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Bipartisan House lawmakers ask Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple for detailed information about internal operations and execs' emails in antitrust probe — A congressional antitrust investigation into Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google entered a new phase Friday, after lawmakers called …
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How incidents like banning an “Always Punch Nazis” comic at Kickstarter led to a unionization push by employees who believe in the altruistic image of the brand — Kickstarter never wanted to be a normal tech company. A crowdfunding platform for artists, gadget-makers …
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Google Photos starts rolling out Memories, a tool that brings back old photos and videos on their anniversaries in an Instagram Stories-like format — A new feature to help you reminisce, plus same-day printing — Google Photos is adding features to encourage reminiscing …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
iOS 13 exploit bypasses the lockscreen to get access to contacts, appears to be fixed in beta copies of iOS 13.1, which is slated for release on September 30 — Security flaw should be fixed in iOS 13.1 — Apple is planning to release iOS 13 next week, but one security researcher has already discovered a lockscreen bypass.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Daqri, which built enterprise-grade AR headsets and reportedly raised $275M in funding, has closed its HQ, laid off many employees, ahead of a shutdown — While Apple and Microsoft strain to sell augmented reality as the next major computing platform, many of the startups aiming … | Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Dapper Labs, developer of CryptoKitties, raises $11.2M from a16z, Warner Music Group, and others for its proof-of-stake, high transaction volume blockchain Flow — Now that Warner Music Group has mastered streaming, generating $2 billion in revenue from the technology, the music giant behind Cardi B …
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| Isabel Kershner / New York Times: |
Facebook imposed a 24-hour ban on a chatbot operated by the official account of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for violating hate speech rules — JERUSALEM — Facebook suspended a chatbot operated by the official account of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday …
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| Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter: |
AT&T's WarnerMedia signs an exclusive five-year deal with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot for TV, film, and streaming projects; sources: deal is worth ~$250M — Bad Robot, the production company he runs with his wife and co-CEO, Katie McGrath, will now have all of its divisions …
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Google says it changed how it ranks stories and updated guidelines for evaluation of search results to help better identify and surface original news reporting — Google Search was built to provide everyone access to information on the web—and with tens of thousands of web pages …
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| Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail: |
Element AI, which helps companies improve their operations using AI, raises $151.4M Series B, reportedly at a $625M valuation — Your time is valuable. Have the Top Business Headlines newsletter conveniently delivered to your inbox in the morning or evening. Sign up today.
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| Priyamvada Mathur / PitchBook: |
Cloudflare prices its IPO at $15/share, raising $525M, which gives it an initial market cap of ~$4.4B, an increase of 144%+ over its last private valuation — Cloudflare priced its shares at $15 apiece Thursday, above the high end of its upwardly revised range, raising $525 million in the process.
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| Lindsey O'Donnell / Threatpost: |
Researchers: “SimJacker”, a widespread SIM card-based vulnerability, is being exploited by a private actor “that works with governments to monitor individuals” — A vulnerability discovered in mobile SIM cards is being actively exploited to track phone owners' locations … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Sidewalk Labs spinout Replica raises $11M Series A for its modeling tool that uses mobile location data to show public agencies how, when, and why people travel — Replica, the data-gathering tool created within Sidewalk Labs that maps the movement of people in cities, is now a company.| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Mozilla launches Premium Support for Firefox enterprise customers starting at $10 per supported installation, includes benefits like critical bug fixes with SLA — Organizations that run the Firefox web browser in Enterprise environments may subscribe to a newly established Premium plan to extend support.
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Walmart plans to reach 50%+ of the US by year end with “Delivery Unlimited”, its grocery delivery membership program that costs $98/year or $12.95/month — Walmart is expanding its brand-new “Delivery Unlimited” grocery delivery membership program to more stores across the U.S. …
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