Month: July 2023
Amazon’s iRobot Roomba acquisition under formal EU investigation
European Union regulators have opened an official investigation into Amazon’s proposed $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, the company behind the popular Roomba lineup of robot vacuum cleaners. In a press release, the European Commission said it’s concerned that “the transaction would allow Amazon to restrict competition in the market for…
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Twitter warns it could sue Meta over ‘copycat’ Threads app
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over concerns about its new Threads app, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In the letter, which is addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro argues that Meta used Twitter’s trade secrets and intellectual property to build Threads. But according…
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Razer undergoes desertification with its new PUBG: BATTLEGROUND collection
Razer has launched a new collection of gaming accessories based on the popular title PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, as part of a new partnership with Korean gaming conglomerate KRAFTON Inc. There isn’t anything new in the lineup. The company is simply taking some of its older products and giving them a fresh…
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Threads already has over 95 million posts
Instagram’s new Threads app seems like it could be a hit. Mark Zuckerberg said that the app has more than 30 million signups as of Thursday morning, and people who are checking it out are posting… er, threading… a lot, too. According to internal data I’ve seen, users have already…
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Threads profiles can’t be deleted without removing your entire Instagram account
Threads, Meta’s just-launched Twitter competitor, uses Instagram’s account system. That has the benefit of letting you bring over your Instagram username when you join the app. But it also ties the apps together in such a way that means you can’t delete your Threads account without deleting your Instagram one,…
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Nothing Phone 2 camera and display specs leak days ahead of launch
According to Wojciechowska, the upcoming device could feature a 50MP Sony IMX890 main camera sensor with optical image stabilization (OIS) and in-sensor zoom. That’s the same primary sensor used by the OnePlus 11, which my colleague Allison Johnson listed as one of the positive aspects of the device in her…
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