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Microsoft is shuttering the Chinese version of LinkedIn and replacing it with a job board; sources say China told LinkedIn in March to better regulate content — LinkedIn cites challenging operating environment, as retreat marks the biggest departure from China by a major tech company in years
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out continuous scrolling for English-language mobile search results in the US — Google announced today it's changing the way search works on mobile devices, initially in the U.S. Now, when you reach the bottom of a set of search results on your phone, you won't have to tap to go to the next page.
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| The Markup: |
Investigation finds Amazon places its own brands above competitors, even those with higher ratings and more sales, despite telling Congress otherwise — The online giant gives a leg up to hundreds of house brand and exclusive products that most people don't know are connected to Amazon
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The Markup, ADIF, and CNET
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| Wilson Walker / CBS San Francisco: |
Residents of a quiet San Francisco street say Waymo's self-driving cars are flocking to the neighborhood throughout the day, seemingly confused by a dead end — SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A normally quiet neighborhood in San Francisco is buzzing about a sudden explosion of traffic.
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The Verge and 9to5Google
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook details Ego4D, a research project in partnership with 13 universities that uses first-person video to improve perception by AI assistants — AI tools that could one day appear in Facebook's AR glasses — Facebook is pouring a lot of time and money into augmented reality, including building its own AR glasses with Ray-Ban.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp starts rolling out e2e encryption for chat history backups in iCloud and Google Drive — WhatsApp is beginning to roll out a new feature that will provide its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat history backup in iCloud or Google Drive, patching a major loophole … | Ax Sharma / Ars Technica: |
How a US hacker built a secret network of “news” sites and Facebook Groups to push bogus stories after an undisclosed company hired him to sway 2016's election — He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right. — This is the story of the mastermind behind … | Wall Street Journal: |
Coinbase asks Congress to regulate digital assets outside of the existing financial system and to create a special regulator for digital asset markets — Crypto trading platform asks Congress to create an oversight regime separate from existing market regulators| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Google Threat Analysis Group says it tracks 270+ state-backed threat actors, and sent 50K+ alerts for email phishing attacks to Gmail users in 2021, up ~33% YoY — The Google Threat Analysis Group said today that its security researchers are currently tracking more than 270 different …
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The Keyword, Wired, Bloomberg, BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, Security Affairs, and PCMag
Tweets: @iranintl_en, @profwoodward, @iblametom, @campuscodi, @shanehuntley, @jennamc_laugh, and @royalhansen
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
HTC announces $499 Vive Flow, a VR headset that requires an external battery and uses an Android phone as a wireless controller, available in November — After years of focusing on business-oriented virtual reality, HTC is launching a $499 entertainment-focused headset called the Vive Flow in November …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Roblox outlines plans to add more realism to player avatars, introduce new in-game monetization streams, add NFT-like limited edition items, and more — At its annual developer conference Thursday, Roblox painted a picture of what's next for the fast-growing online multiplayer portal that's like catnip for kids and teens.
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| Daily Mail: |
UK judge rules in favor of a woman who claimed her neighbor's Ring doorbell breached her privacy, potentially paving the way for similar lawsuits — - A judge ruled that a doctor's neighbour's Ring smart doorbell cameras breached her privacy in landmark case| Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research: |
In Q2 2021, Apple captured 75% of the overall handset market operating profit and 40% of revenue despite accounting for only 13% of global smartphone shipments — The dynamics of the top global handset OEMs keep changing from a shipment point of view, as we saw with Xiaomi becoming …
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Ubergizmo, Benzinga, TechSpot, iMore, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iPhone Hacks
| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Profile of Cher Scarlett, an Apple employee leading the #AppleToo campaign highlighting racism, retaliation, sexual and other forms of workplace harassment — Cher Scarlett is willing to risk a dream job at Apple to blow the whistle on alleged labor violations at the iPhone maker.| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Enterprise search company Elastic to acquire Optimyze, whose continuous profiling platform Prodfiler can detect the CPU efficiency of fleets of machines — Elastic intends to join the computer profiling function of Optimyze to the enterprise observability functions of metrics, logs and traces.
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VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Elastic Blog, and Business Wire
| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
PitchBook: tech investors and employees have netted $582.5B from US IPOs and sales in the year to September, with 93 listings between July and September — IPO and Spac booms have delivered a record windfall for venture capitalists in 2021 — A wave of US public listings and sales …
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PYMNTS.com, pitchbook.com, and pitchbook.com
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter begins testing ads in replies on Android and iOS globally, placed after the first, third, or eighth reply to a tweet — Just kidding, it's a bad place — I don't know about you, but I sometimes feel like Twitter is overloaded with ads in my feed.
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Tweets: @twitterbusiness, @carnage4life, @kiruti, @tomwarren, @ow, @sep, @gbaspgamer, and @carnage4life
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
GitLab closed up 35% in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a $14.9 billion market cap, after raising $801M in its IPO at an $11B valuation — - GitLab started trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday under ticker symbol “GTLB.” — The company, whose code-sharing software competes with Microsoft's GitHub …
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Silicon Valley Business …, Reuters, MarketWatch, Forbes, TechCrunch, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @levie, @carnage4life, @thedomino, @smartfootball, @cnbcjosh, @ranjanxroy, @levynews, @quinnypig, @levynews, and @austen
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
FTC notifies 700+ companies, including Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft, that they could face penalties of up to $43,792 per violation for using deceptive reviews — The FTC sent a notice to hundreds of companies, including AT&T, Dunkin' Donuts, Hulu, and Macy's.
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Tweets: @linakhanftc, @jeremys, @jeremys, and @drbarnard
| Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch: |
Reliable Robotics, which aims to replace pilots with robots on commercial cargo planes, raises a $100M Series C led by Coatue Management — When flying cargo from one part of the world to another, you typically need a pilot for two parts: The take-off and the landing.
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The Robot Report and Reuters
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Tala, which provides mobile-first financial services in emerging markets, raises a $145M Series E led by Upstart, source says at an $800M+ valuation — Tala, an emerging markets digital lender that offers loans between $10 to $500 to consumers and small business owners, has raised $145 million in Series E funding.
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Tala, The Economic Times, Blockworks, Finextra, CNBC, and dot.LA
Tweets: @talamobile, @ivp, @davegirouard, @ulonnaya, @denelledixon, @shivsiroya, and @pesa_africa
| Grace Sharkey / FreightWaves: |
Toronto-based Rose Rocket, which makes cloud-based transportation management software, raises a $25M Series A led by Addition Capital and Shine Capital — “Over the past decade, we've seen the industry shift from pen and paper to on-premise systems to using modern software,” says Rose Rocket's co-founder.
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