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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is delaying return to office deadline by at least a month to October amid rising COVID cases, will give employees a month's notice before return — - The iPhone maker is now eyeing an October return for workers — Covid-19 variants continue to spread across many countries
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Amnesty International researchers published a toolkit to help anyone scan their iPhone and Android devices for evidence of compromise by NSO's Pegasus spyware — Over the weekend, an international consortium of news outlets reported that several authoritarian governments — including Mexico …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DOJ unseals charges against four Chinese nationals, believed to be part of China-backed APT 40 hacking group; charging docs focus on activity from 2011 to 2018 — The US Department of Justice has indicted four Chinese nationals today for hacking companies, government agencies …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
Sources: a group of Facebook data scientists asked for resources to measure COVID misinfo on Facebook at the start of the pandemic, but execs denied the request — The company doesn't know some specifics about how falsehoods about Covid-19 and vaccines for the virus spread on its social network.
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| Forbes: |
BlockFi CEO confirms it received an order from the New Jersey Bureau of Securities to stop accepting new Interest Accounts; existing users won't be impacted — I write about how digital assets are going to change the world — According to a draft press release from the New Jersey Office …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
YouTube acquires India-based social commerce startup Simsim, sources say for over $70M; Simsim raised $17M to date and was last valued at $50.1M — YouTube has acquired social commerce startup Simsim, the Google-owned firm said on Tuesday. Neither of the firms disclosed the terms of the deal …
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| Dave Gershgorn / The Verge: |
DuckDuckGo launches a new Email Protection service that forwards emails from a free “@duck.com” address to users' regular inbox after scanning them for trackers — This is your chance to get an ‘@duck.com’ email address — DuckDuckGo is launching a new email privacy service meant … | noyb.eu: |
Austria's Supreme Court asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” GDPR by treating a contract as consent to deliver targeted ads, following a request from Max Schrems — BREAKING: Austrian Supreme Court asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” the GDPR by confusing ‘consent’ with an alleged ‘contract’.
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| GOV.UK: |
UK proposes new pro-competition rules for digital economy, including allowing its Digital Markets Unit to suspend, block, and reverse decisions by tech giants — Digital firms with deep-rooted market power to be subject to mandatory code to drive up competition
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| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China calls out 145 apps, including those from Amazon and ByteDance, alleging that they illegally collected user info, and gives them until July 26 to stop — The 145 named apps have until July 26 to take corrective measures or face punishment, the Ministry of Information Technology (MIIT) … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Mural, which offers a whiteboard-like digital environment for users to collaborate, raises $50M Series C, valuing it at $2B+, says it's tripled ARR in last year — This morning Mural, a startup that builds digital collaboration software with a focus on visual presentation …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Square launches Square Banking, which offers savings, checking, and loan services to Square merchants — Building on the success of the Square Debit Card and Square Capital, the company is launching Square Banking, a combination of savings, checking and loan services for Square merchants.
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| Jordyn Holman / Bloomberg: |
Fabric, which helps companies build their own e-commerce sites, raises $100M, source says at a valuation of $850M — - Funding gives the platform developer a value of $850 million — Fabric, a startup specializing in e-commerce platform development, raised $100 million in new funding … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Titan, an investing app with ~30,000 users and ~$500M in assets under management, raises $58M Series B led by a16z, valuing the startup at $450M — Titan, a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at the new generation of “everyday investors,” …
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| Globe and Mail: |
Ottawa used facial recognition on ~2.95M travelers at Toronto's Pearson airport between July and Dec. 2016, experts say with no public discussion in advance — In an effort to identify potential deportees, the federal government quietly tested facial recognition technology on millions …
Tweets: @lex_is and @moore_oliver
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Capchase, a lending service that helps SaaS companies with recurring revenue grow their operations, raises $280M, following a $125M round in June — Almost overnight, platforms that offer non-dilutive capital for recurring revenue businesses have become white-hot.
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
OpenSea, one of the largest marketplaces for NFTs, raises $100M Series B led by a16z at a $1.5B valuation; OpenSea had $160M in digital asset sales in June — The NFT venue has crossed into the rarefied air of crypto unicorns. — OpenSea, one of the largest digital art marketplaces …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
CIRP: Android and iOS each accounted for 50% of smartphone activations in the US in Q2, the same as Q2 2020, after iOS' share climbed steadily from 31% in 2017 — Activations of iOS and Android devices are now evenly split in the United States, with little sign of movement toward either platform dominating …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Path Robotics, which is developing robotic welding tech driven by computer vision and AI, raises $100M Series C led by Tiger Global, after May's $56M Series B — In May, Path Robotics announced a $56 million Series B. It was a sizable raise, as far as robotics rounds go.| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Uber expands grocery delivery service to more than 400 US cities and towns, including SF, NYC, and DC, partly fueled by a partnership with Albertsons Companies — announced the first major expansion of its — grocery delivery service in the US. The company is more than doubling the number … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Substack is funding the launch of podcast network Booksmart, which will start with five podcasts; subscribers will get extra content for $7/month or $70/year — Substack is funding the launch of a new podcast network called Booksmart Studios, executives tell Axios.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Dish Network signs a deal to pay AT&T at least $5B over the next 10 years to use AT&T's 4G and 5G networks for its MVNOs — Dish Network has a new network operator partner for its MVNO brands: AT&T. The companies have signed a network services agreement (NSA) that will see Dish pay … Sponsor Posts
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