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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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Nikkei Asia, MobileSyrup, XDA Developers, PCMag, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Coinspeaker, phonearena.com, MacDailyNews, TechSpot, KnowTechie, Wareable, TechRadar, Pocketnow, SlashGear, Softpedia News, iMore, Tom's Guide, Ubergizmo, The Mac Observer, BGR, CNBC, Benzinga, FrontPageTech.com, iThinkDifferent, Gizmodo, Forbes, HotHardware.com News, Redmond Pie, Wccftech, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, Apple Must, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @lauly_th_li, @markgurman, and @markgurman
| 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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Tweets: @richontech, @lanceulanoff, and @katienotopoulos
| 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:
The Hill, Axios, Protocol, Access Now, and Fast Company
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @accessnow, @accessnow, @accessnow, and @accessnow
| 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 … | 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
| 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. More:
The Verge, TechCrunch, SlashGear, OnMSFT.com, ZDNet, Neowin, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Gizmodo, Social Media Today, Mashable, Windows Central, and Engadget
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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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| 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
| 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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| 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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Crypto Briefing, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, and Cryptonews
Tweets: @jerrybrito, @jp_koning, @sub8u, @jreade_wgc, @deepakmohoni, and @c1aranmurray
| 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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The Verge, The Guardian, and Slashdot
Tweets: @benwhitelaw, @benwhitelaw, @hypervisible, @karissabe, and @kebrightbill
| 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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The Guardian and Sydney Morning Herald
| 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.| 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
| 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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Telegram. More:
9to5Mac, MacRumors, Android Headlines, Android Police, XDA Developers, and phonearena.com
Tweets: @abebrown716, @vboykis, @telegram, and @telegram
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
FTC's refiled Facebook suit does not offer market definitions reflective of reality, misunderstands ad markets, and highlights harms of regulatory interference — It is coming up on two weeks since the FTC refiled its case against Facebook;1 from the Wall Street Journal:
Tweets: @robleathern and @stratechery
| 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:
PCMag, Engadget, Silicon Republic, 9to5Google, The Verge, CNBC, Neowin, Coinspeaker, WRAL TechWire, Austin Business Journal, CNET, CNN, Silicon Valley Business …, The Register, New York Post, ZDNet, Mashable, The Hill, Android Central, CRN, Thurrott, Reuters, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @cwarzel and @gaberivera
| 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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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A look at the implications of South Korea's alternative app store payment law: confusion for non-technical users, difficulty managing subscriptions, and more — Apple defines in-app purchases as “App Store purchases”, which I disagree with. I see a clear difference between purchasing …
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MacRumors. Tweets: @daringfireball, @keleftheriou, @stroughtonsmith, @steven_aquino, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, and @neilcybart
| 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
| 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, Silicon Republic, Tech.eu, TechCrunch, and EU-Startups
| 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
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Vic.ai, which offers AI-powered tools that it says can automate accounting tasks, raises $50M Series B led by Iconiq Growth, bringing total raised to $63M — Vic.ai, a startup that has built an AI-based platform it claims can ‘automate’ enterprise accounting, has raised a $50M Series B round led …
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VentureBeat and GlobeNewswire News Room
| 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
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