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After Apple rolls out its new App Store ad units, prominent developers complain about gambling ads appearing in their app listings with no way to stop them — Apple today rolled out new ad placements in the App Store on the iPhone, allowing developers to advertise their apps in more places … | Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: a16z's flagship crypto fund lost ~40% of its value in H1 2022, above the 10%-20% losses at rival funds; a16z has dramatically slowed crypto investments — Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’ — Crypto Crashed, Coinbase's Stock Followed: What Went Wrong| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple is working on an iPad with a 16-inch screen that the company hopes to release in Q4 2023 — Apple is developing its largest iPad yet, a model with a 16-inch screen that it hopes to release in the fourth quarter of next year, according to a person familiar with the project.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta says Apple updated its App Store rules to require IAPs for social media “boosts” to grow its business “while undercutting others in the digital economy” — Just when I thought the relationship between Apple and Meta couldn't get more hostile, here we are.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Spotify says Apple's behavior is “choking competition” after Apple rejected its proposed audiobook purchasing process three times for breaking App Store rules — The company called Apple practices “anticompetitive” and said it was “choking competition” in a blog post published … | Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: |
A profile of Delaware Chancery Court judge Kathaleen McCormick, who is overseeing the Elon Musk-Twitter dispute, ahead of the Friday deadline to close the deal — Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, the chief judge of Delaware's Chancery Court, gave Mr. Musk until Friday to acquire Twitter.| Alphabet: |
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says US subscribers can expect price hikes in 2023, after recent increases by Apple and YouTube; Premium has cost $9.99/month since 2011 — Audio streaming giant surpassed growth forecasts, increasing monthly active users by 20% to reach 456 million| Steve Johnson / Financial Times: |
Analysis: one year after launching, ProShares' bitcoin ETF has lost ~$1.2B of investors' money as its share price dropped by 70% — BITO's 70 per cent decline suggests it has burnt through $1.2bn of investors' cash — One year after its record-breaking launch, the world's … | Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at HoloLens' development, as Microsoft spurned an early lead in AR to cede ground to Meta and others; one executive blames a lack of money and people — Problems plagued development of its HoloLens augmented reality headset; ‘we had the opportunity to own this market’| Richard Vanderford / Wall Street Journal: |
Google agrees to improve its compliance program for legal demands in a settlement with the US DOJ, which said Google lost data sought by investigators in 2016 — The tech company will be monitored by a compliance professional after the Justice Department said Google lost data sought in a U.S. investigation| Reuters: |
SK Hynix warns memory chip demand faces an “unprecedented deterioration” and reports Q3 2022 operating profit fell 60% YoY to ~$1.16B amid soaring inflation — South Korea's SK Hynix Inc (000660.KS) warned on Wednesday of an “unprecedented deterioration” in memory chip demand … | Bloomberg: |
Seagate misses Q1 estimates with $2.04B revenue and plans to cut around 3,000 jobs to reduce costs amid slowing demand; stock drops 6%+ and is down ~50% YTD — Seagate Technology Holdings Plc, the biggest maker of computer hard drives, said it's eliminating about 3,000 jobs and that big buyers … | Clare Duffy / CNN: |
LinkedIn starts letting users verify their profile with a work email address or phone number and plans to alert users if a message they receive seems suspicious — Here's how Elon Musk calculated the number of bots on Twitter — Robot artist Ai-Da reset while speaking to UK politicians| Ben Brody / Protocol: |
Square's parent company Block sells access to customers' email addresses used to receive receipts, which privacy experts say falls short of best practices — When COVID-19 forced Compass Coffee to close down its Washington, D.C.-area shops, the roastery's owners turned to email to stay in touch with customers.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says GitHub has a $1B ARR and 90M+ active users, up from a reported $200M to $300M in ARR and 28M active users when Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 — As part of its earnings call, Microsoft today announced a number of new data points for GitHub, the massively popular code repository service … | Microsoft: |
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Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Why eIDAS 2.0 might be the EU's boldest digital move yet — eIDAS: The first building block of digital trust More than a decade ago, the EU introduced the eIDAS regulation (Regulation [EU] No 910/2014) …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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