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| 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 …
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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, @brij, and @next_china
| Rahul Shrivastava / India Today: |
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Axios, CNBC, TechCrunch, South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, New York Times, Wired, Android Police, Security Boulevard, Wall Street Journal, TechCircle, Financial Times, The Indian Express, Inc42 Media, Times of India, Digital Trends, Firstpost Tech, Android Authority, Fortune, TechSpot, Finbold, Associated Press, BGR India, Pandaily, MediaNama, Silicon Republic, Hollywood Reporter, equalocean.com, Times of India, CNET, CNN, and The Next Web
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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Tweets: @jasoncitron, @abebrown716, and @glennf
| 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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TechHive, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Droid Life, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Police, XDA Developers, MSPoweruser, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Neowin. Tweets: @mehedih_
| Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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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9to5Mac, Six Colors, and iMore
Tweets: @johnwilson, @morten_bo, @jacobbennett, @dhh, and @nixcraft
| 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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Tom's Hardware, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, The Verge, VentureBeat, BetaKit, CNET, CNBC, Neowin, MSPoweruser, and Road to VR
Tweets: @focalsbynorth, @benbajarin, @lucasmtny, and @srlake
| 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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Congresswoman Anna Eshoo. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @jeffdean, @nytimestech, @counternotions, @repagonzalez, @stevelohr, and @repannaeshoo
| 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
| 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 … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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| 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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Netflix Media Center, Wall Street Journal, CNET, The Verge, Bloomberg, and New York Times
Tweets: @annie_parker, @cnbc, @jabarijyoung, @sallyshin, @jyarow, and @ttgbossmanszn
| 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).| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Lululemon says it plans to acquire home fitness startup Mirror for $500M; Mirror was last valued at $300M — Lululemon today announced plans to acquire home exercise startup Mirror, for $500 million. The fitness apparel company noted its plans by way of a press release …
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New York Times, CNBC, lululemon athletica inc., Crunchbase News, Input, coinspeaker.com, Reuters, and Howard Lindzon
Tweets: @sapna, @hblodget, @caro, @techcrunch, @musa, @mathowie, @edzitron, @zck, @mattzeitlin, @danpriceseattle, @retailprophet, @adamsinger, @pitdesi, @darrenrovell, @mcwm, @joannastern, @kevinthau, @mekosoff, and @mdudas
| 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 … | 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
| 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 … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS makes CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs and suggest potential optimizations, generally available — AWS today announced that CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs … Sponsor Posts
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