Companies have little to lose from joining a Facebook boycott during a slow month for ads amid a pandemic; they'll be back, and Facebook will emerge stronger
Every day, it seems, another major corporation joins the advertiser boycott against Facebook. First came The North Face, REI and Patagonia.
India's Reliance Jio launches JioMeet, a Zoom-like video-conference service, offering unlimited free calls in 720p with up to 100 participants and no time limit
India's Reliance Jio Platforms, which recently concluded a $15.2 billion fundraise run, is ready to enter a new business: Video conferencing.
Sources: Zuckerberg told staff Facebook won't change policies because of “threat to a small percent of our revenue”, expects advertisers to return “soon enough”
Home entertainment today … Dominic Rushe / The Guardian : Mark Zuckerberg: advertisers' boycott of Facebook will end ‘soon enough’ Bloomberg : Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Under Siege After Facebook Scr...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
In leaked audio from an invite-only app, venture capitalists pondered everything they think is wrong with journalism.
European advertising associations criticize Apple's plans to require apps to seek additional permission before tracking users across other apps and websites
(Reuters) - A group of European digital advertising associations on Friday criticized Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) plans to require apps …
Streaming TV services' inability to negotiate their way out of the bundle system that has dominated regular cable for years is resulting in higher prices
YouTube TV's price hike is part of a larger problem — YouTube TV announced yesterday that it'd be raising its prices by 30 percent to $65 per month.
Report: Amazon is moving Prime Day again to October, after first moving it to September, amid concerns over how coronavirus spikes may impact the supply chain
Amazon's annual Prime Day sale is being delayed to October amid concerns over how coronavirus spikes may impact the supply chain … Source: Business Insider .
Lemonade, an AI-driven insurance service, closes up 140% in its NYSE debut, reaching a $3.93B market cap, more than double its 2019 valuation from Softbank
Referenced Symbols — As the world is buffeted by digital and societal revolutions, Lemonade Inc. is hoping to leverage …
Taiwan's Foxconn says customs clearing procedures in India have been resolved
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Apple supplier Foxconn said on Friday customs clearing procedures in India have been resolved, as additional scrutiny by the country of imports from China disrupted operations in so...
Apple launches a new site for Apple Card users to manage their accounts online; previously, all Apple Card interactions took place through iPhone's Wallet app
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Microsoft is using ransomware-like tactics to force-feed its new Chromium Edge browser to users through an automatic Windows update
It undermines Microsoft's own argument that automatic updates are critical — If I told you that my entire computer screen just got taken over by a new app …
Police infiltrated Encrochat, an encrypted phone network used by organized crime, and read millions of messages for months, leading to international arrests
Incredible investigation by @josephfcox into how the French police secretly took over a global phone network for organised crime. https://www.vice.com/... Vice Uk / @viceuk : Police monitored a hundre...
UK government and India's Bharti Enterprises win an auction for bankrupt satellite broadband operator OneWeb for $1B; the parties will own a 45% stake each
British government's joint venture with Bharti will compete with Elon Musk's Starlink — Britain is set to go head to head …
Intel Capital to invest $253.5M in Jio Platforms for a 0.39% stake, giving the Indian firm a valuation of $65B
Intel said on Friday it will invest $253.5 million in Jio Platforms, joining a roster of high-profile investors including Facebook and Silver Lake that have backed India's top telecom operator …
CBP awards Anduril, founded by Palantir veterans and Palmer Luckey, a five-year contract to build a “virtual border wall” using mobile surveillance towers
don't let this rogue agency deploy more invasive technologies. https://twitter.com/... Drew Olanoff / @yoda : Peter Thiel strikes again. https://twitter.com/... Anna Giaritelli / @anna_giaritelli : Go...
Rep. David Cicilline says Tim Cook will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee in late July, alongside Facebook, Amazon, and Google CEOs
while still arguing that they're being held accountable. https://twitter.com/... Vincent Lee / @rover829 : Reuters: CEOs of the four U.S. tech giants — Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet's Google and Apple — ...
Researchers expose a flaw in at least three major crypto wallets, Ledger Live, Edge, and Breadwallet, which could be exploited for double-spending users' funds
Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk :
Instacart raises $100M in new funding from T. Rowe Price, on top of the $225M round co-led by DST Global and General Catalyst last month
Grocery delivery company Instacart has raised $100 million in new funding, on top of the $225 million it announced l ast month, the company tells Axios.
Facebook says it is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone launched a year and a half ago, on July 10
the highest it has ever had — in Mexico — its biggest market — on June 1, according to App Annie. It had so few users on iOS, and it struggled so much in other markets, that App Annie could not track ...
Facebook says it continued sharing data of inactive users with around 5,000 developers even after their apps' 90-day cut-off date expired; issue is now fixed
yes, again David Challis / Android Headlines : Facebook Shares Users Data With Developers... Again Tweets: Jason Kint / @jason_kint : A subtle but important observation from me on this report. Bloombe...
Seattle-based Accolade, a health care platform for employees to manage benefits, raises $220M in its IPO at a $1.2B valuation; stock up ~35% at market close
Elise Reuter / MedCity News :
OTF staff worry about losing trust globally as the new CEO of their parent agency is pressed to divert funds from open-source to obscure, closed-source tech
David Gilbert / VICE :
Mozilla updates Common Voice, its open source transcribed voice collection, to 7226 hours in 54 languages, releases first data set for “Hey Firefox” wake word
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @epro Tweets: Emil Protalinski / @epro : “This segment data will help @mozilla benchmark the accuracy of our open source voice recognition engine, DeepSpeech, in ...
Caffeine, which aims to compete with Twitch but focuses on content like rap battles, has raised $113M, led by Fox Corp, Cox Enterprises, and Sanabil Investments
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg : Tweets: @woodleyipt See also Mediagazer Tweets: M. Woodley / @woodleyipt : “While Twitch caters to gamers, Caffeine has had its biggest success with rap-music competition.” 👀...
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