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A possible retail listing of Surface Pro 8 with a 13" 120Hz display, narrow bezels, and two Thunderbolt ports leaks ahead of Microsoft's event on September 22 — Microsoft is holding a Surface hardware event on Wednesday — Microsoft is preparing to launch a new Surface Pro 8 model next week …
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @brianfagioli, @tapbot_paul, @snazzyq, @techaltar, and @superscientific
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
As bitcoin falls to ~$43K, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele says the country has “bought the dip” and acquired 150 more BTC, taking its total holding to 700 — El Salvador has purchased 150 more bitcoins (worth $6.8 million at current prices), President Nayib Bukele said on Twitter Monday …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roku announces $50 Streaming Stick 4K and $70 Streaming Stick 4K+, which adds a Voice Remote Pro, and Roku OS 10.5 with improved voice support — Weeks after Amazon introduced an updated Fire TV lineup that included, for the first time, its own TVs, Roku today is announcing its own competitive products …
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| Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
NTSB head says Tesla shouldn't roll out its Full Self-Driving update with the city-driving tool before addressing safety deficiencies — Tesla plans to expand access to Full Self-Driving system and defends its tech; safety official says more work is needed
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Protocol, The Verge, Gizmodo, Benzinga, Mashable, Engadget, PCMag, and Wccftech
Tweets: @wpipperger, @jimpethokoukis, @paulpage, @eliotwb, @bgrahamdisciple, @cmarinucci, @faizsays, @parismarx, @gordonjohnson19, and @davidzipper
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
ByteDance says Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, will limit users who are under 14-years-old to 40 minutes per day, between 6am and 10pm, in China — Douyin's youth mode will limit kids under 14 to 40 minutes a day — The Chinese version of the popular short video app TikTok …
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The Register, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Billboard, CNET, CNN, South China Morning Post, Benzinga, Engadget, phonearena.com, Insider, and TNW
Tweets: @carnage4life, @brianroemmele, @lizalinwsj, @antd, @jerometaylor, @jchengwsj, @echinanews, and @martinsfp
| Soumyarendra Barik / Entrackr: |
Indian startup FloBiz, a mobile billing app for small and medium businesses, raises $31M Series B led by Sequoia Capital India — FloBiz, a mobile billing app for businessmen like distributors, wholesalers, traders and retailers, has scooped up $31 million in its Series B round led by Sequoia Capital India …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at Nahoft, an Iran-focused text encryption tool for Android that can turn up to 1,000 characters of Farsi text into a jumble of random words — Nahoft uses encryption to turn chats into a random jumble of words, and it works even when the internet doesn't.
Tweets: @wilderko, @mnureddin, @dgtlcatacombs, and @lilyhnewman
| Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou / Bloomberg: |
A look at US “finfluencers”, creators partnering with fintechs to promote investment products, as App Annie says hours spent on finance apps are up 90% YoY — Finance firms have long struggled to reach young and new customers — until now. — At first no one could explain …
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Sramana Mitra. Tweets: @misyrlena, @hacks4pancakes, @bw, @trengriffin, @kulanthisilva, and @ryanbeckwith
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Indian used-car marketplace Cars24 raises $450M, made up of $340M Series F and $110M in debt, at a $1.84B valuation — The used car market is getting another major infusion of venture capital today, with one of the faster scaling startups out of India picking up a major round of financing …
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Livemint, DealStreetAsia, Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, Entrackr, Tech in Asia, and VCCircle
| Avi Greengart / Techsponential: |
Analysis of the products announced during Apple's California Streaming event, the carrier and upgrade outlook, and possible responses from competitors — What Software and Services? — While most of the presentation focused on hardware, the event started with a review of upcoming Apple TV+ shows …
Tweets: @greengart
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Filing: Twitter reaches an agreement to pay $809.5M to resolve claims from 2016 that it provided misleading engagement information to investors — Twitter disclosed a binding agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit, under which the social network will pay $809.5 million to resolve claims … | Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
Facebook says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees — A lot has been said about Facebook this week. A series of articles published by the Wall Street Journal has focused on some of the most difficult issues …
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Washington Post, ZDNet, MSNBC, The Register, CNET, fossbytes.com, The Overspill, The Hill, Gizmodo, Axios, Insider, Benzinga, PCMag, The Guardian, The Verge, Bloomberg, United States Senator …, Reuters, New York Times, and The Wrap
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