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How SCOTUS overturning Roe could be used to curb online freedoms and surveil vulnerable populations, as happened to sex workers following FOSTA/SESTA in 2018 — FOSTA/SESTA—laws that deplatformed sex workers—helped build the gallows for overturning Roe v. Wade.| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Stardust's privacy policy said it may share “anonymized, encrypted” data to third parties “whether or not legally required”, before being changed after pushback — Stardust Period Tracker was the most-downloaded free app on iOS over the weekend. — Samantha Cole
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| TechCrunch: |
Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel — The app was found sharing users' phone numbers with an analytics firm — Period tracking app Stardust surged to the top …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says Hangouts will shut down in November as it begins prompting mobile Hangouts users to move to Chat — It'll start moving mobile Hangouts users to Chat today — After sunsetting Google Hangouts for Workspace users in February, Google's now beginning the process of migrating free, personal Hangouts users to Chat.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
T-Mobile launched App Insights, letting marketers target its wireless customers based on apps they have installed and engagement patterns; users can opt out — T-Mobile's advertising business is offering a new way for marketers to pry into your app-using habits.
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| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
Sam Bankman-Fried says there are no active talks for FTX to acquire Robinhood; Robinhood says no acquisition can go through without the founders' approval — SBF praises Robinhood, hints at possible partnerships — Crypto exchange FTX is open to partnering with Robinhood Markets …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon plans to host two Prime shopping events in a year for the first time, the second one set for Q4 2022, according to a notice sent to third-party merchants — - Amazon is planning to hold a “Prime Fall” deal event in the fourth quarter, according to a notice viewed by CNBC.
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| Wilfried Eckl-Dorna / Bloomberg: |
Siemens plans to buy Brightly, a North Carolina-based provider of buildings and infrastructure management software, from Clearlake Capital for $1.58B — Siemens AG will buy US firm Brightly Software for $1.58 billion to add digital services for buildings and infrastructure as the German company continues …
| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
Voyager Digital issues a default notice to Three Arrows Capital for failing to repay a $650M+ loan; Voyager accessed $75M of credit from Alameda Research — - Voyager Digital has issued a default notice against Three Arrows Capital for failure to repay a loan worth more than $650 million.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
New Delhi-based Progcap, a digital bank that provides working capital to SMBs, raised a $40M Series C extension at a $600M valuation, up 3x since September 2021 — Google has invested in Progcap, an Indian startup that provides working capital to small and medium-sized businesses …
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Filing: Google asks the US FEC to green light a program that would exempt campaign-related emails from spam; GOP alleges Gmail unfairly flags its emails as spam — Google has asked the Federal Election Commission to green light a program that could keep campaign emails from ending up in spam folders …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK startup Speechmatics, which uses AI to translate speech to text, regardless of accent, raised a $62M Series B led by Susquehanna and says it has 170 clients — Last week I wrote about an AI startup that's building technology that can alter, in real time, the accent of someone's speech.| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
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