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India bans another 188 Chinese apps, including PUBG, Baidu, and Alipay, saying widespread concerns were flagged against the blocked apps — India on Wednesday banned 118 more apps, including popular gaming app PUBG, for allegedly being engaged in activities which are “prejudicial to sovereignty …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel announces 11th-generation Tiger Lake CPUs for laptops, with integrated Xe graphics, Thunderbolt 4 support, Wi-Fi 6, and more, coming this fall — The ‘best processor for thin-&-light’ laptops — Intel has officially announced its first 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors for laptops …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
In response to UK's “digital services tax”, Apple says it will raise UK developer fees by 2% and Amazon says it will increase third-party seller fees by 2% — Developers, ad buyers, and third-party sellers are all affected — For many years, Europe has been unhappy with the tax habits of US tech giants.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Robinhood is under SEC investigation for failing to fully disclose selling clients' orders to high-speed trading firms, with a potential $10M+ fine — Company could have to pay a fine exceeding $10 million if it agrees to settle — Robinhood Markets Inc. faces a civil fraud investigation …
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| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
Google updates Your News Update, its Assistant-powered audio news service, with new features including its own “newscaster voice” — The company's latest news product is an ever-replenishing playlist of audio stories—curated, in part, by the wealth of data it has on you.| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Driven by the popularity of Cash App, Square's stock is up 28% in the past month and 166% in the past year; Cash App saw revenue double to $325M in Q2 2020 — Users have flocked to Cash App, which made it easy for people to accept stimulus checks and unemployment benefits
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| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Microsoft says it will bring its DirectStorage API from the Xbox to PCs, to reduce IO bottlenecks and improve game loading times and graphics details — When Microsoft announced the next Xbox console some time ago, it highlighted some features of the console's underlying architecture to demonstrate its power.
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DirectX Developer Blog, Laptop Mag, Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, BetaNews, Thurrott, Wccftech, Neowin, BleepingComputer, MSPoweruser, and Blue's News. Tweets: @bdsams
| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
DHS mandates US agencies have vulnerability disclosure programs within six months that will expand to cover all internet-accessible systems within two years — Out of scores of federal civilian agencies, only a handful of them have official programs to work with outside security researchers …
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| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
Google is rolling out an update to Google Assistant that adds simple Siri-like in-app shortcuts with an Explore tab to find them — Haven't you always wished Google Assistant could do more with the apps on your phone? Not just launch them, but open specific sections or perform certain actions inside them?
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US appeals court affirms a lower court ruling rejecting Oracle's challenges to the Pentagon's $10B JEDI contract, arguing Oracle does not qualify anyway — - Appeals court affirmed ruling that Oracle wasn't harmed — Oracle is fighting exclusion from contract given to Microsoft
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| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
Facebook says, after an FBI tip, it took down several Pages and accounts pushing a fake left-wing news outlet made by people linked to Russian troll group IRA — New York (CNN Business)People associated with the infamous St. Petersburg troll group that was part of Russia's attempt to interfere …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Skillz, which develops competitive mobile games, announces it is going public through a SPAC merger at a $3.5B pre-money valuation — Skillz has announced it is going public through a quick initial public offering process, raising an estimated $849 million in cash from investors at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Amazon had job listings, now removed, for “intelligence analysts” who would assess “labor organizing threats” and contribute to filings like restraining orders — Jeff Bezos obviously doesn't want a union in his company. Amazon's increasingly flippant statements …
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Transposit, which builds automated runbooks for faster disaster recovery, raises $35M Series B led by Altimeter Capital, bringing its total raised to $50.4M — Transposit is a company built by engineers to help engineers, and one big way to help them is to get systems up and running faster …
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| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
Federal appeals court rules the NSA's mass surveillance program was possibly unconstitutional and the program's “bulk collection” of metadata was illegal — The National Security Agency program that swept up details on billions of Americans' phone calls was illegal and possibly unconstitutional …
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CNET and The Hill
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook updates its terms of service globally, effective Oct. 1, allowing it to block content amid proposed Australian law that would force it to pay for news — - Change will give Facebook powers to remove or block content — Mark Zuckerberg has long publicly championed free speech
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Australian Competition …, Android Headlines, Windows Central, and AdExchanger
Tweets: @tarnseele, @nytimesbusiness, @sarahfrier, @alexhern, @benedictevans, and @jamesrbuk
| Apple: |
Apple says the iOS app economy created 300,000 new US jobs since April 2019 and now supports 2.1M+ US jobs across all 50 states, up 15% YoY — App Store ecosystem now supports over 2.1 million jobs across all 50 states — The iOS app economy has created nearly 300,000 new jobs since April 2019 …
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Tweets: @goofrider and @oliverjhaslam
| Laura Cooper / Wall Street Journal: |
Brazilian digital bank Neon Pagamentos raises $300M Series C led by General Atlantic, bringing its total raised to over $400M — The new funding round for Neon Pagamentos comes less than a year after the company announced it had raised $92 million for a previous financing round| Laura Brickman / Rest of World: |
Illegal drug trade in Ukraine is thriving on Telegram, which reportedly accounts for 90% of the drug sales in the country, helped by its end-to-end encryption — In February 2019, Amos Dov Silver, a slight man in his mid-30s who often wears his shoulder-length hair in a bun …
Tweets: @anupkaphle and @cengizyar
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
NHTSA launches an autonomous vehicle test tracking tool with data on 17 US cities in partnership with Fiat Chrysler, Toyota, Uber, Waymo, and others — In June, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) detailed the Automated Vehicle Transparency and Engagement for Safe Testing …
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| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: only 16 tech companies went public in Europe this year, the lowest in a decade, raising $650M, far below the $9.2B raised in US and $23B in Asia — - Rocket Internet flags delisting, cites access to private funds — European tech IPOs are at a decade low and lag U.S., Asia
Tweets: @justinaknope and @robinwauters
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Biofourmis, which uses medical wearables to test pharmaceutical drugs, raises $100M led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 with participation from Sequoia — - Softbank's Vision Fund just led a $100 million investment in Biofourmis. — Biofourmis works with global pharma companies to help improve … Thanks:@mattrosoff
| CNN: |
Donald Trump, his campaign's “War Room” account, Steve Scalise, and Dan Scavino recently shared misleading videos; Twitter labeled three as “manipulated media” — (CNN Business)A series of deceptively edited and misleading videos shared by prominent Republicans …
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Tweets: @donie, @scout_finch, @cnn, @postimusmaximus, @zcohencnn, and @ypsigal
| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Patreon says it has raised $90M at a $1.2B+ pre-money valuation, nearly twice the $660M valuation it had after a funding round last year — New Enterprise Associates and Wellington Management led the $90 million funding round — Membership platform Patreon Inc., which enables musicians …
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Patreon Blog, PYMNTS.com, Protocol, Silicon Valley Business …, Tubefilter, Silicon Republic, and Variety
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