Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: the European Commission plans to open an investigation next week into Microsoft for bundling Teams with Office, after deeming concessions insufficient  —  Investigation would centre on claims US tech giant is unfairly linking its videoconferencing app with popular software Lees verder op Tech Meme

Larry Madowo / CNN: Former Twitter Africa staff, laid off after accepting a May 2023 offer of three months’ severance, say they have not been paid or even heard from Twitter since  —  Former employees of Twitter Africa who were laid off as part of a global cost-cutting measure after Elon Musk’s acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times: An interview with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky on designing tools to keep users coming back more often, pulling back from China, “the great reshuffle”, and more  —  Head of networking site says building a strong team and avoiding day-to-day minutiae are key to the job Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clothilde Goujard / Politico: The Norwegian Data Protection Authority orders Meta to stop showing users personalized ads for three months starting on August 4 or face a daily ~€89,500 fine  —  Meta’s social media platforms will be barred from behavioral advertising in August.  —  3 MINUTES READ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Millions of sensitive emails have been missent to the .ML domain due to people mistyping the US military’s .MIL domain; Mali retakes control of .ML on July 17  —  Common spelling error has misdirected sensitive Pentagon messages to a company running Mali’s internet domain Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to discontinue Games with Gold on September 1 and to replace Xbox Live Gold with Xbox Game Pass Core, which includes 25+ games, on September 14  —  Microsoft is launching a new Xbox Game Pass Core subscription to replace Xbox Live Gold.  This new Game Pass Core offering … Lees verder op Tech Meme