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China bans companies from raising money through ICOs, asks local regulators to inspect 60 major ICO platforms — - Chinese regulators are about to start a campaign related to the country's initial coin offerings (ICO), according to a Caixin report — In a document, authorities …
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Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1, @chrismessina, @pt, @eiaine, @timdraper, @chamath, @chrismaddern, and @cryptosqueeze
| Manish Singh / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
Facebook bid $600M for online streaming rights of a popular cricket tournament in India for 5 years but was outbid by Star India — As Facebook gets serious about video, the social giant's ambitions for live streaming were on display on Monday in India where it put a bid north of $600 million …
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Recode, CNET, The Economic Times, SiliconANGLE, Trak.in, The Register, and Reuters
| John Lanchester / London Review of Books: |
An in-depth critique of Facebook and how its quest for growth and monetization shapes and distorts company's stated mission of simply connecting people — At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users.
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| Ben Court / Men's Health: |
Inside Apple's exercise lab, where the company says it has collected fitness data from over 10K participants to optimize Watch's fitness-focused algorithms — he Tesla jam out front, the bike commuters riding one-handed while clutching MacBooks, the Apple Watches on everyone's wrists capturing biometric data …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacStories, Engadget, Mashable, MacRumors, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @jselanikio
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Popular YouTube ripping site, YouTube-MP3, settles with RIAA and will shut down indefinitely — YouTube-MP3, the world's leading YouTube ripping site, has agreed to shut down indefinitely and hand over its domain to the RIAA. A private settlement agreement, including an undisclosed payment …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, HackRead, Consumerist, Neowin, Tech Times, Financial Times, TechSpot, MacRumors, BetaNews, The Next Web, Inquirer, The Independent, and Engadget. Tweets: @tymoss
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android 8.0 Oreo review: fundamentals improve with reined in background processes, a new notifications layout, and better vendor support via Project Treble — We take a 20,000 word deep-dive on Android's “foundational” upgrades. — Android 8.0 Oreo is the 26th version of the world's most popular operating system.
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9to5Google, Android Central, BetaNews, BGR, Tech Advisor, Nokiapoweruser, and xda-developers
| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Apple says it is ending its ten-year-old annual Apple Music Festival in the UK; will likely concentrate on one-off events and original content efforts — Apple has confirmed to MBW that it will no longer be hosting the annual Apple Music Festival at London's Roundhouse.
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Ars Technica, Engadget, International Business Times, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, The Verge, Mashable, AppAdvice.com, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, TechSpot, Business Insider, SlashGear, BetaNews, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, MacStories, NME, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, The FADER, Music Ally, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @mrnicklevine
| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Paris Hilton backs ICO of Lydian, an AI marketing service run by Gravity4, joining other celebrities getting in on the cryptocurrency hype — Paris Hilton is getting in on the ICO hype. — Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, are the hottest new fundraising tool in tech right now.
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Quartz, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph.com News, HuffPost, The Register, CoinDesk, The Memo, The Stack, MarTech Advisor, and Opalesque
Tweets: @parishilton, @ericnakagawa, @nbougalis, @thestalwart, @adamdraper, @jstrauss, @mattocko, @mdudas, @robaeprice, and @tonyromm
| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Security firm finds some Arris modems, distributed via AT&T U-verse, have firmware vulnerabilities — Trivially exploitable vulnerabilities have been discovered in several Arris home modems, routers and gateways distributed to consumers and small businesses through AT&T's U-verse service.| Jonathan Keane / Tech.eu: |
Digital identity management firm ForgeRock raises $88M Series D led by Accel — Digital identity management firm ForgeRock has raised $88 million in a Series D round led by Accel with participation from KKR. — First founded in Norway and now based in San Francisco …
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Axios, ForgeRock.com, TechCrunch, Financial Times, PE Hub Blog, and Fortune
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Tech companies are courting influential teachers with various incentives to promote their products, raising ethical concerns — MAPLETON, N.D. — One of the tech-savviest teachers in the United States teaches third grade here at Mapleton Elementary, a public school with about 100 students …
Tweets: @nytimestech and @mattk
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Carpooling service Via raises new round, source says of $250M, led by Daimler, for European expansion; Mercedes Benz investing $50M in a joint venture with Via — As outsized ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft continue to build out their taxi-style marketplaces largely based around …
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marsMediaSite, Tnooz, NoCamels, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, Engadget, Globes Online, Financial Times, Reuters, and Bloomberg. Thanks:@ingridlunden
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