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Google shares details on upcoming Sheets features that automatically clean up and complete data, through formula suggestions and more — Google today announced a couple of updates to Google Sheets that will make building spreadsheets and analyzing data in them a little bit easier.
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India's app ban may present a model for other countries from Europe to Southeast Asia that seek to curtail China's access to their residents' data — - Ban shows the increasingly fractured nature of tech industry — Chinese firms may find themselves excluded from key markets
Tweets: @bgurley, @sachinrekhi, @next_china, and @brij
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Following the government's ban, many users have lost access to TikTok in India, its biggest overseas market, and the app is not in App Store or Play Store — A growing number of internet service providers in India have started to block their subscribers from accessing TikTok … | Rahul Shrivastava / India Today: |
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook will change its News Feed algorithm to prioritize news stories with original reporting and demote ones that are not transparent about their authors — Beginning today, Facebook will be updating the way news stories are ranked in its News Feed to prioritize original reporting, executives tell Axios.
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| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber in talks to buy Postmates for ~$2.6B in a deal that could be announced next week if not sooner — A deal between Uber and the San Francisco-based food-delivery company could be announced next week if not sooner — Uber Technologies Inc. is in discussions to buy Postmates Inc …
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| Abram Brown / Forbes: |
Chat app Discord raises $100M led by Index Ventures at a $3.5B valuation, up from $2.05B 18 months ago, and says it has ~100M MAUs, up 50% YoY — By shutting out white supremacists and reinventing itself to be more accessible, Discord has added millions of more diverse users—teachers …
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Amazon is boosting efforts to lure military and commercial space organizations as major users of AWS, hoping to benefit from rising spending in the sector — AWS's move comes during a multiyear surge in U.S. military and civilian agency spending on space projects| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
FCC officially designates Huawei and ZTE as risks to national security, and telecoms can no longer use federal subsidies to purchase equipment from them — Telecoms can no longer use federal funds to purchase their equipment — On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission officially …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK government plans to begin allowing rental e-scooter trials on roads from Saturday, in a bid to ease pressure on public transport during the pandemic — In light of COVID-19 and social distancing regulations, the UK has been working on making it easier for people to get from point A to B …
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| Jeff Hunter / AnyList Blog: |
AnyList CEO details customer support challenges arising from implementing Sign In With Apple, which it won't support, complicated by its Hide my Email feature — Starting June 30th, Apple will be enforcing a new rule in the App Store requiring many apps to support Sign in with Apple.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify will launch real-time lyrics in 26 markets across Southeast Asia, India, and Latin America in partnership with Musixmatch, starting June 30 — Last November, Spotify confirmed it was testing real-time lyrics synced to music in select markets. Tomorrow, the company will announce …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on banning r/The_Donald and other problematic subreddits after resisting for years — Steve Huffman, Reddit's co-founder and chief executive, says that new rule changes will help the company fulfill its mission. — On Monday, Reddit … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Leading universities and tech firms back a new project to give scientists access to the data centers of tech giants and to public data sets for AI research — A proposal to give scientists access to huge data sets and powerful computers. — Leading universities and major technology companies agreed …
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Nearby Sharing, Android's long-awaited AirDrop competitor, is rolling out in beta — Android's long-awaited Nearby Sharing may be just about ready. The feature, which allows you to share files between Android devices quickly, easily, and wirelessly, has been compared to Apple's AirDrop … | Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC: |
Netflix says it will put 2% of its cash holdings, currently ~$100M, toward financial institutions and organizations dedicated to helping Black communities — - Netflix announced plans to start putting 2% of its cash holdings into financial institutions and organizations to “directly support Black communities in the U.S.”
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is acquiring Canadian smart glasses company North, which is winding down Focals 1.0 hardware and canceling its plans to ship Focals 2.0 — Google confirmed today via blog post that it has acquired Canadian smart glasses company North, which began life as human interface hardware startup Thalmic Labs in 2012.
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Tweets: @focalsbynorth, @benbajarin, @srlake, and @lucasmtny
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Watch Party on Amazon Prime Video, a desktop feature for US Prime members to watch content together and chat with up to 100 viewers — Amazon Prime Video is beginning to roll out a co-viewing feature to Amazon Prime members in the U.S., the company announced today.
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Tweets: @chrispirillo, @loudmouthjulia, @loudmouthjulia, @gameguypgh, @stuartbruce, @hnshah, and @lamarrwilson
| Mike Murphy / Protocol: |
Founder of drone company Parrot says they only sell drones to ethical organizations, but it's not their place to determine whether police in the US are ethical — Henri Seydoux, the founder of the French drone company Parrot, explains why he's comfortable selling to law enforcement after the George Floyd protests.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Capital, which offers an AI-based tool to help startups manage money and raise it in alternative ways, raises $9M “Seed 2”, after raising $5M in 2019 — In 2019, in the US alone, more than 10,000 startups raised more than $133 billion in venture funding, with a large proportion of that equity investments.Thanks:@ingridlunden
| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Workspace collaboration company Monday.com launches an App Framework, letting third parties build tools atop its service — A new “Apps Framework” will allow third-party developers to start building their own apps on top of Monday. — For a while, Roy Mann and Eran Zinman just wanted to build a good project management tool.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
German startup solarisBank, which offers financial services to other fintech companies through a set of APIs, raises $67.5M Series C at a valuation of $360M — Despite the Wirecard fallout, German fintech startup solarisBank has raised a Series C funding round of $67.5 million (€60 million).| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube TV is raising its monthly rate to $65 from $50, due to “the rising cost of content”; some ViacomCBS channels are becoming available on the service today — YouTube TV is getting another price hike, making its live TV streaming service less competitive with the cable TV services it aims to replace.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Qualcomm debuts Snapdragon 4100 chips for smartwatches, the first update since 2018, bringing much-needed performance improvements to upcoming Wear OS watches — But is it too late to save Wear OS? — Qualcomm is announcing two new Wear OS processors today, the Snapdragon Wear 4100 Plus … | Alex Barker / Financial Times: |
Survey of 58 WFA members, who are responsible for $90B+ of ad spending worldwide, finds ~33% will suspend or are likely to suspend spending on social media — Study reveals extent of revolt against Facebook and Twitter over hate speech — Almost a third of the world's biggest brands … Sponsor Posts
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