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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says a standalone, non-subscription version of Office will be released in the second half of 2021 for both Windows and Mac — Microsoft will release a new perpetual release of Microsoft Office in the second half of 2021. The new perpetual release only appears in a single sentence …
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Tweets: @rajsarkar, @kcoxdc, and @martinsfp
| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Epic, Spotify, Match Group, and others form the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure Apple and other app store owners to make changes to marketplace rules — The Coalition for App Fairness is seeking legal and regulatory means to address how Apple, other app marketplace operators work with developers
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MacRumors, New York Times, Coalition for App Fairness, The Verge, Bloomberg, The Hill, BBC, CNBC, Thurrott, AppleInsider, CNET, Reuters, Washington Post, Neowin, FOSS Patents, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Slashdot, KnowTechie, Digital Trends, MacDailyNews, MSPoweruser, Engadget, Phone Scoop, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @counternotions, and @saraheneedleman
| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Facebook's Oversight Board says it expects to start before the election, in mid to late October, after criticism for a perceived lack of action — - The independent Facebook OverSight Board has confirmed to CNBC that it plans to launch ahead of U.S. election in November.
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Financial Times, The Guardian, Engadget, Protocol, Bloomberg, and Fast Company
Tweets: @martinsfp, @mollyjongfast, @brooklynmarie, @ryan_browne_, @ttp_updates, and @katebevan
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
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Tech Transparency Project, Engadget, Neowin, Politico, The Verge, Engadget, and New York Times
Tweets: @jason_kint, @b_fung, @oliverdarcy, @marshallcohen, @heffnera, @davidgura, @ridt, @reginecabato, and @sarahelago
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out updates to Maps with a layer showing COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, with labels to indicate trends, coming to 220 countries and territories — Google today announced an update to Google Maps that will bring a new COVID-19 layer to the service to help you better understand the number of cases in a given area.
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Tweets: @roshanamn, @sub8u, @sundarpichai, @haleighhoffman, @sanjg2k1, @califf001, @gigastacey, and @google
| John Herrman / New York Times: |
TikTok users in the US are experiencing something long familiar to much of the world: a flourishing online social space existentially threatened by politics — Banned apps, nefarious theories, trade wars, voiceless users. The case of TikTok isn't news to most of the world.
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International Business Times, CNN, Social Media Today, Business Insider, and Protocol
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: |
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| Paul Ford / Wired: |
The software industry makes amazing software tools for itself, while doctors, academics, and scientists are stuck using bad software — The software industry makes amazing tools for itself, while doctors and scientists are stuck with old code. Tech needs to quit hacking and start listening.
Tweets: @terronk, @nxthompson, and @backchnnl
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
NUVIA, which makes energy-efficient chips for data centers and enterprises, raises $240M Series B led by Mithril Capital — Climate change is on everyone's minds these days, what with the outer Bay Area on fire, orange skies above San Francisco, and a hurricane season that is bearing …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sundar Pichai says Google is planning “hybrid” models for future work, to allow partial work from home as 62% of employees want to have that flexibility — - Most Google employees want to return to the office at some point, but not every day, according to a recent Google survey …
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Coinspeaker. Tweets: @lifeatgoogle, @jenn_elias, @jenn_elias, @chaddickerson, @cloud_opinion, @carnage4life, and @aparanjape
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Messy launches of PS5 and the new Xbox showed Sony and Microsoft once again failing at pre-orders, partly driven by the need to create a narrative of scarcity — Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Series S preorders went live on Tuesday, capping a rough week of product rollouts …
Tweets: @tugboatbread and @gartenberg
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon launches “Climate Pledge Friendly” label in search results for more than 25K products that have one or more of 19 different sustainability certifications — The company is launching a new climate program for certified sustainable products
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify and Chernin Entertainment agree to a multi-year partnership for Chernin to develop movies and TV shows based on Spotify's podcasts — Chernin Entertainment and Spotify are working together — Spotify wants to turn more of its original podcasts into TV shows and movies.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ripjar, which develops AI-based software to detect financial crime, raises $36.8M Series B led by Long Ridge Equity Partners — Financial crime as a wider category of cybercrime continues to be one of the most potent of online threats, covering nefarious actives as diverse as fraud, money laundering and funding terrorism.| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Petal, which offers credit cards by analyzing the cash flow of potential borrowers rather than credit scores, raises $55M Series C led by Thiel's Valar Ventures — Sometimes raising venture capital can be as simple as talking to your existing investor and having them wire over another check.
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FinSMEs and Crowdfund Insider
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will begin testing audio DMs soon, after introducing support for audio in tweets, starting in Brazil — Shout into my DMs — After rolling out audio tweets for iOS in June, Twitter is now experimenting with the idea of letting people record and send voice messages through direct messages.
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Todoist rolls out Kanban-style Boards as an optional view, similar to Trello — Todoist today officially introduced a feature that could significantly change how people use the popular task-management app: Boards. It basically works a lot like Trello, but built right into Todoist.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Deliveroo has begun preliminary talks to explore the possibility of an IPO in 2021 — - Amazon-backed company eyes potential listing in 2021 — Food delivery companies have held up during virus pandemic — U.K. food-delivery startup Deliveroo has begun preliminary talks … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Whitebox, which manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment across marketplaces, raises $18M Series B led by Noro-Moseley Partners, after $5M Series A in 2019 — Whitebox, a startup that manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment for a variety for brands, has raised $18 million in Series B funding.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spectrum Labs, which helps online services identify toxic content and respond, raises $10M Series A led by Greycroft, bringing its total raised to $14M — With the US presidential election now 40 days away, all eyes are focused on how online conversations, in conjunction with other hallmarks … | Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Greenlight, which offers parent-managed, fee-free debit cards for up to five children for $5 per month, raises $215M Series C at a valuation of $1.2B — Greenlight Financial Technology helps parents teach children how to save with its app and debit card products.
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FinSMEs, TechCrunch, and Crowdfund Insider
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
NHS COVID-19, a contact tracing app created by the UK government, launches in England and Wales with Exposure Notification API from Apple and Google — NHS COVID-19, a contact tracing app created by the UK government, is rolling out to residents of England and Wales as of today, with the app available from the iOS App Store.
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The Guardian, The Guardian, WIRED UK, The Next Web, BBC, The Guardian, Telegraph, Android Central, Trusted Reviews, Mashable, Reuters, Neowin, Pocket-lint, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @rowlsmanthorpe, @dr_ellie, @alfredwkng, @lbcnews, @brixton_ben26, @wireduk, @mattburgess1, and @charlottejee
| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
How Arkady Bukh, a New York-based immigrant from the former Soviet bloc, emerged as the go-to defense lawyer for the cybercrime underworld — Sergey Pavlovich needed a fixer. The 32-year-old ex-con was living in Moscow in 2015 after serving nearly eight years behind bars in Belarus …
Tweets: @jeffstone500, @snlyngaas, @iblametom, @jgamblin, @jscros, @underworld_pod, and @shanvav. Thanks:@jwarminsky
| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple says it rejected 150,000+ apps last year for violating its privacy guidelines and has removed 60M+ user reviews that it believes to be spam so far in 2020 — Apple is promoting a series of new series of statistics revealing details of App Store operations, plus how the Apple Developer Program has grown.
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Six Colors, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and iPhone Hacks
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple iPad (2020) review: fast with a robust selection of apps and 128GB model is good value, but lacks multi-user support and USB-C; 32GB model is inadequate — It's really great, but the limitations are becoming grating — The new 2020 edition of the iPad, now in its eighth generation, continues to be an iPad.
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Macworld, ZDNet, TechCrunch, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @saji, @bluespacecanary, @snazzyq, @dcseifert, and @backlon
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @palafo, @maxwinebach, @mgsiegler, and @tomwarren
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