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Verizon and T-Mobile say Pixel 4 won't support RCS messaging on their networks at launch (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Verizon and T-Mobile say Pixel 4 won’t support RCS messaging on their networks at launch  —  The rollout of RCS messaging has been an absolute mess – to the point where Google is actually taking things over from carriers.  Now, there’s more bad news.  Google’s Pixel 4 won’t support RCS …

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Paris-based mobile game maker Madbox, which says it has generated 100M game downloads, raises €15M Series A from Alven Capital (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Paris-based mobile game maker Madbox, which says it has generated 100M game downloads, raises €15M Series A from Alven Capital  —  French startup Madbox is raising a $16.5 million (€15 million) Series A funding round from Alven.  The company is developing mobile games … Paris-based mobile game maker Madbox, which says

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G7 report says Facebook's Libra poses competition and antitrust challenges and should not be launched until all legal and regulatory risks are addressed (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: G7 report says Facebook’s Libra poses competition and antitrust challenges and should not be launched until all legal and regulatory risks are addressed  —  Company-created digital currencies such as Facebook’s Libra could “pose challenges for competition and antitrust policies” … G7 report says Facebook's Libra poses competition and antitrust challenges

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Quibi partners with T-Mobile, which will make the platform part of its offering, giving Quibi a broad distribution platform ahead of its April launch (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)

Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times: Quibi partners with T-Mobile, which will make the platform part of its offering, giving Quibi a broad distribution platform ahead of its April launch  —  Telecommunications giant T-Mobile has agreed to partner with Quibi, a Hollywood start-up that plans to distribute bite-size entertainment designed for millennials. Quibi partners with

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Facebook says it is working on ways to prevent child exploitation on its platforms once it introduces end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

{$inline_image} Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Facebook says it is working on ways to prevent child exploitation on its platforms once it introduces end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps  —  Facebook has revealed a two-year project to work out how to prevent minors from being groomed and exploited on its platforms … Facebook says it

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