| 10:45 PM • | Clara Molot / Bloomberg: Opentrons, whose robots help life scientists automate experiments and processes, raises $200M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.8B valuation |
| 9:55 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Livestream shopping platform NTWRK raises $50M led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Kering, bringing its total raised to $60M |
| 8:30 PM • | Davey Alba / New York Times: Interview with Maryana Iskander, Wikimedia Foundation's next CEO, on the org's transparency, handling misinformation on Wikipedia pages, and more |
| 7:00 PM • | Wall Street Journal: A look at the opposition by South African indigenous groups to Amazon's planned $350M Cape Town HQ, which some say is being built on sacred land |
| 5:30 PM • | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Facebook says its global head of safety, Antigone Davis, will testify before the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection on September 30 |
| 4:55 PM • | Bloomberg: New York City passes bills establishing minimum pay and worker protections for app-based couriers, including those working for Grubhub, Uber, and DoorDash |
| 4:10 PM • | Yong Jun Yuan / The Business Times: Advance Intelligence, the Singapore-based owner of buy now, pay later service Atome, raises $400M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $2B valuation |
| 3:30 PM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Apple releases iOS 12.5.5 and a macOS Catalina security update to fix zero-day vulnerabilities in CoreGraphics, WebKit, and XNU |
| 3:02 PM • | The Information: Sources: German grocery delivery startup Gorillas raised $950M Series C led by delivery company Delivery Hero, at a valuation of $3B |
| 1:40 PM • | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: In a memo, Lina Khan encourages FTC staff to prioritize addressing “dominant intermediaries”, unfair contracts, and mergers that are “illegal on their face” |
| 1:11 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter integrates Strike's wallet to let users receive tips in bitcoin, rolls out Tips globally on iOS, and will explore support for NFT authentication |
| 12:35 PM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Syng, founded by an ex-Apple designer to build “triphonic” audio hardware with spatial audio, raises $48.75M Series A led by Eclipse Ventures |
| 12:25 PM • | Florence Ion / Gizmodo: Google announces a range of features for Android, Google TV, Assistant, and Gboard, including some that were previously Pixel exclusives |
| 12:20 PM • | Jon Porter / The Verge: Google details several accessibility features coming to Android 12, including facial gesture controls, handwriting recognition, and an app for low-vision users |
| 12:15 PM • | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google expands its Google TV app beyond the US to 14 countries, including the UK and Germany, and adds an in-app Android TV remote |
| 11:45 AM • | John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: Poll of 2,016 US voters: 80% say the government should do “everything it can” to curb tech giants; 84% are “very nervous” about impact of social media on kids |
| 11:35 AM • | James Spiro / CTech: Blue White Robotics, which “retrofits” existing farming infrastructure with autonomous systems, raises $37M Series B, bringing its total raised to $60M |
| 10:45 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Tel Aviv-based Panorays, which offers security risk management software, raises $42M Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total raised to $62M |
| 10:25 AM • | Nandita Bose / Reuters: Memo ahead of Sept. 29 trade meeting shows the US and EU plan to unify around regulating Big Tech, in hate speech, algorithmic amplification, and data access |
| 9:45 AM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: New York-based Ocrolus, which offers automated tools for businesses to process documents, raises $80M Series C at a $500M+ valuation led by Fin VC |
| 9:37 AM • | Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: Sen. Marsha Blackburn says WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower has turned over documents and plans to reveal their identity “at some point down the line” |
| 9:20 AM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: IPC, which represents Foxconn, Intel, and others, says a survey found ~80% of manufacturers are struggling to find workers, compounding chip shortage issues |
| 9:10 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Vyne, which works with merchants to build open banking payment services, raises $15.5M seed from Hearst and others |
| 9:00 AM • | Casey Newton / Platformer: WSJ's Facebook Files, which uses Facebook's own data and research to highlight its impact on users, is Facebook's biggest crisis since Cambridge Analytica |
| 8:45 AM • | Martha Muir / Financial Times: Researchers: as social networks clamp down on disinformation, Russia has begun spreading propaganda in comments sections on news outlets, such as Daily Mail |
| 8:20 AM • | Jack Kennedy / Silicon Republic: Chinese autonomous driving startup Momenta raises $300M from GM, following $500M Series C in March; Momenta has a license for detailed geographic data in China |
| 7:50 AM • | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Spotnana, which offers SaaS tools for the travel industry, emerges from stealth with $34M Series A and $7M seed funding |
| 7:45 AM • | Washington Post: Researchers: despite Apple's ATT changes, at least three popular iOS apps are sending identifying info to third-parties even when users opt-out of tracking |
| 7:28 AM • | Associated Press: European Commission proposes legislation mandating USB-C charging for mobile devices, citing electronic waste; Apple is the main USB-C holdout |
| 7:10 AM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: London-based grocery delivery startup Jiffy raises $28M Series A led by Heartland, bringing total funding to $35M |
| 7:05 AM • | Alex Heath / The Verge: Facebook details the types of posts that get demoted in News Feed, such as clickbait and spam, but stops short of saying exactly how a demotion works |
| 6:45 AM • | Keith Naughton / Bloomberg: Research: automakers globally will produce 7.7M fewer cars this year due to the chip shortage, costing them $210B in sales, as chip lead times slip to 21 weeks |
| 6:10 AM • | Adam Satariano / New York Times: Despite passing a tough online abuse law, researchers say social networks in Germany are full of hate speech and harassment ahead of a September 26 election |
| 5:45 AM • | Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: Apple releases StoreKit 2 with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and watchOS 8, letting devs access a user's purchase history, letting users request a refund in-app, and more |
| 5:35 AM • | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Chinese AR glasses maker Nreal raises $100M, source says at a $700M valuation, to develop its Nreal Light glasses that connect with smartphones |
| 5:25 AM • | Jay Greene / Washington Post: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill requiring Amazon and other employers to disclose the use of productivity quotas and more, starting January 1 |
| 5:10 AM • | Austin Carr / Bloomberg: A look at efforts to close the digital divide in states like Arkansas, as a Microsoft study finds around 120M Americans don't have access to high-speed internet |
| 2:50 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LG is acquiring Israeli startup Cybellum, which detects and assesses vulnerabilities in connected vehicles, for around $240M |
| 2:30 AM • | Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal: US federal judge orders Facebook to hand over records on posts removed for promoting violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar |
| 2:10 AM • | Kate Park / TechCrunch: Singapore-based Cobo, which provides crypto custody and financial services, raises $40M Series B co-led by DST Global, A&T Capital, and IMO Ventures |
| 1:25 AM • | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Remitly, which lets users send and receive money across borders, raises $300M+ in its IPO at a valuation of nearly $7B |
| 12:30 AM • | Ben Bajarin / Creative Strategies: Analysis: Apple Silicon averaged 19% GPU gains YoY for the past five years, and A15 grew 52%; since iPhone 5s, performance has grown 133% every four years |
| 10:40 PM • | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Iron Ox, an autonomous farming startup, raises $53M Series C led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, bringing its total raised to $98M |
| 9:50 PM • | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Spenmo, a Singapore-based provider of automated bill payments software and corporate cards for SMBs, raises $34M Series A led by Insight Partners |
| 9:00 PM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Twitter plans to stop tweets from disappearing when the timeline auto-refreshes, in a series of updates over the next two months |
| 8:05 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Biden plans to nominate Cornell law professor and cryptocurrency critic Saule Omarova to run the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency |
| 7:40 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Discord is testing Watch Together, a feature that lets members broadcast YouTube videos, after Google forced the shutdown of two popular music bots on Discord |
| 7:20 PM • | Jessica Guynn / USA Today: Industry groups representing Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter sue Texas over a law that lets residents sue social networks that ban them for their political views |
| 6:40 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: Researchers say an Exchange Autodiscover bug can be used to obtain Windows users' domain and app credentials; Microsoft is investigating |
| 6:15 PM • | John Loeffler / TechRadar: Microsoft announces the Surface Adaptive Kit, with tactile labels for locating keycaps and ports, and device opener support, for laptop users with disabilities |
| 5:20 PM • | Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: CRM software maker Freshworks closed up 32% at $47.55 per share in its debut, giving it a market cap of $15.3B after raising over $1B in its IPO |
| 4:55 PM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Toast shares closed up 56% at $62.51 in its NYSE debut, giving it a market cap of $31B+, after raising ~$870M in its IPO |
| 4:45 PM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer says he will step down next year and shift into a part-time adviser role; Andrew Bosworth will become CTO |
| 4:00 PM • | Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: Leaked email: Tim Cook says recent leakers of info about Apple products and internal meetings “do not belong here” and the company is tracking them down |
| 3:40 PM • | David Pierce / Protocol: Read-later apps, pioneered by Instapaper and Pocket, are having a resurgence led by Matter, Upnext, and others, which improve discoverability and other features |
| 2:40 PM • | Washington Post: A look at the strengths and weaknesses of US and Chinese tech industries, including China's supremacy in network equipment, commercial drones, and batteries |
| 1:50 PM • | Michael Crider / Android Police: YouTube is testing letting Premium subscribers download videos from its desktop site through October 19 |
| 12:45 PM • | The Verge: Tim Sweeney says Apple told Epic that it will not consider reinstating Epic's developer account until all legal appeals have concluded, likely years from now |
| 12:40 PM • | Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: Microsoft announces $130 Surface Slim Pen 2 with a custom Microsoft G6 chip, haptic feedback, up to 15 hours battery life, and more, now available for preorder |
| 12:22 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Comcast unveils XiOne, its first streaming device, available to Sky Q customers in Italy and Germany and rolling out to Xfinity Flex customers in the US |
| 12:17 PM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Hands-on with Microsoft Surface Duo 2: addresses obvious problems with the first model, adding modern specs and a far better camera system, but starts at $1,500 |
| 12:12 PM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Hands-on with Surface Laptop Studio, which starts at $1,600: new hinge offers three modes, under-device pedestal is strange, and screen is very nice |
| 12:10 PM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Hands-on with Surface Pro 8: Thunderbolt is welcome, familiar design, new keyboard is great, but base model is underpowered; starts at $1,099 without a keyboard |
| 11:43 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop Studio, replacing Surface Book, with 14.4" 120Hz display that can slide into new positions, Thunderbolt 4, and haptic trackpad |
| 11:35 AM • | Dan Seifert / The Verge: Microsoft unveils Surface Duo 2 with 8.3" 90Hz dual displays, three 12MP rear cameras, Snapdragon 888, 5G, Android 11, curved screen for exterior notifications |
| 11:25 AM • | Monica Chin / The Verge: Microsoft announces 10.5-inch Surface Go 3 with updated Intel CPUs for up to 60% better performance, Windows Hello, and more |
| 11:15 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces Surface Pro 8 with a 13-inch edge-to-edge 120Hz display, Thunderbolt 4, Surface Slim Pen 2, up to 32GB of RAM, and more |
| 10:58 AM • | Microsoft: Livestream of Microsoft's Surface event |
| 10:55 AM • | The Verge: Live blog of Microsoft's Surface event, where Surface Duo 2, Surface Book 4, Surface Go 3, refreshed Surface Pro X, and more are expected |
| 10:50 AM • | Cory Doctorow: Review of the Framework, a $999 modular 13.5" laptop that pulls off a relatively sleek design while also being easy to repair and upgrade |
| 10:35 AM • | Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: FLYR Labs, which uses machine learning to help airlines better predict ticket prices, raises $150M Series C led by WestCap |
| 10:30 AM • | Monica Chin / The Verge: Teachers say many students, brought up with search features on their computers, are unfamiliar with directories and folders, forcing a rethink of lesson plans |
| 10:10 AM • | Rachel Lerman / Washington Post: The automatic tipping screen in Square's app disappeared for three hours on Saturday due to a bug, costing restaurant workers and others hundreds of dollars |
| 9:55 AM • | ProPublica: Investigation details how safeguards for Facebook's Marketplace, which has 1B MAUs, can fail to protect buyers and sellers from scams, fake accounts, and more |
| 9:50 AM • | Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: Orca, a decentralized crypto exchange built on the Solana blockchain, raises $18M Series A led by Polychain, Placeholder, and Three Arrows Capital |
| 9:45 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: StreamElements, which builds production and analytics tools for streamers, raises $100M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and says 1.1M people use its services |
| 9:40 AM • | Caitlin McGarry / Gizmodo: Apple iPad (2021) review: solid performance and battery life, True Tone, upgraded front camera, and a reasonable price, but the design now feels boring |
| 9:35 AM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Sunday, which offers tools for a faster restaurant checkout process, raises $100M Series A led by Coatue, following $24M seed in April |
| 9:30 AM • | Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: Dapper Labs, maker of NFT-focused NBA Top Shot, raises $250M led by Coatue Management and says it is partnering with Spain's LaLiga soccer league |
| 9:25 AM • | Scott Stein / CNET: Apple iPad mini (2021) review: A15, Pencil 2 support, better cameras, and USB-C, but no keyboard case support and the screen feels too small for some apps |
| 9:15 AM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Facebook says Apple's ATT changes will continue to cause headwinds in Q3 and reveals it under-reported iOS web conversions by 15% on average; stock drops 3%+ |
| 9:10 AM • | CNBC: Robinhood says it will test crypto wallets with select users starting next month, letting investors trade, send, receive, and hold digital currencies |
| 8:50 AM • | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: Microsoft uncovers a massive phishing operation offering “Phishing-as-a-Service” subscriptions or one-time tools based on over 120 templates for $80-$100 |
| 8:35 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Enterprise document management startup PandaDoc raises Series C at a $1B valuation but is not disclosing the amount raised due to Belarus' political situation |
| 8:15 AM • | Jing Yang / Wall Street Journal: Ant Group's Huabei consumer lending service says user data will be made available to China's central bank credit reporting system |
| 7:55 AM • | Horace Dediu / Asymco: With 2B iPhones sold, Apple has avoided disruption by adding unexpectedly useful features and avoiding overshooting on performance |
| 7:35 AM • | Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg: How FanDuel outpaced DraftKings to take an estimated 42% share of the US sports wagers market after its sale to Flutter |
| 7:05 AM • | Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: Rawalpindi-based TAG Innovation, which builds financial tools for Pakistan's 100M unbanked adults, raises $12M at a $100M valuation led by Liberty City |
| 6:15 AM • | Wall Street Journal: FCC says it is reviewing Zoom's proposed $15B acquisition of cloud-based call center software maker Five9, citing Zoom's ties to China |
| 5:25 AM • | Kate Park / TechCrunch: Shenzhen-based Hai Robotics, which develops autonomous hardware for warehouses, raises $200M across a Series C and Series D, following a $15M Series B+ in March |
| 5:20 AM • | Angelina Rascouet / Bloomberg: French online secondhand fashion marketplace Vestiaire Collective raises $209M at a $1.7B valuation led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after raising $216M in March |
| 4:55 AM • | Naman Ramachandran / Variety: Netflix agrees to acquire the Roald Dahl Story Company, expanding on a three-year deal to make animated shows, with plans to create TV, movies, games, and more |
| 3:01 AM • | Cathrin Schaer / Wired UK: Profile of Johannes Caspar, who was Hamburg's data protection commissioner for over a decade and investigated Facebook, WhatsApp, Clearview, PimEyes, and Amazon |
| 2:30 AM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Kavak, a Mexico-based marketplace for used cars, raises $700M Series E led by General Catalyst, doubling its valuation from April to $8.7B |
| 2:20 AM • | Soumyarendra Barik / Entrackr: ZestMoney, an Indian buy now, pay later startup, raises $50M Series C from Australian buy now, pay later company Zip |
| 1:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Overview of the market for NFTs, where the majority of assets sold on OpenSea in the past 90 days have not seen another deal |
| 1:05 AM • | Simon Sharwood / The Register: VMware urges customers to immediately patch a critical arbitrary file upload vulnerability in its flagship vCenter and vSphere products |
| 12:50 AM • | Vikas Sn / Moneycontrol: Freshworks boosts its IPO offering to $36 per share, after originally pricing it at $28-$32, to raise $1.03B at a $10B+ valuation; trading to begin September 22 |
| 11:30 PM • | Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Turkey-based Intenseye, which uses computer vision and AI to monitor workplaces and staff for safety violations, raises $25M Series A led by Insight Partners |
| 11:00 PM • | Garrison Wells / FierceHealthcare: eVisit, a SaaS startup helping hospitals and health care systems provide telehealth services, raises $45M Series B led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management |
| 10:45 PM • | AlleyWatch: Pager, a virtual healthcare platform for helping patients from initial triage to follow-up care, raises $70M Series C, as a mix of equity and debt |
| 10:30 PM • | Jim Dallke / Chicago Business Journal: Provi, an online marketplace that lets bars and restaurants order beverages from distributors in one central location, raises $75M Series C at a $750M valuation |
| 10:15 PM • | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Indonesia-based Evermos, a halal-focused social commerce startup catering to small businesses, raises $30M Series B led by UOB Venture Management |
| 9:10 PM • | Andrius Sytas / Reuters: Lithuanian government recommends ditching Chinese phones after finding Xiaomi devices with censorship capabilities that can be activated remotely |
| 8:35 PM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Source: ahead of its NYSE debut, Toast prices its IPO at $40 per share, above its original $30-$33 range, which would give it a market cap of ~$20B |
| 8:00 PM • | James Rubin / CoinDesk: Blockdaemon, which offers blockchain staking infrastructure, raises $155M Series B led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.26B valuation |
| 7:50 PM • | Tory Newmyer / Washington Post: SEC's Gary Gensler says stablecoins are a risk to consumers, like “poker chips at the casino”, and equates crypto boom to “wildcat banking” in the 1830s |
| 7:30 PM • | Ari Notis / Kotaku: Blizzard's chief legal officer Claire Hart leaves Activision Blizzard amid a series of high-level departures |
| 6:45 PM • | Leah Nylen / Politico: Facebook shareholders allege Facebook conditioned its $5B Cambridge Analytica settlement on the FTC dropping plans to sue and depose Mark Zuckerberg |
| 5:55 PM • | New York Times: Sources: last month, Mark Zuckerberg agreed to show users positive stories about Facebook via News Feed; Facebook says it ran a small test with labeled posts |
| 5:45 PM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: macOS is susceptible to running arbitrary code when a user opens a malicious .inetloc file, and Apple's first attempt to silently fix the issue failed |
| 5:35 PM • | Wallace Witkowski / MarketWatch: Adobe Q3: record revenue of $3.94B, up 22% YoY, Digital Media revenue of $2.87B, up 23% YoY, but ARR figures barely exceed estimates; stock down ~4% after hours |
| 5:25 PM • | Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard: Twitch and NMPA reach deal after tensions over takedown notices; sources: deal doesn't include music licenses, and Twitch will warn users before suspending them |
| 4:50 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: iOS 15.1 beta lets users store their verifiable health records, including COVID-19 vaccination cards and test results, in the Health app |
| 4:45 PM • | Washington Post: Sources: FBI refrained from sharing a ransomware decryptor with businesses for almost three weeks, as it carried out an operation to disrupt the REvil gang |
| 4:20 PM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Almanac, which offers a collaborative doc editor, raises $34M Series A led by Tiger Global, following its $9M seed round earlier this year |
| 3:35 PM • | Ranjan Roy / Margins: How Reddit's business model change, hiring of COO Jen Wong, and UX tweaks after raising $200M in 2017 laid the foundations for this year's meme stock mania |
| 3:35 PM • | Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: Genesis Digital Assets raises $431M led by Paradigm with NYDIG and FTX among investors, to expand its bitcoin mining in North America and the Nordic region |
| 3:15 PM • | Karissa Bell / Engadget: Facebook's Oversight Board wants the company to explain its “cross-check” system, which reportedly lets celebrities, politicians, and others break its rules |
| 3:10 PM • | Hugh Son / CNBC: Revolut plans to debut commission-free stock trading in the US in a few months, after spending 16 months working to secure a US broker-dealer license |
| 2:05 PM • | Erik Schatzker / Bloomberg: One River Digital Asset Management, a crypto-fund management startup, raises $41M Series A at a $186M valuation, with Coinbase and Goldman Sachs participating |
| 1:45 PM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Mirakl, which develops e-commerce tools to help companies build their online stores, raises $555M Series E at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.5B last year |
| 1:07 PM • | Nicole Lee / Engadget: Facebook announces the Portal Go, a $199 10" portable device, and a new $349 Portal+ device with a 14" tilting display and stereo speakers, shipping October 19 |
| 12:35 PM • | Matt Day / Bloomberg: An in-depth look at Amazon's flagship BFI4 warehouse, located in Kent, WA and capable of processing over 1M items/day, which is run almost entirely by software |
| 11:45 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Supply chain visibility company Project44 acquires Convey, a last-mile delivery startup that had raised $25.7M, for $255M |
| 11:35 AM • | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: Russian telecom giant Rostelecom says it sinkholed part of the Meris DDoS botnet, the world's largest; researchers say the botnet is tied to Windows malware |
| 10:42 AM • | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Treasury Department sanctions cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants |
| 10:30 AM • | Freedom House: Report finds global internet freedom has declined for the 11th consecutive year including in the US, tech giants clashed with governments over data, and more |
| 10:10 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Fitbit Charge 5 review: lightweight design, bright color screen, and long battery life, but no physical buttons, screen feels too small, and UI can be confusing |
| 9:50 AM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Following WSJ's investigation series, Facebook says it has spent over $13B on safety and security since the 2016 election and 40K employees work on these issues |
| 9:17 AM • | Todd Haselton / CNBC: Amazon introduces three new Kindle Paperwhites: $140 Paperwhite with 6.8" display and USB-C, $190 Signature Edition with 32GB of storage, and $160 Kids Edition |
| 9:13 AM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: iPhone 13 review: excellent cameras and battery life, more base storage, but front camera is unchanged, refresh rate is standard, and iPhone 12 cases don't fit |
| 9:09 AM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Apple iPhone 13 Pro review: incredible cameras, improved battery, and high refresh display, but front camera is average, no USB-C, and Cinematic Mode is limited |
| 8:45 AM • | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: HP announces refreshed consumer devices, including Spectre x360 16" 2-in-1 for $1,639+, Envy 34" 5K all-in-one desktop for $1,999+, and Tablet PC 11" for $499+ |
| 8:40 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: PayPal updates its app to include more services, such as direct deposits, crypto tools, peer-to-peer payments, and a digital wallet |
| 8:35 AM • | Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal: Google says it will buy St. John's Terminal, a 1.3M square foot office building it is leasing on Manhattan's West Side, for $2.1B in Q1 2022 |
| 8:30 AM • | Corin Faife / The Markup: Analysis: Facebook appears to be adding code to interfere with automated data collection of News Feed posts by researchers, such as NYU's Ad Observatory |
| 8:15 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Slack announces Clips, short video voicemail messages for channels, rolling out today for paid accounts, changes to Connect, GovSlack, and more |
| 7:55 AM • | Yogita Khatri / The Block: BitClout creator raises $200M for “Decentralized Social”, a blockchain project with social tools such as profiles, from a16z, Sequoia, Coinbase, and others |
| 7:25 AM • | Florence Ion / Gizmodo: What to expect from Microsoft's Surface event tomorrow: Surface Duo 2, Surface Book 4 with a tethered display, Surface Pro 8, refreshed Surface Pro X, and more |
| 7:00 AM • | Pádraig Belton / The Guardian: As TSMC pledges to reach net zero emissions by 2050, a look at how the semiconductor industry is tackling its huge carbon footprint and resource consumption |
| 6:50 AM • | Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Amsterdam-based Recharge, which offers digital vouchers for big brands like Apple and Xbox, raises $35M Series B and says it has over 3M customers |
| 6:45 AM • | Paul Bischoff / Comparitech: Researcher finds data on 106M international visitors to Thailand, including passport numbers and travel records dating back a decade, were exposed on a database |
| 6:30 AM • | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple is working with UCLA and Biogen to identify depression, cognitive decline, and other issues using sensor data, such as typing behavior and sleep |
| 5:50 AM • | Harry Baker / UploadVR: Netflix releases Eden Unearthed, a free VR game for Oculus Quest that appears to be related to a Netflix anime series |
| 4:45 AM • | Pew Research Center: Survey: 47% of US Facebook users regularly get news on the platform, down from 54% in 2020; 29% of US TikTok users regularly get news from the app, up from 22% |
| 2:50 AM • | Ryan Weeks / The Block: Paris-based Sorare, a soccer-focused NFT trading platform, raises $680M Series B led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $4.3B valuation |
| 2:25 AM • | Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: As the SEC mulls a ban on payment for order flow, a look at some alternative revenue streams for commission-free trading apps like Robinhood |
| 1:00 AM • | Amit Gurbaxani / Billboard: Gaana, India's leading music streaming service, has seen low paid sub growth; India's audio streaming market is 38% ad-supported, below only China and Venezuela |
| 10:50 PM • | Max Chafkin / New York Magazine: Sources: Thiel told a confidant that Zuckerberg made a deal with Kushner in 2019 to not fact-check political speech in exchange for laying off harsh regulations |
| 9:45 PM • | FinSMEs: ClickHouse, which provides an online analytical processing database management system, raises $50M Series A led by Index Ventures and Benchmark |
| 8:55 PM • | Alexandra Garrett / CNET: DoorDash will now deliver alcoholic beverages to customers in 20 US states and DC, Canada, and Australia |
| 8:25 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based TrueLayer, which lets fintech apps connect with customers' bank accounts, raises $130M led by Tiger Global at a $1B+ post-money valuation |
| 7:45 PM • | Lisa Richwine / Reuters: Netflix launches a free plan in Kenya with a quarter of the content from its paid plans, available only on Android phones |
| 7:25 PM • | Michael Novinson / CRN: Cloud identity management provider Saviynt raises $130M led by HPS Investment Partners and PNC Bank, bringing its total raised to $170M |
| 5:30 PM • | Bloomberg: A beta version of Robinhood's iOS app shows code and a waitlist page related to an unannounced cryptocurrency wallet feature |
| 4:51 PM • | Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg: Tech stocks drop amid broader market selloff, similar to Sept. 2020's slump; Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet, and Microsoft lost $500B+ in value since Sept. 7 |
| 4:00 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: the SEC has launched an investigation into Activision Blizzard, including how it handled employees' allegations of sexual misconduct and discrimination |
| 2:50 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Analysis: Amazon has doubled sponsored product ads at the top of some search results, from two or three to as many as six |
| 2:15 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Amazon announces its next hardware and services event will be on September 28 at 9am PT |
| 1:30 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Review of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, which are now available: focus modes are great, Safari update is an acquired taste, and iOS' Dark Sky-style Weather is excellent |
| 12:22 PM • | Benjamin Bain / Bloomberg: Coinbase quietly updates its blog to say it is tabling the launch of Lend, a product intended to pay users interest for lending out tokens, after SEC pressure |
| 11:40 AM • | José Adorno / 9to5Mac: Kuo revises forecast and says an under-display Touch ID for iPhone will not arrive until H2 2023 and a foldable iPhone is not expected until 2024 |
| 11:33 AM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Kuo: an iPhone SE with 5G is coming in H1 2022; a cheaper 6.7" iPhone and two high-end models with a punch-hole display and 48MP wide camera are due in H2 2022 |
| 11:05 AM • | Federico Viticci / MacStories: In-depth iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 review: many quality-of-life updates, especially to core apps, but few bold new features and no big iPad productivity leaps |
| 11:00 AM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: Europol, alongside Italian and Spanish police, arrest 106 people accused of working for the Italian Mafia and laundering over €10M made through cybercrimes |
| 10:30 AM • | Ricky Ben-David / The Times of Israel: Jerusalem-based Lightricks, which makes 11 subscription photo and editing apps, including Facetune, raises $130M Series D at a $1.8B valuation |
| 10:25 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Didi co-founder and president Jean Liu says she plans to step down and expects China's government will take control of the company; stock down 6%+ |
| 10:18 AM • | Bloomberg: Data integration startup Fivetran raises $565M Series D led by a16z at a $5.6B valuation and acquires enterprise data company HVR for $700M in cash and stock |
| 9:55 AM • | Ben Woods / Telegraph: Raspberry Pi Foundation, which develops the Raspberry Pi, raises $45M at a ~$500M valuation as sales rose to a record 7.1M units in 2020 |
| 9:45 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Australia-based Airwallex, which helps businesses manage cross-border payments, raises $200M Series E at a $4B valuation, bringing total funding to $700M |
| 9:37 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Filing: Twitter agrees to pay $809.5M to resolve claims from 2016 that it provided misleading engagement information to investors |
| 9:35 AM • | Yogita Khatri / The Block: As bitcoin falls to ~$43K, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele says the country “bought the dip” and acquired 150 more BTC, taking its total holding to 700 |
| 9:10 AM • | 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 |
| 8:55 AM • | Michael Kozlowski / Good e-Reader: Amazon leaks updated Kindle Paperwhite devices with larger 6.8-inch displays in two variants: 8GB for $149 CAD and 32GB for $209.99 CAD, both with 17 LEDs |
| 8:35 AM • | Soumyarendra Barik / Entrackr: Indian startup FloBiz, a mobile billing app for small and medium businesses, raises $31M Series B led by Sequoia Capital India |
| 8:10 AM • | Kim Lyons / The Verge: ByteDance says Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, will limit users under 14 years old to 40 minutes per day, between 6am and 10pm, in China |
| 7:50 AM • | Wall Street Journal: French cloud services provider OVHcloud says it plans to launch an IPO, raising up to €400M, sources say at a valuation of more than €4B |
| 7:35 AM • | 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 |
| 7:05 AM • | 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 |
| 4:55 AM • | Avi Greengart / Techsponential: Analysis of the products announced during Apple's California Streaming event, the carrier and upgrade outlook, and possible responses from competitors |
| 1:40 AM • | The Economic Times: Facebook India appoints former Uber executive Rajiv Aggarwal as head of public policy, a post that has been vacant for nearly a year since Ankhi Das quit |
| 1:15 AM • | Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: The Epic v. Apple ruling shows gaming apps account for ~70% of App Store revenue; in Q3 2017, <0.5% of Apple accounts made up 53.7% of all App Store billings |
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