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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land : Google is testing AI overviews in the main Google Search results with some users, even if they do not opt in to the Search Generative Experience labs feature   —  Some users who do not opt in to the Google Search labs SGE feature may see AI overview answers in the search results.  —  Chat with SearchBot from Techmeme https://ift.tt/BbhcSXa

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is adding live scores for NBA games, and plans to add support for additional leagues in the future   —  Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is adding live scores for sports games.  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that Threads … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/HyJKet6

Bloomberg : Reddit opens up 38%, at $47 per share, in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the company at about $9B on a fully diluted basis   —  The San Francisco-based company's stock began trading on Thursday at $47 each, above the offering price of $34 per share. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/5Xow0dj

Starbucks has been sued over "illegal price discrimination." Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Lactose intolerant customers sue Starbucks for $5 million over "illegal price discrimination." The suit says Starbucks discriminates against lactose intolerant customers by charging them extra.  Customers claim in the lawsuit Starbucks has violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.  Three Starbucks customers have sued the coffee chain in a $5 million class action lawsuit, accusing it of intentionally discriminating against lactose intolerant people by charging them more money for non-dairy milk options. Lawyers for the customers accuse the coffee giant of raking in more than $1 billion in recent years "as a result of its discriminatory and illegal levying" of the extra charge for non-dairy alternatives, including plant-based or lactose-free milk. In the lawsuit, which was filed last week in a California federal court, the plaintiffs ...

Niamh Rowe / Fortune : Morph, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that uses a combination of optimistic and zero-knowledge rollup technologies, raised a $19M seed led by DragonFly Capital   —  Morph, a layer-2 Ethereum Virtual Machine, today announced a $19 million seed round led by DragonFly Capital. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/0tiVIjM

Shou Zi Chew is the face of TikTok's effort to stay up and running in the US. Kin Cheung/AP TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is pleading with users to fight calls for a ban of the social media app . He's 41 years old, went to Harvard Business School, and interned at Facebook when it was a startup. Here's what else we know about him. TikTok is under a lot of scrutiny right now. US lawmakers worry the video-sharing platform, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, poses a danger to national security. The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would force any company owned by a "foreign adversary" to divest or sell to a US-based company within 180 days in order to keep operating in the US. Now, TikTok faces a potential ban or forced sale, and President Joe Biden has said he would sign it into law if it passes the senate. So who's leading the company through this turbulent period? That would be Shou Zi Chew, TikTok's 41-year-old CE...

Jing Yang / The Information : Sources: the US accounted for 60% of Temu's GMV in 2023, but the company hopes to reduce the share to as low as 30% by 2025, as US anti-China hostility grows   —  jing@theinformation.com Profile and archive  —  As Chinese shopping site Temu faces mounting hostility toward Chinese companies … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3fioyBc