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The Norwegian Data Protection Authority orders Meta to stop showing users personalized ads for three months starting August 4 or face a daily fine of €89,500 (Clothilde Goujard/Politico) 17-07-2023

Clothilde Goujard / Politico: The Norwegian Data Protection Authority orders Meta to stop showing users personalized ads for three months starting August 4 or face a daily fine of €89,500  —  Meta’s social media platforms will be barred from behavioral advertising in August.  —  3 MINUTES READ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: next week, the European Commission plans to open an investigation into Microsoft for bundling Teams with Office, after deeming concessions insufficient (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times) 17-07-2023

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: next week, the European Commission plans to open an investigation into Microsoft for bundling Teams with Office, after deeming concessions insufficient  —  Investigation will centre on claims US tech giant is unfairly linking its videoconferencing app with popular software Lees verder op Tech Meme

Singapore-based fintech Thunes, which provides a cross-border B2B payment service, raised a $72M Series C led by Marshall Wace at a $900M+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) 17-07-2023

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Singapore-based fintech Thunes, which provides a cross-border B2B payment service, raised a $72M Series C led by Marshall Wace at a $900M+ valuation  —  Thunes, a Singapore and London-based fintech that has built a payments platform for businesses to send money to each other internationally … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Binance completes integrating the Bitcoin Lightning Network, enabling faster and cheaper bitcoin transactions, after setting up Lightning nodes in June 2023 (Yogita Khatri/The Block) 17-07-2023

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Binance completes integrating the Bitcoin Lightning Network, enabling faster and cheaper bitcoin transactions, after setting up Lightning nodes in June 2023  —  – Binance has completed the integration of the Bitcoin Lightning Network.  — The news means Binance users can now deposit and withdraw bitcoin via the Layer 2 network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Letter: US House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan asks Meta to provide documents about content moderation on Threads as part of a probe into tech platforms' policies (Lauren Feiner/CNBC) 17-07-2023

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Letter: US House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan asks Meta to provide documents about content moderation on Threads as part of a probe into tech platforms’ policies  —  – House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to hand over documents about content moderation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Several current and former Roblox employees say Roblox is not doing enough to address concerns about diversity and the marginalization of women and minorities (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg) 17-07-2023

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Several current and former Roblox employees say Roblox is not doing enough to address concerns about diversity and the marginalization of women and minorities  —  Current and former employees say Roblox’s efforts have not gone far enough to address their concerns Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta rebrands Facebook's Watch tab as Video, which will now include all visual content like Reels, long-form content, and live videos, and adds editing features (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) 17-07-2023

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta rebrands Facebook’s Watch tab as Video, which will now include all visual content like Reels, long-form content, and live videos, and adds editing features  —  Facebook announced new video-related features today ranging from editing to discovery to make the platform competitive with YouTube and TikTok. Lees verder op Tech Meme