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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft adopts 10 “principles” for its app store, including letting developers choose a payment system for IAPs, that it says should be a model for others — In a not-so-subtle dig at Apple and Google, Microsoft today announced a series of “principles” for its Windows 10 App Store …
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The Verge, Washington Post, AppleInsider, GeekWire, Input, Windows Central, New York Times, Thurrott, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo, MSPoweruser, iDownloadBlog.com, Variety, and CNET
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
ProtonMail CEO says Apple made it add in-app purchases in 2018 even though it had been free for years, compares Apple's tactics to a mafia protection racket — Remember Hey and WordPress? ProtonMail was forced into IAP too. — SHARE All sharing options
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Six Colors, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Michael Tsai, iPhone Hacks, and iDownloadBlog.com
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Square purchases $50M worth of bitcoin, becoming the second publicly listed company after MicroStrategy to invest in the cryptocurrency — Revolut, the London-based fintech firm, has enlisted crypto security firm Fireblocks to lay the foundations for new crypto products.
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Square, CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Verge, Decrypt, Decrypt, The Block, Bloomberg, CNBC, CryptoGlobe, Crypto Briefing, and BTC Times
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to extend Apple TV+ free year trials that started between Nov. 1 2019, and Jan. 31 2020, through February 2021 — If you purchased a new Apple device from September 2019 last year — like an iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple TV — you were automatically eligible for a free year of Apple TV+.
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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase CEO says 60 employees, or about 5% of its staff, have taken the exit package the company offered for those not comfortable with its apolitical mission — A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company — Last week, I shared that Coinbase is a mission focused company.
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CoinDesk, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Decrypt, Axios, The Block, and Fortune
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is preparing to launch a $129 Nest Thermostat with hand gesture controls, using a sensor similar to the Soli system included in Pixel 4 — - New Nest Thermostat to cost $129; goes on sale in coming weeks — Lower pricing may spur adoption of Google smart home devices
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Android Authority, The Verge, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Droid Life, Chrome Unboxed, and Engadget
Tweets: @alistairmbarr and @markgurman
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Court documents in a Florida case show Google provided US law enforcement with IP addresses for any user searching for specific key words — There are few things as revealing as a person's search history, and police typically need a warrant on a known suspect to demand that sensitive information.
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Engadget. Tweets: @alfredwkng, @alfredwkng, @dancow, @zackwhittaker, @davegershgorn, @reillystyley, and @j0hnnyxm4s
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft updates Edge with a price comparison feature, new screenshot tool for capturing web content, improved PDF support, and more — With its Edge browser now stable, Microsoft's current focus for its Chromium-based browser is to build features that differentiate it from the competition.
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Windows Experience Blog, The Verge, MakeUseOf, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Windows Central, and Digital Trends
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google says Assistant can now search and control third-party apps, starting with the top 30 on the Play Store, with support for more coming soon — Before today, if you ask Siri or the Google Assistant to “check the news on Twitter,” you'll either be shown the @CHEK_News account …
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The Keyword, PCWorld, CNET, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, Android Police, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, The Verge, MakeUseOf, TechRadar, Wccftech, Neowin, CNBC, MSPoweruser, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, Android Central, and Mashable
| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
The CEO of BitMEX and its leadership team have stepped down after DOJ and CFTC charged BitMEX with allegedly operating an unregistered trading platform — The CEO of Bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX and its leadership team have stepped down over allegations that the firm was operating illegally …
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BitMEX Blog, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, Crypto.IQ, Coinspeaker, The Block, CoinGeek, and BTC Times
| Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
Google rolls out Sound Notifications on Android to alert people with hearing loss about “critical household sounds” like appliances beeping and dogs barking — Google on Thursday rolled out a new feature for Android designed to alert people with hearing loss about …
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The Keyword, The Keyword, Android Police, The Verge, 9to5Google, Forbes, Phone Scoop, Engadget, and Android Central
Tweets: @android and @madebygoogle
| Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable: |
The Roku Channel, which offers free, ad-supported movies and TV episodes and 115 live linear channels, is rolling out today on Amazon Fire TV — Two of the biggest names in the streaming world are coming together to bring customers more of what they love, as Roku announced today … | CoinDesk: |
DOJ publishes an “enforcement framework” on cryptocurrencies, outlining priorities and strategies for its crypto enforcements — U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr announced Thursday the release of “Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework,” a roadmap for policing the cryptocurrency landscape.
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U.S. Department of Justice, Decrypt, CoinGeek, and BTC Times
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
AMD announces Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 CPUs for desktops, the first chips from AMD with its next-gen Zen 3 architecture, available on November 5, starting at $299 — Available on November 5th, starting at $299 — AMD just announced its new lineup of Ryzen 5000 series processors for desktops …
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| David Gilbert / VICE: |
An ISP took down the website for the group calling itself The Real Facebook Oversight Board after Facebook complained that the site was involved in “phishing” — “Nothing says ‘free speech’ quite as much as a multi-billion dollar corporation with a global monopoly getting its critics shut down."
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| Abhishek Manikandan / Reuters: |
Affirm, a point-of-sale lender for e-commerce, has confidentially filed for an IPO; a report in July said an IPO would value the company at as much as $10B — (Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc PYPL.O co-founder Max Levchin's Affirm Holdings Inc has confidentially filed with the U.S. securities …
| Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg: |
US DOJ seizes 92 websites it said were used by Iran to spread disinformation, including four domains disguised as genuine news outlets based in the US — - Four of the domains were fake news sites targeting Americans — The U.S. Justice Department seized 92 websites it said were used …
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U.S. Department of Justice, CyberScoop, ZDNet, TechRadar, and infosecurity-magazine.com
Tweets: @fireeye, @eiaine, @hanifjazayeri, @mollymckew, @benimmo, @missmaga2016, and @ohadmz
| Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: |
Waymo says it will open its fully driverless ride-hailing service in suburban Phoenix to the public — Waymo said Thursday that it is opening its fully driverless ride-hailing service in suburban Phoenix to the public. Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving car unit began ferrying a select group …
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TechCrunch, Washington Post, The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget, Tech Xplore, and CNET
Tweets: @waymo, @avgregr, and @binarybits
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
IBM announces that it plans to spin off its managed infrastructure services unit, with $19B in sales and 90K staff, to help it focus on hybrid cloud apps — IBM will become a company that gets more than half of its sales from recurring revenue instead of services.
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Reuters, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, PR Newswire, SiliconANGLE, LinkedIn, IT Management, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, The Business Journals, and WRAL TechWire
Tweets: @ingridlunden and @techjournalist
| Sherisse Pham / CNN: |
Samsung says it expects to make an operating profit of $10.6B in the July-September quarter, up 58% YoY, and sales of $7B, up 6% in its earnings guidance — Hong Kong (CNN Business)Samsung (SSNLF) predicts its profit jumped nearly 60% last quarter, suggesting it could soon retake its position …
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Tweets: @digitallybones and @cnni
| TechCrunch: |
Instacart raises $200M led by D1 Capital and Valiant Peregrine Fund, at a post-money valuation of $17.7B, following a $100M raise in July and $225M in June 2020 — Instacart announced today that it has raised $200 million in a new funding round featuring prior investors.
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FinSMEs, Instacart News, Bloomberg, Crunchbase News, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, and CNBC
| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Interviews with 16 Twitch employees from throughout its history detail a culture of indifference to inappropriate and abusive behavior, although some disagree — Employees from throughout the streaming platform's history describe a culture of indifference to inappropriate, unsafe, and abusive behavior
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Kotaku and Dot Esports
Tweets: @r3ndom, @taylorlorenz, @vahn16, @yoda, @cecianasta, and @viotcz
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Observe, an app monitoring tool that uses data from myriad sources like logs, metrics, traces, and events, raises $35M Series A led by Sutter Hill Ventures — An appropriately named startup called Observe Inc. said today it's getting into the emerging market for observability tools … | Nikkei Asia: |
Inside the US campaign to cut China out of supply chains, which already pressured companies like Apple to look at moving 15% to 30% of output out of the country — Apple, Google and others shift production to prepare for ‘decoupled’ global market — It was a hot summer morning in Taipei …
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AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @cnasdc, @heguisen, @nikkeiasia, @nikkeiasia, @nikkeiasia, @cnasdc, @nils_gilman, and @giorgiomomurder
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers identified a fraudulent ad business that used 240+ Play Store apps with 14M+ downloads, mostly low quality games, to display out of context ads — The malicious applications were showing ads but making them appear as coming from other, legitimate apps.
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Threatpost and BleepingComputer
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