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Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC:

Google says Cloud COO Diane Bryant has left the company, less than a year after joining from Intel, where she had been for 32 years — Google Cloud chief operating officer Diane Bryant has left the company after less than a year. — “We are grateful for the contributions she made while at Google …

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch, GeekWire, The Hill, SiliconANGLE, Axios, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Investor's Business Daily, and Fortune

Tweets: @donal888 and @mhbergen

Nat Levy / GeekWire:

Amazon expands its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with a second, larger store, also in Seattle, which it says will open in fall 2018 — Amazon is expanding its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with another location in the company's backyard, GeekWire has learned.

More: The Verge. Thanks:@kslosh

Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg:

Inside Instagram's master class for marketing executives from fashion and beauty companies, where they learn to sell products on its platform — It's the first day of class at Instagram. Students check in at two security desks and sign non-disclosure agreements before heading up to the photo-sharing app's Manhattan offices.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @lisafleisher, @bogscab, @taylorlorenz, and @katienotopoulos

Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo:

Samsung says it's aware of reports from some phone owners that its Messages texting app randomly sent photos to their contacts without permission — Sending pictures to others is one of the most basic functions of a smartphone, but when your phone's texting app starts randomly pushing …

Paresh Dave / Reuters:

Sources say Google's delay in joining a consortium of ad tech companies has complicated its members' GDPR compliance efforts — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google's delayed entry into a consortium of advertising technology companies has spoiled the members' push to comply with a new European privacy law …

Tweets: @reuters

Sam Levin / The Guardian:

In trial against Six4Three, Facebook argues it's a publisher with the free speech right to take away access to data but also claims protection under Article 230 — In its defense against a former app startup, Facebook is contradicting its long-held claim to be simply a neutral platform

Tweets: @stanfordcis, @info_activism, @samtlevin, and @jayrosen_nyu

Axios:

All charges against ex-Vungle CEO Zain Jaffer have been dismissed at the request of San Mateo DA, who said prescribed drugs from multiple doctors were at fault — Last fall we reported that tech entrepreneur Zain Jaffer was arrested on a variety of awful charges, including sexual assault of his own child.

More: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, and San Francisco Chronicle

Facebook:

Facebook is shutting down Android contacts app Hello, fitness tracking app Moves, and anonymous teen social media app tbh due to “low usage” — We wanted to let you know that we are shutting down three apps due to low usage: Moves, tbh and Hello.

More: Digital Trends, BBC, MacRumors, The Next Web, BGR, Business Insider, Engadget, Adweek, TechSpot, Neowin, Fortune, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Android Police, The Verge, and Axios

Tweets: @mgsiegler, @codybrown, and @martinsfp

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Melbourne-based international payments startup Airwallex raises $80M Series B led by Tencent and Sequoia China — Airwallex, a three-year-old fintech startup focused on international payments for SMEs and businesses, is putting itself on the map after it raised an $80 million Series B round.

More: DealStreetAsia, Financial Review, The Business Times, Tech in Asia, and China Money Network

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Israel-based startup ThetaRay raises $30M Series B to grow its AI-powered cybersecurity business, bringing total raised to around $60M — ThetaRay, a big data analytics company based in Hod HaSharon, Israel, today announced that it raised more than $30 million in a funding round led …

More: PR Newswire, Crowdfund Insider, NoCamels, PE Hub Blog, and Reuters

Washington Post:

Sources: DOJ's probe into the Cambridge Analytica scandal has broadened to focus on the actions and statements of Facebook; FBI, SEC, and FTC are also involved — A federal investigation into Facebook's sharing of data with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica has broadened to focus …

More: The Register, AppleInsider, Marketing Land, Reuters, Vox, Associated Press, Ubergizmo, Vanity Fair, New York Times, Silicon Republic, MediaNama, Firstpost, CNNMoney, Slate, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, VentureBeat, Fast Company, The Hill, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Reuters, Axios, CNET, The Verge, CNBC, and TechCrunch

Tweets: @chrisinsilico, @jason_kint, @profcarroll, and @matthewstoller

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

DirecTV Now prices go up by $5/month, but two months ago, AT&T said in a court filing that buying Time Warner would “enable the merged company to reduce prices” — Most DirecTV Now prices go up $5 a month, weeks after AT&T bought Time Warner.

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Bloomberg:

Sources: Warner Bros Discovery is considering reopening sale talks with Paramount after receiving Paramount's most recent amended offer

Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:

Ars Technica apologizes after publishing an article it says had fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool attributed to a source who did not say them

Chris Quinn / Plain Dealer:

The Cleveland Plain Dealer says it has removed “writing” from some reporters' workloads; an “AI rewrite specialist” turns info gathered by reporters into drafts

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Yimian Wu / China Money Network:

Aikucun, an online fashion platform that connects brands with professional online shoppers on WeChat, raises ~$87M Series B, months after raising ~$15M Series A

Wall Street Journal:

Data mining firm Acxiom is selling its marketing solutions business to IPG for $2.3B in cash, will focus on its customer data onboarding unit LiveRamp

More: AdExchanger, investors.acxiom.com, The Drum, Axios, Peter Krasilovsky, and AdExchanger

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Citymapper adds dockless bikes and electric scooters to its app globally including Bird scooters in San Francisco and Ofo bikes in London

More: Citymapper and Engadget

Max Willens / Digiday:

Analysis of six publishers shows huge difference in Facebook ad presence: NYT has 72 active ads, BuzzFeed 82, Fox News 3, Business Insider 2,100+

Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:

As Ripple tries to promote XRP use via giveaways and a $300M fund to pay firms for using it, the company raises the risk of XRP being categorized as a security

More: NewsBTC. Tweets: @paulkrugman, @nathanielpopper, and @nathanielpopper

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:

Tesla's SVP of engineering Doug Field is officially leaving the company, after Tesla characterized his initial departure in May as a “leave of absence”

More: Tesla, Inc., SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Bloomberg, CNNMoney, Engadget, The Verge, Quartz, BGR, and CNBC

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:

Singapore-based Trax, which uses image recognition tech to digitize store aisles, raises $125M Series E as CEO says it's valued at ~$1B ahead of a planned IPO

More: PYMNTS.com, DealStreetAsia, and VentureBeat

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Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:

Sources: Anthony Levandowski, the entrepreneur at the heart of the Uber/Waymo trial, is involved with Kache.ai, an autonomous trucking company still in stealth

More: Ars Technica, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, and Business Insider

Tweets: @shiraovide and @bizcarson

Annie Gowen / Washington Post:

Mob lynchings fueled by WhatsApp messages continue to sweep India as authorities struggle to combat fake news; five were killed by a rumor-driven mob on Sunday

More: MediaNama, CNN, SludgeFeed, Times of India, Hindustan Times, CNET, Engadget, and BBC

Tweets: @bentaub91, @pritishnandy, and @nidhi