Techmeme: Twitter needs to learn to multitask and start concentrating on adding new features to help it grow while simultaneously cleaning up its service (Kurt Wagner/Recode)

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Sources: ARM has agreed to acquire US-based data analytics company Treasure Data for about $600M — - Treasure Data may fetch about $600 million in a sale — Products are used by auto, retail and entertainment firms — ARM Holdings Plc, the British computer-chip designer owned …

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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

A deep look at Mueller's mid-July indictment of Russia's GRU officers and how they hacked the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and DCCC before the 2016 election — Latest Mueller indictment offers excruciating details to confirm known election pwnage. — In a press briefing just two weeks ago …

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Tweets: @stevesi, @samstein, @jason_kint, and @arstechnica

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Swift, parent company of esports organization Team SoloMid, raises $37M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners with Stephen Curry and others participating — Swift, the parent company of esports organization Team SoloMid, has raised $37 million in a first round of funding.

Kurt Wagner / Recode:

Twitter needs to learn to multitask and start concentrating on adding new features to help it grow while simultaneously cleaning up its service — The social communications company's stock tanked on negative user growth, but CEO Jack Dorsey think efforts to clean up the service will pay off down the line.

More: Reuters and CNBC

Tweets: @stevesi and @karaswisher

David Floyd / CoinDesk:

Prediction markets that let users bet on assassinations of public figures or the number of days before the next mass shooting, start to appear on Augur — “Killed, not die of natural causes or accidents.” — Pretty much everyone saw them coming, but it was no less disturbing …

More: Motherboard, The Independent, and Newsweek. Tweets: @tante

Reuters:

To drive sales, retailers like Target, Walmart, and Tesco are increasingly selling ads and search keywords on their websites to consumer goods companies — BERLIN/CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with hay fever hate dust. That was the premise of a marketing drive launched by British vacuum cleaner maker Dyson …

Tweets: @stevesi

Oscar Schwartz / The Guardian:

AI coverage has been misinformed and sensationalized for decades, leading to unrealistic expectations and distracting from the actual consequences of AI — Social media has allowed self-proclaimed ‘AI influencers’ who do nothing more than paraphrase Elon Musk to cash in on this hype with low-quality, pieces.

More: Fortune. Tweets: @ricmac

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Raf Casert / Associated Press:

Belgian museums complain about Facebook rejecting ads with paintings of Flemish Masters like Rubens; company says it is reviewing its approach to nudity in art — BRUSSELS (AP) — For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure.

Shrutika Verma / Livemint:

SoftBank and Yahoo Japan partner with Paytm to launch a QR code-based mobile payment service, PayPay, in Japan by November, with no commission fees for 3 years — Barcode-based payment service ‘PayPay’ to be launched by November in a JV with Yahoo

More: Reuters

South China Morning Post:

How Grab expanded its taxi-hailing app to include booking cars and bikes, and ordering food; worth $10B+, it is Southeast Asia's most valuable tech startup — How Anthony Tan has taken a taxi-hailing app to keep drivers and riders more safe into an everyday app to book cars, bicycles and even food delivery services

Ainsley Harris / Fast Company:

RaiseMe, a San Francisco-based startup that uses micro-scholarships to motivate students, raises $15M Series B to support expansion into community colleges — For many high school students, it's hard to feel motivated by the connection between getting an “A” in trigonometry and getting into college.

Sean Hollister / CNET:

Amazon disputes results of ACLU's test of its Rekognition tool and says it's reasonable for government to weigh in on how police use facial recognition tech — When Amazon's controversial facial recognition system mistakenly matched 28 members of Congress with criminal mugshots, it caused quite a stir.

More: AWS News Blog, Ars Technica, Telegraph, Axios, Gizmodo, Project Syndicate, Fast Company, Fast Company, Techdirt, and Slashdot

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