The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit against Google over its monopolizing the digital advertising market
The U.S. Justice Department stated that the company has been unfairly benefitting from the dominance of its digital advertising business, going further to say that it should be forced to sell its ad manager suite. Google responded in a blog post, saying that the Justice Department of mischaracterizing how its advertising products work. The company says its product stack works with competing technologies, making it “easy” for publishers and advertisers to choose the services they want to use.
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Ex-Twitter employee claims that Twitter engineers have acces to a program formerly called “GodMode” that lets them tweet from any account
The complainant, who has spoken with Congress and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), alleges that GodMode (now renamed to “privileged mode”) remains on the laptop of any engineer who wants it, requiring only a production computer and a simple code change from “FALSE” to “TRUE.”
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Spotify will lay off 6% of employees
Spotify sent an internal memo to staff announcing plans to lay off 600 employees. Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, also announced some changes among the company’s executives as part of an effort to “restructure our organization”.
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Google Fast Pair will be available on new device setup starting with Galaxy S23 series
Google Fast Pair is a service that allows for the easy pairing of devices such as the Pixel Buds or any WearOS smartwatches such as the Pixel Watch to any Android phone. A new line of code indicates that it will also support Android phones.
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OnePlus 11R
OnePlus 11R will have a 6.7-inch AMOLED screen, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor, up to 16GB RAM and 512GB of storage.
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Infinix Note 12i
The phone has a 6.7 inch AMOLED screen, Dimensity G85 processor, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. It comes with a 5,000mAh battery.
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