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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A possible retail listing of Surface Pro 8 with a 13" 120Hz display, narrow bezels, and two Thunderbolt ports leaks ahead of Microsoft's event on September 22 — Microsoft is holding a Surface hardware event on Wednesday — Microsoft is preparing to launch a new Surface Pro 8 model next week …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
As bitcoin falls to ~$43K, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele says the country has “bought the dip” and acquired 150 more BTC, taking its total holding to 700 — El Salvador has purchased 150 more bitcoins (worth $6.8 million at current prices), President Nayib Bukele said on Twitter Monday …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roku announces $50 Streaming Stick 4K and $70 Streaming Stick 4K+, which adds a Voice Remote Pro, and Roku OS 10.5 with improved voice support — Weeks after Amazon introduced an updated Fire TV lineup that included, for the first time, its own TVs, Roku today is announcing its own competitive products …
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| Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
NTSB head says Tesla shouldn't roll out its Full Self-Driving update with the city-driving tool before addressing safety deficiencies — Tesla plans to expand access to Full Self-Driving system and defends its tech; safety official says more work is needed
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Protocol, The Verge, Gizmodo, Benzinga, Mashable, Engadget, PCMag, and Wccftech
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
ByteDance says Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, will limit users who are under 14-years-old to 40 minutes per day, between 6am and 10pm, in China — Douyin's youth mode will limit kids under 14 to 40 minutes a day — The Chinese version of the popular short video app TikTok …
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| Soumyarendra Barik / Entrackr: |
Indian startup FloBiz, a mobile billing app for small and medium businesses, raises $31M Series B led by Sequoia Capital India — FloBiz, a mobile billing app for businessmen like distributors, wholesalers, traders and retailers, has scooped up $31 million in its Series B round led by Sequoia Capital India …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at Nahoft, an Iran-focused text encryption tool for Android that can turn up to 1,000 characters of Farsi text into a jumble of random words — Nahoft uses encryption to turn chats into a random jumble of words, and it works even when the internet doesn't.
Tweets: @wilderko, @mnureddin, @dgtlcatacombs, and @lilyhnewman
| Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou / Bloomberg: |
A look at US “finfluencers”, creators partnering with fintechs to promote investment products, as App Annie says hours spent on finance apps are up 90% YoY — Finance firms have long struggled to reach young and new customers — until now. — At first no one could explain …
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Sramana Mitra. Tweets: @misyrlena, @hacks4pancakes, @bw, @trengriffin, @kulanthisilva, and @ryanbeckwith
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Indian used-car marketplace Cars24 raises $450M, made up of $340M Series F and $110M in debt, at a $1.84B valuation — The used car market is getting another major infusion of venture capital today, with one of the faster scaling startups out of India picking up a major round of financing …
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| Avi Greengart / Techsponential: |
Analysis of the products announced during Apple's California Streaming event, the carrier and upgrade outlook, and possible responses from competitors — What Software and Services? — While most of the presentation focused on hardware, the event started with a review of upcoming Apple TV+ shows …
Tweets: @greengart
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Filing: Twitter reaches an agreement to pay $809.5M to resolve claims from 2016 that it provided misleading engagement information to investors — Twitter disclosed a binding agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit, under which the social network will pay $809.5 million to resolve claims … | Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
Facebook says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees — A lot has been said about Facebook this week. A series of articles published by the Wall Street Journal has focused on some of the most difficult issues …
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