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Sensor Tower data: TikTok and Chinese twin app Douyin topped the charts globally for in-app purchases in April, generating $78M, up 10x from April 2019 (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Sensor Tower data: TikTok and Chinese twin app Douyin topped the charts globally for in-app purchases in April, generating $78M, up 10x from April 2019 — – ByteDance’s popular video-sharing platform keeps rising — Douyin, TikTok’s China version, contributed 87% of [Read More...]

How services like Cameo and Substack have opened up new ways for prominent media figures and journalists to make a living from smaller audiences (Ben Smith/New York Times)

Ben Smith / New York Times: How services like Cameo and Substack have opened up new ways for prominent media figures and journalists to make a living from smaller audiences — With short videos and paid newsletters, everyone from superstars to half-forgotten former athletes and even journalists can, as one tech figure put it, [Read More...]

Book excerpt looks at NSA’s Big Awesome Graph initiative, an attempt to map people’s social networks out of an enormous trove of intercepted communications (Barton Gellman/Wired)

Barton Gellman / Wired: Book excerpt looks at NSA’s Big Awesome Graph initiative, an attempt to map people’s social networks out of an enormous trove of intercepted communications — Edward Snowden revealed the agency’s phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” [Read More...]

FCC may move ahead with a $16B plan to boost rural broadband access, even without a clear picture of service gaps, as ISPs’ coverage data lacks granularity (Ryan Tracy/Wall Street Journal)

Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: FCC may move ahead with a $16B plan to boost rural broadband access, even without a clear picture of service gaps, as ISPs’ coverage data lacks granularity — Under FCC’s latest plan to fund to internet providers’ service expansions, many rural customers who lack broadband could [Read More...]

Australia’s Covidsafe tracking app has faded into near-irrelevance, falling far short of a target to reach 40% of Australians (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)

Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Australia’s Covidsafe tracking app has faded into near-irrelevance, falling far short of a target to reach 40% of Australians — The PM told Australians in April the contact tracing app was key to getting back to normal but just one person has been identified using its [Read More...]

Thailand’s largest cell network, AIS, has pulled a database offline that was leaking billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Thailand’s largest cell network, AIS, has pulled a database offline that was leaking billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users — Thailand’s largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on [Read More...]

An in-depth look at the baseless conspiracies attempting to turn Bill Gates into the pandemic’s villain, widely shared on Facebook and YouTube (Ryan Broderick/BuzzFeed News)

Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: An in-depth look at the baseless conspiracies attempting to turn Bill Gates into the pandemic’s villain, widely shared on Facebook and YouTube — After months of conspiracy-mongering, people around the world are demanding Gates be arrested for crimes against humanity. Here’s how [Read More...]

AuctionAnything.com Offers Free Setup to Fundraising Clients

Orlando, FL, May 25, 2020 –(PR.com)– Today, AuctionAnything.com, a pioneer in online auction software, announced the immediate $295 discount for all fundraising event setups to better assist their clients during these times of difficulty. This offer will remain effective until July 15, 2020 to help remove any barriers of entry for [Read More...]

Suria International Announced Expanded Operations in Canada and UK

Singapore, Singapore, May 25, 2020 –(PR.com)– Coronavirus outbreak has forced many enterprises to shut their operations across the world. All industry sectors have taken a brunt of this dreaded pandemic, and the IT sector is no exception. However, some technology companies have managed to survive amid the lock down and sinking economy, [Read More...]

Google says ~70% of all serious security bugs in Chrome, largely written in C/C++, are memory safety flaws, after analyzing 912 security bugs fixed since 2015 (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Google says ~70% of all serious security bugs in Chrome, largely written in C/C++, are memory safety flaws, after analyzing 912 security bugs fixed since 2015 — Google software engineers are looking into ways of eliminating memory management-related bugs from [Read More...]

Fly Victor, Clive Jackson, Dan Northover and Bernardus Vorster Sued in Second Civil Racketeering (“RICO”) Complaint Alleging Fraudulent “Administration” in London

London, United Kingdom, May 25, 2020 –(PR.com)– Fly Victor and Clive Henry Jackson are now facing a Civil Racketeering “RICO” Lawsuit that alleges the intentional fraudulent scheme and criminal enterprise to use Plaintiff’s intellectual property asset, PrivateJet.com, to steal industry revenue shares and, [Read More...]

Forescout Technologies sued Advent International last week, after the PE firm pulled out of a deal announced in Feb. to buy the IoT security company for $1.9B (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Forescout Technologies sued Advent International last week, after the PE firm pulled out of a deal announced in Feb. to buy the IoT security company for $1.9B — (Reuters) – Forescout Technologies Inc (FSCT.O) sued Advent International Corp on Wednesday, after the private equity firm pulled [Read More...]

Wikimedia’s board votes to adopt a formal moderation process, with policies drafted by the end of 2020, to deal with harassment and other “toxic” behavior (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Adi Robertson / The Verge: Wikimedia’s board votes to adopt a formal moderation process, with policies drafted by the end of 2020, to deal with harassment and other “toxic” behavior — Trustees say it hasn’t done enough to stop abuse — Wikipedia plans to crack down on harassment and other [Read More...]

Telegram says it is withdrawing its appeal after a court decision backed the SEC and will no longer be fighting the ban on its blockchain token project (Anna Baydakova/CoinDesk)

Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: Telegram says it is withdrawing its appeal after a court decision backed the SEC and will no longer be fighting the ban on its blockchain token project — Telegram has thrown in the towel in its court battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and will no longer [Read More...]

With GDPR’s two-year anniversary on Monday, the Irish Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, amidst doubts about the agency’s enforcement ability (Mark Scott/Politico)

Mark Scott / Politico: With GDPR’s two-year anniversary on Monday, the Irish Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, amidst doubts about the agency’s enforcement ability — Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, and act soon. — Facebook’s European [Read More...]

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