Techmeme: Singapore-based automotive marketplace Carro, which uses AI-powered pricing models, raises $360M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1B+ valuation (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Automattic acquires Day One, a popular journaling app for Apple devices with 15M+ downloads on the Mac and iOS App Store; terms of the deal were not disclosed — Automattic is expanding its lineup of online writing platforms with its acquisition of Day One, a popular journaling app for Mac and Apple mobile devices.

Source: Matt Mullenweg, The WordPress.com Blog, and Day One Journal Blog. More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors

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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

UK's CMA says it will launch an investigation into Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems over whether their market power is harming users — Today, the UK's competition watchdog (the Competition and Markets Authority) announced an official investigation into the mobile device ecosystem, citing Apple and Google's effective duopoly.

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Andrew Chung / Reuters:

SCOTUS throws out a lower court ruling that had allowed 3rd-party scraping of LinkedIn users' public profiles, sending the dispute back to federal appeals court — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) LinkedIn Corp another chance to try to stop rival hiQ Labs Inc …

More: TechCrunch, The Register, Social Media Today, TechRadar, Engadget, Slashdot, VentureBeat, Cooley LLP, Protocol, Fortune, IT Management, Gizmodo, cityam.com, and Seattle Business Journal

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Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning his original source code for the web as an NFT, the first time he would be able to raise money directly from his invention — Sotheby's sale will be first time creator has been able to raise money directly from invention — Sir Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning …

More: BBC and Fast Company. Tweets: @tim. Thanks:@tim

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Amazon brings its cashierless tech to a full-size grocery store for the first time in a new 25K square foot Amazon Fresh location in Seattle — Amazon's newest physical grocery store opening in the Seattle area this week is unique as it will feature the company's “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology.

More: About Amazon, The Verge, PCMag, and CNET

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Twitter is asking for feedback on a new feature letting users “unmention” themselves as an anti-abuse tool and to help users control unwanted attentions — Twitter is looking at adding new features that could help users who are facing abusive situations on its platform as a result …

More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, Social Media Today, Fast Company, BGR India, and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @charlesarthur

Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Shopify, Sequoia, and others recently bought ~$1B of Stripe stock from existing shareholders before Stripe's expected IPO; bids exceeded $4B — Shopify, Sequoia Capital and others recently bought about $1 billion of shares in fintech Stripe, which could go public late this year or next

More: Silicon Republic, Globe and Mail, BetaKit, Coinspeaker, and PYMNTS.com

Tweets: @thekenyeung, @seansilcoff, @wsjmarkets, @carnage4life, and @alex

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:

EU's top court says Facebook can't avoid potential EU-wide privacy orders from data protection authorities beyond its legal watchdog in Ireland — - EU top court rules on scope of so-called one-stop-shop system — Dispute stems from Belgian data order over Facebook cookies

More: Reuters, Associated Press, CNET, The Hill, Fortune, and RTÉ. Tweets: @jason_kint

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Duda, which helps large businesses to build websites, raises $50M Series D led by Claridge IL, bringing its total raised to $100M — Self-expression for many consumers today comes in the form of social media and apps. But if you're a larger business, even if you can't ignore platforms like Facebook …

More: FinSMEs and Tech.eu

Jonathan Ponciano / Forbes:

MicroStrategy raises another ~$500M in bonds to buy more bitcoin, and bitcoin's price surged to $40K+ after Elon Musk hinted Tesla may again accept BTC payments — Less than a week after announcing the offering, business analytics firm MicroStrategy, which owns more bitcoin than any other corporation …

More: Bloomberg, Insider, Bloomberg, Reuters, Gizmodo, Coin Journal, Crypto Briefing, Coinspeaker, The Information, Cointelegraph, and NewsBTC

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Singapore-based automotive marketplace Carro, which uses AI-powered pricing models, raises $360M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1B+ valuation — Carro, one of the largest automotive marketplaces in Southeast Asia, announced it has hit unicorn valuation after raising a $360 million Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

More: Forbes, Bloomberg, Nikkei Asia, Tech in Asia, Reuters, and The Economic Times. Tweets: @jonrussell

NBC News:

Sources: in 2019, major labor union Teamsters refused a ransomware demand of $2.5M, against the FBI's advice, and instead rebuilt its systems from scratch — WASHINGTON — When the Teamsters were hit by a ransomware attack over Labor Day weekend in 2019, the hackers asked for a seven-figure payment.

More: Softpedia News and Slashdot

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