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Automattic, owner of Tumblr, buys podcast app Pocket Casts from a public radio collective that includes NPR, which reportedly lost $800K on it last year — A new home for the popular podcast app — Pocket Casts has a new owner. Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and recently purchased Tumblr …
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Sources: Intel is exploring a deal to buy GlobalFoundries, valuing the company at about $30B; GlobalFoundries itself says it isn't aware of any talks — GlobalFoundries, owned by an investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government, has been planning an IPO — Intel Corp. is exploring a deal …
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TechCrunch, Reuters, Silicon Valley Business …, HotHardware.com News, insideHPC, iPhone in Canada Blog, Protocol, ExtremeTech, PCMag, Light Reading, TechSpot, The Register, and Neowin
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Dorsey says Square is creating a new business line with the aim of helping devs build decentralized financial services products, primarily focused on Bitcoin — Square Inc. is creating a new business line to help developers build financial services products focused on Bitcoin …
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The Verge, ZDNet, Financial Times, CNBC, CoinDesk, Crypto Briefing, CoinJournal, Coinspeaker, blockchain.news, Forkast, and Finextra
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| Canalys: |
Global smartphone shipments grew 12% YoY in Q2, with Xiaomi up 83% to take a 17% share and pushing past Apple to reach the second place for the first time ever — In Q2 2021, global smartphone shipments increased 12%, as vaccines rolled out around the world, and the new normal for economies and citizens started to take shape.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Paytm files for an IPO in India, looking to raise $2.2B — Digital payments giant Paytm, one of India's most valuable startups, plans to raise up to $2.2 billion in an initial public offering, it said in draft papers submitted to the country's market regulator on Friday.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve announces Steam Deck, its long-rumored Switch-like handheld gaming device with a 7" touchscreen display, available in December from $399 — It starts at $399 — Valve just announced the Steam Deck, its long-rumored Switch-like handheld gaming device. It will begin shipping in December.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter rolls out auto-captions for voice tweets in 11 languages including English, Japanese, and Hindi, more than a year after launching voice tweets on iOS — Twitter was criticized for launching voice tweets without captions — Twitter is now rolling out captions for voice tweets, the company announced Thursday.
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| Liam J. Kelly / Decrypt: |
Binance is halting operations for its stock tokens offering, which launched in April and let users buy and sell tokenized stocks of popular stocks like Tesla — Editor's note: This article has been updated to include an announcement from Hong Kong's financial regulator.
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| Dave Gershgorn / The Verge: |
The maker of a new documentary about Anthony Bourdain says he used AI to re-create Bourdain's voice and synthesized the audio of three quotes from the TV host — ‘We can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later’ — In a new documentary, Roadrunner, about the life and tragic death …
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| Ted Johnson / Deadline: |
White House says it is alerting Facebook about posts that spread COVID-19 misinfo; US surgeon general calls on social media companies to tackle health misinfo — As the rate of Covid-19 vaccination slows and cases rise again, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on tech platforms …
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| Jennifer Broxmeyer / About Facebook: |
Facebook publishes its first quarterly Oversight Board update, noting it fully or partially implemented 14 of 18 board recommendations across 6 cases in Q1 2021 — When we launched the Oversight Board, we committed to consider and transparently respond to all of the board's recommendations.| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
US announces anti-ransomware measures, including rewards of up to $10M for information about foreign state-sanctioned hackers targeting critical infrastructure — BOSTON (AP) — The State Department will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Microsoft and Citizen Lab say government hackers from several countries have used spyware from Israeli vendor Candiru that uses two 0-day exploits in Windows — Microsoft and Citizen Lab found a new kind of spyware made by the mysterious Israeli vendor Candiru, and targeting someone in Europe based on their political beliefs.
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The Citizen Lab, Microsoft On the Issues, Microsoft Security Blog, The Guardian, The Register, Neowin, Financial Times, CNBC, The Hacker News, and ZDNet
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| Stephanie Yang / Wall Street Journal: |
Companies are taking supply-chain risks due to the global chip shortage, with some falling victim to fraudsters and sellers hawking counterfeit chips — Global semiconductor shortage attracts fraudsters, counterfeits; 'Of course, a bunch of them didn't work,' a buyer says
Tweets: @ajitpai, @stephanieayang, @wsj, and @jchengwsj
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google Cloud VP Amr Awadallah leaves the company, after staff complain about his manifesto called We Are One that he posted online about his past antisemitism — - Google Cloud has abruptly parted with developer relations vice president Amr Awadallah, according to an internal email seen by CNBC.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Reliance Retail says it has acquired a controlling stake in Indian search and discovery company Just Dial for $469M — Reliance Retail said on Friday it has acquired a controlling stake in 25-year-old Indian search and discovery firm Just Dial for $469 million.
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| David Priest / CNET: |
Facebook Messenger adds Soundmojis, which add audible expressions to emoji, accessible through a loudspeaker icon — Messenger chats are about to get louder. … Facebook on Thursday launched “Soundmojis” for its Messenger app. The new feature adds the audible expressions to emoji …
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Emojipedia, About Facebook, Firstpost Tech, The Overspill, Livemint, Pocket-lint, and Cult of Mac
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