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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple's upcoming Watch is suffering production snags as manufacturers adjust to a new design, likely leading to supply constraints or shipment delays — - Revamped device has a larger screen and other new features — Wearables category has been one of fastest-growing for Apple
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says Arizona and Georgia will be first to support adding IDs to Wallet in iOS 15, with six states, including Utah, Maryland, and Iowa, expected to follow — Apple's plan to digitize your wallet is slowly taking shape. What started with boarding passes and venue tickets later became credit cards …
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Apple bars staff from making a Slack channel about pay equity; Apple says it is because the channel is not work related, despite others on pets and jokes — The company's rules around Slack usage are not being evenly enforced — Apple has barred employees from creating a Slack channel to discuss pay equity.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Analysis: governments intentionally blocked internet access nearly 850 times in the past decade, including 213 shutdowns in 2019, 155 in 2020, and 50 in 2021 — A favorite tactic for stifling dissent in the 21st century — The number of government-led internet shutdowns has exploded …
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Jigsaw. More:
Axios, The Hill, Protocol, Access Now, and Fast Company
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @accessnow, @accessnow, @accessnow, and @accessnow
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Google is developing Arm-based chips for laptops and tablets that run on Chrome OS, set to launch around 2023 — US software giant ramps up hiring blitz for semiconductor and hardware ambitions — TAIPEI — Google is developing its own central processors for its notebook and tablet computers …
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XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Barron's Online, Insider, Engadget, phonearena.com, CNBC, Gizchina, TechRadar, and Financial Times
Tweets: @mikepeeljourno and @chengtingfang
| New York Times: |
Investigation shows Accenture is Facebook's biggest content moderation partner, employing over a third of its moderators, with annual contracts exceeding $500M — The social network has constructed a vast infrastructure to keep toxic material off its platform. At the center of it is Accenture, the blue-chip consulting firm.
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Insider and Fortune
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
More than 135 subreddits have gone private in protest of Reddit's refusal to ban communities that spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines — PokemonGo, Futurology among big subreddits going private until Reddit takes action. — Over 135 subreddits have gone dark …
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Tweets: @benwhitelaw, @benwhitelaw, @hypervisible, @karissabe, and @kebrightbill
| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
LinkedIn is abandoning its Stories format at the end of September and has told advertisers to adjust their ad campaigns accordingly — Brands will have to adjust ad campaigns when video format leaves the platform after September — LinkedIn is telling advertisers to prepare for the end …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is planning to add health features, including a blood pressure monitor and thermometer to track fertility, to Watch as soon as 2022 — Tech giant seeks to push past obstacles in adding health features on your wrist — Apple Inc. is working on new health-related features for its smartwatch … | Financial Times: |
SEC's Gary Gensler says crypto trading platforms need to work with regulators to survive, as most trading happens with “really sparse” investor protections — Gary Gensler warns $2tn industry is too big to exist outside of ‘public policy framework’
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| Mark Scott / Politico: |
Facebook says it accidentally removed thousands of posts around the Jan. 6 riots from CrowdTangle, blaming a now-fixed error that has existed since at least May — The social media company said it was a technical error, and has been fixed, but tens of thousands of posts are still missing.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intuit is in talks to buy Mailchimp for more than $10B; Mailchimp has also considered offering a minority stake and another buyer could still emerge — Intuit Inc., the software company that owns TurboTax, is in talks to buy email marketing startup Mailchimp for more than $10 billion … | The Tutanota Blog: |
Australia passes bill that lets police hack user devices to modify, collect, or delete data and take over social media accounts without a judge's warrant — The Microsoft database hack shows that data stored in the cloud must always be encrypted end-to-end.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Telegram releases an update that removes the cap on live stream viewers, from 1,000 to unlimited, introduces more options for forwarding messages, and more — Along with more forwarding options — Telegram, the messaging app that's becoming more and more like a fully-fledged social media network …
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| Julie Zhu / Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese state-backed firms are set to take an 80%+ stake in Ant Group's credit scoring joint venture, potentially gaining access to data of 1B+ users — State-backed firms are set to take a sizeable stake in a key Ant Group asset for the first time, three people told Reuters …
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The Economic Times and Benzinga
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Sundar Pichai informs Google employees that plans to return to offices are being pushed back again, from October to January 10 — Google is pushing back its return-to-office date by three months, to Jan. 10, in a decision that reflects the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
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The Keyword. More:
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to hire over 55,000 corporate employees globally, including over 40,000 in the US, a 20% increase in tech and corporate staff — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is planning to hire 55,000 people for corporate and technology roles globally in the coming months, Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Reuters.
Tweets: @bytimlogan
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Didi is helping workers establish their first union, likely including drivers, as China imposes rules to curb excessive work — - Its first-ever workers union came after Supreme Court's notice — Meituan is among peers considering labor rights issues
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The Economic Times and Reuters
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Playtika, which makes free-to-play casino games such as Bingo Blitz, is buying 80% of Finland's Reworks Oy, maker of a home decorating game, for $400M in cash — - Finland's Reworks marks the company's biggest purchase to date — Mobile gamemaker still has $1.4 billion more for acquisitions
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GlobeNewswire News Room. More:
GamesIndustry.biz, ArcticStartup, ExchangeWire.com, and MarketWatch
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is launching Facebook Fantasy Games in the US and Canada, available free on the Facebook app — Facebook is getting into fantasy sports and other types of fantasy games. The company this morning announced the launch of Facebook Fantasy Games in the U.S. and Canada on the Facebook app for iOS and Android.
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| Trilby Beresford / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Bellevue-based ProbablyMonsters, which operates multiple AAA game studios, raises $200M Series A led by LKCM Headwater Investments — The Bellevue, Washington-based company operates a collection of AAA studios each focused on a different game genre and player experience.
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GamesIndustry.biz, Forbes, VentureBeat, and ProbablyMonsters
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-powered deweeding robot, raises $27M Series B, bringing total funding to $36M — Investors are putting more cash behind the self-driving weed-zapping machines made by Carbon Robotics that are attracting attention from farmers across the world.
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TechCrunch, Fast Company, and Yahoo Finance
| TechCrunch: |
Roundup of 180+ companies that launched at YC's Summer 2021 Demo Day 1, including food delivery, investment, edtech, AI, and payment startups — Today Y Combinator kicked off the Demo Day cycle for its Summer 2021 cohort. The collection of early-stage startups on day one-of-two alone numbered …
Tweets: @iamgurusingh, @quinnypig, and @sdianahu
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
German startup CoachHub, which uses AI to match individuals to business coaches, raises $80M Series B2, following $30M Series B in December 2020 — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
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FinSMEs, Tech.eu, Silicon Republic, TechCrunch, and EU-Startups
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
CrowdStrike beats in Q2 with revenue of $337.7M, up 70% YoY; ARR rose 70% YoY to $1.34B, subscription revenue was $315.8M, up 71% YoY, net new subs grew 81% YoY — Subscription revenue was up 71% while the cybersecurity company saw its total number of subscription customers grow by 81%
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Business Wire and SiliconANGLE
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