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Commerce Department announces that it will ban US downloads of and business transactions with TikTok and WeChat on Sunday — - The Commerce Department announced it will ban U.S. business transactions with China-owned social apps WeChat and TikTok on Sunday.
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| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
Banning TikTok from US app stores but allowing it to operate until Nov. 12 prevents TikTok from patching any security vulnerabilities found in the meantime — Any TikTok vulnerabilities patched by ByteDance will continue to persist for Americans and Americans only under Trump's new TikTok ban.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
24 of 35 living American Turing award winners, including Alphabet chair John Hennessy, endorse Biden, citing the harm of Trump's immigration policies to tech — They said the administration's policies were driving away technology talent and could do long-term damage to their industry.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
DOJ charges six people who allegedly bribed Amazon employees and contractors since at least 2017 in a scheme to benefit some third-party sellers — - The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday charged six individuals who allegedly bribed Amazon employees and contractors …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Epic says it will end macOS support for Fortnite: Save the World on September 23 — Epic and Apple's squabble will pull the plug on Mac support for this PvE version of ‘Fortnite.’ — Fortnite: Save the World — a castle building players-vs-zombies version of the game that preceded …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google has restored India's Paytm app after pulling it from Play Store ahead of the IPL cricket tournament; sources say for violating its gambling policies — Google has pulled Indian financial services app Paytm from the Play Store for repeatedly violating its policies.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Unity raises $1.3B in its IPO, closing up 31.44% in first day of trading, giving the company a market cap of around $17B — - Shares of Unity, a video game software developer, jumped 31.44% in its market debut Friday on the New York Stock Exchange. — The stock priced late Thursday at $52 a share.| New York Times: |
In August Facebook said it would crack down on QAnon, but analysis shows QAnon is flourishing on the site, at times aided by Facebook's recommendation engine — The social network tried cracking down on the spread of the conspiracy theory and other extremist material. But QAnon groups are still flourishing on the site.
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| Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
Comcast reaches a deal with Roku to ensure NBCU's Peacock service is carried on Roku devices, after NBCU threatened to pull its TV Everywhere channels — - Agreement ensures Peacock is carried on streaming platform — NBC's threat came amid dispute with Roku over advertising
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| Sean Szymkowski / CNET: |
Tesla wins lawsuit against former employee Martin Tripp, accused of hacking Tesla and supplying sensitive info to unnamed 3rd parties; court will seal case — The automaker won its case against an ex-employee who sought whistleblower protections and was accused of hacking Tesla's Gigafactory.
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| Nick Bastone / The Information: |
Sources: Google's pro-privacy plan to block online ad trackers has boosted the US' antitrust probe, as publishers argue it would create an unfair playing field — Google has taken a lot of heat for violating people's privacy. Now it could get in trouble for trying to protect it.
Tweets: @amir and @jessicalessin
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Neobank Chime raises $485M Series F at a $14.5B valuation; CEO says the startup will be IPO-ready within the next 12 months — - Chime, the start-up that delivers banking services through mobile phones, has closed a fundraising that values the company at $14.5 billion, CNBC has learned exclusively.
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Tweets: @hugh_son, @smarty, @acrewcapital, @callumburroughs, @ryan_falvey, @joshelman, @howardlindzon, @homebrew, @alex, and @sarthakgh
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Sources: mobile game maker Scopely is in discussions to raise at least $200M at a valuation of around $3B, up from a valuation of $1.9B in March — - Valuation would be an increase from $1.9 billion this year — NewView and Wellington expected to lead the funding round
Tweets: @bloombergdeals and @katie_roof
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Google Cloud Next '20: OnAir — View Urs Hölzle's, Google Cloud SVP, Live Q&A Sept 9 (today) from 10:30-11:00am PT
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Report: France's centralized StopCovid tracing app only has ~2.4M downloads, with ~700,000 users having uninstalled it and under 200 notifications sent so farFind
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Nick Bastone / The Information:
Sources: Google's pro-privacy plan to block online ad trackers has boosted the US' antitrust probe, as publishers argue it would create an unfair playing fieldFind
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Sean Szymkowski / CNET:
Tesla wins lawsuit against former employee Martin Tripp, accused of hacking Tesla and supplying sensitive info to unnamed 3rd parties; court will seal caseFind
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Comcast reaches a deal with Roku to ensure NBCU's Peacock service is carried on Roku devices, after NBCU threatened to pull its TV Everywhere channelsFind
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Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
Unity raises $1.3B in its IPO, closing up 31.44% in first day of trading, giving the company a market cap of around $17BFind
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In August Facebook said it would crack down on QAnon, but analysis shows QAnon is flourishing on the site, at times aided by Facebook's recommendation engineFind
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Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch:
Outschool, a marketplace for online classes, raises $45M Series B, says bookings grew 2,000%+ between Aug. 2019 and Aug. 2020 and it turned profitable this yearFind
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