​​Google’s antitrust issue, Bitcoin’s latest drop, and a Clubhouse surprise
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 336

🇪🇺 #EuropeanCommission says it has opened an #antitrust investigation into whether #Google favours its own display ad tech over rivals 🔗


👉 After agreeing to be #Facebook's first #VR ad test partner, #ResolutionGames says it won't move forward with the test in its paid VR game #Blaston 🔗


👉 #TikTok launches #TikTokJump to let creators enhance their videos by adding mini-app integrations from select partners including #Whisk, #Wikipedia, #Quizlet, more 🔗


🚇 London's mayor says the Underground will have mobile coverage by the end of 2024 across the entire network, with some popular stations by the end of 2022 🔗


👉 Filing: #Amazon has ordered 1,000 autonomous driving systems from self-driving truck startup Plus and acquired the option to buy up to a 20% stake in the startup 🔗


🇬🇧 #UK government says it will test its new national #EmergencyAlerts system, starting with #Android devices today before a smaller, regional #iPhone test next week 🔗


🇨🇳 #Bitcoin drops below $30,000, its lowest level since January 28 after a $64,000 peak in mid-April, as #China continues to crackdown on mining 🔗


👉 #EpicGames releases free anti-cheat and voice chat services for developers 🔗


👉 #Zoom is adding new options for sharing your pronouns 🔗


👉 #Clubhouse is building a DM text chat feature 🔗
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Apple’s case against sideloading, US blocking Iranian websites, and Amazon’s scandal
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 337

🍎 #Apple says allowing users to download apps directly onto their #iPhone without having to use the #AppStore would harm customers by damaging #privacy and security 🔗


🇮🇷 #US #DOJ says it has seized 36 #Iran-ian media websites and sites for groups affiliated with Iran that are linked to Iranian disinformation for violating US sanctions 🔗


😳 #Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its #UK warehouses every year, including MacBooks, COVID-19 masks, and TVs, some of them new and unused 🔗
👉 One #Amazon warehouse destroys 130,000 items per week


🦁 #Brave’s non-tracking search engine is now in beta 🔗


🐦 #Twitter opens applications to test #TicketedSpaces and #SuperFollows for a small number of users, who will keep 97% of revenue after the IAP cut if making <$50K 🔗


🐦 #Twitter now lets #iOS users easily share tweets as #InstagramStories 🔗


👉 #Microsoft has become the second public #US company to reach a $2T market value, after #Apple did in August 2020 and two years after hitting its first $1T in value 🔗
👉 Only #Apple and Saudi #Aramco had hit $2 trillion in value


🇨🇳 #TikTok’s Chinese nemesis #Kuaishou hits 1 billion monthly users worldwide 🔗 #China


🛰 #SpaceX's #Starlink satellite internet could achieve global coverage by September 🔗


👉 The #FTC is reportedly poised to probe #Amazon’s #MGM acquisition 🔗


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Antitrust bills for big tech, Instagram’s latest mix, and John McAfee’s suicide in a Spanish jail
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 338

🪦 #JohnMcAfee has died in a jail cell in #Spain by suicide according to his lawyer, hours after news that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the #US 🔗


👉 After debate, House committee approves five major antitrust bills, including regulations on user data portability and acquisitions of competitors 🔗


📱 #Google and #Jio Platforms announce #JioPhone Next, an affordable phone powered by an optimised version of #Android, that will debut in India on September 10 🔗


👉 #Google will delay plans to block third-party cookies from early 2022 to late 2023, to find ways to protect privacy without hurting ad-dependent publishers 🔗


💳 #Visa buys #Sweden-based #Tink, which offers open banking APIs used by more than 3,400 banks and financial institutions in Europe, for €1.8B 🔗


👉 #Instagram says it will test mixing suggested posts throughout primary feeds, even above posts from people users follow, and adds new controls 🔗


🍎🇨🇳 #Apple launches #AppStore search ads in #China, five years after launching in the #US 🔗


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Windows 11 announcement, Virgin Galactic’s FAA approval, and Apple’s crackdown on leaks
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 339

🪟 #Microsoft announces #Windows11, with a simplified UI, new Windows store, Start menu, #MicrosoftTeams integrated into taskbar, and more, available free to #Windows 10 users 🔗
👉 #Microsoft is bringing #Android apps to #Windows11 🔗


👉 #WesternDigital says some My Book Live devices are being compromised by #malware leading to a factory reset erasing all data, believes its servers weren't hacked 🔗


👉 #UK's #CMA launches an investigation into whether #Amazon and #Google are doing enough to crack down on fake reviews and deter sellers from manipulating listings 🔗


📷 #Instagram starts to quietly roll out the option to publish posts from its website on desktop, but #iPad is not supported 🔗


🍎 A highly reliable #Apple leaker known as “Kang” says they and others have received warnings from lawyers representing Apple cautioning against further leaks 🔗


🧑‍🚀 #VirginGalactic receives #FAA approval to take passengers into space 🔗


👻 #Snap makes a deal with #UniversalMusicGroup, adding its catalog to #Snapchat Sounds 🔗


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SolarWinds, TikTok’s user data, and a huge crypto seizure in the UK
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 340

💨 #Microsoft says an attacker gained access to one of its customer service agents and launched attacks against customers in a probe of suspected #SolarWinds hackers 🔗


👉 Ex-TikTok staff say its boundaries with #ByteDance are non-existent, with ByteDance involved in decision-making; source: #ByteDance has access to #TikTok’s #US user data 🔗


💬 #Amazon's #AWS acquires encrypted messaging service #Wickr, says it will continue operating the service and offer it to AWS customers 🔗


🦊 #Mozilla launches #Rally, a #Firefox plugin that lets users share browsing data with researchers studying the web, starting with researchers from Princeton 🔗


🚓 Police seize approximately $158 million in #UK's largest #crypto seizure 🔗


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Binance banned in the UK, Qualcomm’s latest chip, and larger iPads
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 341

💰 #UK's Financial Conduct Authority #FCA orders #Binance to stop all regulated activities in Britain by June 30 and issues consumer alert against the company 🔗


👉 #Qualcomm unveils #Snapdragon 888 Plus with 3GHz clock speed and a claimed 20% boost in AI capabilities, arriving in devices during Q3 2021 🔗


🍎 Sources: #Apple is considering #iPads with displays larger than 12.9-inch, for 2023 or later, and has promoted new execs to the leadership team of its car project 🔗


🚫 #YouTube took down and then restored a channel featuring testimonials from #Xinjiang; the channel owner says the videos are being backed up on the #LBRY blockchain 🔗


👉 #Netflix lets #Android users watch partially downloaded shows 🔗


🇬🇧🇪🇺 #UK gets data flows deal from #EU — for now 🔗


📅 #Microsoft keeps hinting at an October release for #Windows11 🔗


🇨🇳 Listen to the sounds of #China’s #ZhurongRover on the surface of #Mars 🔗


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Facebook’s good day, Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming, and some crypto news
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 342

🧑‍⚖️ #US district court dismisses #FTC's #antitrust complaint against #Facebook, saying its definition of market dominance was insufficient, but will let FTC refile it 🔗


📈 On Monday, #Facebook's stock rose 4.2%, closing at $355.64, giving Facebook a $1T market cap for the first time, the fifth #US company to hit the milestone 🔗


🎮 #Microsoft rolls out its #XboxCloudGaming service via browser to PCs, iPhones, and iPads across 22 countries for #Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members 🔗


🪟 #Microsoft releases the first #Windows11 preview, available to Insiders, with major updates included except Teams integration and Android app support 🔗


👉 #MicrosoftOffice is getting a new design and a native 64-bit Arm version for #Windows11 🔗


👁 #Worldcoin, a #cryptocurrency co-founded by #SamAltman, launches with $25M from #a16z and others and plans to develop an orb-shaped device to scan human eyeballs 🔗


🍔 #Google debuts a new website and set of resources for Americans experiencing #food insecurity 🔗


⌚️ #Samsung unveils new #OneUIWatch experience for #WearOS 🔗


🇰🇷 A court in #SouthKorea has ruled that #Netflix is obligated to pay network usage fees to mobile carriers; Netflix made up 4.8% of the country's traffic in Q4 2020 🔗


🇹🇭 #Google says it removed two user-generated maps that listed names and addresses of hundreds of activists in #Thailand accused of opposing the monarchy 🔗


🇮🇳 #Google Messages will auto-delete OTPs and sort like #Gmail, but only in #India 🔗


🇩🇪 #Coinbase is granted a #crypto custody license from #Germany's Financial Supervisory Authority, the first company to get such a license according to the regulator 🔗


💰 #Coinbase CEO #BrianArmstrong says the exchange's goal is “to list every asset where it is legal to do so”, and it will provide a ratings system for assets 🔗


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Facebook’s newsletter platform, Shopify’s app store cut, and a Twitter bug
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 343

🤖 #Microsoft and #OpenAI announce #GitHub Copilot, an #AI-based tool to recommend code to software developers in almost any programming language 🔗


👉 #Facebook unveils #FacebookBulletin, its #Substack newsletter competitor, but is not yet accepting signups and says it won't take a cut of creators' revenue “at launch” 🔗


💰 #Shopify drops Shopify App Store's cut to 0% on devs' first $1M in revenue, says app developer partners earned $233M in 2020, more than 2018 and 2019 combined 🔗


🤝 Sources: amid escalating rivalry, neither #Google nor #Microsoft are keen to renew a recently expired truce to not use their lobbying firepower against each other 🔗


🐦 #Twitter says it fixed a bug that caused some users to lose access to its “Latest” chronological feed option on its web application 🔗


👉 Data on 700M #LinkedIn users for sale on a forum, with info like names, addresses, inferred salary; LinkedIn says it seems some of the data is from other sources 🔗


🇬🇧 #Google tightens #UK policy on financial ads after watchdog pressure over scams 🔗


🧠 #Zoom acquires Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions or #Kites — an #AI company building real-time translation 🔗


💔 If you pay an emotional labor fee, #Postdates will get your stuff from your ex 🔗


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​​Instagram’s evolving, Twitter’s dropping NFTs, and Robinhood’s getting fined
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 344

👉 #AdamMosseri says #Instagram plans to test video more broadly, calls #TikTok and #YouTube competitors, and says Instagram is “no longer a photo-sharing app” 🔗
👉 #Instagram confirms it is working on tools to let creators share “exclusive” content to Stories for paying fans 🔗


🏹 Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fines #Robinhood $70M for misleading customers and system outages, the biggest fine it has ever imposed 🔗


💰 Sir #TimBernersLee’s web source code #NFT sells for $5.4 million 🔗


🐦 #Twitter releases a set of seven #NFTs, each available in 20 designs, and is auctioning them on marketplace #Rarible 🔗


🇮🇳 #Twitter and #Facebook are fighting new rules in #India trying to “protect” privacy and free speech; the regulations include potential jail terms for executives 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Florida's Stop #SocialMediaCensorshipAct from going into effect, which was scheduled for Thursday 🔗


👉 #Amazon says it is seeking the recusal of #FTC chair #LinaKhan from matters related to the company, citing her history of criticism and #antitrust arguments 🔗


💉 #Google updates its #GooglePasses API to let users store #COVID19 vaccine cards on #Android devices, starting in the #US; Google will not keep a copy of the user's info 🔗


💬 AT&T joins #TMobile in making #Google's Android Messages the default app for #SMS and RCS services on #Android phones; #Verizon so far has not made the switch 🔗 #ATandT


📱 #Apple’s #iPhone12 series sales crossed 100M globally in April 2021, seven months after launch, two months faster than #iPhone 11; iPhone 12 Pro Max had a 29% sales share 🔗


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Robinhood’s going public, Facebook goes after extremism, and Pinterest against weight loss ads
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 345

🏹 #Robinhood files for long-awaited #IPO, says it will set aside up to 35% of shares for retail investors 🔗


🐦 #Twitter shows off features it is testing, including a way to tweet only to a group of trusted friends, ability to tweet under different “personas”, and more 🔗


👉 Sources: #Apple and #Intel are the first adopters of #TSMC's 3nm chips for the #iPad and CPUs for Intel-powered notebooks and data centers 🔗


👉 New #Facebook test prompt asks users if someone they know might be “becoming an extremist”; another notifies users who may have been exposed to extremist content 🔗


🇹🇭 #Thailand SEC files criminal complaint against #Binance alleging it has operated a #cryptocurrency exchange business via its website without a license 🔗


🇺🇸 Former #Trump spokesman #JasonMiller leads #GETTR, a #Twitter-like service that bills itself as a “non-bias social network”, in the newest pro-MAGA tech venture 🔗


👉 #Opera becomes first third-party browser fully optimised for #Chromebook, with built-in access to messaging apps, free built-in VPN, a crypto wallet, and more 🔗


📌 #Pinterest updates policy to prohibit ads promoting weight loss 🔗


👟 #Nike brings hands-free entry shoes to the Olympics with the Glide FlyEase 🔗


🪟 #Microsoft’s Blue Screen of Death is changing to black in #Windows11 🔗


💉 The #EU’s #COVID19 ‘digital certificates’ are up and running 🔗


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Cyber crime credits, Didi Chuxing’s bans, and anti anti-doxxing
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 346

👉 In a post on the #REvil #DarkWeb blog, the #ransomware gang takes credit for the #Kaseya attack, claims it infected 1M+ systems, and demands $70M in #bitcoin for the decryptor 🔗


🇨🇳 Just days after Didi's #NYSE debut, Chinese regulators mandate app stores ban #DidiChuxing app, alleging violations in its collection and usage of personal info 🔗


🇭🇰 #Facebook, #Twitter, and #Google have privately warned #HongKong's government that they could stop offering services if planned anti-doxxing rules go ahead 🔗


📱 Researcher finds certain network names can disable #WiFi on #iPhone 🔗


👉 #TikTok parent #ByteDance has begun selling the video app’s #AI to other clients 🔗


🇳🇱 Dutch court rejects #Facebook’s bid to have privacy lawsuit in the #Netherlands dismissed 🔗


🔋 #Porsche recalls Taycans over sudden power loss problem 🔗


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Twitter’s problems in India, Didi’s problems in China, and GETTER’s problems online
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 347

🐦🇮🇳 In a court filing, Indian government says #Twitter has lost its liability protection in #India since it's failed to comply with IT rules introduced in February 🔗


🎮 #Nintendo announces an updated #NintendoSwitch with a larger 7-inch 720P OLED display, 64GB storage, improved audio, and more, on sale starting October 8 for $350 🔗


🚕🇨🇳 Sources: weeks before #DidiChuxing’s #US IPO, the Chinese regulator that eventually ordered Didi's app banned had suggested to the company that it delay the listing 🔗
👉 Didi shares fell as much as 30% in pre-market trading after a Chinese regulator ordered it to be removed from app stores, wiping out ~$22B of market value 🔗


👉 #GETTR, the new pro #Trump social platform, acknowledges it was hacked on its July 4 launch, with the usernames of prominent accounts being defaced 🔗


🏎 #Rimac takes over #Bugatti from #VW in powerhouse electric supercar deal 🔗


👉 #AndyJassy officially takes over as #Amazon CEO from #JeffBezos 🔗


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​​$10B Pentagon contract, Binance in the EU, Microsoft’s updates
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 348

👉 The #Pentagon has canceled the $10B JEDI cloud contract that was awarded to #Microsoft but faced legal challenges from #Amazon, announced new multivendor contract 🔗


🇺🇸 Source: #Biden will direct the #FTC to draft new right-to-repair rules, with an explicit mention of mobile phone manufacturers expected in the directive 🔗


🇷🇺🇺🇸 Sources: #Russia-backed hacking group #APT29 breached the #RNC last week, possibly via IT provider #Synnex; RNC says there's is no indication it was hacked 🔗


🇪🇺 #Binance says it will temporarily suspend euro bank deposits from the #EU's Single Euro Payments Area network due to “events beyond our control” 🔗


👉 #Facebook waiving #FacebookBulletin's fees at launch is a classic Silicon Valley tactic used to quash competitors, exemplifying a strategy critics think should be illegal 🔗


🖨 Microsoft releases emergency update to patch the “PrintNightmare” vulnerability impacting Windows Print Spooler, which could allow attackers remote PC access 🔗


👉 #TikTok appears to be testing a #Cameo-like feature called “Shoutouts” that lets users buy custom videos from creators, in select regions not including the US 🔗


👉 #Microsoft’s new #MicrosoftOffice UI now available for testers 🔗


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​​Trump’s back with a lawsuits, Biden’s next EO, and Sony’s ad gone wrong
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 349

👉 #Square announces it will build a hardware wallet for #bitcoin, after #JackDorsey had discussed the possibility of creating one in June 🔗


🇺🇸 #Biden to sign an EO calling on regulators to enact reforms such as increasing scrutiny of tech mergers and focusing more on moves like “killer acquisitions” 🔗


🐛 #Microsoft says its bug bounty program paid $13.6M to 341 security researchers in the past 12 months, down slightly from the $13.7M it paid a year ago 🔗


🧑‍⚖️🇦🇺 #Australia's Federal Court reverses earlier ruling and allows #EpicGames’s antitrust case against #Apple's #AppStore to proceed; Apple says it will appeal the judgment 🔗


🇺🇸 Donald #Trump sues #Facebook, #Twitter, and #YouTube, as well as #MarkZuckerberg, #JackDorsey, and #SundarPichai, claiming the companies have violated his First Amendment rights 🔗


💬 #WhatsApp will let you send images and videos in their ‘best quality’ 🔗


🎮 #Sony posts and deletes ad featuring an upside-down #PS5 🔗


🇨🇳🏳️‍🌈 #WeChat deleted accounts of student #LGBTQ groups in #China 🔗


🐦🇮🇳 #Twitter will comply with #India’s new rules to keep its legal immunity 🔗


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​​Microsoft’s new acquisition, Samsung’s event leaks, and Amazon’s radar sensors to track your sleep
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 350

👉 Sources: #Microsoft has agreed to acquire SaaS security intelligence company #RiskIQ; a source says Microsoft will pay over $500M 🔗


👉 Leaker #EvanBlass tweets that #Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event will be on August 11 and shares renders of new phones, smartwatches, and wireless earbuds 🔗


💤 #FCC approves #Amazon's request to use “Radar Sensors” to sense motion and “enable contactless sleep tracing functionalities” 🔗


🇨🇳 Sources: #ByteDance put its #US or #HongKong IPO plans on hold in March after meeting with regulators in #China, which asked the company to address security issues 🔗


🍿 #Disney says #Marvel's Black Widow has earned $60M+ on opening weekend via its Premier Access program, which lets #DisneyPlus subscribers rent the movie for $30 🔗


👋 Exclusive #TED chats are coming to #Clubhouse 🔗


👉 The #FTC has reportedly opened an investigation into #Amazon’s #MGM acquisition 🔗


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Google fined in France, bitcoins seized in the UK, and internet blocked in Cuba
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 351

🐦 After a user highlighted them, #Twitter confirms it inadvertently verified six accounts and says the “inauthentic” accounts are now suspended and badges removed 🔗


🇫🇷 #France fines #Google $593M for failing to comply with a 2020 order to negotiate in good faith with publishers for displaying article snippets in #GoogleNews 🔗


🇬🇧 #UK London Met #Police says it seized ~£180M in #bitcoin while investigating international money laundering, after seizing £114M of #cryptocurrencies last month 🔗


🇨🇺 In response to protests, #NetBlocks says #Cuba's state-run ISP has restricted social media and messaging apps, including #Facebook, #Instagram, and #WhatsApp 🔗


🤖 #Google unveils a feature for #Android12 that lets users play a game from the #PlayStore before it's fully downloaded, available with “minimal developer effort” 🔗


👉 #GoogleMeet starts enforcing a 60-minute time limit on group calls for free #Gmail users 🔗


👉 Authenticated brand logos in #Gmail will roll out over the coming weeks 🔗


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Spyware on the loose, attraction value in Italian museum, and Tesla’s self driving subscription
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 352

☠️ #PegasusSpyware used to target phones of journalists and activists, investigation finds 🔗


👉 #Facebook says their data shows a 50% decline in #vaccine hesitancy among US users, refuting #Biden's claim that it's “killing people” by allowing #COVID19 #misinfo 🔗


👉 #Zoom says it will acquire #Five9, which makes cloud-based call center software for sales, marketing, and support, in an all-stock deal valued at ~$14.7B 🔗


🇮🇹 A museum in #Italy is using cameras to monitor people looking at artwork, to define a work of art's “attraction value” and accordingly change museum layouts 🔗 #AttentionEconomy


👉 #Tencent to buy British video game developer #SumoGames for $1.27B, a 43% premium on Sumo's Friday closing price 🔗


📱 #Huawei’s P50 flagship will launch on July 29th 🔗


📱 Latest leaks indicate new #iPhone may have always-on displays like #AppleWatch 🔗


🚗 #Tesla Full Self Driving subscriptions are now available for $199 a month 🔗


🔐 #WhatsApp tests encrypted cloud backups on #Android 🔗


👉 #Google redesigns its #emoji to be more universal and authentic 🔗


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Astronaut Bezos in space, spyware on phones, and new ads format on TikTok
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 353

🚀 #BlueOrigin’s New Shepard carries #JeffBezos and three crew members to space and back 🔗


☠️ #AmnestyInternational researchers published a toolkit to help anyone scan their #iPhone and #Android devices for evidence of compromise by #NSO's #PegasusSpyware 🔗


🍎 Sources: #Apple is delaying return to office deadline by at least a month to October amid rising #COVID19 cases, will give employees a month's notice before return 🔗


👉 #YouTube acquires #India-n social commerce startup #Simsim 🔗


👉 Sources: a group of #Facebook data scientists asked for resources to measure #COVID19 #misinfo on Facebook at the start of the pandemic, but execs denied the request 🔗


📱 CIRP: #Android and #iOS each accounted for 50% of smartphone activations in the #US in Q2, the same as Q2 2020, after iOS' share climbed steadily from 31% in 2017 🔗


📧 #DuckDuckGo launches a new Email Protection service that forwards emails from a free “@duck.com” address to users' regular inbox after scanning them for trackers 🔗


👉 #TikTok launches Spark Ads, an ad format that allows brands to sponsor already published posts with the post creators' approval, potentially cutting out agencies 🔗


👉 #Adobe releases #AppleSilicon M1 support for #PremierePro 🔗


👻 #Snapchat will let you pose your #Bitmoji on your profile in 3D 🔗


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​​Netflix’s expansion into gaming, next Samsung event, and TweetDeck’s overhaul
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 354

🎮 #Netflix says its expansion into gaming will start with mobile games, which will be included with a subscription at no additional cost 🔗


☎️ Phone numbers belonging to ten prime ministers, three presidents, and a king were among the list of 50K potential #NSO targets, leaked to #AmnestyInternational 🔗


👉 #Samsung announces its next #GalaxyUnpacked event will be held virtually on August 11, where it is expected to unveil new foldables 🔗


🐦 #Twitter begins rolling out a preview of a revamped #TweetDeck in the #US, #Canada, and #Australia, featuring an option for wider columns, an Explore column, more 🔗


👉 #Instagram is rolling out a new feature that lets users control “sensitive content” in the Explore tab, with settings to “Allow”, “Limit”, and “Limit Even More” 🔗


👉 #Instagram is testing a new feature called Collab in #India and the #UK that lets users invite a public account as a collaborator on a post or a #Reel 🔗


📺 #YouTube debuts Super Thanks, which lets users tip creators for individual uploaded videos rather than livestreams and have their message highlighted in comments 🔗


👻 #HBOMax partners with #Snapchat to let users in the #US co-watch pilots of select series with up to 63 other users for free via a #SnapMini 🔗


👉 #GoogleChrome 92 for #iOS enables Face ID and Touch ID protection of Incognito tabs, “Full Page” screenshot support, and more 🔗


🗺 #GoogleMaps expands its crowdedness predictions to 10K+ transit agencies in 100 countries, and will show how crowded individual carriages are in NYC and Sydney 🔗


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

💲 #Netflix Q2: revenue of $7.34B vs. $7.32B est., up 19% YoY, global paid net additions of 1.54M vs. 1.19M expected; US and Canada region lost 433K subs QoQ 🔗


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