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Apple to let developers of “reader” apps worldwide link to a website to set up or manage accounts early next year, closing Japan's antitrust investigation — Apple will let developers of “reader” apps around the world link to an external website to set up or manage an account beginning early next year
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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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| 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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| Kait Sanchez / The Verge: |
Twitter launches Super Follows for iOS users, allowing a select group of US test users to charge either $2.99, $4.99, or $9.99 per month for their tweets — Select users in the US can now charge for tweets — Twitter is starting to roll out Super Follows, its new feature that lets users charge for subscriber-only content.
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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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| 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.
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| Joe Williams / Protocol: |
Sources: Andy Jassy overruled an internal recommendation to fire a top AWS executive after a probe of claims the executive made discriminatory comments in 2019 — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy intervened to prevent the firing of a top executive after an internal HR report recommended … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
FTC bans “stalkerware” company Support King, whose Android app allegedly secretly harvested users' location and other data, from the surveillance business — - The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to ban what it called a “stalkerware app company” and its CEO …
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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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Tweets: @mikepeeljourno and @natisho
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says it has asked all of its US employees to report their vaccination status voluntarily by mid-September, but stops short of mandating COVID-19 vaccines — - Company is still stopping short of mandating Covid-19 shots — It previously ramped up an optional virus testing program| 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: @zebulgar, @patrickxrivera, @mr312, @wwshaef, @micsolana, @backseatvc, @jessewldn, @ljin18, @ljin18, @dealbook, @brooke, @mg, @hunterwalk, and @bwertz
| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Source: the DOJ is preparing to file a second antitrust lawsuit against Google by the end of this year, targeting Google's digital ads business — U.S. antitrust officials are preparing a second monopoly lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.'s Google over the company's digital advertising business …
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New York Times, Tech Policy Press, SiliconANGLE, and Reuters
Tweets: @rustybrick and @willis_cap
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Filing: SEC sues Satish Kumbhani, the founder of now-defunct BitConnect, and a promoter over alleged $2B crypto fraud scheme; Kumbhani's location is unknown — The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday sued the founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform BitConnect …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Texas Senate passes bill banning social media companies with 50M+ users from censoring users' political views; Gov. Abbott is expected to sign it into law — But experts argue it's unconstitutional — Texas is one step closer to enacting a law that would make it more difficult …
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Texas Legislature Online, Houston Public Media, and USA Today
Tweets: @natalieg92, @natewendt, @evan_greer, and @campuscodi
| Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: |
How Ethereum's increase in value, up 350% this year, and the rise of NFTs and DeFi have dampened enthusiasm for Bitcoin as the most essential crypto — - Ether has gained 350% this year versus Bitcoin's 60% advance — August marked Ether's second monthly rise and best since April| Oscar Gonzalez / CNET: |
Reddit bans r/NoNewNormal, its largest anti-vax subreddit, for harassing other communities, following weeks of user moderators asking Reddit admins to ban it — It's also putting 54 other subreddits in quarantine. … Last week, more than a thousand subreddit's posted the same message calling …
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Tweets: @ogreporter, @kylesgibson, @oneunderscore__, and @quinnypig
| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
Docker restricts use of its free desktop tool to individuals and small businesses, says companies with 250+ staff or $10M+ annual revenue must use paid version — Search for sustainable business model continues, but most usage will still be free — Docker will restrict use of the free version …
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| Kishan Vyas / XDA Developers: |
Qualcomm announces aptX Lossless, a new feature of its aptX Adaptive codec that Qualcomm says can deliver 16bit/44.1kHz CD-quality audio over Bluetooth — Qualcomm today announced aptX Lossless, a new feature of aptX Adaptive that promises to deliver CD-quality lossless audio over Bluetooth.
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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: @sarthakgh, @robleathern, @stratechery, and @adamkovac
| Hannah Miller / The Information: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says Binance.US is set to close a large private fundraising round in the next two months, and could go public in the next three years — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has run into a stream of regulatory and legal problems.
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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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Jigsaw. Tweets: @issielapowsky, @joshdcaplan, @accessnow, @abramowitz, @jigsaw, @jaredcohen, @raju, @jangles, @accessnow, @accessnow, @torproject, @accessnow, @justinhendrix, and @rankingrights
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon says it will stop showing autocomplete search suggestions for horse de-worming drug ivermectin; the drug remains easy to purchase on the site — Amazon claims it will fix autocomplete search suggestions — Earlier this week, I started a search on Amazon and mistyped, entering just two letters in: “iv.”
Tweets: @backlon
| TechCrunch: |
A brief overview of all the startups that pitched at Day 2 of Y Combinator's Summer 2021 Demo Day — Welcome back to TechCrunch's continuing coverage of Y Combinator's Summer 2021 Demo Day! This is Day Two. If you haven't caught up yet on what happened during the first day …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Facebook Fantasy Games, a fantasy sports and reality show prediction feature, available for free on the Facebook app in the US and Canada — Facebook is getting into fantasy sports and other types of fantasy games. The company this morning announced the launch …
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Tweets: @daneglasgow, @mattnavarra, @stevenisbell, @scottnover, and @tonyromm
| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Asana beats in Q2 with revenue of $89.5M, up 72% YoY, net loss of $68.4M, up from $41.1M last year, and says it has over 107K paying customers — Asana brought in a revenue of $89.5 million in Q2, an increase of 72% year over year. — Team management software provider Asana reported better …
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