Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Thierry Breton says Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft notified the EU that they meet the DMA’s gatekeeper status of 45M+ MAUs and a €75B+ market cap  —  Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google, Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: Post-pandemic loneliness is driving young US adults to use apps like Discord to make real-life friends; users say seeking friends as adults still carries stigma  —  American adults are lonely — and done waiting on friendship to find them IRL  —  On a gloomy June afternoon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Meta plans to launch Instagram’s standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which offers screenshots of some features  —  Instagram’s rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US.  The app will be called Threads … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: The social web is changing: Twitter set up limits, Reddit alienated its users, TikTok could get banned, and Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform  —  An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time.  Twitter has been on a steep … Lees verder op Tech Meme