Archive for July 4th, 2007
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Posted by: amygdala on July 4, 2007
- Inside Mark Zuckerberg's political awakening, which led to his current US tour and significant changes in Facebook features, especially Groups (Bloomberg)
- Backlash against the push for gender equality in tech grows among some men who see it as "a witch hunt" (Nellie Bowles/New York Times)
- Twitter is testing a Twitter Lite Android app, first in the Philippines (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- RIAA: 30M+ pay for streaming, which now accounts for 62% of US music biz; streaming revenue up 48% in first half of 2017 to $2.5B, digital downloads down 24% (Peter Kafka/Recode)
- EU Commission draft report urges EU to proceed with tax overhaul to prevent digital firms from paying less tax in Europe by routing profits to low-tax countries (Francesco Guarascio/Reuters)
- Chinese bike-sharing giant Mobike enters US with Washington DC launch, a month after rival Ofo launched in Seattle (Zen Soo/South China Morning Post)
- W3C's approval of DRM for video gives the impression that the standards consortium has been captured by corporations, a view the group's CEO rejects (Adrianne Jeffries/The Outline)
- Amazon partners with Olo, ordering platform for 200 restaurant brands with about 40K US locations, in an effort to boost Amazon Restaurants delivery service (Bloomberg)
- Department of Homeland Security notified 21 states that their election systems were targeted by Russian government hackers during 2016 election (Washington Post)
- Imagination Technologies agrees to sell to China-backed private equity firm Canyon Bridge for £550M; its US-based MIPS unit sold to Tallwood VC for $65M (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
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