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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: TikTok partners with Shopify, letting merchants create TikTok ad campaigns and In-Feed video ads from the Shopify dashboard -
Patrick Moorhead / Forbes: AMD says it will buy rival chipmaker Xilinx for $35B in an all-stock deal — I talked to AMD CEO Lisa Su last night and got the download on what could be a historic … -
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Ankhi Das, Facebook's public policy director for India, South, and Central Asia, leaves after allegations of content moderation interference for India's BJP -
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail how link previews in messengers from Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Line can leak sensitive data, consume limited bandwidth, and more -
Michael Sheetz / CNBC: SpaceX, in emails to interested customers, says the beta of the Starlink satellite internet service will initially cost $99/month plus a $499 upfront cost -
BBC: UK regulator bans mobile networks from selling locked phones from December 2021 — The UK's mobile networks are to be forbidden from selling phones locked to their services from December 2021. -
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Ubisoft rebrands its $15/month UPLAY+ game streaming service as Ubisoft+ and will expand the service's availability to Stadia and Luna by end of year -
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook launches free-to-play cloud gaming on desktop and Android but says it is unable to bring games to iOS due to Apple's “arbitrary” policies -
Seth Schiesel / Protocol: Interview with Jason Rubin, Facebook's VP of Play, on Facebook Gaming, the company's battles with Apple, technical challenges of delivering cloud games, more -
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: The rise of “no-code platforms” is helping usher in a new generation fluent in using computers and mobile devices for self-expression, research, and analysis -
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: YouTube says it will add a “Results may not be final” label to relevant search queries and videos on Election Day linking to Google's election results feature -
Frederic Filloux / Monday Note: A look at VC firm a16z's media and podcast offerings, led by ex-Wired editor Sonal Chokshi, which feature an array of voices across 500+ episodes -
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Tinder is rolling out Face to Face, its opt-in video chat feature, globally — Tinder, currently the world's biggest biggest dating app for people to find matches … -
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Alphabet says it has altered its rules for electing board members, shifting from plurality to majority voting, a system considered better for accountability -
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: SoftBank's second Vision Fund invests $120M into Ordermark, which launches delivery-only restaurant brands that make use of extra capacity at vetted kitchens -
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: T-Mobile will debut live TV streaming service TVision on Nov. 1, with TVision Vibe available for $10/mo. and more expensive TVision Live tiers with sports, news -
Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: As the election looms, Nextdoor is facing the same challenges of polarization and misinformation as Facebook and Twitter, often in closed-off groups -
David Z. Morris / Fortune: Zoom adds support for end-to-end encryption, but when it's enabled several features like cloud recording, telephone dial-in, and 1:1 private chat will not work -
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: Senate report says local journalism crisis is partly due to Facebook and Google's alleged anticompetitive behavior, like AMP, which should be policed by the FTC -
Noam Cohen / Wired: Wikipedia to protect its main 2020 election page with expanded measures, like stopping new editors from making edits, that it has used to stop COVID-19 misinfo -
Sponsor Post Oura: Better sleep, better you. — Why the Oura Ring is the perfect companion to other wearables in painting a fuller picture of your health. -
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Salto, which helps automate SaaS platforms, raises $27M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners — Salto, a Tel Aviv-based open-source startup that allows … -
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Serverless search and analytics startup Rockset raises $40M Series B led by Sequoia Capital — Real-time analytics startup Rockset today announced a $40 million round. -
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: FreshToHome, a fresh fish, meat, and vegetables e-commerce service available in major Indian cities, raises $121M Series C, bringing its total raised to $154M -
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft, Adobe, and C3.ai launch C3 AI CRM powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365, a new customer relationship management software to compete with Salesforce