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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Mozilla's analysis says Facebook's justifications for cutting off access to researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory project “simply do not hold water” — The company says privacy concerns forced it to block access for a team of academics. Whose privacy, exactly?
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| Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations — - Company says researchers of political ads were scraping data — NYU's Ad Observatory got cease-and-desist letter last October
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Senators Lummis, Wyden, Toomey propose amendment to infrastructure bill excluding crypto developers, miners, node operators, others from the “broker” definition — A trio of U.S. senators is proposing a legislative exclusion for crypto companies, including miners and software developers …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok says it is testing TikTok Stories; source says Stories are available in a handful of markets outside the US — Twitter may have shut down its Stories features known as Fleets, but the Stories format will continue to invade other social platforms. TikTok today confirmed it's piloting … | Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Uber beats estimates with record gross bookings of $21.9B, up 114% YoY, adjusted EBITDA loss of $509M, an improvement from $837M YoY; stock down ~5% — - Uber beat on both the top and bottom lines in its second-quarter earnings report Wednesday. — The company reported a net income of $1.1 billion for the quarter.
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Amnesty International: of the world's 53 largest VC firms, only one meets UN human rights due diligence standards — Out of the 53 companies and accelerators surveyed, only one “potentially” set up a policy to investigate and stop contributions to human rights abuse. — EO
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft pauses free trials of its new Windows 365 service, which lets users stream Windows 10 or 11 via web browser, after “significant demand” — Windows 365 lets you stream a cloud PC to a web browser — Microsoft launched its new cloud PC Windows 365 service earlier this week …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo misses in Q1 with $1.09B operating profit, down 17.3% YoY, on $2.94B revenue, down 9.9% YoY, as Switch sales decline by 21.7% YoY to 4.45M units — It was not exactly a normal quarter this time in 2020 — Nintendo has released its earnings for the April-June quarter …
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| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood shares surged as much as 80% on Wednesday, reaching $85, with trading halted several times, and closed the day at $70.39, up 50.41% — Cramer: Hedge funds think Robinhood is a house of cards — Robinhood shares soared again Wednesday, extending a wild rally in the newly public stock trading app's stock.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Amazon and Google patch a bug in their DNS-as-a-Service platforms that exposed users' internal networks and traffic; other DNS providers are likely vulnerable — At the Black Hat security conference today, two security researchers have disclosed a security issue impacting hosted DNS service providers …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
EA beats estimates with Q1 total net revenue of $1.55B, up from $1.46B YoY, net income of $204M, down from $365M YoY, and net bookings of $1.34B, down 3% YoY — Watch now. — Electronic Arts reported better-than-expected earnings today for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30 …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Kuaishou drops by over 15% in Hong Kong as its post-IPO lockup expired, highlighting widening fears about China's crackdown — Kuaishou Technology fell the most on record after a post-listing lockup on sales of its shares expired, underscoring the extent of investors' fears about a widening Chinese online crackdown.| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Email service Superhuman, which charges $30/month and hasn't formally launched, raises $75M Series C led by IVP, source says at a $825M valuation — Covering venture capital, software and startups — When Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra agreed to meet with former Dropbox CFO Ajay Vashee's …
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| FinSMEs: |
Philadelphia-based ZeroEyes, which uses AI to detect guns, raises $20.9M Series A led by Octave Ventures — ZeroEyes, a Philadelphia PA-based provider of an AI powered weapons detection solution, raised $20.9M in Series A funding. — The round, which brought the total amount raised to date to $26.1m …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Denver-based Reserve Trust, which enables domestic and international B2B payments, raises $30.5M Series A led by QED Investors — Reserve Trust, a Denver-based financial services provider, has raised $30.5 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. — FinTech Collective …
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| Vittoria Elliott / Rest of World: |
A look at a new labor force using microtask platforms like Remotasks to create and edit data sets for self-driving cars, located primarily in the Global South — To master the roads, autonomous vehicles need lots of data. Workers everywhere from Kenya to Venezuela are providing it.
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