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| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Huawei announces its first device running Harmony OS, an Honor Vision smart TV launching on August 15 — Companies that have traditionally been known for their smartphones are venturing into the smart TV business. Xiaomi has been in this game for some time now, while OnePlus is also gearing up to launch its own smart screen product.
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| Emine Saner / The Guardian: |
Susan Wojcicki talks about the crises that have engulfed YouTube recently, the power of its platform, and being a working parent of five — As the crisis-hit video site struggles to stem the flow of extreme content, the CEO talks about her role as the internet's gatekeeper
Tweets: @caseynewton, @brianmcc, @timmaughan, @hshaban, and @hshaban
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Nike buys Celect, an AI startup focused on predicting what customers want, allowing better inventory management; Celect had raised over $30M from investors — Nike's market cap has swollen past $100 billion, but the shoe company still sees potential to learn more about what customers …
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China's central bank official says its digital currency, CBDC, is “ready”, and will not rely entirely on a pure blockchain architecture — Mu Changchun, Deputy Chief in the Payment and Settlement Division of the People's Bank of China (PBOC,) stated that the CBDC prototype exists … | Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Cisco to acquire Voicea, the maker of a voice assistant called Eva for business meetings; Voicea had raised $20M from investors including GV and Salesforce — Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it's bolstering its family of collaboration products with the acquisition of Voicea …
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Tweets: @chuckrobbins, @johnrobjohnson, and @cisco
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Telegram releases new features including sending messages without notification sound, a “slow mode” that restricts group members from messaging too often, more — The previous update brought more movement to Telegram - this one brings more peace of mind.| Lynne Marek / Chicago Business: |
The fintech company TastyTrade invests $20M in its new subsidiary Dough, a Robinhood-like no fee stock trading service with a $1 per month subscription — The new Chicago fintech firm, which will be a TastyTrade subsidiary, aims to take on Robinhood in wielding the smartphone to trade stocks.
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| April Glaser / Slate: |
Telegram has become a haven for white supremacists, violent men's groups, anti-PC agitators, and others who fear alleged censorship by big tech companies — The alleged shooter's manifesto was everywhere in the hours after the El Paso, Texas, Walmart shooting on Saturday.
Tweets: @dgolumbia, @levynews, @libshipwreck, @maasalan, @carnage4life, @frankpasquale, and @aprilaser
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Squad, an eight-month-old video chat and screen sharing app making a safe space for its 450K users, raises a $5M seed round; 70% of its users are teenage girls — Why CEO Esther Crawford is rewriting the playbook for social startups — When we go online to communicate, hang out or play … | April Glaser / Slate: |
There is a growing sentiment among Stanford's CS students to resist working at tech companies like Palantir that they feel are unethical — Palantir is about a 15-minute walk from Stanford University. That stone's-throw convenience helped one morning in June when a group of Stanford students perched …
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @ross, @dhh, @ethanz, and @aprilaser
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Swiss startup DeepCode raises $4M seed to expand its AI-powered system for code reviews that is mostly trained using data from open source GitHub repositories — We're fast approaching a point where every company is effectively a software company, a notion proffered by some of tech's top people such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.| Blake Montgomery / The Atlantic: |
Profile of Amazon Publishing, which puts out around 1,100 titles a year and, like Prime Video, exists to reinforce Prime memberships — What does the e-commerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision. — Have you read Victoria Helen Stone's False Step?
Tweets: @theatlantic
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