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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
European Commission says it has opened an antitrust investigation into whether Google favors its own display ad tech over rivals — Brussels to examine whether US group broke rules by giving an advantage to its own services — The EU has announced a formal investigation …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Privacy browser Brave launches a non-tracking search engine in beta, at search.brave.com, to offer an “all in one” alternative to Google Search and Chrome — Pro-privacy browser Brave, which has been testing its own brand search engine for several months — operating a waitlist where brave … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter opens applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows for a small number of users, who will keep 97% of revenue after the IAP cut if making <$50K — Users initially keep 97 percent of their revenue — Twitter is opening applications for a limited test of its Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces features.
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| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the FTC will review Amazon's proposed acquisition of MGM, just as the commission gets a new chairwoman who has been critical of Amazon's expansion — Commission secures antitrust review after talks with Justice Department, and as Amazon critic Lina Khan takes the FTC's helm
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The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Variety, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Deadline, Insider, and Cord Cutters News
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook says it is working on visual search for Instagram shopping to help users find info on products in images, and Shops is coming to WhatsApp, Marketplace — Facebook is working on visual search technology for Instagram as it doubles down on shopping features throughout its platform.
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| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
Q&A with Marc Andreessen on his “It's Time to Build” essay, techno-optimism, Clubhouse and Substack's potential, “Augmented Intelligence”, crypto, and more — Marc Andreessen should need no introduction, but I'll do one anyway. He helped code the first widely …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on its relationship with Apple and exception from App Store's 30% cut, supporting creators across platforms, and more — Today's guest on Decoder is Jack Conte, the co-founder and CEO of Patreon, a platform that allows people to pay their favorite creators directly …
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The Verge, California News Times, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Intel forms an Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics unit, and a Software and Advanced Technology unit, as part of the company's ongoing reorg — Intel's head of GPUs, Raja Koduri, will run the accelerated computing business, Sandra Rivera will run Xeon chips operations …
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Intel, FierceTelecom, The Register, CRN, Tom's Hardware, and Reuters
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Tim Cook warned Pelosi that proposed antitrust bills were rushed, could hurt innovation; Google, Facebook, Amazon say bills would hurt SMBs, consumers — Executives, lobbyists, and more than a dozen groups paid by Big Tech have tried to head off bipartisan support for six bills meant …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
London's mayor says the Underground will have mobile coverage by the end of 2024 across its entire system, including some popular stations by the end of 2022 — Popular stations like Oxford Circus, Euston, and Bank will connected by end of 2022 — By the end of 2024 …
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
After agreeing to be Facebook's first VR ad test partner, Resolution Games says it won't move forward with the test in its paid VR game Blaston — Resolution Games won't be moving forward with a Facebook advertising test in its paid VR game Blaston. — The studio may still consider testing ads in its free fishing game Bait!
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft has become the second public US company to reach a $2T market value, after Apple did in August 2020 and two years after hitting its first $1T in value — - Shares of the software giant have gained 19% so far this year — Only Apple and Saudi Aramco had hit $2 trillion in value
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| Jeremy Laird / PC Gamer: |
A look at AMD's new FidelityFX Super Resolution, which aims to upscale games to higher resolution and competes with Nvidia's DLSS technology — ...just maybe not in the way you might have thought. — AMD's long awaited answer to Nvidia's game-prettifying DLSS technology is here.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google, shifting to a hybrid workplace, debuts a Work Location Tool for staff to apply for an office move or to become fully remote and see how salaries change — Google on Tuesday rolled out a tool for its employees to request office changes or apply to become fully remote workers … Thanks:@jeskillings
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based Transmit Security, which is building a biometric-based authenticator, raises $543M Series A at a $2.2B pre-money valuation — Transmit Security, a Boston-based startup that's on a mission to rid the world of passwords, has raised a massive $543 million in Series A funding.
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| Reuters: |
Google confirms it is replacing its Engineering Residency, aimed at underrepresented participants, after employees said it enforced “systemic pay inequities” — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google plans to shut down a long-running program aimed at entry-level engineers … | Joel Khalili / TechRadar: |
How Reddit uses its community-first approach to moderate content, relying heavily on its users instead of outsourced moderation farms — Reddit CTO: We don't want to be a ‘capricious arbiter’ of what is correct or not — One of the most difficult problems for Reddit … | Bloomberg: |
Full Truck Alliance closes at $21.50 per share on its first day of trading, up 13% from its initial price of $19, giving it a market value of ~$23.6B — - SoftBank, Tencent-backed firm adds to U.S. listing resurgence — Full Truck Alliance reaches market value of $23.6 billion
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
How Monero, a cryptocurrency that obscures the sender and receiver, is increasingly being used by ransomware gangs wary of bitcoin's traceability — Untraceable ‘privacy coin’ is rising in popularity among ransomware gangs, posing problems for law enforcement| Vicky McKeever / CNBC: |
Dating app Bumble says it's giving all ~700 employees a “paid, fully offline one-week vacation” in June, recognizing the challenges endured during the pandemic — Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd has given the dating app's 700 employees this week off as paid vacation in an effort to help with burnout.
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| Kait Bolongaro / Bloomberg: |
Canadian lawmakers pass a controversial bill that would subject tech giants to the same requirements as traditional broadcasters; bill now heads to the Senate — - Move would prioritize Canadian content, echoing broadcast law — But critics say it threatens free speech on user-driven sites
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PYMNTS.com, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, National Post, and Cartt.ca
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oyster, which develops HR software for a distributed workforce, raises $50M Series B led by Stripes at a $475M valuation, up 6x from its previous valuation — The future of work is long on long-distance, and today a startup that's built a platform to help organizations hire global talent …
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PR Newswire, Fully Distributed, and FinSMEs
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Splunk raises $1B from Silver Lake in exchange for convertible notes, and says it will use the investment to fund buybacks; Splunk stock up 11% — Splunk Inc. today said that it has secured a $1 billion investment from Silver Lake to support growth initiatives and buy back shares.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
UK government says it will test its new national Emergency Alerts system, starting with Android devices today before a smaller, regional iPhone test next week — The U.K. government on Tuesday will perform its first national test of a new Emergency Alerts system, but only Android users …
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GOV.UK, 9to5Mac, Macworld UK, techadvisor.com, The Register, iMore, TechRadar, LBC, The Independent, and ZDNet. Tweets: @jamesliamcook
| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
Elliptic report: US regulators, led by SEC, have levied $2.5B against various crypto projects since 2009, mostly from unregistered securities offerings — A new report from Elliptic shows that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) leads U.S. regulators in monetary penalties against crypto firms by a wide margin.
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