Wed. 06/30 – Facebook’s Substack Clone

Facebook launches its Substack clone. Emphasis on clone. Shopify joins the platform tax wars by going to zero. A truce between Microsoft and Google has just lapsed. A big raise in the drone space. And would you pay to get actual search results instead of ads? Sponsors: Cybereason.com Links: Facebook announces Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor (The Verge) Shopify drops its App Store commissions to 0% on developers’ first million in revenue (Tech Crunch) Google and Microsoft End Their Five-Year Cease-Fire (Bloomberg) T-Mobile is offering iPhone owners no-hassle network ‘test drives’ (The Verge) Alphabet’s Wing launches OpenSky drone airspace authorization app in US (Tech Crunch) Zipline raises $250M at $2.75B valuation to build out its instant logistics service (Tech Crunch) Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers (Fast Company)