June 4, 20210CommentsA 2007 email between Steve Jobs and then Apple SVP of Software Engineering, approving 3rd party iPhone apps and an App Store, surfaces among Epic trial docs (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch)
June 4, 20210CommentsSources: Facebook plans to launch Bulletin, its Substack clone, at the end of June; it will live outside Facebook in part to evade Apple and Google’s 30% fees (Peter Kafka/Vox)
June 4, 20210CommentsNigeria suspends Twitter operations, says platform ‘undermines its corporate existence’
June 4, 20210CommentsAWS hired at least 66 former US government officials since 2018; AWS employee says such hires give the company a “leg up” in winning government contracts (Politico)
June 4, 20210CommentsFacebook announces that politicians’ posts will no longer be exempt from the company’s rules that prevent users from engaging in harmful speech (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
June 4, 20210CommentsNigeria suspends Twitter operations after the site deleted tweets and videos of President Buhari making threats to the south eastern part of the country (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
June 4, 20210CommentsIn response to Oversight Board ruling, Facebook suspends Trump’s accounts until January 7, 2023, and says it will then reconsider suspension if conditions allow (Nick Clegg/About Facebook)
June 4, 20210CommentsTezlab CEO Ben Schippers to discuss the Tesla effect and the next wave of EV startups at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021
