Techmeme: Report: since Apple debuted Intelligent Tracking Prevention, the cost for advertisers to reach Safari users has dropped 60%+, as such ads are less desirable (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)

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Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac:

Report: since Apple debuted Intelligent Tracking Prevention, the cost for advertisers to reach Safari users has dropped 60%+, as such ads are less desirable — In the two years since Apple released Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature that keeps websites from tracking users around the web …

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Miles Kruppa / Financial Times:

Dog walking startup Wag says SoftBank no longer has board seats; source: SoftBank has sold its stake back to Wag at a loss after investing $300M in January 2018 — SoftBank Group agreed to sell its nearly 50 per cent stake in Wag back to the dog walking company, ending a disappointing investment …

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Kate Clark / TechCrunch:

VSCO acquires video editing startup Rylo, which had raised ~$38M, reached a valuation of ~$120.25M, and was backed by Sequoia Capital, among others — The photo-sharing app behind the 2019 meme craze “VSCO girls” has acquired Rylo, a video editing startup founded by the original developer of Instagram's Hyperlapse.

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Yuan Yang / Financial Times:

GitHub COO says the company is considering a China-based branch as Chinese developers worry about losing access to open-source software amid US sanctions — GitHub, the world's biggest software development platform, is looking to open a subsidiary in China, as the Chinese government tries …

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Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Oculus Quest becomes the first VR set with native hand tracking, available to users as an experimental feature this week and with an SDK for devs next week — Goes live “this week;” promising October tease has us cautiously optimistic. — 3 with Starting this week …

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Tweets: @gemisisdev, @mrschubert, @etiennepinchon, @jetscott, and @mattnavarra

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:

Google brings incognito mode for Google Maps, where users' activity is not saved to their Google Account, to iOS — Soon, iOS users will be able to tap Google Maps for navigation and location searches without revealing their personal data. In a blog post, Google today announced that Incognito Mode …

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Tweets: @googlemaps and @glenngabe

Jake Bright / TechCrunch:

Pan-African digital classifieds company Jiji raises $21M Series C and C-1 led by Knuru Capital, says it has 2M listings and had 8M unique monthly users in 2018 — Pan-African digital classifieds company Jiji has raised $21 million in Series C and C-1 financing from six investors, led by Knuru Capital.

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Thomas Brewster / Forbes:

Avast explains how it has been monetizing browsing habits of its users since 2013, after Mozilla and Opera removed some Avast tools from their add-on stores — Avast, the multibillion-dollar Czech security company, doesn't just make money from protecting its 400 million users' information.

Tweets: @lorenzofb, @forbes, and @iblametom

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

India proposes new data protection bill requiring companies to garner consent from citizens before collecting and processing users' personal data — India has proposed groundbreaking new rules that would require companies to garner consent from citizens in the country before collecting and processing their personal data.

More: MediaNama, The Economic Times, and Firstpost Tech

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

FintechOS, which develops personalized automated financial technology for use by banks and insurers, raises $14M Series A — Over the last few years, we've seen the rise of FinTech startups like N26 and Monzo to challenge the incumbents with new products like challenger banks.

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