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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says a standalone, non-subscription version of Office will be released in the second half of 2021 for both Windows and Mac — Microsoft will release a new perpetual release of Microsoft Office in the second half of 2021. The new perpetual release only appears in a single sentence …
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Epic, Spotify, Match Group, and others form the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure Apple and other app store owners to make changes to marketplace rules — The Coalition for App Fairness is seeking legal and regulatory means to address how Apple, other app marketplace operators work with developers
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Facebook's Oversight Board says it expects to start before the election, in mid to late October, after criticism for a perceived lack of action — - The independent Facebook OverSight Board has confirmed to CNBC that it plans to launch ahead of U.S. election in November.
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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
TikTok users in the US are experiencing something long familiar to much of the world: a flourishing online social space existentially threatened by politics — Banned apps, nefarious theories, trade wars, voiceless users. The case of TikTok isn't news to most of the world.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Deliveroo has begun preliminary talks to explore the possibility of an IPO in 2021 — - Amazon-backed company eyes potential listing in 2021 — Food delivery companies have held up during virus pandemic — U.K. food-delivery startup Deliveroo has begun preliminary talks … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
EU releases a proposal for regulating crypto assets and stablecoins as part of its new Digital Finance Package — Valentus Capital, a private equity investment firm based in the U.S., is planning to raise $50 million for its first fund via a token sale. — The token offering is expected …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out updates to Maps with a layer showing COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, with labels to indicate trends, coming to 220 countries and territories — Google today announced an update to Google Maps that will bring a new COVID-19 layer to the service to help you better understand the number of cases in a given area.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Zoom canceled a talk by a Palestinian hijacker at SFSU after threats of criminal liability for “material support”; YouTube, Facebook also stopped the talk — Facebook and YouTube also apparently intervened — Zoom has canceled a webinar due to be held at San Francisco State University … | Financial Times: |
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says he will invest €1B in European tech startups over the next decade, focused on “moonshots” in ML, biotech, and other sectors — Streaming company's chief to channel funding into early-stage start-ups over next decade| Paul Ford / Wired: |
The software industry makes amazing software tools for itself, while doctors, academics, and scientists are stuck using bad software — The software industry makes amazing tools for itself, while doctors and scientists are stuck with old code. Tech needs to quit hacking and start listening.
Tweets: @terronk, @nxthompson, and @backchnnl
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sundar Pichai says Google is planning “hybrid” models for future work, to allow partial work from home as 62% of employees want to have that flexibility — - Most Google employees want to return to the office at some point, but not every day, according to a recent Google survey …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Messy launches of PS5 and the new Xbox showed Sony and Microsoft once again failing at pre-orders, partly driven by the need to create a narrative of scarcity — Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Series S preorders went live on Tuesday, capping a rough week of product rollouts …
Tweets: @tugboatbread and @gartenberg
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ripjar, which develops AI-based software to detect financial crime, raises $36.8M Series B led by Long Ridge Equity Partners — Financial crime as a wider category of cybercrime continues to be one of the most potent of online threats, covering nefarious actives as diverse as fraud, money laundering and funding terrorism.| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
NUVIA, which makes energy-efficient chips for data centers and enterprises, raises $240M Series B led by Mithril Capital — Climate change is on everyone's minds these days, what with the outer Bay Area on fire, orange skies above San Francisco, and a hurricane season that is bearing …
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| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Greenlight, which offers parent-managed, fee-free debit cards for up to five children for $5 per month, raises $215M Series C at a valuation of $1.2B — Greenlight Financial Technology helps parents teach children how to save with its app and debit card products.
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Todoist rolls out Kanban-style Boards as an optional view, similar to Trello — Todoist today officially introduced a feature that could significantly change how people use the popular task-management app: Boards. It basically works a lot like Trello, but built right into Todoist.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
NHS COVID-19, a contact tracing app created by the UK government, launches in England and Wales with Exposure Notification API from Apple and Google — NHS COVID-19, a contact tracing app created by the UK government, is rolling out to residents of England and Wales as of today, with the app available from the iOS App Store.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon launches “Climate Pledge Friendly” label in search results for more than 25K products that have one or more of 19 different sustainability certifications — The company is launching a new climate program for certified sustainable products
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Whitebox, which manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment across marketplaces, raises $18M Series B led by Noro-Moseley Partners, after $5M Series A in 2019 — Whitebox, a startup that manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment for a variety for brands, has raised $18 million in Series B funding.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook details Dynabench, a platform for AI data collection and benchmarking that uses both humans and AI models to create challenging test data sets — Facebook today introduced Dynabench, a platform for AI data collection and benchmarking that uses humans and models “in the loop” to create challenging test data sets.
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MIT Technology Review, Facebook AI, Wired, and Engadget
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Petal, which offers credit cards by analyzing the cash flow of potential borrowers rather than credit scores, raises $55M Series C led by Thiel's Valar Ventures — Sometimes raising venture capital can be as simple as talking to your existing investor and having them wire over another check.
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FinSMEs, PaymentsSource, Finextra, and Crowdfund Insider
| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Marc Bodnick launches Telepath, a “kinder” social network with Reddit's subreddit topic structure, Twitter's in-the-moment feel, and Snapchat's ephemerality — Former Quora execs are prioritizing moderation over user numbers for their new social network.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify and Chernin Entertainment agree to a multi-year partnership for Chernin to develop movies and TV shows based on Spotify's podcasts — More Spotify podcasts could soon become TV shows or movies thanks to a new, multi-year partnership announced today between the streaming music provider … | Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
How Arkady Bukh, a New York-based immigrant from the former Soviet bloc, emerged as the go-to defense lawyer for the cybercrime underworld — Sergey Pavlovich needed a fixer. The 32-year-old ex-con was living in Moscow in 2015 after serving nearly eight years behind bars in Belarus …
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