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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Huawei delays launch of its foldable Mate X phone from June to September, says it is doing extra tests after Samsung's troubles with the Galaxy Fold  —  KEY POINTS  — The company had initially targeted a June launch, but a spokesperson told CNBC, that it was doing extra tests …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook has signed up 12+ companies, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber, to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week  —  Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber are among firms that will invest around $10 million each in consortium that will govern digital coin
CNBC:
Sources: Comcast and Charter agree to sell iPads and other Apple devices at a discount in iPhone deal; Comcast to pay for the cost of the discount  —  KEY POINTS  — Comcast and Charter agreed to sell thousands of Apple devices as part of a deal to offer the iPhone to customers for its mobile service.
Larry Cermak / The Block:
Binance announces that it will stop serving trading customers in the US from September; Binance gets ~15% of its traffic from US customers  —  Binance, the largest crypto-to-crypto exchange by volume, has announced that it will stop serving U.S. individual and corporate customers on its main platform, Binance.com.
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Initial impressions of iPadOS: new multitasking features are powerful but will take time to get used to, and Safari's desktop-class browsing is impressive  —  When I published my Beyond the Tablet story a few weeks ago, I was optimistic we'd get a handful of iPad-related features and optimizations at WWDC.
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Binance says it is setting up a US trading platform in partnership with FinCEN-registered BAM Trading Services, but offers no timeline for its launch  —  Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is launching a U.S. division.  —  The Malta-based company said Thursday …
Allen Day / Google Cloud Blog:
Google details how developers could use Chainlink to enable Ethereum smart contracts to communicate with BigQuery  —  Try GCP  —  Get $300 free credit to spend over 12 months.  —  Free Trial  —  Blockchains focus on mathematical effort to create a shared consensus.
André Staltz:
Research: of the 58 most popular open source projects on funding platform Open Collective, 80%+ receive income below industry standards or the poverty threshold  —  Most people believe that open source sustainability is a difficult problem to solve.  As an open source developer myself …
Isabelle Gustafson / Convenience Store Decisions:
Skupos, a data platform for convenience retail used by over 7,000 locations in the US, raises $26M Series B, bringing the total raised to $37M  —  Skupos works with more than 7,000 retail locations and has raised $37 million in venture capital to date.  —  Skupos announced it has raised $26 million …
Paresh Dave / Reuters:
Sources: in Karan Bhatia's first year as Google's policy lead, he's encouraged relationship building with governments, cut some contract lobbyists, and more  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is trying to plug a surge of public scrutiny around the world by overhauling …
Lauren Hirsch / CNBC:
Chewy, an online pet product retailer owned by PetSmart, opens up ~64% on its first day of trading after raising $1B in its IPO, and is now valued at ~$14.3B  —  KEY POINTS  — PetSmart acquired Chewy.com in 2017 for roughly $3 billion to add an online business to complement its store base, as trends shifted online.
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
At E3, console makers and game publishers, including Ubisoft, Microsoft, and Google, touted subscription services as they race to become the “Netflix for games”  —  The race to become “Netflix for Games” is on  —  With the first details coming out around the next Xbox and PlayStation …

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Natalie Korach / @nataliekorach:
Sources: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray spiked a story prepared by the newspaper's media desk covering the historic layoffs

Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
News Corp reports $242M in Q2 net income, down 21% YoY, rev. up 6% YoY to $2.36B vs. $2.30B est., digital-only WSJ subs up 13% to 4.3M, HarperCollins rev. up 6%

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Lionsgate hires Kathleen Grace, previously chief strategy officer at AI company Vermillio, as its first-ever chief AI officer to lead AI strategy and execution

More News

Reuters:
Parler, a right-wing social site, had ~200K signups this week, reportedly Saudi Arabians frustrated at Twitter's policies; CEO says it doubled its total users
Corbin Davenport / Android Police:
Huawei seems to be showing lock screen ads on the P30 Pro, P20, Honor 10, P20 Pro, and others when the built-in magazine background images are used
Christina Farr / CNBC:
Sources: GE Ventures has been shopping itself for several months, looking for a buyer for its portfolio of more than 100 startups

Earlier Picks

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google's Area 120 incubator launches Game Builder, a sandbox for people without programming skills to create 3D games, available free on Steam for Mac and PC
Tom Warren / The Verge:
UK-based digital bank Monzo launches in the US, says it doesn't have its own US banking license and won't be lending US customers money
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:
Telegram says it faced a massive DDoS attack originating from China coinciding with protests in Hong Kong, where organizers used the app to evade surveillance
Chris Welch / The Verge:
After leaked images were published, Google tweets a teaser picture of the Pixel 4, expected in October, confirming at least two rear cameras
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