Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features
Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US. The app will be called Threads …
Twitter says that in 30 days users must pay for Blue to use TweetDeck, the new version of which supports full composer functionality, Spaces, polls, and more
We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ by selecting “Try the new TweetDeck” in...
Elon Musk offering no timeline for Twitter's “temporary” reading limits, and CEO Linda Yaccarino keeping mum, may give Meta a perfectly timed launch for Threads
With users in uproar over restrictions and outages … Jody Godoy / Reuters : Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say BBC : Confusion at Twitter continues over Elon Musk's twe...
The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep by demanding Meta overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta says it is “evaluating” the ruling
Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook lost its European Union court fight over a German antitrust order that homed …
The social web is changing: Twitter set up limits, Reddit alienated its users, TikTok could get banned, and Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform
An era of the internet is ending, and we're watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep … Bluesky: @peterabraham.bsky.social . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to , @Annemarie...
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
well, I've been around. https://twitter.com/... Luke Zaleski / @zaleskiluke : On the one hand, same. But also she's saying it all with her silence right now. Elon is twitter. And Twitter is broken htt...
Cameron Winklevoss makes a ~$1.47B “final offer” to DCG CEO Barry Silbert for Genesis' bankruptcy restructuring and threatens lawsuits if Silbert fails to agree
Creditors of the crypto financial firm Genesis propose a package $1.5 billion of forbearance payments and loans denominated …
An APK teardown of Instagram's Threads, uploaded to Google Play ahead of the app's launch, reveals the threads.net website and details on how Threads will work
Ahead of the app's launch later this week, Meta has launched a landing page for its Twitter competitor, “Threads,” counting down to the service's launch.
South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are assessing the fallout from China's limits on chipmaking chemicals gallium and germanium; Japan imported $203.2M worth in 2022
Beijing's move to impose restrictions follows escalating US controls on technology — Trade officials were assessing the fallout …
Sources: the US plans to require AWS and other cloud providers to seek permission before providing services that use advanced AI chips to Chinese customers
Biden administration proposal, aimed at closing loophole in chip export controls, could escalate tit-for-tat fight with Beijing
Marques Brownlee details the Nothing Phone (2) in a video: slightly bigger than the Phone (1), tweaked LEDs on the back, a curved glass rear design, and more
Carl Pei's Nothing is just a week or two away from the full launch, and after showing off the camera earlier today, a new video shows off the Nothing Phone (2) in full. Source: Marques Brownlee on You...
Twitter employees say that removing support for legacy APIs is what broke TweetDeck, and the company will be moving users to the “new” version of TweetDeck
Twitter is officially launching its “new” version of TweetDeck to everyone, according to a tweet from Twitter's support account …
Thierry Breton says Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft notified the EU that they meet the DMA's gatekeeper status of 45M+ MAUs and a €75B+ market cap
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) …
How SoftBank is playing catch-up despite focusing on AI since 2018; PitchBook says the firm invested in just one of the 26 generative AI startups valued at $1B+
Billionaire Masayoshi Son said he would make SoftBank ‘the investment company for the AI revolution,’ but he missed out on the most recent frenzy
Google updates its privacy policy to say the company may use “publicly available information” to train its AI models and build products like Translate and Bard
When you use our services, you're trusting us with your information. Mariella Moon / Engadget : Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI models Rmcteam / Real Mi C...
BlackRock refiles for its spot bitcoin ETF through Nasdaq, saying Coinbase will provide market surveillance to address the US SEC's insufficient info objection
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Digital World Acquisition Corp. reaches a tentative US SEC settlement over its planned Trump Media merger, agreeing to pay $18M and to revise some filings
Search in All. — Search in Internal Sections Only. — Search in External Sections Only. Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios : Truth Social-tied SPAC says it has tentative SEC settlement Arshreet Singh / Reute...
The world's 500 richest people together gained $852B in H1 2023, the best half-year since H2 2020; Musk and Zuckerberg led with $96.6B and $58.9B, respectively
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Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone says the company is profitable as a private firm and plans a future IPO; Lanzone joined after Yahoo's September 2021 spinout from Verizon
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Samsung Display sues BOE in Texas, accusing the Chinese rival of infringing five of its patents for mobile OLED displays; Samsung dominates the OLED market
Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters : Twitter: @byron_wan . Forums: r/technology Twitter: Byron Wan / @byron_wan : 🇰🇷 Samsung Display has filed a lawsuit against 🇨🇳 BOE Technology, accusing the Chinese rival of in...
Post-pandemic loneliness is driving young US adults to apps like Discord and Reddit to make friends; users say seeking friends as adults still carries stigma
Tatum Hunter / Washington Post : Twitter: @pkedrosky , @tatum_hunter_ , @abhabhattarai , @tonyajoriley , @nataliemj10 , and @yunheekim22 Twitter: Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : Americans are lonelier t...
At a Shanghai event, Chinese chipmakers and suppliers were grim but defiant about US plans to widen export controls; YMTC urged suppliers to show “integrity”
A look at Reliance's JioCinema, which had 400M+ IPL cricket stream viewers, acquired content rights from NBC, HBO, and WBD, and is challenging Disney in India
Apple plans to ask SCOTUS to revisit an Epic case ruling that Apple cannot stop developers from providing links in apps to payment options outside the App Store
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Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws and says before going offline in Louisiana age gating cut traffic there by ~80%
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
Sweden's privacy watchdog says that “companies must stop using Google Analytics” and fines local online retailer CDON less than $30K and telco Tele2 over $1.1M
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London-based Revolut plans to stop offering Solana, Cardano, and Polygon for US customers on September 18, after its provider Bakkt decided to delist the tokens
Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg :
Ampere: Disney+ Hotstar remains India's streaming leader with ~50M subscribers in Q1 and a 29% share, despite losing IPL cricket rights, vs. Prime Video's 12.4M
Jesse Whittock / Deadline :
Tidal plans to increase its HiFi tier by $1 to $11/month and its family tier by $2 to $17/month in the US starting on August 1; HiFi Plus' pricing is unchanged
Marc Schneider / Billboard :
Mastodon refreshes its official Android app with Material You support and adds 294K users over the weekend; the network has 1.4M MAUs, well below its 2.5M peak
#ReleaseNotes — [image] Eugen Rochko / @Gargron@mastodon.social : So, weekend tally: The number of active users across Mastodon rose by 294K, and posting activity roughly tripled. Lots of new sign-...
Jio Platforms unveils a ~$12 4G phone in India with mobile payment tech and access to Jio's video and music streaming services, and a $1.5/month 14GB data plan
Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing push and uneven playing field concerns; BookScan: 100+ authors with large #BookTok followings had $760M in 2022 sales
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