Vibes-based antitrust hits Microsoft - by Casey Newton

The company's Activision Blizzard merger might once have sailed through — but times have changed
The company's Activision Blizzard merger might once have sailed through — but times have changed

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Techmeme: Google adds foundation and hair dye options to its AR shopping tool for trying beauty products, and expands the tool to mobile browsers and Google Shopping ads (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Techmeme: Book excerpt: as he exits Apple's board, Disney's Bob Iger recounts talks with Steve Jobs before Disney bought Pixar, and how their friendship grew (Robert Iger/Vanity Fair)

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Vibes-based antitrust hits Microsoft - by Casey Newton

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Techmeme: Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as the app is no longer under development (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Techmeme: Source: Instagram plans to add branded content tools to Threads, letting marketers do paid promotion, but won't add ads before Threads hits a critical user mass (Axios)

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Techmeme: Denver-based Velocity Global, which helps companies hire remote and international workers, raises a $400M Series B, and says it generated $125M in 2021 revenue (Kamaron Leach/Bloomberg)

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