| 11:20 PM • | Sarah Dai / South China Morning Post: Chinese AI voice recognition company iFlytek has raised ~$407M from a state-backed industry fund and several provincial government funds via a private placement |
| 9:15 PM • | Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: I found your data. It's for sale. |
| 8:30 PM • | Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: US Treasury's FinCEN says scammers tried to steal an average of $301M per month via business email compromise scams in 2018, up from $110M per month in 2016 |
| 7:00 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann has cashed out more than $700M from the company ahead of its IPO through a mix of stock sales and debt |
| 6:25 PM • | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: In its first earnings report since its IPO, CrowdStrike beats with Q2 revenue of $96.1M, up 103% YoY, vs. $95.6M est.; stock up 15%+ |
| 6:05 PM • | Joey Roulette / Orlando Weekly: Orlando cancels the second phase of its Amazon Rekognition pilot, which began in October 2018, and says it has no immediate plans for future pilots of the tech |
| 5:30 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: The Kazakhstan government is making ISPs force users to install a government-issued certificate on all devices and in every browser to intercept HTTPS traffic |
| 5:10 PM • | Reuters: German transport app FlixMobility raises Series F co-led by TCV and Permira; sources say the Series F was for about €500M, valuing the company at more than €2B |
| 4:35 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft's Xbox hardware revenue declined 48% YoY in Q4, but Xbox Live active users grew to 65M |
| 4:20 PM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Microsoft reports Q4 Productivity and Business Processes revenue of $11.0B, up 14% YoY, and More Personal Computing revenue of $11.3B, up 4% YoY |
| 4:15 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft reports Q4 Intelligent Cloud revenue of $11.39B, up 19% YoY, with Azure revenue up 64% YoY, its lowest growth rate in at least four years |
| 4:08 PM • | Microsoft: Microsoft reports Q4 revenue of $33.7B, up 12% YoY, operating income of $12.4B, up 20% YoY, and net income of $13.2B, up 49% YoY |
| 3:35 PM • | Bloomberg: How Amazon Go, which offers all the selection of a 7-Eleven but with more complexity and cost, became the company's most ambitious research project |
| 3:00 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Intel and SAP announce a multi-year partnership focused on data centers, combining Intel's hardware with SAP's software |
| 2:35 PM • | Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: Inside 18 months of turmoil at Grindr, which some former employees say began with its sale to Chinese company Kunlun Group and elevation of Scott Chen |
| 2:15 PM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Trump confirms he will look into Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract, set to be awarded to Microsoft or Amazon, after “tremendous complaints from other companies” |
| 1:50 PM • | Julia Alexander / The Verge: In some ways, Netflix's Q2 results were a disaster, highlighting the weakness of its US market, limits of international growth, and pain of losing huge shows |
| 1:15 PM • | Shelby Brown / CNET: Google increases Chrome bug bounty rewards, tripling the maximum baseline reward from $5,000 to $15,000 and doubling the maximum reward from $15,000 to $30,000 |
| 12:50 PM • | Jennifer Miller / New York Times: As podcast service Blubrry says there are now over 700,000 podcasts, with 2,000 to 3,000 launching every month, a look at whether we have reached “peak podcast” |
| 12:35 PM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: New Delhi-based MyMoneyMantra, which operates a marketplace for financial services, raises $15M, its first external funding in its 30-year history |
| 12:25 PM • | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Instagram strengthens moderation policies, introducing an alert to warn people when their account is close to being deleted and giving moderators more leeway |
| 12:15 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: InCountry, a data residency-as-a-service platform that helps multinational companies store customer data locally, raises $15M series A to expand globally |
| 12:05 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Wattpad's ad-free subscription tier and Wattpad Paid Stories, which offers exclusive, paywalled content to users, are now available worldwide to its 70M+ users |
| 11:55 AM • | Emily Dreyfuss / Wired: Legal chatbot DoNotPay introduces Free Trial Card, a service that lets users sign up to free trials anonymously and declines payment after the trial period ends |
| 11:45 AM • | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Haus, a real estate startup started by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp as part of his startup studio Expa, raises $4.1M in seed funding and $3M in debt |
| 11:15 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Pivot, whose gym product Smartspot uses a depth-sensing camera to record workouts and identify incorrect postures, comes out of stealth, raises $17M Series A |
| 10:35 AM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Slack says it is resetting passwords for 1% of its users after receiving new info about the company's 2015 security breach; in April, Slack said it has 10M DAUs |
| 9:30 AM • | James Vincent / The Verge: A look at the challenges facing Boston Dynamics, chief among them public perception, as it prepares to launch its first commercial bot, called Spot, this year |
| 7:30 AM • | Ana Wolsztajn / Tech.eu: Business travel management platform TravelPerk raises an additional $60M as an extension of its $44M Series C, says its revenue increased by 300% in 2019 |
| 7:10 AM • | European Commission: European Commission fines Qualcomm €242M for abusing its dominance in 3G baseband chipsets by selling below cost to force its competitor Icera out of the market |
| 4:35 AM • | Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times: eBay picks up a 5.5% stake in Paytm Mall to open up its global inventory to ~130M+ users on Paytm platforms; sources say the deal is valued at ~$150M |
| 2:30 AM • | Ryan Browne / CNBC: German mobile banking startup N26 raises $170M from existing investors, a top-up to the $300M Series D it raised in January, at a $3.5B valuation |
| 12:10 AM • | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Wavecell, a cloud-communications platform for companies in SE Asia, has been acquired by cloud-based conferencing solutions provider 8x8 in a deal worth ~$125M |
| 11:15 PM • | Thomas Claburn / The Register: DOJ charges former Microsoft developer, a Ukrainian citizen, for allegedly using a test account to steal $10M by purchasing and reselling Microsoft e-gift cards |
| 10:45 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: “Not designed for children” warning appearing on some Play Store listings; developers have the option to apply it where kids are outside the target age group |
| 10:25 PM • | Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: Uber riders in some cities, including DC and San Diego, were charged 100x the advertised fare, with some fares exceeding $1,000; Uber says glitch has been fixed |
| 9:30 PM • | Cade Metz / New York Times: How Google Glass and other devices are being tested to teach children on the autism spectrum to make eye contact and recognize emotions |
| 8:05 PM • | Douglas Busvine / Reuters: After a seven-month probe, Amazon reaches a deal with German antitrust watchdog to give 30 days notice and a reason for removing a merchant from its platform |
| 7:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Trump is looking into the Pentagon's JEDI contract, which is set to be awarded to Amazon or Microsoft, to decide whether he should intervene |
| 7:20 PM • | Ken Dilanian / NBC News: Microsoft says it has warned ~10,000 customers of nation-state attacks in the past year and tracked 781 cyberattacks by foreign adversaries this election cycle |
| 7:00 PM • | Alfred Ng / CNET: Google removes seven stalkerware apps from the Play Store that were found by Avast researchers; the apps had been installed more than 130,000 times |
| 6:40 PM • | New York Times: While the Senate hearing on Libra focused on mistrust of Facebook, the House hearing focused on hurdles Facebook may face if it wants to release Libra next year |
| 6:30 PM • | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: BMW's ReachNow car-sharing service, which operates in Seattle and Portland, shuts down, effective immediately, following a joint venture deal with Daimler |
| 6:10 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: In Q2, Netflix lost US subscribers for the first time since Q3 2011, dropping 130,000, and added fewer global subs than expected, citing a weak Q2 content slate |
| 5:30 PM • | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: Instagram expands its test to hide the number of likes on other users' posts to six more countries: Ireland, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand |
| 5:25 PM • | Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: DNC warns 2020 presidential campaigns not to use FaceApp; alert from DNC's chief security officer notes that the app was “developed by Russians” |
| 5:05 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: IBM reports Q2 revenue of $19.2B, down 4.2% YoY, with Cloud and Cognitive Software revenue of $5.6B, up 3.2% YoY, more on Red Hat acquisition to be shared Aug 2 |
| 5:00 PM • | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: eBay beats with Q2 revenue of $2.7B, up 2% YoY, net income of $403M, and says it is considering selling both StubHub and its Classifieds services; stock up 5%+ |
| 4:32 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Netflix says it plans to launch a cheaper mobile-only streaming plan starting in India in Q3 |
| 4:13 PM • | Netflix Investor Relations: Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $4.9B, up 26% YoY, and total paid membership of 152M, up 22% YoY, but it added 2.7M new subs, down from 5.5M YoY; stock down 10%+ |
| 3:50 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook executives, from Zuckerberg to Sandberg to Marcus, have argued that more US regulation aids Chinese rivals, but this assertion is far from clear |
| 3:15 PM • | Brian Merchant / Columbia Journalism Review: To duck accountability, “on background” has become the default method by which Silicon Valley disseminates information, often abetted by tech journalists |
| 3:00 PM • | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: As part of World Emoji Day, Apple and Google share designs for around 60 new emoji, many focused on representation around disability |
| 2:45 PM • | Jim Waterson / The Guardian: As FaceApp goes viral again, many are wary of the image-altering app's weak privacy policy, the fact it's based in Russia, and that photos are sent to the cloud |
| 1:00 PM • | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: Researchers find that Windows 10, iOS, and macOS devices broadcast device-specific info over Bluetooth, letting observers track the devices; Android does not |
| 12:25 PM • | Alfred Ng / CNET: Researcher: 100+ Chinese loan apps sent sensitive data of 4.6M+ devices, including financial information, to a public server that was left exposed for two weeks |
| 12:00 PM • | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Billie, which offers a B2B invoicing and payments platform, raises €30M Series B led by Creandum |
| 11:35 AM • | Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: Google's vice president of public policy, Karan Bhatia, tells US Senate that the company has “terminated” Project Dragonfly, its Chinese search engine project |
| 11:15 AM • | Hayley Peterson / Business Insider: Amazon says Prime Day surpassed Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales combined, with users buying 175M items, up from 100M in 2018 |
| 11:05 AM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: MacBook Air (2019) review: classic design works well and True Tone display looks great, but its CPU can struggle, keyboard is a worry, and USB-C can be a hassle |
| 10:55 AM • | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace Turo raises $250M Series E from IAC at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to nearly $450M |
| 10:40 AM • | CNBC: Microsoft says AT&T's 250,000 staffers will use Azure and the Office 365 suite in a non-exclusive deal; source says the multi-year deal is worth $2B+ |
| 10:25 AM • | Michael McWhertor / Polygon: Nintendo announces an updated Switch console which, it says, will last up to nine hours on a single charge; FCC filing suggests it has a new SoC and storage |
| 10:20 AM • | Dan Seifert / The Verge: MacBook Pro 13-inch (2019, two ports) review: great performance, display, and trackpad but keyboard reliability remains an issue and battery life is average |
| 10:05 AM • | Seth Colaner / VentureBeat: Ascend, which develops an autonomous dataflow service to reduce the effort required from data engineers, raises $19M Series A led by Accel |
| 9:35 AM • | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Researchers created an app that could withhold insulin or trigger a lethal overdose after Medtronic and the FDA delayed a replacement plan for flawed pumps |
| 9:15 AM • | Jessica Conditt / Engadget: Indies making single-play games focused on story worry about the rise of subscription models, which better suit longer, replayable games |
| 8:50 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Atlanta-based software company Ebix to acquire Indian online travel booking company Yatra through a merger deal valued at $337.8M |
| 8:30 AM • | Kevin Roose / New York Times: Reflecting on VidCon, it's clear that influencers' command of social media foreshadows future power in politics and elsewhere |
| 8:00 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: AlphaSense, an enterprise search engine for market analysis and business intelligence, raises $50M Series B led by Innovation Endeavors |
| 7:35 AM • | Alnoor Peermohamed / The Economic Times: Icertis, an enterprise contract management SaaS, raises $115M led by Greycroft and PremjiInvest at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $211M |
| 7:15 AM • | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: London-based ContractPodAi, which develops AI-powered contract lifecycle management software, raises $55M Series B led by Insight Partners |
| 7:05 AM • | European Commission: The European Commission launches a formal antitrust investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct by Amazon in its dual role as marketplace and retailer |
| 5:30 AM • | Reuters: Review of 33 high-profile blockchain projects within the financial sector and interviews with execs shows the limitations of blockchain and its weak adoption |
| 4:35 AM • | William J. Broad / New York Times: Unwarranted health fears about wireless tech can be traced to a scientist's flawed report in 2000 that failed to account for the shielding effect of human skin |
| 2:55 AM • | Reuters: Tencent-backed Chinese game focused live-streaming platform DouYu raises $775M at $3.73B valuation, after pricing its US IPO at the bottom of its marketed range |
| 2:10 AM • | John Markoff / New York Times: Neuralink, which has received $158M in funding including $100M from Elon Musk, hopes to begin testing its brain-computer interface on humans by Q2 of 2020 |
| 1:45 AM • | Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: Researchers shed light on how WeChat censors images in private chats automatically in real time by using a massive and growing index of MD5 cryptographic hashes |
| 12:05 AM • | Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: A look at privacy-focused DuckDuckGo, which has ~1% share of the search engine market but says it handles ~40M searches a day, up 3x over the past two years |
| 11:20 PM • | Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: Google has banned Chinese app developer CooTek from its ad platforms and Play Store, removing 60+ CooTek Android apps for bombarding users with disruptive ads |
| 9:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Highlights from the House's antitrust hearing, where Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook executives fought criticism that their companies dominate their markets |
| 8:55 PM • | Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: Chinese electric scooter maker Niu, a supplier to US ride-sharing service Revel, says it will transfer tariff costs to US clients as trade war continues |
| 7:50 PM • | BBC: Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, says all future releases of its 1,500 active US titles will be “digital first” and updated on an ongoing basis |
| 7:25 PM • | Joe Maring / Android Central: LG Pay, with both NFC and magnetic stripe terminal support, is now available in the US for the LG G8, will expand to other LG phones in the coming months |
| 6:30 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Google Maps will now show bike-sharing station information on Android and iOS in 23 new cities globally, more than a year after debuting the feature in NYC |
| 6:10 PM • | Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: Finix, a payments infrastructure platform that lets companies own and control their payment processing, raises $17.5M Series A led by Bain Capital |
| 5:55 PM • | Nitasha Tiku / Wired: Four of the seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company |
| 5:15 PM • | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: FCC authorizes funding for ISPs to provide broadband access for 220,000+ unserved rural homes and businesses in 24 states as part of the Connect America Fund |
| 4:20 PM • | Nour Al Ali / Bloomberg: London-based payments startup SumUp secures a $371M loan from Goldman, Bain Capital, and others to fuel an international expansion |
| 3:40 PM • | Palko Karasz / New York Times: EU's satellite navigation program, named Galileo and billed as a more reliable alternative to GPS, has mostly been down since last Thursday |
| 3:35 PM • | Angel Krasimirov / Reuters: Bulgaria says hackers stole millions of taxpayers' financial data in June; an expert says nearly all adult citizens' personal records may have been compromised |
| 3:10 PM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Apple says it is sending out another silent update for macOS to fix a webcam vulnerability affecting apps using Zoom's tech including RingCentral and Zhumu |
| 3:02 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to fund original, exclusive podcasts and has reached out to media companies, in a bid to compete with Spotify |
| 2:50 PM • | Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: Ukrainian hacker Mikhail Rytikov, sought by the US since 2013 for running a dark web network used by criminals at scale, arrested in Ukraine with US and UK help |
| 2:45 PM • | Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: Montréal-based startup Landr, which develops AI-powered audio mastering software, raises ~$20M Series B from Sony Innovation Fund, Warner Music, others |
| 2:25 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Sprint says hackers had access to customers' names, billing, device details, and more via Samsung's website, fails to disclose the number affected |
| 2:13 PM • | Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC: Swiss regulator that Facebook's David Marcus said would oversee privacy protections for Libra says it hasn't heard from those behind the proposed cryptocurrency |
| 1:30 PM • | VICE: Inside a lawsuit against Girls Do Porn, one of Pornhub's popular channels, which 22 women allege post videos without proper consent, leading to doxxing and more |
| 1:10 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Uber open sources Plato, a tool for developing and testing conversational AI across many deep learning frameworks including TensorFlow and PyTorch |
| 12:55 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Highlights from the Senate hearing with Facebook's David Marcus on the proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and what was left unanswered |
| 12:52 PM • | Kate McKenna / CBC News: Study of 3,800 young people over four years: high levels of social media usage showed an increase in depressive symptoms, while playing video games did not |
| 12:50 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Facebook makes its first changes to Workplace pricing, raising the premium tier by $1/person/month and introducing a new $8 Workplace Enterprise tier |
| 12:15 PM • | Alan Levin / Bloomberg: Alphabet's Wing launches OpenSky, an air traffic control app for drones, currently available for free in Australia, joining a crowded field |
| 12:10 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Arm launches Flexible Access, a new licensing option that makes it easier for startups to access a range of Arm's IP without any upfront licensing costs |
| 11:55 AM • | Tony Romm / Washington Post: Trump threatens to “take a look” at Google for alleged China ties, in a tweet that cited claims Peter Thiel made at a conference and repeated on Fox News |
| 10:45 AM • | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Newsletter platform Substack raises $15.3M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, says Substack newsletters now have 50,000 paying subscribers |
| 10:16 AM • | C-SPAN.org: Livestream of Facebook's David Marcus testifying before the US Senate on the Libra cryptocurrency |
| 9:45 AM • | Eric Peckham / TechCrunch: Patreon, which helps content creators manage paid membership communities for fans, raises $60M Series D led by Glade Brook Capital |
| 9:30 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Flybits, which develops personalized recommendations for customers of financial institutions, raises $35M Series C led by Point72 Ventures |
| 9:25 AM • | Aoife White / Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon faces a full-blown EU antitrust probe within days; Qualcomm could face a second hefty EU penalty as soon as next week for underpricing chips |
| 8:45 AM • | Press Association: Facebook introduces a scam ads reporting tool in the UK and donates £3M to Citizens Advice for Scams Action, a dedicated online anti-scam service |
| 8:20 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Near, an AI-based platform that merges online and offline behavior to build anonymized user profiles, raises $100M Series C from Great Pacific Capital |
| 7:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over its military and AI work, and sexual harassment policies, is leaving the company |
| 7:15 AM • | Robert Lee Hotz / Wall Street Journal: A look at the Apollo 11's guidance computer, the first digital general-purpose, multitasking, interactive portable computer, with about 145K lines of code |
| 6:20 AM • | Austin Carr / Bloomberg: Disney's theme parks have not faced the same level of scrutiny as tech companies over their data mining because the parks are real-world walled gardens |
| 2:00 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Intel says Pohoiki Beach, its neuromorphic computing system with 64 Loihi chips, has the computing power of 8M neurons and will be available to select partners |
| 10:35 PM • | Robert Langreth / Bloomberg: AI-based drug discovery company Recursion raises $121M at a $646M valuation; VCs invested about $1B in AI drug discovery startups in 2018, up from $237M in 2016 |
| 8:40 PM • | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: Curve, a London-based mobile banking platform that consolidates all of a user's bank cards into a single card and app, raises $55M Series B at a $250M valuation |
| 7:45 PM • | CNN: Documents describe how WikiLeaks' Assange used London's Ecuadorian Embassy as a command center to orchestrate disclosures during the 2016 presidential election |
| 7:35 PM • | Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: Feeling unwelcome to share opinions within Google, its conservative staffers have leaked internal info to generate pressure on Google from Republican lawmakers |
| 7:25 PM • | Nick Heath / ZDNet: Microsoft has blocked the Windows 10 May 2019 update for the Surface Book 2 after reports that updated machines weren't always detecting the Nvidia GPU |
| 6:55 PM • | Brian Dowling / Xconomy: Lendbuzz, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to underwrite auto loans, raises $130M in debt funding and $20M in new equity funding led by 83North |
| 6:40 PM • | Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: Researcher: software from RingCentral and Zhumu, which license Zoom's tech, is affected by the same flaw in Zoom that could give attackers access to Mac cameras |
| 6:05 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: In the next Windows 10 update, expected to arrive in September, Microsoft will allow voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa to activate on the lock screen |
| 5:40 PM • | Corbin Davenport / Android Police: Google says it will shut down AdSense's iOS and Android apps by the end of 2019 to focus instead on its mobile web interface |
| 5:25 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Dish's AirTV launches $80 4K streaming stick for accessing Sling TV, Netflix, and broadcast channels from one Android TV user interface |
| 5:00 PM • | Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: Drivers from the I'm Independent Coalition, which works with Uber and Lyft, were paid $25-$100 to protest a bill that would give them some employee protections |
| 4:35 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook has hired former Vine GM Jason Toff to join the newly formed experimental app division, NPE Team, as a Product Management Director |
| 4:15 PM • | Bloomberg: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he has serious concerns about Facebook's Libra, joining Trump and other officials including the Federal Reserve chairman |
| 3:40 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Blackstone is acquiring mobile ad company Vungle, which says it's being used in 60,000 apps and serves 4B+ video views/month, for $750M, according to sources |
| 2:50 PM • | Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: Workers detail how Instacart punishes them if they don't accept low-paying, undesirable tasks they otherwise might reject |
| 2:05 PM • | Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: While Twitter recently said it would add a notice for tweets from politicians that break its guidelines, it didn't flag Trump's racist tweets over the weekend |
| 1:40 PM • | Bloomberg: How YouTube trampled dozens of companies as it grew over the years, from ad brokers like AppNexus to content networks like Vevo and Machinima |
| 1:20 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter says its redesigned desktop website with simplified navigation, which has been in testing since early this year, is rolling out globally starting today |
| 12:55 PM • | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Report: the SSD in the refreshed MacBook Air is ~35% slower compared to the 2018 model, which was $100 more expensive |
| 12:30 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: David Marcus releases prepared testimony for his senate hearing today, saying Libra will be regulated by the Swiss but comply with US anti-laundering laws |
| 11:45 AM • | Washington Post: Privacy advocates and lawmakers say Apple is an ally in name only on tightening privacy laws; in some cases Apple backs lobbying efforts against regulation |
| 10:55 AM • | Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNN: Uber releases its third annual global diversity report, ties some diversity goals for 2022 to the compensation of senior executives for the first time |
| 10:15 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: DefenseStorm, a cybersecurity and compliance management startup focused on clients in banking and financial services, raises $15M Series A |
| 10:06 AM • | Thomas Franck / CNBC: Sources: Symantec and Broadcom have ceased acquisition negotiations as Symantec would not accept less than $28 a share; Symantec stock is down 10%+ after hours |
| 9:40 AM • | Writankar Mukherjee / The Economic Times: Sources: as part of a new strategy to drive value in India instead of volume, Apple stopped selling the iPhone SE, 6, 6 Plus, and 6s Plus in the country |
| 9:30 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Amperity, which offers AI-based customer data management tools, raises $50M Series C led by Tiger Global Management, bringing its total raised to $87M+ |
| 9:15 AM • | Jon Fingas / Engadget: Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855 Plus, which runs the CPU at up to 2.96GHz instead of the earlier 2.84GHz and also delivers a 15% graphics speed boost |
| 8:55 AM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Cambridge, UK-based Paragraf, which manufactures graphene-based electronic products, raises £12.8M Series A led by early-stage VC Parkwalk |
| 8:25 AM • | Paul Sullivan / New York Times: How a tax loophole lets tech workers and investors who obtained stock while a company was valued under $50M make millions on stock gains tax-free |
| 7:45 AM • | Dan Strumpf / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Huawei plans hundreds of layoffs at Futurewei Technologies, its US R&D subsidiary, which employs about 850 people in research labs across the US |
| 7:10 AM • | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: Anvyl, which sets up cameras and sensors in factories to let brands see their product being built and help optimize their supply chains, raises $9.3M Series A |
| 6:40 AM • | Keiko Morris / Wall Street Journal: Despite Amazon's NYC HQ2 retreat, tech giants like Google, Facebook, and even Amazon still seek to rent millions of square feet and employ thousands in New York |
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