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India bans another 188 Chinese apps, including PUBG, Baidu, and Alipay, saying widespread concerns were flagged against the blocked apps — India on Wednesday banned 118 more apps, including popular gaming app PUBG, for allegedly being engaged in activities which are “prejudicial to sovereignty …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
In response to UK's “digital services tax”, Apple says it will raise UK developer fees by 2% and Amazon says it will increase third-party seller fees by 2% — Developers, ad buyers, and third-party sellers are all affected — For many years, Europe has been unhappy with the tax habits of US tech giants.
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| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Microsoft says it will bring its DirectStorage API from the Xbox to PCs, to reduce IO bottlenecks and improve game loading times and graphics details — When Microsoft announced the next Xbox console some time ago, it highlighted some features of the console's underlying architecture to demonstrate its power.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel announces 11th-generation Tiger Lake CPUs for laptops, with integrated Xe graphics, Thunderbolt 4 support, Wi-Fi 6, and more, coming this fall — The ‘best processor for thin-&-light’ laptops — Intel has officially announced its first 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors for laptops …
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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Driven by the popularity of Cash App, Square's stock is up 28% in the past month and 166% in the past year; Cash App saw revenue double to $325M in Q2 2020 — Users have flocked to Cash App, which made it easy for people to accept stimulus checks and unemployment benefits
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Amazon is spying on private Facebook Groups for Flex drivers in US, UK, and Spain, monitoring for complaints and labor actions, per internal reports left online — The company has a sophisticated and secret program that is surveilling dozens of private Facebook groups set up by workers, internal documents and reports show.
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| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
Google updates Your News Update, its Assistant-powered audio news service, with new features including its own “newscaster voice” — The company's latest news product is an ever-replenishing playlist of audio stories—curated, in part, by the wealth of data it has on you.| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
Facebook says, after an FBI tip, it took down several Pages and accounts pushing a fake left-wing news outlet made by people linked to Russian troll group IRA — New York (CNN Business)People associated with the infamous St. Petersburg troll group that was part of Russia's attempt to interfere …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: TikTok sale talks have been complicated by China's new AI export restrictions, with parties unsure whether TikTok's algorithms can be included — Complexity of new Chinese export restrictions has reduced the chances of a sale occurring soon — Deal talks for TikTok's U.S. operations … | Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Patreon says it has raised $90M at a $1.2B+ pre-money valuation, nearly twice the $660M valuation it had after a funding round last year — New Enterprise Associates and Wellington Management led the $90 million funding round — Membership platform Patreon Inc., which enables musicians …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook updates its terms of service globally, effective Oct. 1, allowing it to block content amid proposed Australian law that would force it to pay for news — - Change will give Facebook powers to remove or block content — Mark Zuckerberg has long publicly championed free speech
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Skillz, which develops competitive mobile games, announces it is going public with an IPO at a $3.5B pre-money valuation — Skillz has announced it is going public through a quick initial public offering process, raising an estimated $849 million in cash from investors at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.
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| Apple: |
Apple says the iOS app economy created 300,000 new US jobs since April 2019 and now supports 2.1M+ US jobs across all 50 states, up 15% YoY — App Store ecosystem now supports over 2.1 million jobs across all 50 states — The iOS app economy has created nearly 300,000 new jobs since April 2019 …
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| Bloomberg: |
US appeals court affirms a lower court ruling rejecting Oracle's challenges to the Pentagon's $10B JEDI contract, arguing Oracle does not qualify anyway — - Appeals court affirmed ruling that Oracle wasn't harmed — Oracle is fighting exclusion from contract given to Microsoft
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| Laura Cooper / Wall Street Journal: |
Brazilian digital bank Neon Pagamentos raises $300M Series C led by General Atlantic, bringing its total raised to over $400M — The new funding round for Neon Pagamentos comes less than a year after the company announced it had raised $92 million for a previous financing round| Nathan Munn / VICE: |
Report: Canadian police are turning more to predictive policing algorithms, using tools like GeoDASH and Palantir's Gotham, raising civil liberty concerns — Police across Canada are increasingly adopting algorithmic technology to predict crime. The authors of a new report say human rights are threatened by the practice.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: dating app Bumble is preparing for an IPO sometime in early 2021, seeking a valuation between $6B and $8B — - Bumble in talks with banks about an IPO early next year — Blackstone Group bought majority stake in Bumble last year — Bumble, a dating app that lets women … | Laura Brickman / Rest of World: |
Illegal drug trade in Ukraine is thriving on Telegram, which reportedly accounts for 90% of the drug sales in the country, helped by its end-to-end encryption — In February 2019, Amos Dov Silver, a slight man in his mid-30s who often wears his shoulder-length hair in a bun …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Transposit, which builds automated runbooks for faster disaster recovery, raises $35M Series B led by Altimeter Capital, bringing its total raised to $50.4M — Transposit is a company built by engineers to help engineers, and one big way to help them is to get systems up and running faster …
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| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
Government of Bermuda announces a pilot program for a digital stimulus token, based on Blockstream's Liquid, which lets users buy essential goods and services — Bermuda wants to use a digital token to stimulate its economy. — The government of Bermuda announced Tuesday it has started …
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| Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft unveils new tools to identify deepfake videos and launches an interactive quiz at SpotDeepfakes.org to combat disinformation — Today, we're announcing two new technologies to combat disinformation, new work to help educate the public about the problem, and partnerships to help advance …
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Tweets: @pauluz, @razhael, and @daniel_rubino
| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: only 16 tech companies went public in Europe this year, the lowest in a decade, raising $650M, far below the $9.2B raised in US and $23B in Asia — - Rocket Internet flags delisting, cites access to private funds — European tech IPOs are at a decade low and lag U.S., Asia| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
FBI officials describe how the agency changed its handling of hacks and revamped its process for warning victims, learning from the mistakes of 2016's DNC hack — Facing looming election threats and a ransomware epidemic, the bureau says it has revamped its process for warning hacking victims.Sponsor Posts
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