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Activision Blizzard says that Blizzard's head of global human resources, Jesse Meschuk, has also left the company — Jesse Meschuk, SVP of global HR, has left — Blizzard president J. Allen Brack isn't the only executive leaving the company today after presiding over a culture now accused of fostering “constant sexual harassment.”
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Activision Blizzard says President J. Allen Brack is leaving the company, replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra, as the fallout from CA lawsuit continues — Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra will take over as co-leaders — In the last week or so, we've learned about the state of California filing …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
WhatsApp is rolling out a View Once feature for photos and videos that disappear from the chat after the recipient opens it — There and gone — WhatsApp is rolling out its “View Once” feature today, which deletes photos or videos from your chat after they've been opened by the recipient.
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| Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations — - Company says researchers of political ads were scraping data — NYU's Ad Observatory got cease-and-desist letter last October
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple and Affirm's PayBright will launch a “buy now, pay later” program for iPhone, Mac, and iPad purchases in Canada on Aug. 11, according to a staff message — - Monthly installments to be offered in Canada on Apple devices — Company working on future service for all Apple Pay purchases
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Sources: NLRB probe found Amazon illegally interfered with workers organizing in Staten Island, NY; NLRB officer recommends election rerun for Alabama warehouse — The National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon illegally interfered with worker organizing at its Staten Island, New York warehouse in May.
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| Mike Dano / Light Reading: |
T-Mobile confirms that it will shut down Sprint's LTE network by June 30, 2022, following its decision to shut down Sprint's 3G CDMA network on January 1, 2022 — T-Mobile confirmed to Light Reading that it will shut down the Sprint LTE network by June 30, 2022.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google consolidates its sign-in offerings with a new family of Identity APIs called Google Identity Services, including a new “One Tap” sign in prompt — Where supported, “Sign in with Google” is a convenient way to log in to third-party services without having to keep track of different passwords.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan on monetizing Shorts, content moderation with Content ID, YouTube TV, competing with TikTok, and more — YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan joined Decoder this week to discuss YouTube's new $100 million fund to begin paying creators …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft pauses free trials of its new Windows 365 service, which lets users stream Windows 10 or 11 via web browser, after “significant demand” — Windows 365 lets you stream a cloud PC to a web browser — Microsoft launched its new cloud PC Windows 365 service earlier this week … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
On-demand movie and TV service FandangoNOW has merged with video streaming service Vudu, which will become Roku's official movie and TV store — Last year, movie ticketing and discovery business Fandango, a division of NBCUniversal, bought the on-demand video streaming service Vudu from Walmart … | Josh Ye / South China Morning Post: |
After criticism from China, Tencent says it will limit playing time on flagship Honor of Kings for under 18s to one hour per day and not between 10PM and 8AM — Gamers under the age of 18 will have their playing time limited to one hour on regular days and two hours on public holidays Honour …
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| Liana Baker / Bloomberg: |
PE firm Apax Partners says it is merging three companies that make software for non-profits, EveryAction, Social Solutions, and CyberGrants, in a deal worth $2B — - EveryAction, Social Solutions and CyberGrants to combine — Apax partner Jason Wright says investment fits ESG trend
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The NonProfit Times. Tweets: @kirstinalv, @mattkbh, @rswirling, @everyactionhq, @josh_nelson, @_jon_green, and @lauraolin
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based BharatPe, which helps offline merchants accept digital payments, raises $370M Series E led by Tiger Global at a $2.85B post-money valuation — Indian fintech startup BharatPe has raised $370 million in a new round of financing as it looks to aggressively scale its business in the next two years.
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Moneycontrol, Livemint, The Economic Times, Tech in Asia, and Entrackr
| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood's stock closed at $46.80, up 24.2% on the day's trading, blowing past its IPO price of $38 and becoming Tuesday's “top traded stock” on Fidelity — - Robinhood went public last Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker HOOD. — The stock priced at $38 per share, the low end of its offering range.| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Dubai-based buy now, pay later service Tabby raises $50M Series B at a $300M valuation led by Global Founders Capital and STV — These past few years have seen the emergence of buy now, pay later services worldwide, with leading players raising buttloads of cash to serve …
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| Kate Kaye / Digiday: |
California AG's case examples of CCPA enforcement seem to indicate that companies can't rely on trade groups' blanket opt-out tools not tailored to CCPA — For more than a year advertisers and publishers had few clues for detecting how California regulators would enforce the state's privacy law.
Tweets: @chronotope, @katekayereports, @jason_kint, and @privacymatters
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