Innovative Features and Corporate Confrontations

Facebook rolls out that Spotify integration. Roku accuses Google of making anticompetitive demands for YouTube TV. iOS 14.5 rolls out, and with it that App Tracking Transparency tool. Apple plans a big new campus in North Carolina. And DoNotPay’s latest service helps protect your selfies from the global panopticon. 

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• Facebook introduces a new miniplayer that streams Spotify within the Facebook app(Tech Crunch)
• Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room (Venture Beat)
• Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands (Axios)
• OnlyFans feels the lockdown love as transactions hit £1.7bn (Financial Times)
• German groups file Apple antitrust complaint as it makes privacy changes (Financial Times)
• To Be Tracked or Not? Apple Is Now Giving Us the Choice. (New York Times)
• Apple will spend $1 billion to open 3,000-employee campus in North Carolina (CNBC)
• DoNotPay's new tool makes your photos undetectable to facial recognition software (Input)

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