Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Peacock to raise prices by $1 for its Premium tier to $5.99/mo and $2 for Premium Plus to $11.99/mo for new customers, and starting August 17 for existing users  —  Peacock is delivering bad news to its subscribers tonight.  Beginning at 12 a.m. ET, the streamer is notifying existing customers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Helen Coster / Reuters: Truth Social’s head of engineering Alex Gleason resigns to work at his own venture Soapbox Technology, which offers technology for decentralized social media  —  The head of engineering for the company that operates former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Truth Social app told Reuters on Monday he had resigned, in a blow for the venture. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal grants Microsoft a two-month pause on hearing, set to begin on July 28, of its appeal against CMA’s block of Activision deal  —  Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) appeal against Britain’s block on its $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Adam Mosseri says spam attacks on Threads have picked up so “we’re going to have to get tighter on things like rate limits”  —  It looks like Twitter isn’t the only one having to turn to rate limits — or limits on how many posts users can view — as it turns out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Lawler / The Verge: A US appeals court stays for 90 days a ruling letting Apple App Store developers link to third-party payment options, so Apple can prepare a SCOTUS filing  —  On Monday, Apple was granted a motion putting a hold on the appeals court ruling that would push the company to undo its “anti-steering” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft and Activision Blizzard are nearing their $69B deal but aren’t likely to close it by a July 18 deadline  —  – UK veto will prevent closing by July 18 deadline in agreement  — Companies don’t intend to walk away, will continue UK talks Lees verder op Tech Meme