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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A close reading of the S-1 of the soap opera that is The We Company, a “tech company” whose mission “is to elevate the world's consciousness” — On August 14th, The We Company (the company formerly known as WeWork) filed its mandatory S-1 paperwork to go public, and it's worth reading in full.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
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| The Keyword: |
Google Assistant now lets users create reminders that can be assigned to friends or family, including scheduled time-based or location-based reminders — If you're a fellow parent, you probably spend a lot of time coordinating with your partner through on-the-fly conversations, text messages or phone calls.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple sues mobile device virtualization company Corellium, accusing it of copyright infringement for illegally replicating iOS, along with iPhone and iPad apps — Apple today filed a lawsuit against Corellium, a mobile device virtualization company that supports iOS.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Coinbase has acquired the custody business of Xapo, a service best known for storing bitcoins in a vault under a Swiss mountain; source says for $55M — Cryptocurrency firm Coinbase has acquired the custody business of Xapo, a service best known for storing Bitcoins in a vault under a Swiss mountain.
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The Coinbase Blog, CoinDesk, The Block, Cointelegraph, and CryptoGlobe
Tweets: @coinbasecustody, @jeffjohnroberts, @danprimack, and @alex
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Canalys: North American wearables market hit $2B in Q2, as market leader Apple grew 32% YoY with 2.9M units shipped, Fitbit grew 18%, and Samsung grew 121% — In North America, the market for wearables — particularly wearable bands — is still continuing to grow, and Apple's popular Apple …
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| Biswarup Gooptu / The Economic Times: |
India-based Twitter-like platform ShareChat, which supports multiple regional languages, raises $100M round led by Twitter, sources say at $600M-$650M valuation — Regional language social networking platform ShareChat has completed a $100 million (about Rs 718 crore) equity financing round led … | David Frankel / Founder Collective: |
Overview of startup exits outside Silicon Valley from the past ten years, not including Asian companies: Sweden edges out UK, Boston remains big, more — There's never been a better time to build a company outside the Bay Area — The Bay Area has been the best place to build a startup for the last two decades.
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| Hilary Milnes / Digiday: |
Sources and a leaked pitch deck indicate that Amazon may have offered vendors the ability to bid for an Amazon Choice badge in 2017 — Amazon has previously offered vendors the ability to “bid” for an Amazon's Choice badge by lowering prices and spending more money on advertising …
Tweets: @petersontee, @digiday, and @hilarymilnes
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Cloudflare files for an IPO, citing sites like 8chan as one risk factor, says it had revenues of $192.7M in 2018, up 43% YoY, and a net loss of $87.2M — The company (which made its debut on TechCrunch's Battlefield stage) has put a placeholder value of the offering at $100 million …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Ripple's investment subsidiary Xpring grants 1B XRP, around $262M, to Coil, a micropayments platform for content creators, to drive adoption of the token — Ripple's investment subsidiary Xpring has granted 1 billion XRP to Coil, a micropayments platform for content creators …
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PR Newswire, Messari Crypto, Coinspeaker, Modern Consensus, Cointelegraph, and BitcoinExchangeGuide. Tweets: @mdudas
| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
YouTube's guidelines may not discriminate against LGBTQ creators, but their vagueness and ad-friendly conservatism leads to discriminatory enforcement — A new lawsuit highlights a basic injustice in YouTube's “ad-friendly” policies — ouTube wants to be a platform for self-expression for all kinds of people.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
Study: leading AI models to detect hate speech are 1.5x more likely to flag tweets by African Americans as offensive or hateful, partly due to social context — A new study shows that leading AI models are 1.5 times more likely to flag tweets written by African Americans as “offensive” compared to other tweets.
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Inquirer. Tweets: @skepticalsports, @wideasleepnima, @moneymadu, @fakerapper, @rusulalrubail, @shiringhaffary, and @angebassa
| Aric Toler / bellingcat: |
A deep dive into Amazon FC Ambassadors program finds 53 Ambassador accounts in seven countries, some of which are using fake identities and recycling accounts — On August 14, a Twitter thread that included a small army of “Amazon FC Ambassadors” went viral, bringing to light Amazon's year-long social media brand ambassador program.
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New York Times, Adweek, and Engadget
Tweets: @bellingcat, @bellingcat, @bellingcat, @zackwhittaker, and @lostfutures
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says its US job footprint reached 2.4M and it is on track to hit its goal of directly contributing $350B to the US economy by 2023 — Apple today has shared an update on its job footprint and growth in the United States. It touts that its US job footprint is 2.4 million people in the US.
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Apple, Patently Apple, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Appleosophy, Cult of Mac, iMore, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @stevekovach and @jowens510
| Karl Bode / VICE: |
Google says data from its new “Password Checkup” Chrome extension shows that 1.5% of all website logins use credentials that have been compromised — New ‘Password Checkup’ Chrome extension found 1.5 percent of all website logins use compromised credentials, a figure that's higher for porn websites.
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Google Online Security Blog, MacDailyNews, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @karlbode, @campuscodi, @deciphersec, @ericgeller, and @brooklyndan
| The Information: |
Investors and employees of Toptal, a freelancing platform with ~$200M revenue and originally funded by $1.5M in convertible notes, have ended up with no equity — Toptal, a service that connects companies with freelance software engineers, is a Silicon Valley success story.
Tweets: @bryce, @amir, @amir, @amir, @amir, @cityofthetown, @amir, @lpolovets, @amir, @bizcarson, @alexrkonrad, @amir, and @amir
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
In a memo sent internally before he left the company, a Google employee wrote about “the burden of being black at Google”, noting he regularly faced racism — “Over the last 5 years I've heard co-workers spew hateful words about immigrants, boast unabashedly about gentrifying neighborhoods … | James Sanders / TechRepublic: |
After the latest firmware update, some Surface Pro 6 and Surface Book 2 devices are throttling CPU speeds to 400 MHz; Microsoft says it is working on a fix — User reports indicate that an erroneously set CPU flag is sending Intel Core processors back into the Pentium II age.
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Engadget, SlashGear, TechRadar.com, Tom's Hardware, The Verge, OnMSFT.com, WinBuzzer, Windows Central, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @techlinkedyt. Thanks:@jas_np
| Ronald Eikenberg / heise online: |
Data leak in Kaspersky's antivirus software for Windows has allowed third parties to potentially track users by injecting unique IDs into web pages since 2015 — Kaspersky promises security and data protection. However, a data leak allowed third parties to spy on users while they were surfing the web.
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BleepingComputer, The Register, The Hacker News, Tom's Guide, Tom's Hardware, Security Affairs, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @jckichen and @dangoodin001
| April Glaser / Slate: |
Tech companies can do a lot more to protect the identities of people speaking in recordings used to train AI, like shifting the voice or gender of the speaker — It turns out that Siri, Alexa, and whatever it is you call Facebook Messenger have been a little loose-lipped with your conversations.
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