| 12:20 PM • | Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: Coinbase report: in H1 2021, the market for ether was 3x busier than bitcoin, as ETH trading grew 1,461% to $1.4T, compared to BTC's 489% rise to $2.1T |
| 11:40 AM • | Roland Kelts / Rest of World: A look at VTubers, virtual anime-like avatar YouTube channels driven by anonymous Japanese users that are now mainstream, surpassing 1.5B+ views/month in Q4'20 |
| 11:20 AM • | Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google says its upcoming Play Store safety listings, similar to Apple's app nutrition labels, will feature info on app data collection, encryption, and more |
| 11:15 AM • | Leah Nylen / Politico: In a court filing, AGs from 45 states, DC, and Guam say they will appeal the dismissal of their Facebook antitrust case |
| 11:05 AM • | Jon Porter / The Verge: Twitter says it is testing Shop Module, a new shopping section that brands can add to the top of their profiles, launching in the US today on iOS |
| 11:00 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Sony says it has now sold over 10M PS5 consoles, up from the 7.8M announced in April, making it the fastest-selling PlayStation ever |
| 10:50 AM • | Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: SonderMind, a marketplace to find mental health services, raises $150M co-led by Drive Capital and Premji Invest, sources say at a $1.1B valuation |
| 10:45 AM • | Reuters: After Twitter's refusal to block content related to farmer protests, some Indian government ministers and departments are shifting to home-grown rival Koo |
| 10:35 AM • | Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: Delhi's high court says statements by Twitter “clearly show total non-compliance” with IT rules, which include appointing a liaison, giving it a week to comply |
| 10:30 AM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: Apple has sent a cease and desist letter to at least one Chinese citizen who advertised stolen prototypes of old iPhone models on social media |
| 10:25 AM • | Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: Lithic, previously Privacy.com, which offers APIs to help businesses issue virtual credit cards, raises $60M, sources say at an $800M valuation |
| 10:20 AM • | Alex Heath / The Verge: Snap says Snap Map will now include recommendations for places to visit based on location, friend activity, and previous favorites |
| 10:10 AM • | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: CISA and FBI, UK's NCSC, and Australia's ACSC issue a joint advisory detailing the most exploited vulnerabilities in 2020 and 2021 |
| 9:40 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Brain Technologies raises $50M+ and launches Natural, a natural language search engine app for iOS in the US |
| 9:25 AM • | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Code and animation files in iOS 15 beta 4 show the process for validating ID cards in the Wallet app will likely include a verification system with selfies |
| 9:15 AM • | Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: Biden instructs federal agencies to develop voluntary cybersecurity goals for companies operating critical infrastructure, as officials consider mandatory rules |
| 9:10 AM • | Nikkei Asia: TSMC receives final approval for a 2nm chip plant in Taiwan; sources say construction will begin in 2022 and equipment will be installed in 2023 |
| 8:50 AM • | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Danish startup Dixa, which helps companies manage customer relations via messaging, email, and voice, raises $105M Series C led by General Atlantic |
| 8:45 AM • | Danielle Bochove / Bloomberg: Shopify beats Q2 expectations with $1.12B revenue, up 57% YoY and surpassing $1B for the first time; gross merchandise volume was up 40% YoY to $42.2B |
| 8:35 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: LogicGate, which helps automate corporate governance, risk, and compliance processes, raises $113M Series C, bringing its total raised to $156M |
| 8:25 AM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Algolia, which provides APIs for developers to integrate real-time search into websites and apps, raises $150M Series D at a $2.25B valuation |
| 8:00 AM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple's Q3 revenue for Wearables, Home, and Accessories category, which includes Watch and AirPods, was $8.8B, up 36% YoY; nearly 75% of Watch buyers were new |
| 7:35 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Critics say Facebook has compromised on its community standards to access commercial opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, home to ~1.2B Facebook MAUs |
| 7:20 AM • | Bloomberg: PowerSchool, which develops software used by 70% of K-12 students in the US and Canada, raises $711M in its IPO, selling shares at $18, valuing it at $3.5B |
| 7:15 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Remote IT monitoring and management service Atera raises $77M Series B led by General Atlantic |
| 7:10 AM • | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Contentful, which offers APIs to let companies manage content, raises $175M Series F led by Tiger Global at a ~$3B valuation, after a $80M Series E in June 2020 |
| 7:00 AM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: Creators of PunkSpider say they're relaunching their search engine for hackable sites at Defcon next week to spur web admins to fix thousands of unpatched bugs |
| 6:55 AM • | Bloomberg: Duolingo raises $521M in its IPO after pricing shares at $102, valuing the company at $3.66B |
| 6:50 AM • | Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: Class, a virtual classroom that integrates exclusively with Zoom, raises $105M led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 at a $804M post-money valuation |
| 6:45 AM • | Bloomberg: China orders Tencent and 13 other developers to rectify problems with “harassing” pop-ups in apps, often used for ads, giving them until August 3 |
| 6:40 AM • | Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: Google announces a new bug bounty program, called Bug Hunter University, and says the existing program found 11,055 bugs from 2,022 researchers, paying ~$30M |
| 6:30 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Spotify Q2: revenue of €2.3B, up 23% YoY, ad revenue up 110% YoY to €275M; paying subscribers reached 165M, up 20% YoY, total MAUs reached 365M; stock down 6%+ |
| 6:20 AM • | Bloomberg: Insiders suggest China's internet companies, which have long emulated SV's founder-driven model, will align more with China's leadership after tech crackdown |
| 6:05 AM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Brazil-based Pipo Saude, which sells and manages healthcare benefits for other companies, raises $20M Series A led by Thrive Capital |
| 5:50 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Treeverse, which develops an open source Git-like service for data lakes, raises $23M Series A from Dell Technologies Capital and others |
| 5:40 AM • | Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Berlin-based consumer electronics rental service Grover raises $1B in asset-backed financing and a $29M extension of its Series B from Fasanara Capital |
| 5:35 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Indian business messaging service Gupshup raises an additional $240M as part of its Series F, led by Fidelity Management, Tiger Global, and others |
| 5:30 AM • | Krithika Varagur / Wall Street Journal: A look at the role of social media manager, which has evolved from a position commonly filled by millennial interns into a more professionalized discipline |
| 5:15 AM • | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: IBM report: in 2021, the average data breach costs companies $4.24M to remedy, up 10% YoY; “mega” breaches involving 50M+ consumer records can cost $401M |
| 3:15 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: InVia Robotics, which offers robotics as a service for warehouse automation, raises $30M Series C led by Microsoft's M12 Ventures and Qualcomm |
| 3:05 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Droom, an online marketplace for used cars and motorbikes in India, raises $200M in a pre-IPO growth round, at a $1.2B valuation, up from $500M in 2018 |
| 2:25 AM • | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: Report: malware developers are increasingly writing malicious code in “exotic” programming languages like Golang to hamper analysis efforts and evade detection |
| 12:20 AM • | Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: A Harvard biostatistician is reconsidering plans to use Apple Watch as part of a study after finding inconsistencies in heart rate variability data collected |
| 11:30 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Orum, whose AI-powered tech helps sales representatives automate outbound calling workflows, raises $25M Series A led by Craft Ventures at a $125M valuation |
| 11:20 PM • | Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: Eco, a personal finance app and digital wallet, raises $60M in funding led by Activant Capital and L Catterton, after raising $26M in March |
| 10:45 PM • | Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Kili Technology, which helps companies transform raw data into high-quality annotated data for AI training, raises $25M Series A led by Balderton Capital |
| 10:00 PM • | Kate Kaye / Digiday: In letters to companies, CA AG says data sharing via analytics trackers, like cookies, for ad and analytics purposes fits CCPA's definition of a data “sale” |
| 9:20 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: LinkedIn posted Q4 revenue of ~$3B, passing the $10B mark in annual revenue for the first time since Microsoft acquisition; Q4 ad revenue was up 97% to $1B+ |
| 8:55 PM • | Andrés Engler / CoinDesk: Valora, a mobile-first digital crypto wallet built on the open source blockchain network Celo, raises $20M Series A led by a16z |
| 8:40 PM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: Apple warns that supply constraints due to “legacy node” chip production will be worse in Q4 than in Q3 and will likely affect sales of the iPhone and iPad |
| 8:15 PM • | Thomas Wilde / GeekWire: Microsoft's overall gaming revenue rose to $3.7B in Q4, up 11% YoY, with hardware revenue up 172% YoY, but Xbox content and services down 4% YoY |
| 7:45 PM • | The Guardian: Facebook will restrict how advertisers can target users under 18 across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, only allowing age, gender, and location targeting |
| 7:40 PM • | Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: Microsoft's overall gaming revenue rose 11% YoY in Q4, with hardware revenue up 172% YoY, but Xbox content and services dipped 4% YoY |
| 6:55 PM • | Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: Mac and iPad sales break quarterly records in Q3, with Mac revenue of $8.2B, up 16% YoY, and iPad revenue of $7.4B, up 12% YoY |
| 6:10 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube reports $7B in Q2 ad revenue, up 84% YoY from $3.81B, and says its Shorts feature now has 15B global daily views, up from 6.5B in March |
| 5:55 PM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: Apple's greater China sales in Q3 were up 58% YoY to $14.76B, Americas grew 33% to $39.57B, paid Services subscribers grew to 700M, up 150M YoY |
| 5:40 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter hires the team that built Brief, a subscription-based news summary app founded by former Google employees; the app will wind down July 31 |
| 4:55 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Global chip shortage dampens Microsoft's Q4 Surface revenue, down 20% YoY, and Windows OEM revenue, down 3% YoY |
| 4:50 PM • | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: AMD Q2: revenue of $3.85B, up 99% YoY, Computing and Graphics revenue of $2.25B, up 65% YoY, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue of $1.6B, up 183% YoY |
| 4:32 PM • | Apple: Apple reports Q3 revenue of $81.4B, up 36% YoY, net income of $21.7B, up from $11.2B YoY, Services sales of $17.4B, up from $13.2B YoY, iPhone sales of $39.6B |
| 4:16 PM • | Alphabet - Investor Relations: Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $61.88B, up 62% YoY, operating income of $19.36B, up 31% YoY, Google Cloud operating loss down to $591M; stock up 3%+ |
| 4:08 PM • | Microsoft - Investor Relations: Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $46.2B, net income up 47% YoY to $16.5B, commercial cloud revenue up 36% YoY to $19.5B, LinkedIn revenue up 46% YoY |
| 4:05 PM • | Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: In the new iPadOS 15 beta, Apple makes its controversial Safari redesign optional, letting users choose a more conventional tab layout in settings |
| 4:00 PM • | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Instagram now supports 60-second videos on Reels, up from 30 seconds, to better rival TikTok, which recently let creators upload videos up to three minutes long |
| 3:46 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: TikTok expands LIVE platform with new features, including events, co-hosts, Q&As, moderation tools, and more, to make it more competitive with Instagram Live |
| 3:35 PM • | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Activision Blizzard staff are staging a walk out today, demanding fairer treatment for underrepresented staff and ending arbitration clauses in staff contracts |
| 3:10 PM • | Janelle Lawrence / Bloomberg: eBay's ex-senior global security manager, the first of five former staffers convicted in a cyberstalking campaign against eBay critics, gets 18 months in prison |
| 2:45 PM • | Eshe Nelson / New York Times: A look at the rise of ultra-fast grocery delivery startups, some with a goal of 10-minute deliveries, across major cities, led by Turkish startup Getir |
| 2:20 PM • | Rachel Premack / Insider: Workers at CSAT Solutions, a Texas company that handles many of Apple's laptop repairs, call their workplace a “sweatshop” with broken AC and 13-hour shifts |
| 2:10 PM • | Washington Post: Survey of 20,699 Americans: those who rely on Facebook for COVID-related news are less likely to get vaccinated than average and less likely than Fox viewers |
| 1:55 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: GitHub partners with Stanford Law School to offer legal counsel to developers facing DMCA takedown requests; the advice is free for “valid” takedown claims |
| 1:10 PM • | Thomas Claburn / The Register: Following appliance energy efficiency laws in CA, CO, HI, OR, VT, and WA, Dell has stopped shipping select power-hungry PCs in those markets |
| 12:50 PM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Google launches Google Cloud Retail Search, a managed service giving retailers a custom version of Google Search that integrates into their apps and websites |
| 12:30 PM • | Maurice Klaehne / Counterpoint Research: US smartphone market sales grew 27% YoY in H1 2021 despite component shortages; OnePlus rose by 428% YoY, Motorola by 83%, Apple by 53%, as Google dropped 7% |
| 12:25 PM • | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Blameless, a site reliability engineering service, raises $30M Series B led by Third Point Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $50M |
| 11:51 AM • | Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: Facebook is recalling ~4M foam rims for Oculus Quest 2, after reports of irritation; Quest 2 goes on sale again Aug. 24 with improved 128GB base storage |
| 11:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Pendo, which helps businesses gather behavioral analytics on how customers use their apps, raises $150M led by B Capital at a $2.6B valuation and eyes an IPO |
| 11:25 AM • | Arielle Pardes / Wired: SensorTower: Clubhouse had 484K global installs from July 21 to 25, up 17% from the previous five days, after moving from invite-only to general availability |
| 11:20 AM • | Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Discord debuts threaded conversations, which auto-archive after 24 hours of inactivity and will roll out by Aug. 17, and a premium feature for private threads |
| 10:50 AM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Cyber insurance startup At-Bay raises $185M Series D led by Icon Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $1.35B valuation, amid the global ransomware boom |
| 10:40 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Blaize, which custom-designs AI edge chips with a new graph streaming architecture, raises $71M Series D, bringing its total raised to $155M |
| 10:25 AM • | Jon Porter / The Verge: Nothing, launched by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, announces $99 Ear (1) wireless earbuds, available August 17 with gesture controls, ANC, and more |
| 10:15 AM • | Dawn Lim / Wall Street Journal: iCapital Network, which makes tools to help financial advisers invest client money in PE, raises $440M at a ~$4B valuation |
| 10:05 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: DataRobot, which helps companies train and deploy ML models, acquires MLOps startup Algorithmia and raises $300M Series G at a $6.3B post-money valuation |
| 10:00 AM • | Jane Lee / Reuters: New York-based Bubble, which offers no-code tools to build web apps, raises $100M led by Insight Partners and says it has over 1M users globally |
| 9:55 AM • | Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal: PsiQuantum, which aims to build a commercial quantum computing machine with 1M qubits, raises $450M Series D at $3.15B valuation, bringing total raised to $665M |
| 9:25 AM • | Ashley Carman / The Verge: Pinterest announces monetization tools for creators, including tagging products in Idea Pins to earn commissions, available to US and UK business accounts |
| 9:20 AM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Fireblocks, which lets users store, transfer, and issue digital assets, raises $310M Series D led by Sequoia, Stripes, and Spark at a $2.2B valuation |
| 9:15 AM • | Olivia Solon / NBC News: Instagram announces changes for teen accounts, including making them private by default and restricting messages from “suspicious” adults |
| 9:00 AM • | Lauren Sommer / NPR: A look at the risks posed by rising sea water levels at Facebook, Google, and other Silicon Valley campuses and questions over who pays to protect them |
| 8:20 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Wiliot, which is developing IoT chips powered by ambient radio frequencies, raises $200M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 as it plans an SaaS pivot |
| 7:55 AM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: In its Q2 earnings report, Tesla says it suffered $23M in bitcoin-related impairments, after bitcoin dropped from $63K in April to under $40K now |
| 7:45 AM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Covariant, which builds AI-powered industrial robots, raises $80M Series C led by Index Ventures, following a $40M Series B in May 2020 |
| 7:40 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: According to code found in the Oculus iPhone app, Facebook is exploring letting users synchronize Oculus workout data with Apple Health |
| 7:33 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: 1Password raises $100M led by Accel at a $2B valuation, after raising $200M in 2019, and says it now has 90,000 business customers |
| 7:20 AM • | Bloomberg: South Africa's state-owned port and rail company Transnet says a cyberattack five days ago continues to cause disruption at Cape Town and other major ports |
| 7:15 AM • | Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Cryptocurrency exchanges Huobi and OKCoin are closing their subsidiaries in Beijing, as China expands its crackdown; shares of Huobi's parent drop ~22% |
| 6:35 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Sedna, a service that analyzes emails and chats to perform actions mentioned within them, raises $34M Series B led by Insight Partners |
| 6:25 AM • | Reuters: Tencent says it is temporarily suspending WeChat user registrations in China as it upgrades its systems to comply with new security regulations |
| 6:20 AM • | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Indonesia-based grocery delivery app HappyFresh raises $65M Series D led by Naver Financial Corporation and Gafina B.V. |
| 6:00 AM • | Todd Shields / Bloomberg: FCC challenges a bid won by SpaceX for $886M in rural broadband subsidies, concerned some of the spending may be wasteful, duplicative, or headed for other uses |
| 5:50 AM • | Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: South Africa-based Yoco, which offers offline and online payment solutions for SMEs, raises $83M Series C led by Dragoneer, bringing total raised to $107M |
| 5:40 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Element, a messaging app built on top of decentralized protocol Matrix, raises $30M Series B from Protocol Labs and others, bringing total raised to $48M |
| 5:35 AM • | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Germany-based Aleph Alpha, which aims to build AI models for text and vision like GPT-3, raises $27M Series A co-led by Earlybird VC, Lakestar, and UVC Partners |
| 1:55 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: ActiveFence, whose tech proactively detects disinformation and other malicious content, raises $100M in a combined Series A and Series B |
| 11:45 PM • | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Nium, a Singapore-based B2B payments company, raises $200M Series D at a $1B+ valuation led by Riverwood Capital, with Temasek, Visa, and others participating |
| 10:00 PM • | The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare announces Project Pangea, an initiative to offer its suite of network services to local underserved communities for free |
| 8:05 PM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Samsung confirms it won't launch a new Galaxy Note at its Unpacked event on Aug. 11, instead focusing on new Galaxy Z phones and an S Pen designed for foldables |
| 7:20 PM • | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: About 1,000 current and former Activision Blizzard employees say the company's response to its recent lawsuit is “insulting”, in a letter to leadership |
| 6:10 PM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Intel says its Foundry Services will build chips for Qualcomm and AWS and lays out a roadmap to catch up with TSMC and Samsung by 2025 |
| 5:15 PM • | Janko Roettgers / Protocol: Facebook announces a new Metaverse product group, with plans to hire hundreds of staff, led by Instagram VP Vishal Shah, reporting to VR/AR VP Andrew Bosworth |
| 5:00 PM • | Tom Krazit / Protocol: Google issues a new Enterprise APIs policy, promising that APIs will remain available far into the future, aiming to move past a reputation for killing services |
| 3:50 PM • | Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: Teamflow, which provides 2D virtual offices to promote informal collaboration among remote staff, raises $35M Series B at a $225M valuation led by Coatue |
| 3:30 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: Apple updates iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day flaw that was reportedly actively exploited, making it the 13th zero-day Apple has patched this year |
| 2:15 PM • | Nico Grant / Bloomberg: Profile of Google Cloud boss Thomas Kurian, an Oracle veteran who oversees 37,000 employees and has focused on improving Google's sales teams |
| 1:15 PM • | Reuters: Medallia, which offers customer experience management tools, says PE firm Thoma Bravo will take the company private for $6.4B, after going public in 2019 |
| 1:10 PM • | Todd Feathers / VICE: A look at ShotSpotter, which uses sensors to “detect gunshots”, as court filings suggest it frequently alters evidence at the request of police departments |
| 1:00 PM • | Bloomberg: The Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the 30 biggest Hong Kong-listed tech companies, including Tencent and Alibaba, is down $551B+ since its February peak |
| 12:05 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Solarisbank raises $224M at a $1.65B valuation to acquire rival banking-as-a-service company Contis and expand its API-based embedded banking tech in Europe |
| 11:25 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Box rolls out Box Sign, which lets users electronically sign contracts and request signatures, following its $55M acquisition of SignRequest earlier this year |
| 10:45 AM • | Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: Q&A with Erin Saltman of Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, backed by Facebook and others, on redefining extremism, working with members, and more |
| 10:30 AM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU gives Google two months to improve the way it presents search results for flights and hotels, and explain how it ranks such results, or face sanctions |
| 10:05 AM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Spotify adds a What's New feed on iOS and Android, showing continually updating new releases from followed artists, rolling out over the coming weeks |
| 9:50 AM • | Erin Woo / New York Times: QR codes, which took off in the US amid the pandemic in restaurants and retail, are here to stay, adding convenience but also privacy concerns |
| 9:37 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: DOJ is probing whether Tether execs committed bank fraud in its early stages; Tethers in circulation are worth ~$62B, underpin >50% of bitcoin trades |
| 9:10 AM • | Shannon Liao / Washington Post: A look at the Intel World Open esports competition at the Tokyo Olympics, which took place entirely online, outside of the official games, and was laggy |
| 8:40 AM • | Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, YouTube, and others will now add content from white supremacist and far-right militias to a key counterterrorism database |
| 8:30 AM • | Theo Wayt / New York Post: Now-deleted job listings suggest Citizen is paying people in NYC and LA up to $250 per 10-hour shift to livestream crime scenes and other emergencies |
| 8:15 AM • | John Newman / ProMarket: A look at some of the metrics that FTC can use to define Facebook's alleged monopoly in its refiled antitrust suit, including time on-site and “active users” |
| 7:55 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Indonesia's GoTo, created by the Gojek and PT Tokopedia merger, is in talks to raise $1B-$2B at a $25B-$30B valuation, as it plans an IPO |
| 7:50 AM • | Financial Times: As China cracks down, SoftBank's Vision Fund has lost $4B on its Didi investment, as its 20.1% stake bought for $11.8B in 2019 is now worth $7.8B |
| 7:40 AM • | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: FTC asks a federal judge for an extension until August 19 to file an updated antitrust suit against Facebook and says Facebook has agreed to the proposal |
| 7:30 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Byju's says it will acquire Singapore-based professional training and higher education service Great Learning for $600M in cash and stock |
| 7:25 AM • | New York Times: FTX and Binance will curb highly leveraged cryptocurrency trading, a practice that can vastly multiply losses; FTX offered 101x leverage, now down to 20x |
| 7:20 AM • | Financial Times: China's edtech overhaul could eliminate foreign investors from the sector and wipe out billions invested by Sequoia, Tiger, Tencent, and SoftBank's Vision Fund |
| 7:10 AM • | Elizabeth Dias / New York Times: As part of its expanded outreach to US churches, Facebook is offering subscription tools for exclusive content and donation tools during live streams |
| 7:05 AM • | Bloomberg: China issues regulations for food delivery platforms, mandating minimum wage, respect for worker rights, and more, leading to Meituan shares dropping by 14%+ |
| 6:25 AM • | Roger McNamee / Wired: Biden has to play hardball with platforms like Facebook that amplify disinformation in order to prioritize Americans' wellbeing over Big Tech's whims |
| 5:20 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Ex-Google employee recounts how Google abandoned a redesign attempt of Chrome on Android, which was similar to iOS 15's Safari, with the URL bar at the bottom |
| 1:40 AM • | Max Fisher / New York Times: Analysts and US officials say the disinformation-for-hire industry is booming, as influencers get approached by back-alley firms to spread falsehoods |
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