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Report: India's antitrust authority found that Google abused the dominant position of Android in the country to illegally hurt competitors — Google abused the dominant position of its Android operating system in India, using its “huge financial muscle” to illegally hurt competitors …
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The dismantling of digital advertising based on personal data and cookies is reshaping revenue plans for ad and tech industries, publishers, and small companies — As Apple and Google enact privacy changes, businesses are grappling with the fallout, Madison Avenue is fighting back and Facebook has cried foul.
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
CEO of US-based cybersecurity company Exodus Intelligence says India bought and likely weaponized its Windows zero-day research to spy on China and Pakistan — A U.S. company's tech was abused by the Indian government, amidst warnings Americans are contributing to a spyware industry already under fire for being out of control.
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Amazon says it has closed 3,000 seller accounts backed by about 600 Chinese brands for review fraud — The closures did not negatively impact the overall growth of Chinese online merchants on Amazon, according to a senior company executive Amazon kicked off an extensive clean-up campaign in May …
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A review of US laws governing the corporate use of biometric screening finds Illinois stands out in banning biometric data collection without consent — When night fell, a clerk at a bustling 24-hour MotoMart flipped a switch from behind the counter. — Electromagnetic locks sealed the doorway.| New York Times: |
Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that coordinated protest voting, bowing to Russian pressure on the eve of an election — The app, from the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores as polls opened in the parliamentary election it was designed to sway.
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Recording from a global Apple all-hands shows Tim Cook addressed questions about pay equity and Texas' abortion law but some staff say they were disappointed — Hundreds of current and former Apple workers are complaining about their work environment, a rarity for the once tight-lipped company.| Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg: |
Sources: US probe into Binance expands to include CFTC's review of alleged insider trading and market manipulation, following criminal probes by DOJ and the IRS — - CFTC examining whether crypto exchange exploited customers — Binance has said it has strict policies to prevent misconduct
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Twitch's “hate raid” lawsuit raises questions about when tech platforms should unmask their own anonymous users and sue them for violating their speech policies — It isn't hard to figure out who the bad guys are in Twitch's latest lawsuit against two of its users.
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| Emily Olsen / MobiHealthNews: |
Report: Commure, which provides APIs for vendors and startups to build healthcare apps, raised $500M over two rounds of funding, valuing the company at $3.5B — Human Capital and Greenoaks Capital led the latest round, according to Insider's reporting. — Healthcare software company Commure … | Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
Caresyntax, an AI-powered platform that aims to reduce deaths from surgery-related complications, adds $30M to its Series C, bringing the round total to $130M — - Digital platform for surgery adds to $100 million round — ProAssurance, Harmonix, Relyens Group also join fundraising| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
GitLab files for a US IPO and says its revenue in the latest quarter grew 69% to $58.1M, while net losses grew to $40.2M from $9.4M a year ago — - GitLab, which was valued at $6 billion in a secondary share sale late last year, filed its IPO prospectus on Friday.
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