Filing: Walmart spent $3.5B in H1 2023 to buy Flipkart shares from Tiger Global and others, growing its Flipkart stake to ~80%, and resolve PhonePe liabilities (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Filing: Walmart spent $3.5B in H1 2023 to buy Flipkart shares from Tiger Global and others, growing its Flipkart stake to ~80%, and resolve PhonePe liabilities  —  Walmart has spent $3.5 billion this year to acquire shares from certain Flipkart stakeholders and resolve liabilities …

A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn't consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around "social issues, elections, or politics" (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn't consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics”  —  A nonprofit watchdog group has found that the right-wing group PragerU has pushed out more than 100 political ads …

How India may help WhatsApp monetise chats

Meta, the company that owns WhatsApp, is looking to make the messaging app profitable by monetizing business conversations with customers. They plan to leverage WhatsApp's large consumer base in countries like India and Brazil, where businesses often use the platform to engage with customers. However, WhatsApp's revenue is expected to be less than 1% of Meta's total sales. https://ift.tt/AVmFEH2

Facebook parent Meta ‘rejects’ new regulations of Canada's news law

The Canadian government has revealed new regulations under the Online News Act that require Meta and Google to pay Canadian news publishers. The regulations state that Meta and Google must pay a minimum of 4% of their annual revenue to news outlets for linking to news articles. Both companies argue that the law is unworkable for their businesses. https://ift.tt/SYdxFNn

Honor says Magic V2, its foldable phone launched in China in July 2023, will come to Europe, UK and other markets, except the US, in Q1 2024 for around €1,500 (Hadlee Simons/Android Authority)

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority:
Honor says Magic V2, its foldable phone launched in China in July 2023, will come to Europe, UK and other markets, except the US, in Q1 2024 for around €1,500  —  The Magic V2 will come to global markets roughly six months after the Chinese launch.  Ouch.  —  •  —  TL;DR

Hands on with Windows-powered $699 Lenovo Legion Go, with an 8.8" QHD+ screen, AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, and detachable controllers, available in October (Monica Chin/The Verge)

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Hands on with Windows-powered $699 Lenovo Legion Go, with an 8.8" QHD+ screen, AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor, and detachable controllers, available in October  —  Every company and its mother seems to be putting out handheld gaming PCs these days, and Lenovo is next to the plate.