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Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $7.34B vs. $7.32B est., up 19% YoY, global paid net additions of 1.54M vs. 1.19M expected; US and Canada region lost 433K subs QoQ — - Netflix reported earnings that missed on the bottom line. — The company's revenue and global paid net subscriber additions beat estimates.
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Netflix - Investors, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Reuters, Financial Times, Insider, TechRadar, PYMNTS.com, Coinspeaker, and IGN
Tweets: @zhugeex, @samro, @xpangler, @xpangler, @jboorstin, @zsharf, @xpangler, @lucas_shaw, and @edmundlee
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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Android Police, SlashGear, MacRumors, purexbox.com, Android Central, iMore, Tom's Guide, Light Reading, MSPoweruser, The Economic Times, GamesIndustry.biz, Polygon, Neowin, MCV/DEVELOP, iThinkDifferent, Ubergizmo, TechRadar, Pocket Gamer.biz, Vox, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @starfire2258, @labuzamovies, @zhugeex, @jaypeters, @nextgenplayer, @pkafka, @sophnar0747, @zhugeex, @travclark2, and @markgurman
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail two new local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, one in recent builds of Windows 10 and the preview of Windows 11, and the other in Linux — Both OSes have flaws that allow attackers with a toehold to elevate access. — The world woke up on Tuesday to two new vulnerabilities …
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US-CERT, Qualys Security Blog, and Qualys Security Blog. More:
BleepingComputer, Thurrott, TechRadar, BetaNews, and The Register
Tweets: @jonaslyk, @qualys, @sergeybratus, @bad_packets, @jeffmcjunkin, @wdormann, and @gossithedog
| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Apple and Google can do more to screw up the economics of NSO-style mass exploitation, and should be pressured to do so — This week a group of global newspapers is running a series of articles detailing abuses of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. If you haven't seen any of these articles …
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The Guardian, Threatpost, Slate, 9to5Mac, Tech Xplore, and Schneier on Security
| Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: |
Tweets: @shashj, @rajrishisinghal, @tonytassell, @benabyad, @sub8u, @arashmassoudi, @kabirtaneja, @karmel80, @johnreedwrites, and @aaschapiro
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| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Tumblr starts testing Post+, which allows users to charge their followers a monthly fee in exchange for access to exclusive content, with Tumblr taking a 5% cut — Social platform is the latest to let users earn money from posting — Microblogging stalwart Tumblr on Wednesday began …
Tweets: @dollydeighton, @iansherr, @mikeelgan, @wongmjane, @nicolasmagand, @martinsfp, and @hushes
| Washington Post: |
Top US Catholic Church official resigns after a Catholic media site obtained his alleged Grindr app and phone location data from an undisclosed data broker — The top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, which operates a repository with 4M+ 3D assets, for an undisclosed sum; Sketchfab reduces its store commission from 30% to 12% — New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine.
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UploadVR, Road to VR, Sketchfab Community Blog, and Epic Games
Tweets: @sketchfab, @diregoldfish, @albn, @pplux, @jessedamiani, @tinyruin, @iveytron, @nehon_42, @jpwiseuk, @epicnewsroom, and @samuelbass
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Samsung announces its next Galaxy Unpacked event will be held virtually on August 11, where it is expected to unveil new foldables — Samsung just sent out invites for its next Unpacked event. There are those companies that like to sneak hints into their invites — and then there's Samsung.
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Samsung Electronics America, Samsung US Newsroom, Android Police, The Verge, Android Authority, Phandroid, phonearena.com, MUO, SiliconANGLE, USA Today, Laptop Mag, HotHardware.com News, SamMobile, TechRadar, PCMag, ZDNet, Droid Life, SlashGear, Pocketnow, CNET, Gizmodo, Android Central, Mashable, and Android Police
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Chrome 92 for iOS enables Face ID and Touch ID protection of Incognito tabs, “Full Page” screenshot support, and more — Google is rolling out Chrome 92 for iOS today with a number of new user-facing features and tweaks. — Chrome 92 rolling out: Android Toolbar shortcut … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google is shutting down Google Bookmarks on September 30, 2021, and clarifies Starred locations in Google Maps will not be deleted after Bookmarks shuts down — After 16 years of service, Google is about to shut down a service that isn't very well known. On September 30, 2021 “Google Bookmarks” will be closed off for all users.
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Android Police, ZDNet, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, Android Police, MacRumors, and SlashGear. Tweets: @killedbygoogle
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google Maps expands its crowdedness predictions to 10K+ transit agencies in 100 countries, and will show how crowded individual carriages are in NYC and Sydney — Expanding to ‘over 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries’ — Google is expanding the number of cities where Maps offers information about public transport crowding.
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, CNBC, and Search Engine Roundtable
| BBC: |
EU Commission proposes a new law that would force companies that transfer Bitcoin or other crypto-assets to collect details of recipients and senders — Proposed changes to EU law would force companies that transfer Bitcoin or other crypto-assets to collect details on the recipient and sender.
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CNET, ZDNet, Reuters, Forkast, European Commission, and Coinspeaker
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Byju's acquires Epic, a reading service for kids with a presence across 90% of elementary schools in the US, for $500M — Byju's said on Wednesday it has acquired California-headquartered reading platform Epic for $500 million, the latest in a series of moves from India's most valuable startup … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Zoom says Zoom Apps and its virtual events service Zoom Events are now generally available, with 50 apps available at launch, including Asana and Dropbox Spaces — The video communications giant said the updates are designed to offer users a greater degree of collaboration …
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SiliconANGLE and The Verge
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Armenia-based Sololearn, which offers an app to learn coding, raises $24M, following a $1.2M Series A in 2016, and says it is adding more than 300K users/mo. — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Armenia-based Sololearn has raised $24 million …
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TechCrunch and Silicon Canals
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter begins rolling out a preview of a revamped TweetDeck in the US, Canada, and Australia, featuring an option for wider columns, an Explore column, more — Twitter is beginning to test a completely redesigned version of TweetDeck, the company announced today.
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TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, and Appleosophy
| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Instagram is testing a new feature called Collab in India and the UK that lets users invite a public account as a collaborator on a post or a Reel — Bengaluru: With collaborations being a major part of how people create content on Instagram, the Facebook-owned platform is now making it easier … | The Information: |
Sources: Bolt, which offers a one-click checkout service, is raising a $333M Series D at a post-money valuation of $4B, nearly five times its December valuation — Bolt, a San Francisco-based startup that offers software for online shopping, is raising $333 million in Series D funding … | Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Instagram is rolling out a new feature that lets users control “sensitive content” in the Explore tab, with settings to “Allow”, “Limit”, and “Limit Even More” — Instagram's Explore tab can feel like the Wild West at times.
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Instagram, PCMag, phonearena.com, Trusted Reviews, SlashGear, CNN, iMore, and BGR India
Tweets: @caseynewton, @tarletong, @tarletong, @tarletong, @evelyndouek, @thebrockjohnson, @wongmjane, @mmasnick, @naz_andalibi, @tarletong, @ariezrawaldman, @tarletong, @tarletong, @instagramcomms, @tarletong, @syardi, @tarletong, @whoreganizer, @neednewshorts, @tarletong, @willoremus, @fraying, @bennyfactor, @jerrycap, @caseynewton, and @jmgrygiel
| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto derivatives exchange FTX raises $900M from SoftBank, Sequoia, and others, valuing it at $18B; CryptoCompare: FTX handles $10B+/day in trades on average — Investors include SoftBank, Sequoia Capital and Daniel Loeb's Third Point hedge fund — Cryptocurrency exchange FTX has raised money …
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Forbes, The Block, Bloomberg, cryptodaily.co.uk, blockchain.news, Coinspeaker, Bitcoin News, and Forkast
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Verizon joins AT&T and T-Mobile in switching Android Messages default to RCS, raising questions about when or if Apple will swap its SMS default with RCS — That's all three big US carriers, is Apple next? — Beginning next year, Verizon will join AT&T and T-Mobile in preloading Android Messages …
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Verizon, Android Headlines, TalkAndroid.com, Droid Life, Ubergizmo, iMore, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @adrs and @caro_milanesi
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Soldo, which develops an automated expense management system for businesses, raises $180M Series C led by Temasek, with Accel and others participating — Expense management has long been a pain point for employees and accounting departments: for many, tracking and parsing how money is spent …
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FinSMEs, Silicon Republic, Soldo, The Irish Times, Tech.eu, Crowdfund Insider, and Finextra
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ethos, which integrates with third-party insurance underwriters to offer life insurance, raises $100M from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a valuation of $2.7B+ — More than half of the U.S. population has stayed away from considering life insurance because they believe it's probably too expensive … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Core Scientific, which says it is the biggest bitcoin mining company in the US, says it will go public via SPAC at a valuation of around $4.3B — - Cryptocurrency mining operator Core Scientific is listing on the Nasdaq through a merger with Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
HBO Max partners with Snapchat to let users in the US co-watch pilots of select series with up to 63 other users for free via a Snap Mini — In a bid to boost sign-ups to its streaming service, HBO Max is partnering with Snap to bring free episodes from its original programing to Snapchat users …
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Pressroom, PCMag, The Drum, phonearena.com, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @seyitaylor, @insidehbomax, and @tomemrich
| Bloomberg: |
Biden nominates Jonathan Kanter, a long-time foe of Google, to become the DOJ's antitrust chief — - Kanter has represented Microsoft, Yelp in anti-Google push — Biden's appointments signal aggressive antitrust agenda — President Joe Biden plans to nominate Jonathan Kanter as head … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
FloQast, which develops accounting collaboration, automation, and close-management software, raises $110M Series D at a valuation of $1.2B — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — FloQast, an accounting collaboration, automation and close-management platform …
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