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YouTube says it is rolling out picture-in-picture support for YouTube Premium users on iOS and plans to launch the feature for all iOS users in the US — After a long wait, YouTube for iOS is officially gaining picture-in-picture support, allowing all users, non-premium and premium subscribers …
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| Mercury News: |
California launches a digital vaccine verification system built using the open-source SMART Health Card Framework, with QR codes to show COVID-19 vaccine status — Vaccinated Californians now have a new way to show they are inoculated against the coronavirus without carrying around a flimsy paper card.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
The Platform Competition and Opportunity Act, which ends Big Tech acquisitions, could backfire in several ways, like discouraging startups' productive behavior — Congress wants to stop most Big Tech acquisitions. But that won't neccesarily increase competition. — 5 hr ago
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| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Roku says from May 20 to June 3, more Roku viewers streamed a Roku Original than Quibi users who streamed Quibi shows during the nine months of Quibi's lifetime — Roku has revealed viewership data for its original programming, much of which was powered by the acquisition of Quibi's library last January.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a formal investigation into Google's digital advertising business before the end of the year — EU antitrust regulators are set to open another front against Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google by launching a formal investigation …
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| Brandon Kochkodin / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: $17B have been invested in crypto startups this year, including $10B of digital assets from Block.one to capitalize crypto exchange Bullish Global — - VC funds already eclipsed annual amount for crypto investments — $10 billion Bullish Global raise largest in industry history
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Goldman Sachs has begun trading bitcoin futures in partnership with Mike Novogratz's merchant bank Galaxy Digital — - The bank has begun trading bitcoin futures with Galaxy Digital, the crypto investment firm founded by Mike Novogratz, CNBC has learned exclusively.
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
WH unveils new US broadband map that uses data from FCC, Ookla, Microsoft, and more, showing a greater gap in internet access, as it pushes for more spending — The Biden administration Thursday unveiled a new mapping tool that shows much greater gaps in use of high-speed internet service across …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Dealroom: European startups have raised €43.8B in the first six months of 2021, surpassing the record €38.5B raised in 2020 — - European start-ups have raised 43.8 billion euros ($60.9 billion) in the first six months of 2021, figures from Dealroom show
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| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Fiddler AI, which makes tools to help engineers monitor machine learning systems, raises $32M Series B led by Insight Partners — Investors are betting that a former Facebook engineer can build a big business based on artificial intelligence tools he developed at the social networking giant.| Laurel Brubaker Calkins / Bloomberg: |
US appeals court rules Huawei can't subsidize the sale of its 5G tech with federal funds earmarked for US broadband development, upholding a 2019 FCC order — - New Orleans appeals court sides with FCC against Huawei — FCC claims Chinese company tied to military intelligence
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau says OnePlus and Oppo will have more integrations moving forward, further hinting at a possible merger — OnePlus says it will ‘further integrate’ its business with Oppo. But what does that really mean? — OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has announced a “new journey” …
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