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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google lowers Play Store subscription fees to 15% and fees for ebooks and on-demand music streaming services to “as low as 10%”; IAP cut seems to be unaffected — Subscription fees are lowered to 15 percent, and music streaming services ‘as low as 10%’
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple product orders, including iPad mini, MacBook Pro, and $19 cleaning cloth, are delayed into November and December due to supply chain issues — - Store employees say supply situation is the bleakest in years — Latest iPhones, iPads, Macs and watches all see long delays
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Facebook's Oversight Board releases a report demanding more transparency, including for the company's “cross-check” system, and says 524K appeals were submitted — Over the last several weeks, media reporting has drawn renewed attention to the seemingly inconsistent … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Sam Altman's Worldcoin launches its cryptocurrency that it gives in exchange for users' eye scans, says it has 100K users globally and is valued at $1B — - Tech millionaire Sam Altman's new start-up Worldcoin uses orb-shaped devices to scan people's eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency.
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| Anna Kramer / Protocol: |
Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification — Twitter is publicly sharing research findings today that show that the platform's algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians …
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| ABC News: |
Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and TRUTH Social, a social network coming in Nov. to “stand up” to Big Tech, in the App Store for preorder — The former president has been banned from several platforms. — Silenced by many major platforms …
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| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service adds a $100/month tier with RTX 3080 GPUs, hosted inside a bespoke SuperPod server, offering 1440p games at 120fps — Thanks to new custom servers equipped with RTX 3080 GPUs, GeForce Now will support game streaming at up to 1440p at 120fps—but it'll cost you.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announces a broad investigation into consumer data practices at Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google, and others — Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to seek information on how those firms and others use consumers' financial information
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has not settled on a new name for Facebook, which could be announced as early as Monday — See you Monday! — Facebook is changing its name. Perhaps you heard. The news was broken by Alex Heath of The Verge on Tuesday night, and I've since confirmed it with sources of my own.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A first look at Android app support on Windows 11: the apps are nicely integrated, run well, and installing them is simple, only requiring Amazon's Appstore app — Android apps can now run on Windows 11 — Microsoft has released the first preview version of its Android apps support in Windows 11.
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google begins offering Stadia as a white label product, starting with letting AT&T customers play Batman: Arkham Knight for free in Chrome or Edge — AT&T is working with Warner Bros to offer a streaming version of Batman: Arkham Knight, powered by Stadia's streaming technology.| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX raises a $420.69M Series B-1 at a $25B valuation from 69 investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global — FTX has memed itself into another massive funding round. — Sam Bankman-Fried's Bahamas-based crypto exchange said Wednesday it had raised $420,690,000 in a Series B-1 funding round.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Rippling, an employee data management company led by Parker Conrad, raises $250M at a $6.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $450M — Founded by entrepreneur Parker Conrad in 2013, the HR company Zenefits was quickly anointed one of the fast-growing companies in Silicon Valley … | Wall Street Journal: |
Over 2,000 hourly workers at Amazon's Staten Island facilities sign union cards and plan to file with the NLRB by October 25; Amazon opposes the move — An effort said to involve more than 2,000 workers across four Amazon facilities in Staten Island faces obstacles
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| Jabari Young / CNBC: |
Sports NFT service Candy Digital, owned by sports e-commerce company Fanatics, raises a $100M Series A at a $1.5B valuation from Vision Fund 2 and others — - Fanatics said it raised $100 million for its NFT company Candy Digital as it looks to pivot outside of sports merchandising.| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
The Associated Press partners with crypto company Chainlink to authenticate data about elections, sports, and more via its blockchain — The Associated Press, a collective of more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters, is moving further into decentralized news and publishing.| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
PleasrDAO, a group of digital asset collectors, says it created an NFT that will stand as an ownership deed for Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind physical album — The government sold “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” to satisfy a judgment against its first owner, Martin Shkreli.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Parallel, which is making a sci-fi NFT card game based on the Ethereum blockchain, raises $50M from Paradigm at a $500M valuation — It's no secret that NFTs have been a hot space for crypto speculators in the Ethereum ecosystem to diversify their holdings, and while some see a golden opportunity …
Tweets: @therogue_uchiha, @sobylife, and @mdudas
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intel's talks with chip designer SiFive ended without a deal and the startup instead plans to pursue outside investment and an IPO — - Arm rival SiFive plans to grow headcount, eyes eventual IPO — Intel had sought SiFive's underlying RISC-V chip technology| Alan Rappeport / New York Times: |
Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and UK reach a deal with the US to drop digital services taxes on Big Tech companies as part of a global tax overhaul in 2023 — WASHINGTON — The United States reached an agreement on Thursday with Austria, France, Italy, Spain and Britain that will terminate … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out the ability for all Android and iOS users to host a Space, after previously limiting access to accounts with at least 600 followers — After steadily expanding access over the course of the year, Twitter announced today its audio chatroom feature known as Twitter Spaces …
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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Plaid partners with Square, Stripe, and others to help consumers and businesses make payments funded by their bank accounts after its acquisition by Visa failed — The fintech is teaming up with Square, Stripe and dozens of others on a digital pay-by-bank offering| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Report: Yahoo Finance's mobile app disappeared from Apple's App Store in China, days after republishing a Bloomberg story critical of China's tech crackdown — Yahoo Finance appears to be the latest victim of China's suppressive internet regulations, as the iOS app used … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon rolls out Local Selling, an in-store pickup option for items from local businesses in the US — - Amazon said Thursday it will let third-party sellers offer in-store pickup to shoppers who live near the merchant's brick-and-mortar stores. — In-store pickup, or click-and-collect ordering … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Susquehanna, which owns ~15% of ByteDance, is looking to sell a stake worth ~$500M; source says a shareholder recently sold at a $360B-$370B valuation — - Susquehanna had sought a valuation of more than $400 billion — China's crackdown brings uncertainty to TikTok owner's IPO
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