🥇 Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps
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Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps. If you use an iPhone or Android phone, chances are the majority of your most-used apps were made by Apple and Google. That’s the takeaway from a new Comscore study that ranks the popularity of preinstalled iOS and Android apps, such as Apple’s Messages, alongside apps made by other developers. (Alex Heath via The Verge)
Inside the FBI, Russia, and Ukraine's failed cybercrime investigation. Bit by bit, the American investigators began to sketch a picture of the culprits. Soon Operation Trident Breach, as they called it, homed in on a highly advanced organized-crime operation that was based in Eastern Europe but had global reach. (Patrick Howell O'Neill via MIT Technology Review)
Trump to say he is suing Twitter, Facebook, Google and CEOs Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Pichai. Former President Donald Trump took his fight with three massive tech companies to court, filing lawsuits that legal experts say are all but guaranteed to fail – even as they rally Republican voters, fundraisers and donors. (Kevin Breuninger via CNBC)
Here's a searchable database of the top 327 members of Donald Trump's White House alumni influence network.I nsider went searching for where 327 of the most prominent Trump alumniended up after the administration. At least99 have establishment ties with prominent lobbying shops, law firms, think tanks, big business or Corporate America, including Ben… (Robin Bravender via Business Insider)
Covid Deaths Reach 4 Million as Vaccine Disparity Exposes Poor. The global death toll from Covid-19 has reached 4 million, as a growing disparity in vaccine access leaves poorer nations exposed to outbreaks of more infectious strains. (Felix Tam via Bloomberg)
Younited Credit raises $170 million for its data-driven credit offering. French startup Younited Credit has raised a $170 million funding round. Goldman Sachs is leading the round with existing investors Eurazeo, Bpifrance and AG2R La Mondiale also participating. (Romain Dillet via TechCrunch)
Software Firm at Center of Ransomware Attack Was Warned of Cyber Flaw in April. The software company linked to a massive ransomware spree that began last week and has impacted hundreds of organizations across the globe was notified in early April of a cybersecurity vulnerability used in the attack, according to the Dutch security researcher group that discovered the issue. (Dustin Volz via Wall Street Journal)
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