An effort by a Chinese advertising group to circumvent Apple’s new rules over ad tracking has failed to gain traction, the Financial Times reported. The failure of the workaround shows how Apple still has leverage over Chinese apps even ones such as WeChat and Alipay that are considered too big to remove. Apple’s app store policies now require developers to ask for permission to track users...
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Once dubbed the “it girl” of venture capital, Li Jin seems to always be in the loop. With her first fund, Atelier Ventures, Jin was one of the earliest investors to bet big on online creators and influencers, advising the likes of YouTuber Hank Green and investing in Substack and Patreon. She’s now a co-founder of Variant Fund, an early-stage crypto fund, while also writing a...
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