Krafton, the company behind popular game PUBG and backed by Tencent, files for an IPO in South Korea, seeking to raise as much as $5B — - Krafton is selling shares between 458,000 won and 557,000 won — The float could smash previous record held by Coupang
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Oracle reports Q4 revenue of $11.23B, up 8% YoY, vs $11.04B est., with revenue from its Fusion ERP up 46% and NetSuite ERP up 26% — - Oracle called for less earnings guidance than analysts had expected as the company plans investments in cloud computing. — For the quarter, though, Oracle beat on the top and bottom lines.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Apna, whose Android app lets blue collar workers connect with others, upskill, and find jobs, raises $70M Series B led by Insight and Tiger Global — Indian cities are home to hundreds of millions of low-skilled workers who hail from villages in search of work.
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A look at lip-reading AI, with development supported by Google, Sony, and Huawei, as startups begin deploying it in hospitals, public transport systems, more — First came facial recognition. Now, an early form of lip-reading AI is being deployed in hospitals, power plants, public transportation, and more.
Tweets: @evanselinger, @vice, and @zenalbatross
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based payments app FamPay, which is aimed at teens, raises $38M Series A led by Elevation Capital; Sequoia Capital India and others participated — How big is the market in India for a neobank aimed at teenagers? Scores of high-profile investors are backing a startup to find out.
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| Carolina Mandl / Reuters: |
Brazilian payments company Ebanx receives a $430M investment from Advent International ahead of Ebanx's planned US IPO in the beginning of 2022 — SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Funds managed by Advent International are investing $430 million in the Brazilian payments company Ebanx …
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Mark Zuckerberg says the original Oculus Quest will receive Air Link support in a post about the upcoming v30 update for Quest — He also showed off multitasking in VR — Owners of the original Oculus Quest will get the ability to stream from their PCs to their headsets wirelessly … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Uberall, a location-based marketing startup that provides services to brick and mortar retailers, raises $115M, acquires MomentFeed, sources say for $50M+ — Location-based services may have had their day as a salient category for hot apps or innovative tech leveraging the arrival of smartphones …
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