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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
FTC files a new antitrust complaint against Facebook, after a judge dismissed the first complaint in June; Facebook has until October 4 to respond — - The Federal Trade Commission filed a new antitrust complaint against Facebook on Thursday. — A federal judge dismissed …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Facebook announces Horizon Workrooms, a virtual meeting space with avatars, spatial audio, a whiteboard, and more, in beta on Oculus Quest 2 — It wasn't long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon plans to open several large physical stores across the US, starting in Ohio and California, to extend its reach in clothing and other areas — Online shopping pioneer wants a larger retail presence to sell clothing and household items and facilitate exchanges
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| Ethan Zuckerman: |
Facebook's new report reinforces its narrative that most content on the News Feed is not news, but doesn't provide enough data to make meaningful conclusions — What content is popular on Facebook? — This is a surprisingly difficult - and very important - question to answer.
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Washington Post, Washington Post, Brian Boland, Insider, Galaxy Brain, and Newser
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Facebook, for the first time, shares a report on the most widely viewed domains, links, posts, and Pages on Facebook in the US during Q2 — A video of two cats walking, tails intertwined, looking like the best of friends. A resource site for Green Bay Packers alumni.
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Facebook Transparency Center. More:
About Facebook, Wired, About Facebook, TechCrunch, BBC, Politico, and NPR
| Nick Statt / Protocol: |
Epic says its Game Store has 58M MAUs, up from 56M at the end of 2020 and 32M in 2019; Steam's Valve had 120M MAUs in 2020 — The Epic Game Store now has 58 million monthly active users, which is just below half of Valve's Steam. — Epic's Game Store now has 58 million monthly active users …
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Epic Games, The Verge, and GamesIndustry.biz
| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Nvidia says its planned acquisition of Arm is unlikely to be completed within the planned 18-month time frame, due to investigations in the UK and China — US chipmaker acknowledges delay due to global regulatory scrutiny but remains confident of approval — Nvidia has admitted …
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The Verge, Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, Telecoms.com, and CNBC
Tweets: @joshua_sisco and @malcolmmoore
| Wolfie Zhao / The Block: |
Coinbase launches Coinbase Japan in partnership with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, initially supporting the five highest-trading cryptocurrencies — Crypto exchange Coinbase is entering the Japanese market through its partnership with Japanese financial giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG).
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple is scaling back HealthHabit, an internal app that its staff used to track fitness goals, talk to clinicians, and manage hypertension — Apple is reportedly scaling back one of its most ambitious healthcare projects. According to a new report from Insider … | Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood reports Q2 revenue of $565M, up 131% YoY, net loss of $502M, down from $58M net income in Q2 2020, and crypto revenue of $233M; stock down 5%+ — Robinhood's revenue more than doubled in the second quarter to $565 million, bolstered by a massive surge in crypto trading …
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CoinDesk, Under the Hood, SiliconANGLE, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @thestalwart, @quinnypig, and @coindeskdata
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: OnlyFans is struggling to find investors, possibly due to hosting adult content; Pitch Deck shows it predicts $5.9B GMV in 2021 and $1.2B net revenue — OnlyFans, the online creator platform known for its adult content, is struggling to find outside investors, according to multiple sources.
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Insider. Tweets: @danprimack, @azeem, @shiraovide, @selviano, @tomgara, @cindygallop, @seyitaylor, @markdistef, @jyarow, and @alex
| Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: |
Toyota says it will cut production in Japan by 40% in September due to the global chip shortage, after touting its ability to insulate itself — Car maker says it will cut production in Japan by 40% in September — TOKYO—The global semiconductor shortage has finally started to bite …
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BBC, Nikkei Asia, Barron's Online, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Reuters, CNBC, and Agence France-Presse
| Matt Robinson / Bloomberg: |
SEC sues three ex-Netflix software engineers and two others for allegedly using confidential subscriber growth numbers to trade ahead of earnings announcements — - Group allegedly made $3 million in profits from illicit tips — Scheme involved illegal trades on subscriber data, SEC says
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U.S. Securities …, The Verge, Reuters, MarketWatch, Deadline, The Register, benzinga.com, and BBC
Tweets: @eringriffith, @tenderlove, and @mattegancnn
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel details its Alder Lake lineup, coming this fall, which uses a 10nm process and offers hybrid performance and efficiency x86 cores — Coming this fall — Intel has spent much of 2021 announcing plans for its future: a new IDM 2.0 strategy, new naming schemes for its process nodes, and new desktop GPUs.
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Intel, ZDNet, AnandTech, Tom's Hardware, AnandTech, The Verge, VentureBeat, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, Windows Central, CRN, PCMag, AnandTech, PCWorld, Protocol, CNET, Gizmodo, and Intel
Tweets: @intelnews and @tomwarren
| David Jeans / Forbes: |
How Big Tech companies use shell corporations to get massive tax breaks from US cities for data centers that create few jobs and consume a lot of power — Local governments are dangling hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks to persuade companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft to build server farms in their backyards.
Tweets: @forbes, @helenaspopkin, @forbes, @forbes, @davidjeans2, @davidjeans2, and @davidjeans2. Thanks:@helenaspopkin
| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Facebook says it will spend $5M on multi-year deals with 25 local journalists for its Bulletin newsletter — Facebook Inc (FB.O) has chosen 25 local independent journalists to be paid out of a $5 million pot to write for its newsletter site Bulletin through multiyear deals, the company told Reuters on Thursday.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is testing Reels in the News Feed and Groups in the US, after launching the feature in India, Mexico, and Canada earlier this year — Reels are coming to Facebook in the U.S. The company this morning announced it will begin testing a new feature, Facebook Reels … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Apple says NeuralHash flaw found by researchers in CSAM detection system was in a generic version of the software and not in the final version it plans to use — Apple said the version of NeuralHash analyzed by researchers is not the final version that will be used for iCloud Photos CSAM detection.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 review: good inside screen and water resistant but long-term durability is unknown, cover screen is too small, and hard to use one-handed — Third time is maybe the charm — The story of folding phones thus far has been one of compromise.
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techadvisor.com, Tom's Guide, and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @dcseifert, @backlon, @quinnypig, and @trickholland
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Netflix says it is now rolling out support for Spatial Audio on iPhones and iPads — Netflix has confirmed that it is now rolling out Spatial Audio support to its iPhone and iPad applications. This enables an immersive experience using directional audio filters, and it has been a long time coming to Netflix users.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: data analytics service Databricks is raising new funding at a valuation of $38B, with Morgan Stanley leading a round of at least $1.5B — Morgan Stanley will lead the investment round in the cloud data analysis provider. — Databricks Inc. agreed to a new investment deal …
Tweets: @mcbridesg, @katie_roof, and @mmcandycheng
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook says it took action against 12 COVID vaccine misinfo “superspreaders” but disputes claims that those 12 were responsible for 73% of misinfo on Facebook — Back in March, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) published — a report linking more than two-thirds … Sponsor Posts
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