Emails between Eddy Cue and other Apple execs from 2011, revealed in House hearing, show Apple considered 40% cut of first year digital content subscriptions
- IPhone maker's Eddy Cue reached 2016 deal with Amazon's Bezos — In 2011, Apple executives weighed 40% fee for subscriptions
Emails from Mark Zuckerberg, revealed by the House antitrust panel, show that Facebook wanted to buy Instagram at least partly to explicitly avoid competition
Hey what's up driving to dinner … Teja Chedalla / Android Headlines : Emails Reveal Zuckerberg Neutralized Competition With Instagram Acquisition Jack Gramenz / news.com.au : Billion dollar buy labell...
A recap of antitrust hearing, which was messy but overdue and showed us the beginning of Congress holding powerful tech CEOs to account based on actual evidence
Well, we had an antitrust hearing. — A long one, too. The House Judiciary Committee's investigation into the market power of Amazon …
An overview of attempts by tech CEOs to obfuscate and minimize during the hearing, claiming their companies are not that big and data remains under user control
Rep. @davidcicilline https://twitter.com/... Julia Angwin / @juliaangwin : Market share claims by tech CEOs: Facebook: We have tons of competition. Amazon: we have less than 1% of the $25 trillion glo...
Sundar Pichai received bipartisan criticism during Wednesday's antitrust hearing, facing questions about Google's digital ads business, privacy practices, more
from Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Comcast and others — has helped lower online advertising costs by 40% over the last 10 years” - @sundarpichai https://docs.house.gov/... Richard Nieva / @richardjni...
At the antitrust hearing, Cook was questioned 7 times, Bezos 13 times, Zuckerberg 16 times, and Pichai 16 times, the latter three for at least 50 minutes each
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
A trove of 1M+ documents from the House antitrust panel build a far better antitrust case against the tech giants than anything the CEOs said under questioning
- Wednesday's Big Tech hearing provided almost no new information or insight into potential antitrust activity by Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google.
Analysis: Huawei shipped 55.8M devices globally, down 5% YoY, overtaking Samsung, which shipped 53.7M, down 30% YoY, to become the world's top smartphone vendor
Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Thursday, 30 July 2020
Amazon emails released by the antitrust subcommittee show Amazon's plan to weaken Diapers.com before buying its parent company Quidsi in 2010
Matt Day / Bloomberg :
Tim Cook defended Apple's removal of rival screen time apps from the App Store when questioned during the hearing, saying Apple was concerned for kids' privacy
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
During hearing, Rep. David Cicilline confronted Mark Zuckerberg on the spread of misinfo on Facebook, saying it has grown too big to contain dangerous content
Justin Wise / The Hill :
Asked if Amazon ever accessed and used seller data to make business decisions, Bezos said he can't guarantee the ban on the practice has never been violated
Makena Kelly / The Verge :
TikTok says it will pay US creators $1B+ in the next three years, up from the $200M announced before, unveils $70M fund for creators in some European countries
After reports of Instagram poaching TikTok creators emerged, TikTok says it's ramping up its Creator Fund to over a billion dollars …
TikTok's new CEO Kevin Mayer says it'll release code driving its content moderation algorithms, accuses Facebook of maligning attacks “disguised as patriotism”
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Google debuts an iOS app letting users back up a phone's photos, videos, contacts, and calendar events using Google account storage, and a storage manager tool
Any Google user can now take advantage of the Google One phone backup feature, along with a new, free storage manager tool.
Rep. David Cicilline, who chaired the House's Big Tech hearings, says Facebook should be broken up, in part because of its Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), who ended Wednesday's hearing by saying some Big Tech companies need to be broken up …
Samsung reports Q2 earnings with sales of ~$44.5B, down 5.6% YoY, and an operating profit of ~$6.8B, up 23.5% YoY, as demand for memory chips increased
Samsung posted 8.15 trillion won in second quarter operating profit, with its semiconductor business contributing 5.43 trillion won of that.
Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple, saying Apple must “allow users to have the opportunity of downloading software outside the App Store”
Messaging company is latest company to criticise restrictions and fees — Telegram, the messaging app …
China arrested 109 alleged architects behind the PlusToken project, bringing an end to one of the biggest Bitcoin Ponzi schemes in the crypto industry
Local authorities in China made 109 arrests today in connection with the notorious PlusToken Bitcoin project, according to local news outlet Cailian News.
Moonbug buys Cocomelon, the most viewed YouTube channel, and Blippi, forming the largest network of kids channels on YouTube with 235M subscribers
Moonbug Entertainment Ltd. is building a kids media empire for the YouTube generation. — The London-based company has acquired … Tweets: @lucas_shaw , @gerryfsmith , and @lucas_shaw See also Mediaga...
Sources: EU antitrust regulators are set to open a full-scale investigation of Google's $2.1B bid for Fitbit after EC preliminary review ends August 4
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are set to open a full-scale investigation into Alphabet Inc unit Google's $2.1 billion bid …
Candis, which develops software for automated accounting and payment processes, raises €12M Series B led by Viola Ventures and Rabo Frontier Ventures
Candis, a startup developing a platform for automated accounting and payment processes, this week closed a €12 million ($13.97 million) funding round.
Report: China-linked hackers infiltrated the Vatican's computer networks in the past three months, ahead of the Vatican's diplomatic negotiations with Beijing
New York Times :
An in-depth look at how China is using AI-powered tech to build totalitarian surveillance systems before exporting that tech to other regimes around the world
Northwest of Beijing's Forbidden City, outside the Third Ring Road, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spent seven decades building a campus of national laboratories. Tweets: @zeynep , @edyong209 , @...
Report: Amazon collects 30%, on average, of each sale made by independent sellers on its site, up from 19% just five years ago; seller fees netted ~$60B in 2019
Institute for Local Self-Reliance :
Qualcomm reports Q3 non-GAAP revenue of $4.9B, flat YoY, forecasts Q4 revenue of $5.5B to $6.3B, vs $5.8B est., announces Huawei license deal
Ian King / Bloomberg :
PayPal reports adding a record 21.3M net new active accounts in Q2, bringing total active accounts to 346M, and revenue of $5.26B, up 25% YoY, vs $4.99B est.
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says TikTok is being reviewed by CFIUS, which will make a recommendation to Trump
“no question that what the big tech companies are doing is very bad,” without specifying what conduct he's referring to. Brian Roemmele / @brianroemmele : In 50 years we will have the distance to unde...
A look at Muslim matchmaking apps like Muzmatch, which are trying to “disrupt” the tradition of arranged marriages while adhering to Islamic cultural values
with a chaperone. With their parents' blessing, young Muslims in conservative countries are getting into online dating. Yasmin Hai explains how for @restofworld https://restofworld.org/... https://twi...
Buildots, which uses computer vision to modernize construction management, raised $16M led by TLV Partners
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Research firm Forrester: US ad spending will decline by 25% this year and won't recover until 2023, and in 2020 and 2021, ad agencies will shed 52,000 jobs
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times : Tweets: @glenngabe , @lionelmedia , @davidsable , @nytnational , @myles_younger , and @mohammadfarooq_ See also Mediagazer Tweets: Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : Forrester: ...
In early April, a developer found protected Zoom call passwords could be quickly cracked; he reported the bug, now fixed, and says he hasn't received a bounty
Tom Anthony :
Arm has accused the ousted head of its China unit of hurting its business, in an escalating conflict that may hinder SoftBank's plans to sell the chip firm
Bloomberg :
Sources: Infobip, which lets companies communicate with customers via text messages or apps like WhatsApp, raised $200M from One Equity, at a $1B+ valuation
Krystal Hu / Reuters :
Microsoft hasn't released an HR transparency report a year after promising to do so, as sources say there hasn't been a difference in how HR cases are handled
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Thanks: @dlberes
Hacker shares data stolen on 18 companies, like Dave and Wattpad, on a forum for free, including 9 previously unreported breaches of Havenly, Indaba Music, more
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : Tweets: @haveibeenpwned and @haveibeenpwned Tweets: @haveibeenpwned : New breach: Online fragrance service Scentbird had 5.8M records breached last month. Data in...
Connecticut-based Sema4, which uses aggregate patient data to help doctors improve care, raises $121M from BlackRock and others, valuing the company at $1.1B
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
Documents: Arizona's AG is leading a multi-state probe into whether Apple's deliberate slowing of iPhones violated deceptive trade practice laws
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