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China issues regulations for food delivery platforms, mandating minimum wage, respect for worker rights, and more, leading to Meituan shares dropping by 14%+ — - It extended losses after Beijing issued food platform curbs — Meituan is grappling with a broader antitrust investigation
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| Erin Woo / New York Times: |
As QR codes proliferate among hospitality and retail businesses due to the pandemic, privacy experts warn of businesses tracking customers and spending patterns — Fueled by a desire for touchless transactions, QR codes popped up everywhere in the pandemic. Businesses don't want to give them up.
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Sources: DOJ is probing whether Tether execs committed bank fraud in its early stages; Tethers in circulation are worth ~$62B, underpin >50% of bitcoin trades — - Tether says it's committed to cooperating with law enforcement — A U.S. probe into Tether is homing in on whether executives behind …
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| Max Fisher / New York Times: |
Analysts and US officials say the disinformation-for-hire industry is booming, as influencers get approached by back-alley firms to spread falsehoods — Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on behalf of clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of unreality.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Spotify adds a What's New feed on iOS and Android, showing continually updating new releases from followed artists, rolling out over the coming weeks — Spotify is introducing a feature to notify people when their favorite artists and podcast producers have a new release to check out.
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FTX and Binance will curb highly leveraged cryptocurrency trading, a practice that can vastly multiply losses; FTX offered 101x leverage, now down to 20x — The moves would reduce the size of the bets that investors can make by drastically cutting the maximum leverage offered.
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| Theo Wayt / New York Post: |
Now-deleted job listings suggest Citizen is paying people in NYC and LA up to $250 per ten-hour shift to livestream crime scenes and other emergencies — Want to make $200 a day in New York City? Rush to the scene of a murder, a three-alarm fire or a traffic accident — then pull out your phone and start shooting.
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, YouTube, and others will now add content from white supremacist and far-right militias to a key counterterrorism database — A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Ex-Google employee recounts how Google abandoned a redesign attempt of Chrome on Android, which was similar to iOS 15's Safari, with the URL bar at the bottom — Apple's mobile web browser is the main lightning rod of this year's iOS 15 beta period and it remains to be seen whether it will actually launch in the fall.| Elizabeth Dias / New York Times: |
As part of its expanded outreach to US churches, Facebook is offering subscription tools for exclusive content and donation tools during live streams — The company is intensifying formal partnerships with faith groups across the United States and shaping the future of religious experience.| Reuters: |
Medallia, which offers customer experience management tools, says PE firm Thoma Bravo will take the company private for $6.4B, after going public in 2019 — Enterprise software firm Medallia Inc (MDLA.N) said on Monday private equity firm Thoma Bravo would take the company private for $6.4 billion in cash.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU gives Google two months to improve the way it presents search results for flights and hotels, and explain how it ranks such results, or face sanctions — Alphabet unit Google (GOOGL.O) has two months to improve the way it presents internet search results for flights and hotels and explain …
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| Todd Feathers / VICE: |
A look at ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to “detect gunshots”, as court filings suggest it frequently alters evidence at the request of police departments — Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing … | John Newman / ProMarket: |
A look at some of the metrics that FTC can use to define Facebook's alleged monopoly in its refiled antitrust suit, including time on-site and “active users” — Despite some compelling allegations, a federal judge dismissed the FTC's antitrust complaint against Facebook due … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Box rolls out Box Sign, which lets users electronically sign contracts and request signatures, following its $55M acquisition of SignRequest earlier this year — Box Inc. is building out its content cloud with the addition of an important new capability. — The company said today it's rolling … Sponsor Posts
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