Escalating Rivalries and New Opportunities in Tech

Facebook launches its Substack clone. Emphasis on clone. Shopify joins the platform tax wars by going to zero. A truce between Microsoft and Google has just lapsed. A big raise in the drone space. And would you pay to get actual search results instead of ads?

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Links:

• Facebook announces Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor (The Verge)
• Shopify drops its App Store commissions to 0% on developers’ first million in revenue (Tech Crunch)
• Google and Microsoft End Their Five-Year Cease-Fire (Bloomberg)
• T-Mobile is offering iPhone owners no-hassle network ‘test drives’ (The Verge)
• Alphabet’s Wing launches OpenSky drone airspace authorization app in US (Tech Crunch)
• Zipline raises $250M at $2.75B valuation to build out its instant logistics service (Tech Crunch)
• Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers (Fast Company)

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