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| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
South Korea's National Assembly passes a bill that forces Apple and Google to allow alternative payment systems in their app stores — Seoul requires the companies to allow competing payment systems, threatening their 30% cut of most in-app digital sales — SEOUL—Google and Apple Inc …
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Tweets: @timsweeneyepic, @appfairness, @zhugeex, @patrickmcgee_, @jamesthomson, @appfairness, @jamesthomson, @keleftheriou, @keleftheriou, @rover829, @reneritchie, @fosspatents, @koreaeconinst, @backlon, @rjonesy, @carnage4life, @deepakkhemani8, @dhh, @film_girl, @bigblackjacobin, @tedgioia, @rileytestut, @dinasrinivasan, @zhugeex, @zhugeex, @dhh, @vijayshekhar, @zhugeex, @ryangrim, @mayazi, @ananth_krishna_, @marshablackburn, and @tsuvik
| 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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Nikkei Asia, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, MobileSyrup, Benzinga, FrontPageTech.com, Apple Must, iDownloadBlog.com, Wccftech, Tom's Guide, Gizmodo, Forbes, Redmond Pie, phonearena.com, HotHardware.com News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocket-lint, iThinkDifferent, iMore, BGR, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Livemint, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @markgurman
| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Apple bars staff from making a Slack channel about pay equity; Apple says it's because it's not work related, despite other channels 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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Silicon Valley Business …, AppleInsider, Insider, Axios, Slashdot, The Daily Beast, Quartz, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
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| 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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| 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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LinkedIn, The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Gizmodo, Windows Central, Social Media Today, Mashable, and Engadget
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows 11 will not support Android apps at launch on October 5; support for Android apps will likely arrive in 2022 — Microsoft will start testing Android apps on Windows 11 in the coming months — Microsoft won't ship support for Android apps on Windows 11 in time for the operating system's launch on October 5th.
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| 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, Engadget, 9to5Google, CNET, CNBC, CNN, Austin Business Journal, The Register, New York Post, The Hill, The Verge, Android Central, Reuters, Thurrott, ZDNet, Bloomberg, and CRN
Tweets: @cwarzel and @gaberivera
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Source: Facebook plans to downrank current events content and political posts in the News Feed, after users approved of tests that limited such content — Facebook plans to announce that it will de-emphasize political posts and current events content in the News Feed based on negative user feedback, Axios has learned.
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Politico, Wired, The Independent, Reclaim The Net, The Verge, Social Media Today, Fast Company, TechCrunch, The Hill, SlashGear, and Engadget
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| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
El Salvador's plan to make Bitcoin legal tender has been unpopular, with protests over concerns of money laundering, forcing trade in BTC, unconstitutionality — El Salvador will soon accept Bitcoin as legal tender, but not everybody shares the President's enthusiasm as citizens took to the streets this week.
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The Guardian, euronews, Insider, Quartz, La Prensa Latina Media, Cointelegraph, The Block, Reuters, Benzinga, Protos, Crypto Briefing, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @parismarx, @decryptmedia, @coindesk, and @alfonslopeztena
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
United Talent Agency signs NFT art projects CryptoPunks, Meebits, and Autoglyphs, all created by Larva Labs, for representation across film, TV, games, and more — The agency will represent the crypto-art projects from Larva Labs for film, TV, video games, and publishing projects …
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The Block, Bitcoinist.com, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @zoink, @jeremyjenson_, @alexmetaverse, @unitedtalent, @niftynaut, @pythianism, @rileyseanm, and @opiumhum
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Syndicate, a decentralized investing platform that wants to make it easier for users to create DAOs, raises $20M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz — Syndicate, a decentralized investing platform, raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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Andreessen Horowitz, The Block, ihodl.com, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, and Decrypt. Tweets: @katie_haun
| 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
| 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 … | Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: |
FTX acquires US-regulated crypto derivatives exchange LedgerX for an undisclosed sum, to expand its futures and options products in the US — - Strategy is to offer array of assets in regulated markets — Majority of global crypto volume trades through derivatives
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PR Newswire, Forkast, Coinspeaker, and Blockworks
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Amazon is developing a live audio feature, led by its Music division, with a focus on live music and potentially radio and podcasts — Amazon is investing heavily in a new live audio feature that's similar to other live audio offerings like Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces and Spotify's new live audio platform, sources tell Axios.
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Benzinga, XDA Developers, TechSpot, Voicebot.ai, GeekWire, Liliputing, New York Post, and Engadget
Tweets: @sarafischer, @emilybinder, @thekenyeung, @lucas_shaw, and @axios
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Alpaca, which offers APIs for fintech apps to connect and trade in US stocks, raises $50M Series B led by Tribe Capital and says it is expanding into crypto — Alpaca said this morning that it has closed a massive $50 million Series B round of capital. TechCrunch previously covered …
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Tweets: @patrick_oshag, @howardlindzon, @ycombinator, and @genesistrading
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
135+ subreddits have gone private in protest of Reddit's refusal to ban communities that spread misinformation about the COVID pandemic and vaccines — PokemonGo, Futurology among big subreddits going private until Reddit takes action. — Over 135 subreddits have gone dark this week …
Tweets: @kebrightbill
| Wall Street Journal: |
Wall Street institutions are increasingly tracking amateurs on Reddit, Twitter, and Discord to find trading opportunities, following GameStop's meteoric rise — Deep-pocketed banks and hedge funds now take their cues from armies of Main Street traders — Wall Street professionals tell everyday investors what stocks to buy.
Tweets: @wsj, @anthony, @wsjmarkets, @jerrycap, and @newley
| MIT Technology Review: |
Sources and experts say US-funded Afghan government databases containing sensitive personal data could be used by the Taliban to identify millions of Afghans — As the Taliban swept through Afghanistan in mid-August, declaring the end of two decades of war, reports quickly circulated …
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NBC News. Tweets: @hypervisible, @aprilaser, @alexandrageese, @hypervisible, @johnrobb, @barristerblog, @techreview, @eileenguo, @techreview, and @techreview
| Riley de León / CNBC: |
Data analytics company Databricks raises $1.6B Series H led by Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global fund at a $38B valuation, up $10B from February — - Databricks has raised a $1.6 billion Series H funding round that boosts its valuation to $38 billion. — Its latest funding round …
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TechCrunch, Databricks, PYMNTS.com, Protocol, ZDNet, Tech News, Forbes, Insider, and Crunchbase News
Tweets: @lucascerdan, @quinnypig, and @jordannovet
| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Streamers organize #ADayOffTwitch walkout to bring awareness to the recent increase of “hate raids”, and say Twitch isn't taking the issue seriously enough — On Wednesday, September 1st, a number of channels on Twitch will go dark as streamers participate in #ADayOffTwitch … | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Getting a water-damaged MacBook Pro fixed shows how independent repair shops can make repairs more affordable to consumers if Apple allows them access to parts — New legislation aims to provide more options for fixing our broken gadgets. A journey to fix two MacBooks illustrates … | Bloomberg: |
Checkr, whose tech for employment background checks is used by Uber, Airbnb, and others, raises a $250M round led by Durable Capital at a $4.6B valuation — Checkr, a technology platform for employment background checks, has raised $250 million in a financing round that more than doubles its valuation from earlier this year.| Paul Bischoff / Comparitech: |
Study: in 2020, 77 ransomware attacks affected over 1,740 US schools and colleges, potentially impacting 1.36M students and costing ~$6.6B in downtime alone — In 2020, 77 individual ransomware attacks affected over 1,740 schools and colleges, potentially impacting 1.36 million students.
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ZDNet, infosecurity-magazine.com, and Dark Reading
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Offchain Labs, which is aiming to make Ethereum transactions faster and cheaper using its Arbitrum tools, raises $120M Series B at a $1.2B valuation — As the broader crypto world enjoys a late summer surge in enthusiasm, more and more blockchain developers who have taken the plunge are bumping … Sponsor Posts
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