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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
About 1,000 current and former Activision Blizzard employees say the company's response to its recent lawsuit is “insulting”, in a letter to leadership — Nearly 1,000 current and former Activision Blizzard Inc. employees have signed a letter calling the company's responses …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Intel says its Foundry Services will build chips for Qualcomm and AWS and lays out a roadmap to catch up with TSMC and Samsung by 2025 — Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Monday its factories will start building Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) chips and laid out a roadmap to expand its new foundry business …
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| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Google issues a new Enterprise APIs policy, promising that APIs will remain available far into the future, aiming to move past a reputation for killing services — Google Cloud issued a promise Monday to current and potential customers that it's safe to build a business around its core technologies …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Facebook announces a new Metaverse product group, with plans to hire hundreds of staff, led by Instagram VP Vishal Shah, reporting to VR/AR VP Andrew Bosworth — The company plans to hire hundreds of new staffers for the group. — Facebook is all in on the Metaverse …
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| Todd Feathers / VICE: |
A look at ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to “detect gunshots”, as court filings suggest it frequently alters evidence at the request of police departments — Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung confirms that it won't launch Galaxy Note at its Unpacked event on Aug. 11, says it will launch new Galaxy Z phones and an S Pen designed for foldables — The company also promises ‘enhanced durability’ — Samsung isn't looking to have many surprises at its August 11th Unpacked event.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Element, a messaging app built on top of decentralized protocol Matrix, raises $30M Series B from Protocol Labs and others, bringing total raised to $48M — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey!
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Indonesia-based grocery delivery app HappyFresh raises $65M Series D led by Naver Financial Corporation and Gafina B.V. — HappyFresh, the on-demand grocery app based in Indonesia, announced today it has raised a $65 million Series D. The round was led by Naver Financial Corporation and Gafina B.V. …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ActiveFence, whose tech proactively detects disinformation and other malicious content, raises $100M in a combined Series A and Series B — Online abuse, disinformation, fraud and other malicious content is growing and getting more complex to track. Today, a startup called ActiveFence … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Nium, a Singapore-based B2B payments company, raises $200M Series D at a $1B+ valuation led by Riverwood Capital, with Temasek, Visa, and others participating — Business-to-business payments platform Nium announced Monday that it raised more than $200 million in Series D funding and saw its valuation rise above $1 billion.
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
South Africa-based Yoco, which offers offline and online payment solutions for SMEs, raises $83M Series C led by Dragoneer, bringing total raised to $107M — Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute heavily to the economic success of many countries, particularly those in the developing world.
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TechCabal and Disrupt Africa
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Apple updates iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day flaw that was reportedly actively exploited, making it the 13th zero-day Apple has patched this year — Apple has released patches today for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day vulnerability that the company says has been exploited in the wild.
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IOMobileFrameBuffer_LPE_POC, MacRumors, BleepingComputer, Ubergizmo, The Register, iMore, The Hacker News, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, MacRumors, mobilesyrup.com, and The Eclectic Light Company
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Sedna, a service that analyzes emails and chats to perform actions mentioned within them, raises $34M Series B led by Insight Partners — Many have tried, but email refuses to die... although in the process it might be (figuratively speaking) killing some of us with the workload it brings on to triage and use it.
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Tech.eu and Silicon Canals
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Tencent says it is temporarily suspending WeChat user registrations in China as it upgrades its systems to comply with new security regulations — Tencent's (0700.HK) WeChat has temporarily suspended registration of new users in mainland China as it undergoes a technical upgrade …
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CNN and TechCrunch
| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
FCC challenges a bid won by SpaceX for $886M in rural broadband subsidies, concerned some of the spending may be wasteful, duplicative, or headed for other uses — - Company is among 197 winning bidders to get letters from FCC — Agency says it's cleaning up results from auction last year
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The Verge
| Bloomberg: |
The Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the 30 biggest Hong Kong-listed tech companies, including Tencent and Alibaba, is down $551B+ since its February peak — - Gauge has lost about $551 billion in market value from peak — Still, ETFs tracking it have recorded rising inflows this year
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