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| Pratiti Raychoudhury / About Facebook: |
Facebook disputes WSJ's Instagram story, claiming internal research shows Instagram made difficult times better for teen girls on 11 of 12 well-being issues — - Contrary to The Wall Street Journal's characterization, Instagram's research shows that on 11 of 12 well-being issues …
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| Alex Cranz / The Verge: |
Facebook ignores many issues raised by WSJ's Instagram piece, such as addiction, instead devaluing its own research while not releasing data it repeatedly cites — The claims are in response to a damning Wall Street Journal story that prompted a Senate hearing
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says it will fix a bug preventing some iPhone 13 users from using the Unlock with Apple Watch feature, in an upcoming software update — Apple today said an issue preventing some iPhone 13 users from using the Unlock with Apple Watch feature will be fixed in an upcoming software update.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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| Washington Post: |
Extremism researchers say the Epik hack is the “mother of all data lodes”, and will let them map the ecosystem of extremist websites and organizations — The colossal hack of Epik, an Internet-services company popular with the far right, has been called the “mother of all data lodes” for extremism researchers.
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Newser and Slashdot
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| Bloomberg: |
At China's annual World Internet Conference, executives from Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, Tesla, Qualcomm, and others praised Xi's “common prosperity” policy — - CEOs praise Chinese president's new rules, ‘common prosperity’ — Pandemic controls curb international in-person attendance
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CNBC, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, Benzinga, and Insider
Tweets: @next_china and @ydunhai
| Bloomberg: |
A senior Chinese regulator says China will increase its focus on online healthcare, smart delivery, autonomous vehicles, and platform economies — - Senior regulator vows action in speach to internet conference — Mentions shared economy, online health care and smart delivery
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Source: Google Cloud Platform to slash its revenue share from 20% to 3% for third-party software on its cloud marketplace, matching Microsoft's cut — - Google is matching Microsoft's revenue share terms for purchases of third-party software through cloud marketplaces.
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The Economic Times and IT Management
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Apple suppliers like Eson Precision Engineering, Unimicron Technology, and Concraft Holding halt production until Friday as China tightens its energy policy — Weeklong stoppages to hit peak season for electronics goods including latest iPhone — An Apple Store in Beijing sells the new Apple iPhone 13.
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Bloomberg, Benzinga, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg
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| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Phone Repair Guru report finds that third-party repair centers will struggle to replace iPhone 13's screen without losing access to Face ID — Yesterday, we took a closer look at how the new iPhone 13 Pro Max handles drop tests. Now, another YouTuber claims that you'll probably not be able …
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MacRumors, Wccftech, Gizmodo Australia, Channel News, phonearena.com, Mashable, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, YouTube, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @dominocollege, @snazzyq, @snazzyq, @dominocollege, @snazzyq, @snazzyq, and @snazzyq
| Rest of World: |
Survey of ~5,000 gig workers across 15 countries: over 60% say they are financially satisfied but most want out of the job within a year — A survey of nearly 5,000 gig workers in 15 countries compares the experience of platform work worldwide. — Platforms were supposed to set workers free.
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Rest of World, Rest of World, The Overspill, Rest of World, and Rest of World
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Swiss brand management service Frontify raises $50M Series C led by Revaia and says it has 5,000 customers — The meteoric rise of collaborative design startup Canva — now valued at $40 billion — and conversely, the viral interest we've been seeing in the market for NFTs where you can …
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Silicon Republic, Tech.eu, EU-Startups, and Silicon Canals
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-based e-commerce logistics startup Ninja Van raises $578M Series E, reportedly at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $976.5M — Ninja Van, a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth.
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