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After debate, House committee approves five major antitrust bills, including regulations on user data portability and acquisitions of competitors — Tech companies to take the battle over the proposed new regulations and oversight to the House floor and Senate
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In a new report, Apple says letting iOS users sideload apps would undermine privacy protections, complicate parental controls, and potentially expose user data — Company says allowing users to download software onto their iPhones without using the App Store jeopardizes protections
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Andreessen Horowitz raises $2.2B for its third fund focused on crypto startups and cryptocurrencies — - The Silicon Valley venture capital firm just announced a new $2.2 billion cryptocurrency-focused fund. — “We believe that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google and Jio Platforms announce JioPhone Next, an affordable phone powered by an optimized version of Android, that will debut in India on September 10 — Jio Platforms, run by India's richest man (Mukesh Ambani), and Google on Thursday unveiled the JioPhone Next, an affordable Android smartphone …
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| Lillian Rizzo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Peacock had fewer than 10M paid subs as of May; Comcast is considering a deal with ViacomCBS or acquiring Roku as it seeks to become a streaming giant — The broadband and cable company, which owns NBCUniversal, sticks with its marriage of content and delivery, though AT&T has reversed course
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google will delay plans to block third-party cookies from early 2022 to late 2023, to find ways to protect privacy without hurting ad-dependent publishers — Google has delayed a major privacy change to its Chrome browser, pushing back a plan to block third-party cookies until late 2023 …
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| Reuters: |
John McAfee has died in a Spanish jail cell by suicide according to his lawyer, hours after news that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the US — Antivirus creator John McAfee, 75, was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona after the Spanish high court had authorised …
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| Simon Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Visa buys Sweden-based Tink, which offers open banking APIs used by more than 3,400 banks and financial institutions in Europe, for €1.8B — Tink would give Visa a foothold in open banking, which connects consumers to multiple financial institutions — Visa Inc. agreed to pay …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Wise, previously TransferWise, plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange via a direct listing in early July, reportedly at a $6B-$7B valuation — Following Wise's announcement earlier this month that it planned to go public by way of a direct listing on the LSE …
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| Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN: |
Adobe: total US e-commerce sales during Prime Day exceeded $11B; Amazon says Prime Day was the biggest two-day sales period for 3rd party sellers in its history — New York (CNN Business)Shoppers aren't showing any signs of getting tired of Amazon Prime Day, even though some sellers … | Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via merger with a SPAC, 890 Fifth Avenue Partners, targeting a $1.5B valuation — BuzzFeed, a 15-year-old digital media company, announced Thursday it plans to go public via a merger with a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Firebolt Analytics, which builds a cloud data warehouse designed for rapid analysis of large data sets, raises $127M Series B led by Dawn Capital and K5 Global — Speedy cloud data warehouse startup Firebolt Analytics Inc. is looking like a very hot prospect indeed after landing $127 million in an all-equity round of funding.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
JW Player, a video streaming and analytics service used by major companies like Viacom, raises $100M Series E from LLR Partners — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. — JW Player, a video streaming and analytics platform …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says it will test mixing suggested posts throughout primary feeds, even above posts from people users follow, and adds new controls — A priority on algorithm-chosen content — Instagram says reception to its “suggested posts” feature has been so positive that it's launching a new test …
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| Adam Jackson / Bloomberg: |
The e-commerce business of Saks Fifth Avenue's discount chain spun off into a standalone company after raising $200M from Insight Partners at a valuation of $1B — - New entity aims to capitalize on online shopping boom — The owner of Saks Fifth Avenue plans to separate the e-commerce business …
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at some of the apps used by Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash drivers to increase earnings, like Gridwise, which collates drivers' earnings across platforms — Adoption of apps to track pay, events and dispute complaints is soaring amid patchwork of regulatory efforts
Tweets: @wsj
| Reuters: |
South Korea retailer E-Mart buys 80% stake in eBay's South Korean business for $3B — South Korean retailer Shinsegae Group's E-Mart Inc (139480.KS) said on Thursday it plans to acquire an 80% stake in eBay Inc's (EBAY.O) South Korean business for 3.4 trillion won ($3 billion).
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| David Cox / Wired UK: |
DeepMind partners with Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, after its AlphaFold AI had considerable success in finding new treatments for sleeping sickness — In 2020, DeepMind solved one of biology's biggest challenges. Now it's working on using its AI to find drugs to target neglected diseases| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches App Store search ads in China, five years after launching in the US — After launching five years ago in the United States, Apple's search advertising service finally arrived in mainland China this week. — The feature, called Apple Search Ads, lets developers bid …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Adobe launches Substance 3D, a suite of 3D design tools Adobe says has applications in video games and VFX and uses AI to ease technical complexity of 3D design — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out.
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Adobe Blog. Tweets: @timoni, @jadel4w, @scottbelsky, @nvidiadesign, @ddiakopoulos, @choy, @80level, @dusanwriter, and @robotbrush
| Sidney Fussell / Wired: |
Four former executives of Nexa Technologies, an alleged supplier of surveillance tech to Libya and Egypt, were indicted for complicity in torture and war crimes — The managers are accused of selling tech to Libya and Egypt that was used to to identify activists, read private messages, and kidnap, torture, or kill them.
Tweets: @wired, @wiredscience, and @startpage
| Anna Kramer / Protocol: |
Profile of Twitter's Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability team, as Responsible ML becomes one of the company's top priorities in 2021 — Machine learning engineer Ari Font was worried about the future of Twitter's algorithms. It was mid-2020, and the leader … Sponsor Posts
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