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Meta asks a US federal court to block the FTC's attempt on May 3 to change the 2020's $5B privacy settlement, which the FTC alleges the company has violated (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg) 31-05-2023

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Meta asks a US federal court to block the FTC’s attempt on May 3 to change the 2020’s $5B privacy settlement, which the FTC alleges the company has violated  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is asking a federal court to bar the Federal Trade Commission from moving forward with an agency proceeding to revise its 2020 privacy settlement. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google's head of communications and public affairs, Corey duBrowa, will leave the company in June 2023 to serve as the CEO of global PR firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe (Eleanor Hawkins/Axios) 31-05-2023

Eleanor Hawkins / Axios: Google’s head of communications and public affairs, Corey duBrowa, will leave the company in June 2023 to serve as the CEO of global PR firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe  —  Corey duBrowa will depart Google and parent company Alphabet in June to serve as CEO of global public relations firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW), Axios has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta asks a US court to block FTC's attempt to impose new sanctions for alleged violation of a 2020 settlement (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg) 31-05-2023

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Meta asks a US court to block FTC’s attempt to impose new sanctions for alleged violation of a 2020 settlement  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is asking a federal court to bar the Federal Trade Commission from moving forward with an agency proceeding to revise its 2020 privacy settlement. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google's head of communications and public affairs Corey duBrowa will leave the company to serve as CEO of public relations firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe (Eleanor Hawkins/Axios) 31-05-2023

Eleanor Hawkins / Axios: Google’s head of communications and public affairs Corey duBrowa will leave the company to serve as CEO of public relations firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe  —  Corey duBrowa will depart Google and parent company Alphabet in June to serve as CEO of global public relations firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW), Axios has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Torrent site RARBG, founded in 2008, shuts down and stops all its content releases, citing COVID-related health problems, Russia's war in Ukraine, and inflation (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak) 31-05-2023

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Torrent site RARBG, founded in 2008, shuts down and stops all its content releases, citing COVID-related health problems, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and inflation  —  RARBG, one of the world’s largest torrent sites, has said “farewell” to millions of users.  The site, which was a prominent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Apple touts an Analysis Group study saying its App Store ecosystem generated $1.1T in 2022, up 29% YoY; $910B came from the sale of physical goods and services (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) 31-05-2023

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple touts an Analysis Group study saying its App Store ecosystem generated $1.1T in 2022, up 29% YoY; $910B came from the sale of physical goods and services  —  Ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference next week, the company is offering an update on its app ecosystem with the release … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says he was humbled and outraged by toxic workplace culture claims and blames “outside forces” for most of Activision's image issues (Cynthia Littleton/Variety) 31-05-2023

Cynthia Littleton / Variety: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says he was humbled and outraged by toxic workplace culture claims and blames “outside forces” for most of Activision’s image issues  —  Bobby Kotick has a secret: He was ready to buy Time Warner a few years ago.The CEO of Activision Blizzard drops … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filing: Amazon's Ring agrees to pay $5.8M to settle FTC allegations that until 2017 Ring gave employees and third-party contractors access to customers' videos (Bloomberg) 31-05-2023

Bloomberg: Filing: Amazon’s Ring agrees to pay $5.8M to settle FTC allegations that until 2017 Ring gave employees and third-party contractors access to customers’ videos  —  Amazon.com Inc.’s Ring unit agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations Wednesday its doorbell cameras spied on users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reddit client Apollo's developer says Reddit plans to charge $12K for 50M API requests and that he would need to pay $20M per year to keep operating the app (Juli Clover/MacRumors) 31-05-2023

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Reddit client Apollo’s developer says Reddit plans to charge $12K for 50M API requests and that he would need to pay $20M per year to keep operating the app  —  Popular Reddit app Apollo might not be able to operate as is in the future due to planned API pricing that Reddit is implementing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A profile of AMD CEO Lisa Su, who orchestrated one of the great tech turnarounds after her 2014 takeover, as the company attempts to take Nvidia's AI chip crown (Forbes) 31-05-2023

Forbes: A profile of AMD CEO Lisa Su, who orchestrated one of the great tech turnarounds after her 2014 takeover, as the company attempts to take Nvidia’s AI chip crown  —  AMD’s CEO orchestrated one of the great turnarounds in Silicon Valley history, driving the dying semiconductor maker’s stock price up nearly 30-fold in less than a decade. Lees verder op Tech Meme