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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says Arizona and Georgia will be first to support adding IDs to Wallet in iOS 15, with six states, including Utah, Maryland, and Iowa, expected to follow — Apple's plan to digitize your wallet is slowly taking shape. What started with boarding passes and venue tickets later became credit cards …
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Google is developing Arm-based chips for laptops and tablets that run on Chrome OS, set to launch around 2023 — US software giant ramps up hiring blitz for semiconductor and hardware ambitions — TAIPEI — Google is developing its own central processors for its notebook and tablet computers …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces an online-only Surface hardware event for September 22, where an updated Surface Duo and Laptop are expected — New Surface hardware is on the way — Microsoft is holding a special Surface hardware event on September 22nd. The software maker has started sending media invites …
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| Jarrod Doherty / Twitter: |
Twitter introduces Safety Mode, which blocks harassing accounts for seven days, in beta for some English-language accounts — Feeling safe on Twitter looks different for everyone. We've rolled out features and settings that may help you to feel more comfortable and in control of your experience …
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Reuters, BBC, CNET, and The Independent
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple's upcoming Watch is suffering production snags as manufacturers adjust to a new design, likely leading to supply constraints or shipment delays — - Revamped device has a larger screen and other new features — Wearables category has been one of fastest-growing for Apple
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is planning to add health features, including a blood pressure monitor and thermometer to track fertility, to Watch as soon as 2022 — Tech giant seeks to push past obstacles in adding health features on your wrist — Apple Inc. is working on new health-related features for its smartwatch …
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to hire over 55,000 corporate employees globally, including over 40,000 in the US, a 20% increase in tech and corporate staff — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is planning to hire 55,000 people for corporate and technology roles globally in the coming months, Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Reuters.| Financial Times: |
SEC's Gary Gensler says crypto trading platforms need to work with regulators to survive, as most trading happens with “really sparse” investor protections — Gary Gensler warns $2tn industry is too big to exist outside of ‘public policy framework’
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Analysis: governments intentionally blocked internet access nearly 850 times in the past decade, including 213 shutdowns in 2019, 155 in 2020, and 50 in 2021 — A favorite tactic for stifling dissent in the 21st century — The number of government-led internet shutdowns has exploded …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
FTC's refiled Facebook suit does not offer market definitions reflective of reality, misunderstands ad markets, and highlights harms of regulatory interference — It is coming up on two weeks since the FTC refiled its case against Facebook;1 from the Wall Street Journal:
Tweets: @robleathern and @stratechery
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intuit is in talks to buy Mailchimp for more than $10B; Mailchimp has also considered offering a minority stake and another buyer could still emerge — Intuit Inc., the software company that owns TurboTax, is in talks to buy email marketing startup Mailchimp for more than $10 billion …
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Profile of Li Jin, an aggressively pro-worker VC who founded Atelier Ventures, which manages $13M, to invest in influencer-related startups — Li Jin, 31, began backing creators years ago. She has raised her own fund to invest in influencer-related start-ups.
Tweets: @patrickxrivera, @dealbook, @mg, @ljin18, and @ljin18
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A look at the implications of South Korea's alternative app store payment law: confusion for non-technical users, difficulty managing subscriptions, and more — Apple defines in-app purchases as “App Store purchases”, which I disagree with. I see a clear difference between purchasing …
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Game Developer, Truth on the Market, and MacRumors
| Zinnia Lee / Forbes: |
Malaysian used car marketplace Carsome Group raises $170M from MediaTek and others at a $1.3B valuation, making it Malaysia's largest tech startup — Carsome Group, an online platform for buying and selling used cars, said on Wednesday that it had become Malaysia's largest tech unicorn …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is launching Facebook Fantasy Games in the US and Canada, available free on the Facebook app — Facebook is getting into fantasy sports and other types of fantasy games. The company this morning announced the launch of Facebook Fantasy Games in the U.S. and Canada on the Facebook app for iOS and Android.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
More than 135 subreddits have gone private in protest of Reddit's refusal to ban communities that spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines — PokemonGo, Futurology among big subreddits going private until Reddit takes action. — Over 135 subreddits have gone dark …
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Tweets: @backlon, @benwhitelaw, @karissabe, @benwhitelaw, @kebrightbill, and @hypervisible
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Telegram releases an update that removes the cap on live stream viewers, from 1,000 to unlimited, introduces more options for forwarding messages, and more — Along with more forwarding options — Telegram, the messaging app that's becoming more and more like a fully-fledged social media network …
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Tweets: @abebrown716, @telegram, @vboykis, and @telegram
| Julie Zhu / Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese state-backed firms are set to take an 80%+ stake in Ant Group's credit scoring joint venture, potentially gaining access to data of 1B+ users — State-backed firms are set to take a sizeable stake in a key Ant Group asset for the first time, three people told Reuters …
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The Economic Times and Benzinga
| Matthew Monks / Bloomberg: |
Samsara, a cloud-based fleet vehicle management service, says it has confidentially filed for an IPO; Samsara raised $400M at a $5.4B valuation last year — Samsara Inc., a software company valued at $5.4 billion last year, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering.
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Report: Amazon runs 164 flights per day on average to move stock in the US, up 17% over the past six months; 70% of Americans live near an Amazon Air presence — Amazon Air's operations have expanded rapidly during the pandemic — Amazon's presence in the skies continues to grow rapidly … | Mark Scott / Politico: |
Facebook says it accidentally removed thousands of posts around the Jan. 6 riots from CrowdTangle, blaming a now-fixed error that has existed since at least May — The social media company said it was a technical error, and has been fixed, but tens of thousands of posts are still missing.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Code Climate, which offers software engineering project management tools, raises $50M Series C from PSG, USV, and others — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! — Code Climate, a platform …
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| The Tutanota Blog: |
Australia passes bill that lets police hack user devices to modify, collect, or delete data and take over social media accounts without a judge's warrant — The Microsoft database hack shows that data stored in the cloud must always be encrypted end-to-end.
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The Guardian and Sydney Morning Herald
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Humane, a hardware and software startup run by two ex-Apple executives that is currently in stealth, raises $100M Series B led by Tiger Global — A stealthy startup co-founded by a former senior designer from Apple and one of its ex-senior software engineers has picked up a significant round funding to build out its business.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup PayEm, which offers accounting tools for businesses to manage invoices, bills, and more, comes out of stealth with $20M Series A and $7M seed — Itamar Jobani was a software developer working for a medical company and “hated that time of the month” when he had to use the company's chosen reimbursement tool.
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Finextra, FinSMEs, CTech, PYMNTS.com, and FinLedger
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Insurify, which has built an ML-based virtual insurance agent to help people get better rates, raises $100M Series B led by Motive Partners — How many of us have not switched insurance carriers because we don't want to deal with the hassle of comparison shopping? — A lot, I'd bet.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-powered deweeding robot, raises $27M Series B, bringing total funding to $36M — Investors are putting more cash behind the self-driving weed-zapping machines made by Carbon Robotics that are attracting attention from farmers across the world.
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TechCrunch, FinSMEs, Fast Company, and Yahoo Finance
| Bloomberg: |
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