Techmeme: How China is trying to increase its influence in global tech standards organizations like ITU, IEEE, and 3GPP, and how the US and EU are pushing back (Alan Beattie/Financial Times)

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How constant location sharing via apps like Find My Friends or Glympse may trigger anxiety in friends when a phone dies, or the app shows an unexpected detour — IT'S 1:30 IN the morning and I'm pretty sure my girlfriend is dead. — She went out with friends after work to celebrate somebody's birthday.

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Ronojoy Mazumdar / Bloomberg:

Three-year-old Reliance Jio becomes the biggest telecom operator in India, as its subscribers grow to 331M in Q2 2019, surpassing Vodafone Idea's 320M subs — - Had overtaken Bharti Airtel in May, Vodafone Idea in June — Companies are preparing for the planned 5G rollout next year

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

In an update to a previous report, Ming-Chi Kuo now says that all three new iPhones coming in 2020 will support 5G — The three iPhones expected to launch in 2020 will feature support for 5G, according to a new note to investors shared today by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and obtained by MacRumors.

More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, Digital Trends, CNET, The Verge, Mashable, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, and MACお宝 …. Tweets: @bengeskin

Alan Beattie / Financial Times:

How China is trying to increase its influence in global tech standards organizations like ITU, IEEE, and 3GPP, and how the US and EU are pushing back — The first wave of Donald Trump's trade war on China, punitive tariffs on $250bn of its exports, rivals the brutal protectionism of the Depression.

Tweets: @yuanfenyang and @evawxiao

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg:

Weimob, which helps merchants market and sell on WeChat and has seen its shares rise 60%+ since its Jan. Hong Kong IPO, raises $180M more from Tencent, others — - Weimob and shareholders are said to have raised $180 million — The firm helps companies with online commerce and marketing

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BMW makes Apple CarPlay an $80/year subscription service for new car owners — From the 2019 model year onward any new BMW sold will require the owner to pay an $80 annual fee in order to connect their Apple iTelephone device to their premium luxury automobile.

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Tweets: @dsilverman, @andrewjwatkins, @areitu, and @gerryconway

Jonathan Vanian / Fortune:

Q&A with Satya Nadella on fostering Sony's success with Azure, the role of Xcloud in Microsoft's strategy to expand games beyond the living room, and more — Satya Nadella has never considered himself a “gamer,” but Civilization did manage to capture the attention of the Microsoft CEO for a stretch when he was younger.

Tweets: @ericjhonsa

Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:

How Famous Birthdays, which has 20M unique monthly users, became Gen Z's Wikipedia for new internet stars and a talent resource for the entertainment industry — If you want to know who the biggest TikTok star is right now, who is in Emma Chamberlain's squad, or where Baby Ariel grew up …

Tweets: @glenngabe, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, and @theatlantic

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Ian Allison / CoinDesk:

Berlin-based Fundament gets regulator's approval for $280M tokenized real-estate-backed bond offering on ethereum blockchain, which is open to retail investors — Fundament, a blockchain startup coming out of stealth mode, has received the green light to issue the first tokenized real-estate backed bond …

Tweets: @thedannyles, @ethereumnetw, @tokengineering, @coinmetro_kevin, and @sassal0x

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