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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal Facebook documents detail XCheck, a program that shields VIP users from normal content enforcement policies, which included over 5.8M users in 2020 — A program known as XCheck has given millions of celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users special treatment, a privilege many abuse
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Litecoin spiked ~20% after several news outlets, including Reuters and CNBC, reported that Walmart would begin accepting it based on a fake press release — An apparently fake press release said the retailer would begin accepting the cryptocurrency — The Litecoin cryptocurrency saw …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's September 14 event: narrower iPhone 13 notch, LTPO displays on Pro models, redesigned Watch Series 7, no M1X MacBook Pros, and more — This is the free version of Power On. If you like it, consider subscribing to Bloomberg.com — you'll receive …
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| Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: |
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Beijing wants to break up Ant Group's Alipay, which has over 1B users, and create a separate app for the company's highly profitable loans business — Chinese fintech will turn over user data to new joint venture partly owned by state — Beijing wants to break up Alipay …
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Sources: Biden will nominate Georgetown law professor Alvaro Bedoya, who focuses on privacy issues, to be a commissioner at the FTC — President Biden will nominate Georgetown University law professor Alvaro Bedoya to be a Democratic commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, people familiar with the matter told Axios.
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Zoom is adding live translation services and will bring video meetings and Zoom Whiteboard to Facebook's shared VR meeting space, Horizon Workrooms, in Q1 2022 — Zoom's whiteboard feature is also getting an upgrade — Zoom plans to expand its support for automatic live transcriptions … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Mozilla says it has bypassed Microsoft's cumbersome method for switching browsers in Windows 11, letting users set Firefox as default with one click — It's easier to switch to Firefox as default now — Mozilla has quietly made it easier to switch to Firefox on Windows recently.
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| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Antitrust lawyers say the judge's recent ruling in Apple v. Epic presents challenges for DOJ's investigation, as Apple was not found to violate the Sherman Act — - Judge rejected Epic's federal antitrust claims against Apple — Decision doesn't foreclose DOJ antitrust suit, lawyers said| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
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| M.G. Siegler / 500ish: |
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| Eva Mathews / Reuters: |
Coinbase says it plans to raise around $1.5B through a debt offering, to invest in product development and M&A, after saying it will raise $1.25B in May — Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) is planning to raise about $1.5 billion through a debt offering to invest in product development …
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: Irish DPC has failed to apply EU's privacy laws to US Big Tech companies, with 98% of 164 significant complaints about privacy abuses still unresolved — Irish regulator has not resolved 98% of 164 significant data protection complaints — Ireland is failing to apply …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
SpotOn, a payments company focused on SMBs, raises $300M Series E led by a16z at a $3.15B valuation and acquires live events payments startup Appetize for $400M — Last year at this time, SpotOn was on the brink of announcing a $60 million Series C funding round at a $625 million valuation.
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's booming iPhone 12 sales have been driven in part by attractive offers from carriers to boost 5G, raising questions about how long such deals will last — Apple is expected to show off its latest iPhone Tuesday as AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon fight to attract customers to their networks
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Weeks after forcing Groovy Bot offline, Google is doing the same to Rythm, a bot with 560M+ users that lets Discord users play music from YouTube videos — The Rythm Discord music bot is disappearing on September 15th — Just weeks after forcing the Groovy Discord music bot offline …
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Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Kotaku, PC Gamer, PCMag, Memeburn, fossbytes.com, SlashGear, Neowin, and Mashable. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Shane Goldmacher / New York Times: |
FEC documents show that it has dismissed accusations by Republicans that Twitter violated election laws by blocking a NY Post article about Hunter Biden — The Federal Election Commission has dismissed Republican accusations that Twitter violated election laws in October by blocking people … | Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Kape, a UK-listed digital privacy company controlled by billionaire Teddy Sagi, buys rival ExpressVPN for $936M, boosting Kape's subscribers to 6M — Deal to acquire virtual private network provider one of biggest by UK tech group in recent years — A UK-listed digital privacy company controlled …
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
BitSight, which assesses the likelihood that orgs will be breached, raises $250M from Moody's at a $2.4B valuation and acquires cyber risk startup VisibleRisk — BitSight, a startup that assesses the likelihood that an organization will be breached, has received a $250 million investment … | Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
How Amazon would be affected by California's new bill aimed at regulating the company's use of productivity quotas in warehouses, the first bill of its kind — The online retailer relies on employees' high pace of work for its fast shipping — California is taking aim at the grievances …
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