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Sources: Amazon creates a PR project called Ratatouille to boost its image in France through TV ads, promotion of French-made products sold on Amazon, and more (Bloomberg) 18-04-2023

Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon creates a PR project called Ratatouille to boost its image in France through TV ads, promotion of French-made products sold on Amazon, and more  —  Amazon.com Inc. has cooked up a public-relations project called “Ratatouille” to boost its image in France, where the company isn’t as popular as in other European markets. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Indian customers are yet to fully benefit from Apple's India initiatives due to prohibitively expensive products and services like Apple Pay being unavailable (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) 18-04-2023

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Indian customers are yet to fully benefit from Apple’s India initiatives due to prohibitively expensive products and services like Apple Pay being unavailable  —  The reality is that millions of Indian consumers continue to purchase Apple products despite feeling like second-tier customers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nike plans to release its first virtual sneaker collection, a play on the Air Force 1 design, on its recently-launched NFT buying and trading .Swoosh platform (Rosie Perper/CoinDesk) 18-04-2023

Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: Nike plans to release its first virtual sneaker collection, a play on the Air Force 1 design, on its recently-launched NFT buying and trading .Swoosh platform  —  The virtual sneaker, called Our Force 1, is a play on the brand’s iconic Air Force 1 design.  —  Featured SpeakerYat Siu Featured SpeakerYat Siu Lees verder op Tech Meme

An in-depth look at how police agencies across Europe infiltrated encrypted phone networks like EncroChat and Sky ECC that were popular with organized criminals (Ed Caesar/New Yorker) 18-04-2023

Ed Caesar / New Yorker: An in-depth look at how police agencies across Europe infiltrated encrypted phone networks like EncroChat and Sky ECC that were popular with organized criminals  —  Drug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Despite the UK chancellor lauding its “world-beating fintech sector”, London has been waning as a fintech hub, as startups call for reforms amid SVB UK's bust (Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan/Financial …) 18-04-2023

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: Despite the UK chancellor lauding its “world-beating fintech sector”, London has been waning as a fintech hub, as startups call for reforms amid SVB UK’s bust  —  Despite positive government noises the UK is not the draw it once was  —  As Silicon Valley Bank UK imploded at the start of March … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at Counterman v. Colorado, a cyberstalking case the SCOTUS will hear on April 19 and that could have sweeping consequences for online speech writ large (Issie Lapowsky/Fast Company) 18-04-2023

Issie Lapowsky / Fast Company: A look at Counterman v. Colorado, a cyberstalking case the SCOTUS will hear on April 19 and that could have sweeping consequences for online speech writ large  —  In 2014, a man named Billy Raymond Counterman began sending a string of creepy Facebook messages to a female musician he’d never met. Lees verder op Tech Meme

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk says he's working on “TruthGPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe” (Bailee Hill/Fox News) 18-04-2023

Bailee Hill / Fox News: In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk says he’s working on “TruthGPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe”  —  Tucker Carlson’s exclusive interview with Musk airs Monday at 8pm ET on Fox News Lees verder op Tech Meme

WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging apps sign a letter urging the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill, which would weaken privacy on the internet (BBC) 18-04-2023

BBC: WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging apps sign a letter urging the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill, which would weaken privacy on the internet  —  Encrypted messaging services have jointly called for changes to parts of the UK Online Safety Bill (OSB). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Illinois, Michigan, and seven other US states join the DOJ lawsuit against Google, jointly filed with eight states in January 2023, for alleged ad tech monopoly (Kanishka Singh/Reuters) 18-04-2023

Kanishka Singh / Reuters: Illinois, Michigan, and seven other US states join the DOJ lawsuit against Google, jointly filed with eight states in January 2023, for alleged ad tech monopoly  —  Nine more U.S. states on Monday joined a civil antitrust lawsuit filed earlier by the Justice Department against Alphabet Inc’s Google … Lees verder op Tech Meme

US attorneys charge 40+ staff at China's domestic security agency, alleging they made thousands of fake profiles on Twitter and elsewhere to pose as US citizens (Wall Street Journal) 17-04-2023

Wall Street Journal: US attorneys charge 40+ staff at China’s domestic security agency, alleging they made thousands of fake profiles on Twitter and elsewhere to pose as US citizens  —  Complaint depicts vast effort to disguise criticism of U.S. policies as coming from Americans Lees verder op Tech Meme