| 9:20 PM • | Karissa Bell / Engadget: Facebook says, as part of its recent crackdown on QAnon and “militia” movements, it has removed 6,500 groups belonging to 300 organizations |
| 8:10 PM • | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook says it will ban Facebook and Instagram ads that seek to delegitimize the outcome of an election, including calling specific voting methods fraudulent |
| 8:00 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google introduces a new Android feature called Hold for Me, which uses Assistant to monitor held phone calls and notify the user when taken off hold |
| 7:15 PM • | Jeff Benson / Decrypt: US judge rules that Kik violated securities law in its $100M ICO from 2017, grants the SEC's motion for summary judgment against Kik |
| 6:25 PM • | Te-Ping Chen / Wall Street Journal: Women founders of AI startups talk about gender disparity in tech, how they are trying to build diverse workplaces, and addressing potential biases in AI |
| 5:15 PM • | MarketWatch: Asana, Palantir debut up more than 30%, well above reference prices in dual direct listings |
| 4:10 PM • | NBC News: Interviews with 40 Amazon employees and government documents: Amazon's COVID-19 response lacks oversight and transparency with inadequate worker safety policies |
| 3:10 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Google is rolling out an updated Google Photos editor on Android with a Suggestions tab, recommending edits like Color Pop and Enhance |
| 2:58 PM • | Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: Golden, which aims to map all human knowledge using AI alongside humans to collect public information, raises $14.5M Series A led by a16z |
| 2:55 PM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Google's Chromecast with Google TV won't support Stadia, its game streaming service, or Apple TV+ at launch; Stadia support will arrive in first half of 2021 |
| 2:50 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Papaya Global, which offers cloud-based payroll and HR services, raises $40M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, following $45M Series A in 2019 |
| 2:45 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Google Chromecast (2020) review: excellent value for a 4K device and Google TV is great, but performance sometimes dips and home screen isn't customizable |
| 2:32 PM • | Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: Google unveils Pixel 5 with a 6-inch 90Hz OLED display, ultrawide rear-facing camera instead of zoom lens, 5G, 8GB RAM, and fingerprint sensor on back for $699 |
| 2:24 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Google announces Chromecast with Google TV streaming dongle and remote, available in the US today for $50 |
| 2:18 PM • | Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google announces Nest Audio, a revamp to its discontinued Google Home speaker, available today for $99 |
| 2:16 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Google announces a new Google TV service that brings streaming apps, a unified search, and live TV, through YouTube TV, into a single interface |
| 2:14 PM • | Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: Google unveils Pixel 4a 5G with a 6.2" display, 6GB of RAM, 128GB storage, Qualcomm's 765G chipset, and 18W USB-C fast charging for $499 |
| 2:00 PM • | The Verge: Live blog of Google's Pixel event, where Pixel 5 and 4a 4G, Chomecast, and Nest speaker are expected |
| 1:59 PM • | YouTube: Livestream of Google's Launch Night In event |
| 1:50 PM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Palantir closed at $9.50 following its direct listing on the NYSE, after opening at $10, giving it a market cap of roughly $20.9B |
| 1:45 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Twilio debuts an app for frontline workers, a free 1:1 video connection toolkit called Twilio Video WebRTC Go, and an IoT service to help keep devices updated |
| 1:25 PM • | Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: Asana stock closed up 6.7% at $28.80, after opening at $27/share on NYSE, valuing the company at about $5.5B |
| 1:20 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: VTEX, which offers e-commerce tools for giant companies like Walmart, Coca-Cola, and Nestlé, raises $225M at a $1.7B post-money valuation |
| 1:10 PM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: Brian Armstrong's apolitical goal for Coinbase is wishful thinking, limiting its politics to what he deems acceptable during a time of strife in America |
| 12:45 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: GitHub begins rolling out its code-scanning tool, designed to help identify vulnerabilities before public deployment |
| 12:40 PM • | Rich Woods / Neowin: Microsoft says Windows 10 on ARM will get support for x64 emulation, letting users run 64-bit Intel apps, later this year |
| 12:30 PM • | Sharon Weinberger / New York Magazine: Former US military and intel officials express concerns about Palantir, arguing its success is largely down to its software having a friendlier UI than rivals |
| 12:15 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitch launches Soundtrack by Twitch, which lets creators add licensed music to streams from an initial lineup of partners including SoundCloud |
| 11:55 AM • | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google says merchants globally can list items on Google Shopping for free starting in mid-October, after bringing free listings to US merchants in April |
| 11:40 AM • | Nikkei Asian Review: Sources: Google is planning to produce as little as ~800,000 Pixel 5 handsets, taking total production of Pixel 4a, 4a 5G, and 5 to 3M units |
| 11:30 AM • | Chris Stokel-Walker / Bloomberg: Internal TikTok presentation: 17M Britons spend over an hour on the app daily, while France has 11M DAUs, Germany has 10.7M, Spain has 8.8M, and Norway has 1.2M |
| 11:25 AM • | Amy Martyn / OneZero : Bird's Fleet Manager program, effectively a franchise model, has saddled some contract workers with debt on scooters they do not own amid the pandemic downturn |
| 11:00 AM • | Bloomberg: With just an estimated 1.4M users in Africa, Netflix is testing cheaper, mobile-only subscriptions and commissioning local shows to attract new subscribers |
| 10:50 AM • | Max Weinbach / Android Police: Xiaomi announces a range of new flagship devices: €499 Mi 10T, €599 Mi 10T Pro, and €279 Mi 10T Lite, all with 6.67-inch displays, and €99 Mi Watch |
| 10:20 AM • | Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: Internal docs: EU may ban big tech companies from preferencing their own services or exclusively pre-installing their own apps as part of Digital Services Act |
| 9:45 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Homer, which builds educational apps for kids between the ages of two and eight, raises $50M Series C from LEGO Ventures, Sesame Workshop, and others |
| 9:30 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Coralogix, which analyzes software logs with AI, raises $25M, bringing its total raised to $41.2M, and launches a real-time analytics feature |
| 9:15 AM • | Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese data center operator Chindata, which is backed by private equity firm Bain Capital, has raised $540M in its US IPO |
| 9:00 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitter says it is expanding voice tweets to more iOS users and plans to add transcriptions to voice tweets to improve accessibility |
| 8:25 AM • | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: A look at how Facebook is weaving Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp together even as it comes under increasing scrutiny from watchdogs and regulators |
| 8:10 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook unveils cross-app communication between Messenger and Instagram, which works even for users without accounts on the other service, rolling out now |
| 7:30 AM • | Samidha Sharma / The Economic Times: India-based news aggregator Inshorts raises $35M led by Lee Fixel's Addition to promote Public, its new location-based social network |
| 7:05 AM • | Reuters: Sources: China is considering an antitrust probe into Google, after allegations by Huawei that Google leveraged the dominance of Android to stifle competition |
| 6:30 AM • | Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: Some Black restaurant owners say initiatives announced by delivery apps, like Uber Eats and DoorDash, to support Black-owned businesses have fallen short |
| 5:30 AM • | Christopher Harland-Dunaway / The Verge: Profile of Tron founder and BitTorrent CEO Justin Sun, whose controversial reputation is built on a non-traditional leadership style and marketing stunts |
| 4:30 AM • | Shakeel Hashim / Protocol: Q&A with Etsy CTO Mike Fisher on moving Etsy's infrastructure to Google Cloud, handling a huge spike in demand during the pandemic, improving search, and more |
| 2:55 AM • | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Baidu's Smart Living Group division, which focuses on voice assistants and smart devices, raises an undisclosed sum at a $2.9B valuation |
| 2:40 AM • | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Taipei-based travel startup KKday raises $75M Series C, says a pivot to domestic package tours has helped after sales plunged 90% in March |
| 2:25 AM • | DataBreaches.net: Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian national convicted by a San Francisco federal jury in July for hacking LinkedIn and Dropbox in 2012, sentenced to 7+ years in prison |
| 1:50 AM • | Frank Chaparro / The Block: Coinbase offers an exit package with four to six months severance pay and six months COBRA for employees who are not comfortable with its apolitical mission |
| 1:30 AM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: Sonos files another patent lawsuit against Google, alleging infringement of five wireless audio patents across the entire line of Nest and Chromecast products |
| 1:05 AM • | Reuters: Sources: DOJ is expected to sue Google as soon as next week and is currently urging state attorneys general to sign onto the lawsuit |
| 12:50 AM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: LG says its Wing smartphone will be available in the US beginning October 15 from Verizon and later this fall from AT&T and T-Mobile, starting at $1,000 |
| 12:15 AM • | David Meyer / Fortune: Cloudflare launches a free “privacy-first” analytics tool to rival Google Analytics that records how users engage with websites without invasive tracking |
| 11:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Clubhouse courted fresh controversy after a conversation with hundreds of listeners devolved into a platform for anti-Semitic comments on a Jewish holy day |
| 11:00 PM • | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: Apple and Epic Games stated in a court filing on Tuesday that their coming court battle should be decided in a bench trial by a judge, not a jury |
| 10:20 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple says several of its services including App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade are back online after facing outages on Tuesday evening |
| 10:05 PM • | Reuters: Tencent to take NYSE-listed Chinese search engine Sogou private in a $3.5B deal; Tencent previously revealed that it had a 39.2% stake in Sogou in July |
| 9:30 PM • | Christina Farr / CNBC: DivvyDose, an online pharmacy competing with Amazon's PillPack and Walmart's CareZone, is acquired by UnitedHealth; source says deal was worth $300M+ |
| 9:00 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Twitter hires Rinki Sethi as its new CISO following its July 15 hack; Sethi previously worked at cloud data management company Rubrik |
| 8:45 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Prior to their Wednesday direct listing debuts, the NYSE set reference prices for Palantir at $7.25 and Asana at $21 per share |
| 8:20 PM • | Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: Seattle unanimously approved new regulations that would ensure Uber and Lyft drivers earn minimum wage, the second US city to establish the standard after NYC |
| 7:45 PM • | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: UK-based Huboo, which offers an end-to-end fulfillment service for online retailers, raises £14M Series A led by Stride.VC |
| 6:45 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon launches a beta of its live virtual experiences service, Amazon Explore, allowing US customers to book one-on-one remote tours led by local experts |
| 6:00 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google extends free access to Meet's unlimited call times for Gmail accounts through March 2021 |
| 5:50 PM • | Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: Sources: CFIUS is stepping up scrutiny of past Chinese tech investments in US startups, sending inquiries to some companies about years-old deals |
| 5:05 PM • | Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: A look at the new emojis coming in iOS 14.2, including bubble tea, people bottle-feeding a baby, a transgender flag, a seal, a feather, and more |
| 4:02 PM • | Bloomberg: Facebook promotes longtime growth executive Alex Schultz to take over as chief marketing officer following Antonio Lucio's departure last month |
| 3:30 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Smart intercom manufacturer ButterflyMX raises $35M led by Volition Capital, bringing its total raised to $58M+, as its products raise privacy concerns |
| 3:20 PM • | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Online learning company, Thinkific, which lets anyone list courses and serve them from their own site, raises $22M led by Rhino Ventures |
| 2:50 PM • | Will Evans / Reveal: Investigation into Amazon's warehouse safety, based on data from 150 warehouses between 2016-2019, finds rising injury rates, which Amazon has attempted to hide |
| 2:35 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: French shipping giant CMA CGM says it has been hit by ransomware; the four biggest maritime shipping companies globally have suffered cyberattacks since 2017 |
| 2:00 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Rally raises $17M from Porsche Ventures, Alexis Ohanian, and others for its service that lets users list and invest in, but not buy, collectibles |
| 1:00 PM • | Kevin Roose / New York Times: Analysis shows that QAnon supporters' move to hijack #SaveTheChildren in July, following 8chan's disappearance, has substantially increased followers and reach |
| 12:50 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Arm unveils new chip designs for autonomous systems for both automotive and industrial use, with built-in safety that ensures each calculation is double-checked |
| 12:45 PM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: EU is set to approve Google's Fitbit acquisition |
| 12:40 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook introduces Accounts Center, a tool for managing the growing number of settings across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger |
| 12:35 PM • | Hans Nichols / Axios: Biden campaign calls Facebook the “nation's foremost propagator of disinformation about the voting process” as Trump keeps attacking the election's integrity |
| 11:45 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: TikTok launches a US elections guide in its app, partnering with BallotReady, SignVote, and others to provide info on candidates, how to vote, and more |
| 11:20 AM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: D-Wave launches Advantage, a cloud service that offers access to 5,000+ qubit quantum computing and a hybrid solver service that can handle 1M variables |
| 9:55 AM • | Frank Pallotta / CNN: Disney launches GroupWatch on Disney+, letting up to seven people watch in sync; viewers can react using emoji but can't chat |
| 9:45 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: PayCargo, which develops cloud-based payment and financing services for the cargo industry, raises $35M from Insight Partners |
| 9:35 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Seismic, which develops sales enablement and market orchestration software, raises $92M Series F led by Permira at a $1.6B valuation |
| 9:25 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Axis Security, which helps companies stay secure when employees work from home, raises $32M Series B led by Canaan Partners, bringing its total raised to $49M |
| 9:05 AM • | Aoife White / Bloomberg: Microsoft's Bing search app will appear as a download prompt on new Android phones in Germany, UK, and France, after it won slots in a Google auction for rivals |
| 8:45 AM • | Monica Chin / The Verge: Lenovo debuts foldable ThinkPad X1 Fold with a 13-inch OLED screen, 11th-gen Intel processors, and 8GB RAM, available for pre-order now, starting at $2,499 |
| 8:05 AM • | Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: Polish e-commerce platform Allegro raised ~$2.3B in Warsaw's largest ever IPO, valuing the company at $11.2B |
| 7:40 AM • | Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: Vienna-based crypto brokerage Bitpanda raises $52M Series A led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, bringing its total raised to ~$100M |
| 7:25 AM • | Jason Del Rey / Vox: Amazon unveils Amazon One, a biometric technology that lets shoppers pay using their palm, coming first to two Amazon Go stores in Seattle |
| 7:10 AM • | Kara Swisher / New York Times: Wide-ranging interview with Elon Musk on Neuralink and the future of brain chip implants, his thoughts on AI being an existential threat to humanity, and more |
| 6:35 AM • | Mike Murphy / Protocol: Interviews with small retailers, restaurants, and other SMBs in the US on how they are leveraging tech and e-commerce to see themselves through the pandemic |
| 4:30 AM • | Billy Perrigo / TIME: A deep dive into Signal, whose downloads surged in the US amid BLM protests, as it becomes an app of choice among protesters, dissidents, and journalists |
| 2:50 AM • | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Russian startup NtechLab, which helps analyze footage captured by large number of surveillance cameras in real time, raises $13M |
| 1:25 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: French startup Exotec, which builds autonomous industrial robots for warehouses, raises $90M Series C led by 83North |
| 12:10 AM • | Bloomberg: McAfee has filed for a Nasdaq IPO in a filing with the SEC, listing the size of the offering as $100M which is a placeholder likely to change |
| 11:20 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Pew survey of 12K+ US adults: 26% said they get news from YouTube while only 23% of those said they “often” get news from channels of established news orgs |
| 9:30 PM • | Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: Disney sells TrueX, an ad-tech company it absorbed as part of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets in 2019, to Gimbal, a source says for less than $100M |
| 8:40 PM • | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Boston- and Shenzhen-based XtalPi, which uses AI for drug discovery and development, raises $319M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund |
| 7:55 PM • | Chris Duckett / ZDNet: Multiple Microsoft 365 services including Office, Teams, Power Platform, and Dynamic365 are restored after major global outage for several hours |
| 7:30 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon launches Personal Shopper for men's fashion for $4.99 per month, expanding on its similar offering for women rivalling Stitch Fix |
| 6:35 PM • | Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: Coinbase publishes a “clarification” of its mission, stating it won't take on activism outside of its focus or debate causes or political candidates internally |
| 6:25 PM • | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Former Amazon exec and her family settle with SEC over insider trading scheme that led to profits of $1.4M, agree to penalties of $1M+ and to pay back profits |
| 6:10 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google Meet adds noise cancellation on Android and iOS for G Suite Enterprise and Enterprise for Education customers, and adds attendance reports for schools |
| 4:00 PM • | Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: Judge proposes a jury trial for the Apple vs Epic case, likely to start in July 2021, while seemingly pushing back on some of Epic's key points in the hearing |
| 3:35 PM • | Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal: After Las Vegas-area school officials refuse to pay a ransom, hackers publish information on students, including social security numbers and grades |
| 2:15 PM • | Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: With Netflix, Spotify, and others bypassing Google's 30% cut of IAPs, Google now says all Play Store apps must use its billing system, giving a year to comply |
| 2:10 PM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google says it's working on making it easier for Android users to install and use third-party app stores, starting with Android 12 next year |
| 1:35 PM • | Channel 4 News: A leak of data used by Trump's 2016 campaign, spanning 5,000+ files and ~5TB, details ~200M Americans, with a “Deterrence” label applied to 3.5M Black Americans |
| 12:40 PM • | Jess Joho / Mashable: A look back at HOTorNOT, created in 2000 by two UC Berkeley grads on a lark, which was one of the first popular sites to let users create a public profile |
| 10:35 AM • | New York Times: Social media platforms need to publicly declare a unified strategy to combat election misinformation, including Trump prematurely claiming victory via tweet |
| 10:05 AM • | Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Sources: DuckDuckGo failed to win Google's Q4 auction for placement on Android's default search engine choice screen in big EU countries |
| 9:55 AM • | Ashley Gold / Axios: ITIF analysis of Trump and Biden's tech policies shows Biden offers a concrete agenda while Trump has focused on tax cuts, deregulation, and alleged bias |
| 9:45 AM • | Natalie Obiko Pearson / Bloomberg: Amazon plans to add 5,300 jobs in Vancouver by 2023, where it currently employs 2,700 people, capitalizing on lower wages and skilled graduates |
| 9:35 AM • | Kris Holt / Engadget: Dell announces updated XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1 with Intel's Tiger Lake CPUs, Thunderbolt 4, and more, shipping on Sept. 30 starting at $999 |
| 9:20 AM • | Jon Porter / The Verge: Roku launches $130 Streambar, which combines a compact soundbar with a 4K and HDR streaming device, shipping in mid-October |
| 9:15 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Roku launches a redesigned $100 Ultra with Dolby Vision, shipping in Oct., with plans to add AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support to some 4K Roku models later in 2020 |
| 9:05 AM • | Jennifer Smith / Wall Street Journal: ShipBob, which helps e-commerce businesses streamline fulfillment and manage inventory, raises $68M Series D led by SoftBank's Vision Fund |
| 8:50 AM • | Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Study: Google's online shopping search still disadvantages EU rivals despite an EU crackdown three years ago, sending <1% of traffic to rival services |
| 8:30 AM • | Peter Elstrom / Bloomberg: China's Sina Corp., which operates Weibo, agrees to go private in a $2.59B deal, after an entity led by its chairman boosted its offer to $43.30 per share |
| 8:15 AM • | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Noyo, which provides APIs that link health insurance companies, brokers, employers, and more, raises $12.5M Series A led by Costanoa Ventures and Spark Capital |
| 8:00 AM • | Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: Kioxia Holdings, the chipmaker spun out of Toshiba in 2018, calls off $16B IPO after saying that export restrictions on Huawei were hurting its business |
| 7:40 AM • | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Philippines payment processing startup PayMongo raises $12M Series A led by Stripe, says it has processed almost $20M in payments since launching |
| 7:05 AM • | Tim McDonald / BBC: Singapore is the first country to use facial verification in a national identity scheme, to be part of SingPass for access to government and business services |
| 5:35 AM • | Ryan Browne / CNBC: Uber wins legal fight to regain London license as a judge overturned a ban by the city's transport regulator TfL |
| 4:35 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn rolls out its own version of Stories and adds Zoom, BlueJeans, and Teams video integrations as part of wider redesign |
| 2:05 AM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon says its Prime Day annual sale will take place on October 13 and 14 after the original summer date was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic |
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