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| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
DOJ is opening an antitrust review of whether tech giants are unlawfully stifling competition, examining search, social media, and retail services platforms — Inquiry signals Barr's deep interest in tech sector, poses threat to companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: FTC will allege that Facebook misled users on how it used phone numbers and poorly informed them about facial recognition; FB won't have to admit guilt — The Federal Trade Commission plans to allege that Facebook misled users' about its handling of their phone numbers as part …
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: Apple's own apps rank first in 60%+ of App Store test searches; Podcasts, which had a 1.7-star rating before its reviews were removed, ranks #1 in US — Searches for ‘music,’ ‘audiobooks’ and other categories rank company apps first, a process some developers find unfair … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q2 revenue of $388M, up 48% YoY, vs. $359.7M est., DAUs of 203M, up 8% YoY, and that its net loss shrunk from $353M to $255M YoY; stock jumps 9%+ — KEY POINTS — Snap, the maker of Snapchat, posted a loss of 6 cents per share, vs. an expected loss of 10 cents per share.
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| Kellen / Droid Life: |
Google Store page updates the availability of the Google Nest Hub Max, its $229 10-inch smart display, from 9/9 in the US, UK, and Australia to “coming soon” — Google's new Nest Hub Max arrives on September 9, folks. That date has now been confirmed by the Google Store …
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| Bloomberg: |
Filings: Apple has asked the Trump administration for exclusion from import tariffs of 25% for components of a computer that is likely to be the new Mac Pro — - Trump has promised relief for companies in certain cases — High-end computer was only major Apple product made in U.S.
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
NSA will create a cybersecurity directorate led by Anne Neuberger starting October 1, to help align offensive and defensive operations more closely — Anne Neuberger, tapped as head, warns against ‘not engaging in the fight’ — The National Security Agency will create a cybersecurity directorate later …
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| Patrick Klepek / VICE: |
Nintendo memo tells customer service to fix a Joy-Con in-game “drift” issue for free, even out of warranty, following a Kotaku report and a class-action lawsuit — The company will repair devices free of charge, even outside of the warranty period. — IMAGE COURTESY OF NINTENDO
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Tweets: @austin_walker, @directfeedgames, @patrickklepek, and @patrickklepek
| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple to release three “iPhone 11” models this fall, each with an A13 chip, Lightning port, and a new Taptic Engine, as 3D Touch goes away — Similar to last year's introduction of the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR, Apple will release three new ‘iPhone 11’ models this fall.
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Tweets: @mgsiegler, @_inside, @dcseifert, @sushubh, @llsethj, @stroughtonsmith, and @markgurman
| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
How programmer and artist Ben Grosser's 2012 idea to “demetricate” social media platforms has influenced companies to experiment with hiding visible metrics — Instagram and Twitter are removing the numbers of likes and retweets from public view. But it began with a man named Ben Grosser.
Tweets: @dlberes, @bengrosser, and @willoremus
| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Profile of Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, who has donated $100M+ to charities and who champions “vigorous, trustworthy journalism” and women in tech — Craig Newmark is a man of quiet contradiction. Wrapped in a sweater the color of hot chocolate, the 66-year-old founder …
Tweets: @craignewmark, @richardjnieva, @blkbaer, @georgiadreid1, @cnet, @jdolcourt, and @jasonhiner. Thanks:@jasonhiner
| David Canellis / The Next Web: |
Federal judge refuses to dismiss $224M lawsuit against AT&T for allegedly letting a customer be SIM-swapped twice, leading to the loss of $24M in cryptocurrency — THIS INVESTOR LOST $24M IN CRYPTOCURRENCY AFTER HE WAS SIM-SWAPPED, TWICE — A US federal judge has rejected AT&T's request …
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GlobeNewswire News Room, CoinDesk, Ars Technica, TechSpot, CCN Markets, ETHNews, and The Block
Tweets: @whatthebit, @db, and @davezatz
| Facebook AI: |
Facebook details Map With AI, a set of tools that maps previously unmapped places, many in the developing world, using commercially available satellite imagery — Creating accurate maps today is a painstaking, time-consuming manual process, even with access to satellite imagery and mapping software.
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Facebook Technology, TechCrunch, Adweek, ZDNet, VentureBeat, and Engadget
Tweets: @brunosan and @leokelion
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
CERT-Bund discovers a serious vulnerability in VLC for Windows, Unix, and Linux that allows for remote code execution and hasn't been patched yet — The bug is present in VLC's latest release. — A serious vulnerability has been uncovered in the latest release of the VLC media player and no patch is available.
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Gizmodo, WeLiveSecurity, Lifehacker, The Register, Threatpost, and Security Affairs
Tweets: @eset and @gregghoush
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers gained access to internal corporate networks of Uber and Twitter after finding flaws in VPN apps of Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Pulse Secure — Researchers have found several security flaws in popular corporate VPNs which they say can be used to silently break into company networks and steal business secrets.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Zeta, which runs a full stack “neo-banking” platform, says its valuation is $300M after its maiden fundraising round; source says raise was under $60M — Startups looking to expand the reach of financial services continue to receive a nod from investors.
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PE Hub Blog, Tech.eu, Entrackr, Zeta, and Crowdfund Insider
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Fetch Robotics, which builds autonomous industrial robots powered by cloud-based software, raises $46M Series C led by Fort Ross Ventures — Silicon Valley industrial robotics startup Fetch Robotics has raised $46 million in a series C round of funding led by Fort Ross Ventures … | Reuters: |
Huawei has laid off more than 600 workers from its US-based research arm Futurewei, as a result of being put on a trade blacklist by the US government — SANTA CLARA, Calif./HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies laid off more than two-thirds of the 850-strong workforce …
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CNET, BBC, TechSpot, Engadget, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times
| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Profile of Marcin Kleczynski, CEO and co-founder of Malwarebytes, who quietly grew the company in his dorm to a multi-million dollar/year business by graduation — The BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Marcin Kleczynski … | Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Millions of first-time internet consumers are getting online with ~$25 “smart feature phones”, popularized by Indian telecom Reliance Jio and powered by KaiOS — First-time internet consumers are connecting to the web on a new breed of device costing about $25
Tweets: @ericbellmanwsj
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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