Latest Updates from Hey and a Tribute to a Tech Pioneer

Wirecard is wiped out. Amazon has its own Counterfeit Crimes Unit. Apple quietly made a change that will make things pretty tough on advertisers. Google won’t keep your data forever anymore and Hey basically wins.

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Links:

• 'The money's gone': Wirecard collapses owing $4 billion (Reuters)
• Google will start paying publishers to license content (Axios)
• Google will now auto-delete location and search history by default for new users (The Verge)
• Amazon forms ‘Counterfeit Crimes Unit,’ under pressure to escalate fight against fake products (GeekWire)
• Apple Just Crippled IDFA, Sending An $80 Billion Industry Into Upheaval (Forbes)
• SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and Alibaba’s Jack Ma Part Ways (Bloomberg)
• Amazon launches cloud service to help non-coders build apps (CNBC)
• Hey opens its email service to everyone as Apple approves its app for good (The Verge)
• Michael Hawley, Programmer, Professor and Pianist, Dies at 58 (NYTimes)

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