Tech Roundup: Microsoft BUILD Conference, Uber's Rocky Stock Market Debut & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

• India's antitrust regulator, the Competition Commission of India, reportedly begins investigation into whether Google' Android abused its dominant position in the market to block rivals. (In India, 99 percent of the phones sold this year use Android.)
• Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes calls for a break up of the social network, and urges regulators to reverse its acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, adding "Mark [Zuckerberg]'s influence is staggering, far beyond that of anyone else in the private sector or in government. He controls three core communications platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — that billions of people use every day"; Facebook responds by stating that it “accepts that with success comes accountability. But you don't enforce accountability by calling for the breakup of a successful American company.” (Hughes is not the first former Facebook insider to criticise the company. Sean Parker, Chamath Palihapitiya, Roger McNamee, Brian Acton, Tim Kendall, Mark Luckie, and Alex Stamos have all have shared their concerns over Facebook and how CEO Mark Zuckerberg has handled the company.)
• Apple and Google remove three dating apps - FastMeet, Meet24 and Meet4U - from their respective app stores after it comes to light that the apps don't prevent users who say they are under 13 from using them or allow others to find them, raising concerns of child exploitation.
• Microsoft rolls out a brand new Windows Terminal for command-line users at its annual Build conference and says it plans to ship a full Linux kernel directly in Windows 10 after bringing support for bash shell and OpenSSH; launches browser-based online Visual Studio code editor, teases Chromium-based Edge browser for Mac and brings new privacy controls (Strict, Balanced and Unrestricted) to block ads and trackers on the web.

Uber made a rocky debut in NYSE on Friday

• Ride hailing startup officially prices its IPO at US$ 45 a share as it makes a rocky stock market debut (shares opened at US$ 42, down from the IPO price, and ended its first day of trading at US$ 41.57, down 7.6 percent); begins trialing e-bikes and bicycles rides in India in partnership with Bengaluru-based bicycle sharing platform Yulu.
• Apple plans to bring system-wide dark mode, revamped Health and reminders apps and native support for continuous typing with iOS 13, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman; macOS to get standalone Apple Music, Podcasts and unified Find My iPhone/Find My Friends apps, and Siri shortcut integration, among others.
• Twitter makes it easy to Retweet with GIF, photos, and video; retweets will be intended to the right and have the original tweet in smaller text while keeping the profile picture intact.
• Bitcoin value hits US$ 6,000 for the first time in 2019, after hitting a low of just over US$ 3,100 last December.
• Google's paid music streaming services Google Play Music and YouTube Music have a combined 15 million subscribers, far behind Apple Music's 50 million and Spotify's 100 million subscriber base, but ahead of Pandora, which has about 7 million paying users.
• Instagram creates a new @shop account to promote small businesses and their products as it continues to rebrand itself as a shopping destination.
• Cloud storage service provider Dropbox makes a net loss of US$ 7.7 million on revenue of US$ 385.6 million for the period Jan-March 2019, with 13.2 million paying users, up from 11.5 million for the same period last year.