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Facebook removes accounts, groups, and Pages tied to China that posted about US politics; the network was followed by fewer than 3K US accounts — The social media campaign was small but targeted all sides of the debate. Officials said Beijing had not decided whether to wade more directly in the American presidential race.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Interview with Satya Nadella and Phil Spencer on buying more game companies, investing in Xbox Game Pass, and Microsoft's rejected TikTok bid — In an interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox head Phil Spencer discuss further acquisitions, how to keep making hits and what happened with TikTok.| Sarah Jeong / OneZero: |
Q&A with Casey Newton on stepping away from his longtime role as the Silicon Valley editor at The Verge to start a newsletter on Substack called Platformer — Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and the magic of email| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Nick Clegg denies Facebook could pull out of EU over data transfer ban, says legal action is “to send a signal” that the order can be a disaster for EU economy — Facebook's head of global policy has denied the tech giant could close its service to Europeans if local regulators order …
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Samsung is launching its ad-supported streaming service Samsung TV Plus, available on Samsung TVs since 2016, on some of its latest mobile phones — Samsung is doubling down on free, ad-supported streaming: After turning Samsung TV Plus into a massive success story on smart TVs …
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YouTube says it will use AI-powered moderation to automatically age-restrict certain content — AI moderation measures will be used to automatically age-restrict certain content — YouTube is rolling out more artificial intelligence-powered technology to catch more videos …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Overview of the state of bundles in 2020 across Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft — Manage your Stratechery subscription. — If the famous Jim Barksdale quote is to be believed — the one about there only being two ways to make money in business, bundling and unbundling … | Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
How TikTok's UI, focused on just one auto-playing video at a time, generates clean user-driven data thanks to its “algorithm-friendly design” — In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work.
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Morgan Beller, one of the founders of Facebook's Libra digital currency, has left the company to become a partner at VC firm NFX — - One of the co-founders of Facebook's libra digital currency and Novi payments wallet has left the company before the release of either technology.
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An in-depth look at Mike Speiser's investment playbook at Sutter Hill Ventures, who as a founding investor incubated Snowflake Computing as an interim CEO — In Formula 1 racing, you can win a world championship as a driver with one team but then not even make the top 10 without that team's car and infrastructure.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Papa, which connects elderly Americans with virtual and physical companions, raises $18M Series B led by Comcast Ventures, bringing its total raised to $31M — The Miami-based startup Papa has raised an additional $18 million as it looks to expand its business connecting elderly Americans … | Peter Slattery / OneZero : |
How Spotify's UX decisions have encouraged the growth of adjective-laden generic artist names, enabling a kind of SEO spam for music — The platform is filled with search-optimized spammers, and there's no end in sight — Welcome to The Cheater's Guide to Spotify, a series about the schemes …
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| Joseph Keller / iMore: |
The Swift Project announces its language tools are now available for Windows 10 — Swift is taking flight on Windows. — What you need to know — Swift is seeing its initial release on Windows. — Developers can now download Swift toolchain images for Windows 10.| Abram Brown / Forbes: |
Manticore, a Roblox-like startup that enables users to quickly build multi-player desktop games, raises $15M led by Epic, bringing its total raised to $60M — Manticore, a new gaming startup with software that enables users to quickly build high-resolution multi-player desktop games …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Carrd, Linktree, and Bio.fm have capitalized on link sharing limits in apps like Instagram, creating entire businesses around simple link sharing websites — The link-in-bio side hustles are moving to full-time — If you want to learn more about an influencer, there's one place you always know to look: that link in bio.
Tweets: @ashleyrcarman and @ajlkn
| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Authorities from the US, UK, Germany, Europol, and others arrest 179 during Operation DisrupTor, targeting the sale of illicit goods on the dark web — ‘Operation Disruptor’ involved agencies from nine countries and the seizure of over $6.5m in cash and cryptocurrencies as criminals warned law enforcement will track them down.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it will exclusively license OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, which will continue to be offered via the Azure-hosted API launched in June — Microsoft today announced that it will exclusively license GPT-3, one of the most powerful language understanding models in the world, from San Francisco-based AI startup OpenAI.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: GoodRx, a price comparison app for prescription drugs at local pharmacies, raises $1.14B in its IPO at $33 per share, valuing the company ~$12.7B — GoodRx, a price comparison app for prescription drugs at local pharmacies, on Tuesday raised $1.14 billion in its IPO, Axios has learned.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will pull the plug on paid Chrome extensions over the next year, after temporarily banning them due to fraudulent transactions — Earlier this year, Google announced some changes to the Chrome Web Store in an effort to curb malicious extensions.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger: |
SpotOn, a payments startup focused on SMBs, raises $60M Series C led by DST Global, bringing total raised to $190M, of which $150M was raised since June 2019 — DST Global led the round for SpotOn, which says it has seen “huge market demand” in recent months| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
PagerDuty to buy Rundeck, whose open source software can help IT admins automatically fix issues, for $100M; Rundeck had raised $3M, according to Crunchbase — PagerDuty Inc. today said that it will spend about $100 million to acquire Rundeck Inc., the maker of a popular software tool … | Wall Street Journal: |
DOJ will submit a proposal to Congress to curb Section 230 protections for internet firms and force them to take more responsibility for content on their sites — The legislation is unlikely to pass during an election year, but Congress could take it up next year| Financial Times: |
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter reach a deal with big advertisers for common standards on harmful content and to let external auditing of the system from H2 2021 — External audits and common standards satisfy companies who were boycotting social media — Facebook, YouTube and Twitter … | Freya Pratty / Sifted: |
Study: EU startups are delaying moving to the US, with just one-third moving before their Series A between 2015-2019, compared to two-thirds between 2008-2014 — The model for European startups to succeed in the US is shifting, new analysis by Index Ventures indicates.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Volkswagen's heavy truck business The Traton Group takes a minority stake in TuSimple as part of an agreement to develop autonomous trucks — The Traton Group, Volkswagen AG's heavy-truck business, has taken a minority stake in TuSimple as part of an agreement between the two companies to develop self-driving trucks.
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