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Facebook launches Instagram Reels, its TikTok competitor that lets users create and publish 15-second videos, in 50+ countries, including the US, UK, and Japan — Instagram Reels, the company's significant effort in challenging TikTok on short-form creative content, is launching globally, starting today.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Disney says Disney+ has grown to 60.5M subscribers, up from 54M in May, and it has 100M+ paid subs for streaming services including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ — Disney+ had more than 60.5 million paying subscribers as of yesterday, according to The Walt Disney Company's CEO Bob Chapek.
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Anthony Levandowski, ex-Uber self-driving head, was sentenced to 18 months in prison as he files a new lawsuit against Waymo and Uber — Maverick self-driving car engineer will not need to report until threat of COVID-19 pandemic has passed — Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Files by Google adds a PIN-encrypted folder to protect sensitive files on Android — It's aimed at users who share devices, Google says — The Files by Google app, which primarily gives Android users an easy way to manage files and free up space on their phone, is getting a new PIN-protected “Safe Folder” feature.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
In a letter to staff, ByteDance founder and CEO Zhang Yiming says a forced sale of TikTok to a US buyer is “unreasonable” and the real goal of the US is a ban — - U.S. doesn't really want to see a sale to American buyers — Founder Zhang Yiming issues second letter in two days
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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
HeadSpin to return ~$95M to investors and has replaced its CEO after an internal review of financial irregularities; its valuation now down from $1.16B to $250M — HeadSpin, a mobile app testing company recently valued at $1.16 billion, plans to return up to $95 million in funding to investors …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google says Google Play Music shutdown starts this month, global streaming will shut down in October, and music collections will be deleted in December — August begins the four-month Google Music shutdown. — Google Play Music has been given the death sentence by Google …
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| Bloomberg: |
Square reports Q2 total net revenue of $1.92B, up 64% YoY, with Cash App generating $875M in bitcoin revenue, gross profit up 167% YoY; stock up 13% — - Online payment volume jumped more than 50% year over year — Square's Cash App has more than 30 million monthly customers
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| Bill Kisliuk / UCLA: |
UCLA and Apple launch a study to see whether iPhones, Watches, and Beddit sleep monitors can help in understanding how daily routines impact depression symptoms — Researchers from the Depression Grand Challenge collaborate with Apple — Researchers from the Depression Grand Challenge collaborate with Apple
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Live blog of Samsung's “Unpacked” event, where new Note devices, Galaxy Buds, Galaxy Watch, Tab S7 and S7 Plus, and more are expected — There are going to be a lot of devices — Samsung is holding an online-only “Unpacked” event to announce its latest products.
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Greg Joswiak will replace Phil Schiller as SVP of Worldwide Marketing; Schiller becomes an Apple Fellow and will continue to lead the App Store and Apple Events — Greg Joswiak joins Apple executive team as senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing — Cupertino, California …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A hacker has posted a list of usernames, passwords, IP addresses and SSH keys of 900+ Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers on a Russian-speaking hacker forum — EXCLUSIVE: The list has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum frequented by multiple ransomware gangs.| Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post: |
Review of Amazon's Echo Frames, $180 Alexa-enabled glasses that debuted last year: their internet connectivity is flaky and Alexa is too chatty and disruptive — You have to really love Amazon's Alexa to let the Echo Frames whisper in your ear all day. — What do you call it when there's … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Amazon is preparing its first Prime Day during COVID-19 in India with a virtual operations room, stringent hygiene protocols for packers/deliverymen, and more — Amazon.com Inc. will kick off its first Prime Day since the coronavirus outbreak later this week in India, modifying almost everything … | Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
TikTok's video recommendation algorithm shows that machine learning can overcome cultural ignorance, a boon for companies operating in foreign markets — I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook updates its Messenger Chat Plugin, enabling businesses to chat with customers via the business' website, even if not logged into Facebook — Facebook is making it easier for businesses to leverage its Messenger service on their own websites. The company in November 2017 first launched …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Profile of Mohamed Al-Sharifi, aka GamerDoc, a volunteer who has spent two years hunting cheaters in Overwatch and Valorant, getting ~50K-70K cheaters banned — This 24-year-old Iraqi who lives in London has spent two years hunting cheaters in Overwatch and Valorant, getting thousands …
Tweets: @lorenzofb, @vice, @josephfcox, @motherboard, @motherboard, @josephfcox, @motherboard, and @jason_koebler
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Twilio announces Q2 revenue of $400.8M, up 46% YoY, and reports 200K+ active customer accounts, up from 161K+ in Q2 2019 — Twilio's non-GAAP earnings rang up to 9 cents a share on revenue of $400.8 million, up 46% year over year. — Cloud-based communications provider Twilio reported better …
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
In a potential nationwide class action lawsuit, dozens of families allege TikTok silently collects user data and sends it to China via undisclosed third parties — Toggle more options — Families are suing TikTok in what has turned into a major legal action in federal court.| Financial Times: |
Chinese investments into India's tech startups are showing signs of drying up amid geopolitical tensions, opening the door for US investors to fill the void — As political tensions dominate India's relations with China, US companies see an opportunity — Just days after 20 Indian soldiers …
Tweets: @amykazmin, @johnthornhillft, @sub8u, @financialtimes, and @prasannavishy
| Marty Swant / Forbes: |
MikMak, whose SaaS lets brands unify their digital storefront across online retailers, raises $10M Series A led by Wavecrest Growth Partners — A year before the phrase “social distancing” entered society's vernacular, Rachel Tipograph—the founder of the e-commerce marketing startup MikMak … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
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