Alicia Clanton / Bloomberg:
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads antitrust lawsuits are “going to take time … to play out” and an appeal “will likely take many years” — – Company faces two separate challenges from Justice Department … “It’s going to take time for it to play out …
Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation — Digital transformation — upgrading a company’s legacy apps and processes with new tech — has long been a buzzy and lucrative business.
Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, alleging it engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers’ reliance on Windows (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, alleging it engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers’ reliance on Windows — Search giant seeks antitrust probe of Big Tech rival over dominance of Azure platform
Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on federally funded chip projects, breaking with environmental groups and House Democrats (Politico)
Politico:
Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on federally funded chip projects, breaking with environmental groups and House Democrats — The White House’s environmental and manufacturing goals are now on a collision course, after Congress voted and Biden approved …
X releases its first transparency report since Musk took over; X took action against 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021 (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
X releases its first transparency report since Musk took over; X took action against 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021 — In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotics simulation service, raised a $21.5M seed from EQT Ventures and others, taking its total funding to $24M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotics simulation service, raised a $21.5M seed from EQT Ventures and others, taking its total funding to $24M — One of Nvidia’s fundamental breakthroughs has involved processors that power detailed, compute-intensive graphical simulations …
Reddit begins rolling out its ML-powered translations in Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and 30+ others on the web, mobile, and desktop (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Reddit begins rolling out its ML-powered translations in Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and 30+ others on the web, mobile, and desktop — Reddit is bringing machine learning-powered translations to more than 35 new locales in Europe, Asia and Latin America in a move designed …
Book excerpt: how Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the industry’s unstoppable pair, had a falling out starting in 2013 (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Book excerpt: how Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the industry’s unstoppable pair, had a falling out starting in 2013 — Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry’s unstoppable pair, until they fought each other. An excerpt from the new book Play Nice.
Retro Remake says its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits, which don’t require soldering or modifications, will go on sale on September 26 for $50 to $110 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Retro Remake says its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits, which don’t require soldering or modifications, will go on sale on September 26 for $50 to $110 — Retro Remake has announced that its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits will be available for sale on September 26th at 10PM ET and will start at $49.99.
Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent its own letter on Monday (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent its own letter on Monday — The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.
