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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Square purchases $50M worth of bitcoin, becoming the second publicly listed company after MicroStrategy to invest in the cryptocurrency — Revolut, the London-based fintech firm, has enlisted crypto security firm Fireblocks to lay the foundations for new crypto products.
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U.S. Department of Justice, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Square, Decrypt, The Verge, Bloomberg, Crypto Briefing, CNBC, CryptoGlobe, Cointelegraph, and BTC Times
| Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: |
Waymo says it will open its fully driverless ride-hailing service in suburban Phoenix to the public — Waymo said Thursday that it is opening its fully driverless ride-hailing service in suburban Phoenix to the public. Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving car unit began ferrying a select group …
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Waypoint, TechCrunch, The Verge, Reuters, Tech Xplore, and CNET
Tweets: @waymo, @avgregr, and @binarybits
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft updates Edge with a price comparison feature, new screenshot tool for capturing web content, improved PDF support, and more — With its Edge browser now stable, Microsoft's current focus for its Chromium-based browser is to build features that differentiate it from the competition.
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Windows Experience Blog, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Windows Central, The Verge, and Digital Trends
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft adopts 10 “principles” for its app store, including letting developers choose a payment system for IAPs, that it says should be a model for others — In a not-so-subtle dig at Apple and Google, Microsoft today announced a series of “principles” for its Windows 10 App Store …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Facebook says it will temporarily suspend political ads after US polls close on Nov. 3 and will remove calls for poll watching that use “militarized” language — The move is intended to limit confusion and misinformation on the platform, the social media company says
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| David Gilbert / VICE: |
An ISP took down the website for the group calling itself The Real Facebook Oversight Board after Facebook complained that the site was involved in “phishing” — “Nothing says ‘free speech’ quite as much as a multi-billion dollar corporation with a global monopoly getting its critics shut down."| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
The CEO of BitMEX and its leadership team have stepped down after DOJ and CFTC charged BitMEX with allegedly operating an unregistered trading platform — The CEO of Bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX and its leadership team have stepped down over allegations that the firm was operating illegally …
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BitMEX Blog, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, CoinGeek, The Block, Modern Consensus, and BTC Times
| Sherisse Pham / CNN: |
Samsung says it expects to make an operating profit of $10.6B in the July-September quarter, up 58% YoY, and sales of $7B, up 6% in its earnings guidance — Hong Kong (CNN Business)Samsung (SSNLF) predicts its profit jumped nearly 60% last quarter, suggesting it could soon retake its position …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, CNBC, SamMobile, Reuters, Thurrott, Engadget, Gizchina, The Korea Times, Bloomberg, Coinspeaker, ZDNet, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Nikkei Asian Review, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @digitallybones and @cnni
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
IBM announces that it plans to spin off its managed infrastructure services unit, with $19B in sales and 90K staff, to help it focus on hybrid cloud apps — IBM will become a company that gets more than half of its sales from recurring revenue instead of services.
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Tweets: @ingridlunden and @techjournalist
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
AMD announces Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 CPUs for desktops, the first chips from AMD with its next-gen Zen 3 architecture, available on November 5, starting at $299 — Available on November 5th, starting at $299 — AMD just announced its new lineup of Ryzen 5000 series processors for desktops …
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AnandTech, Windows Central, SemiAccurate, ZDNet, PCWorld, AnandTech, PC Gamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Digital Trends, GameSpot, TechSpot, Pocketnow, 9to5Toys, Liliputing, Engadget, and TechRadar. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google says Assistant can now search and control third-party apps, starting with the top 30 on the Play Store, with support for more coming soon — Before today, if you ask Siri or the Google Assistant to “check the news on Twitter,” you'll either be shown the @CHEK_News account …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Inside the US campaign to cut China out of supply chains, which already pressured companies like Apple to look at moving 15% to 30% of output out of the country — Apple, Google and others shift production to prepare for ‘decoupled’ global market — It was a hot summer morning in Taipei …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, and Financial Times
Tweets: @nikkeiasia, @nikkeiasia, @nils_gilman, @giorgiomomurder, and @cnasdc
| TechCrunch: |
Instacart raises $200M led by D1 Capital and Valiant Peregrine Fund, at a post-money valuation of $17.7B, following a $100M raise in July and $225M in June 2020 — Instacart announced today that it has raised $200 million in a new funding round featuring prior investors.
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Reuters, Bloomberg, Instacart News, and CNBC
Tweets: @matthaneysf, @veenadubal, and @gigworkersrise
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Interviews with former Amazon Game Studios employees suggest Amazon's efforts to develop games have been unsuccessful due to hubris, fueled by success elsewhere — After brute-forcing its way to dominance in so many industries, the tech leviathan may finally have met its match.
Tweets: @cecianasta, @gadgetlab, @matpiscatella, and @paultassi
| Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
Google rolls out Sound Notifications on Android to alert people with hearing loss about “critical household sounds” like appliances beeping and dogs barking — Google on Thursday rolled out a new feature for Android designed to alert people with hearing loss about …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Court documents in a Florida case show Google provided US law enforcement with IP addresses for any user searching for specific key words — Court records in an arson case show that Google gave away data on people who searched for a specific address. — There are few things as revealing …
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Engadget. Tweets: @reillystyley, @dancow, @alfredwkng, @alfredwkng, @zackwhittaker, @davegershgorn, and @j0hnnyxm4s
| Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg: |
US seizes 92 websites it said were used by Iran to spread disinformation, including four domains disguised as genuine news outlets based in the US — - Four of the domains were fake news sites targeting Americans — The U.S. Justice Department seized 92 websites it said were used …
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U.S. Department of Justice, CyberScoop, ZDNet, CNET, SecurityWeek, and The Hill
Tweets: @eiaine, @hanifjazayeri, @mollymckew, @benimmo, @missmaga2016, and @ohadmz
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: users downloaded 33B new apps, spent $28B in apps in Q3, up 20% YoY, and spent 180B+ hours in apps every month of July, Aug., and Sep., up 25% YoY — Mobile usage continues to remain high amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, which has prompted social distancing measures and lockdown policies …
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MacRumors, App Annie, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, TechSpot, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @appleinsider
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Observe, an app monitoring tool that uses data from myriad sources like logs, metrics, traces, and events, raises $35M Series A led by Sutter Hill Ventures — An appropriately named startup called Observe Inc. said today it's getting into the emerging market for observability tools …
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PR Newswire, DevOps.com, and Observe Everything
| Kevin Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
DOJ publishes an “enforcement framework” on cryptocurrencies, outlining priorities and strategies for its crypto enforcements — U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr announced Thursday the release of “Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework,” a roadmap for policing the cryptocurrency landscape.| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Interviews with 16 Twitch employees from throughout its history detail a culture of indifference to inappropriate and abusive behavior, although some disagree — Employees from throughout the streaming platform's history describe a culture of indifference to inappropriate, unsafe, and abusive behavior| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
MessageBird, which enables SMBs to communicate with customers on various messaging channels, from WhatsApp to voice, raises $200M Series C led by Spark Capital — MessageBird, the Amsterdam-headquartered cloud communications company, has raised $200 million in Series C funding in a round led by Silicon Valley's Spark Capital.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Lime launches a new mobility-as-a-service platform that allows third-party transport providers to offer their vehicles directly inside the Lime app — Electric mobility company Lime is launching a new mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) platform for third-party transport providers to offer their vehicles directly inside the Lime app.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, and Electrek
| Gordon Corera / BBC: |
A UK parliamentary inquiry concludes clear evidence of collusion between Huawei and the CPC apparatus exists; Huawei says report is built on opinions not facts — There is “clear evidence of collusion” between Huawei and the “Chinese Communist Party apparatus”, a parliamentary inquiry has concluded.| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
Telegram CEO says Apple told it to take down channels used by Belarus protesters to identify members of government, arguing the channels can promote violence — Apple is requesting that Telegram shut down three channels used in Belarus to expose the identities of individuals belonging … Sponsor Posts
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