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Sources: China plans rule changes requiring Chinese companies to seek approval to list overseas, even if the unit selling shares is incorporated outside China — - Securities regulator working to change overseas listing rules — Change would require VIE firms to get nod to list offshore
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| Bloomberg: |
China's crackdown on its tech giants wiped a combined $823B off their market value since a Feb. peak, with Tencent, Alibaba, and Kuaishou as the biggest losers — - Selling in technology sector seen continuing this quarter — Hang Seng Tech Index has lost 31% from February high
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| CNBC: |
Donald Trump sues Facebook, Twitter, and Google, as well as their CEOs, alleging the companies have violated his First Amendment rights — - Former President Donald Trump announced he is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as their respective CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Facebook-commissioned study by Comscore claims that most US iOS and Android users stick with preinstalled apps; Apple says the study is “seriously flawed” — If you use an iPhone or Android phone, chances are the majority of your most-used apps were made by Apple and Google.| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis of global venture funding for H1 2021: $288B invested, an all-time high and up by $110B on H2 2020, with most going to late-stage companies — Global venture capital funding in the first half of 2021 shattered records as more than $288 billion was invested worldwide, Crunchbase numbers show.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
TikTok tests letting US users apply for jobs with video resumes, posted with a #TikTokResumes hashtag; 30+ brands join the pilot including WWE, Shopify, Target — expanding into job recruitment. As of today, the company has launched a pilot program that allows people in the US to apply for entry …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A Dutch security researcher group says it had notified Kaseya in April about one of the flaws that was exploited in the devastating ransomware attack last week — President Biden is meeting officials to discuss recent attacks, including latest affecting hundreds of organizations around the world
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft confirms it's developing Assassin's Creed Infinity, an online service with evolving gameplay that expands over time, seeking to emulate Fortnite and GTA — Assassin's Creed, a video game franchise set in huge worlds where each one can take hundreds of hours to complete, is getting even bigger.
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| Michael P. Regan / Bloomberg: |
A look at synthetic shares of Apple, Amazon, and others, which track the prices of real stocks and are being traded on blockchain projects like Mirror Protocol — - A DeFi ‘Trojan Horse’ finds its way to the stock market — Sounds like ‘investor-protection issue,’ says Themis's Saluzzi
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| Parmy Olson / Wall Street Journal: |
How activists and fraudsters are evading facial recognition, including by using face masks and paint and combining multiple faces to form a new identity — The Future of Everything covers the innovation and technology transforming the way we live, work and play, with monthly issues on health, money, cities and more.
Tweets: @martijnrasser and @parmy
| Carson Kessler / ProPublica: |
Some users have reported getting locked out of their accounts at Chime, a “neobank” serving millions, with 920 complaints filed to CFPB since April 15, 2020 — Chime, a “neobank” serving millions, is racking up complaints from users who can't access their cash.| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
In an attempt to keep ahead of China's regulations, Tencent says it'll use a facial recognition system to prevent minors from playing games late into the night — Shenzhen, China-based gaming giant Tencent has announced it will use a face recognition system to prevent minors in its home country …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla's crowdsourced study about YouTube over a 10-month period finds 71%+ videos flagged as objectionable by participants were recommended by YouTube itself — For years YouTube's video-recommending algorithm has stood accused of fuelling a grab-bag of societal ills by feeding users …
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| Thomas Shum / Bloomberg: |
Sotheby's auction house says it will accept bitcoin and Ether at the sale of a 101.38-carat diamond, which could fetch as much as $15M, on Friday — - Pear-shaped flawless gem could fetch $15 million at auction — Bitcoin, Ether will be accepted at Hong Kong sale on Friday
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Wise begins trading in London direct listing, valuing the money transfer firm at $11B, and launches OwnWise, a program to let users own a stake in the company — - Wise shares opened at £8 a share Wednesday morning, giving the company a market value of £8 billion ($11 billion).
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Evernote founder's Mmhmm, a video service that works with Zoom, Teams, and Webex and can add effects to calls, raises $100M led by SoftBank's Vision Fund — When Phil Libin created note-taking app Evernote in 2007, he was making a bet that smartphones would be the next big thing.| Alfred Ng / The Markup: |
Public records and a 2019 version of its user guide show just how invasive AnyVision's facial recognition software can be; AnyVision's customers include schools — One school using the software saw that a student's face was captured more than 1,000 times during the week
Tweets: @alfredwkng, @themarkup, @evan_greer, @evan_greer, and @jessedamiani
| Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
Inside a GlobalFoundries chipmaking plant in upstate NY, filled with $10B worth of machinery, detailing the three-month, 700-step chip manufacturing process — The U.S. Senate has set aside $52 billion in hopes of increasing the U.S. share of semiconductor manufacturing.
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Unit21, which helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities via APIs and a dashboard, raises $34M Series B led by Tiger Global at a $300M valuation — Unit21, a startup that helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities with its no-code software, announced today it has raised $34 million …
Tweets: @bayareawriter and @darian314
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Instagram's shift away from being a photo-sharing app fits within its broader continuous evolution, from photo filtering tool to network to Stories and beyond — Last week Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri posted a video on Instagram about Instagram: … Everyone that I've seen …
Tweets: @mosseri and @stratechery
| Rebecca Chowdhury / MIT Technology Review: |
Hands-on with New York's Excelsior Pass vaccine passport: low adoption, privacy concerns, persistent technical glitches, and limited use at top leisure venues — When we tested New York's Excelsior Pass, we found privacy concerns, technical glitches, and questions over who it's really for.
Tweets: @techreview, @rebecca_chowd, @techreview, @brianmcc, and @miarsato
| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
A look at the debate over autonomous weapons: 30 countries support a total ban, the US says concerns are overblown, and Russia says such weapons don't yet exist — The Pentagon says a ban on AI weapons isn't necessary. But missiles, guns and drones that think for themselves …
Tweets: @gerritd, @ylitvinenko, @onekade, @daankayser, @washingtonpost, @oriana0214, @gerritd, @heatherkelly, @willoremus, and @susanoftexas
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