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India bans another 188 Chinese apps, including PUBG, Baidu, and Alipay, saying widespread concerns were flagged against the blocked apps — India on Wednesday banned 118 more apps, including popular gaming app PUBG, for allegedly being engaged in activities which are “prejudicial to sovereignty …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
In response to UK's “digital services tax”, Apple says it will raise UK developer fees by 2% and Amazon says it will increase third-party seller fees by 2% — Developers, ad buyers, and third-party sellers are all affected — For many years, Europe has been unhappy with the tax habits of US tech giants.
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| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
Facebook says, after an FBI tip, it took down several Pages and accounts pushing a fake left-wing news outlet made by people linked to Russian troll group IRA — New York (CNN Business)People associated with the infamous St. Petersburg troll group that was part of Russia's attempt to interfere …
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| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Microsoft says it will bring its DirectStorage API from the Xbox to PCs, to reduce IO bottlenecks and improve game loading times and graphics details — When Microsoft announced the next Xbox console some time ago, it highlighted some features of the console's underlying architecture to demonstrate its power.
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| Bloomberg: |
US appeals court affirms a lower court ruling rejecting Oracle's challenges to the Pentagon's $10B JEDI contract, arguing Oracle does not qualify anyway — - Appeals court affirmed ruling that Oracle wasn't harmed — Oracle is fighting exclusion from contract given to Microsoft
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Amazon had job listings, now removed, for “intelligence analysts” who would assess “labor organizing threats” and contribute to filings like restraining orders — Jeff Bezos obviously doesn't want a union in his company. Amazon's increasingly flippant statements …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: TikTok sale talks have been complicated by China's new AI export restrictions, with parties unsure whether TikTok's algorithms can be included — Complexity of new Chinese export restrictions has reduced the chances of a sale occurring soon — Deal talks for TikTok's U.S. operations …
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Apple says the iOS app economy created 300,000 new US jobs since April 2019 and now supports 2.1M+ US jobs across all 50 states, up 15% YoY — App Store ecosystem now supports over 2.1 million jobs across all 50 states — The iOS app economy has created nearly 300,000 new jobs since April 2019 …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook updates its terms of service globally, effective Oct. 1, allowing it to block content amid proposed Australian law that would force it to pay for news — - Change will give Facebook powers to remove or block content — Mark Zuckerberg has long publicly championed free speech| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Twitter says it plans to add context to trending topics, including picking a “representative tweet” for trends, amid criticism that the feature amplifies hoaxes — Twitter announced Tuesday that it plans to make a series of small changes to its trending topics feature to try …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Skillz, which develops competitive mobile games, announces it is going public with an IPO at a $3.5B pre-money valuation — Skillz has announced it is going public through a quick initial public offering process, raising an estimated $849 million in cash from investors at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Patreon says it has raised $90M at a $1.2B+ pre-money valuation, nearly twice the $660M valuation it had prior to a funding round last year — New Enterprise Associates and Wellington Management led the $90 million funding round — Membership platform Patreon Inc., which enables musicians …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: dating app Bumble is preparing for an IPO sometime in early 2021, seeking a valuation between $6B and $8B — - Bumble in talks with banks about an IPO early next year — Blackstone Group bought majority stake in Bumble last year — Bumble, a dating app that lets women … | Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
Google updates Your News Update, its Assistant-powered audio news service, with new features including its own “newscaster voice” — The company's latest news product is an ever-replenishing playlist of audio stories—curated, in part, by the wealth of data it has on you.
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| Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft unveils new tools to identify deepfake videos and launches an interactive quiz at SpotDeepfakes.org to combat disinformation — Today, we're announcing two new technologies to combat disinformation, new work to help educate the public about the problem, and partnerships to help advance …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces $699 RTX 3080 GPU, launching on Sept. 17, boasting up to two times the performance of the RTX 2080, as well as a $499 RTX 3070 — Nvidia promises a PC gaming breakthrough — Nvidia is unveiling its new GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards today.
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| Nathan Munn / VICE: |
Report: Canadian police are turning more to predictive policing algorithms, using tools like GeoDASH and Palantir's Gotham, raising civil liberty concerns — Police across Canada are increasingly adopting algorithmic technology to predict crime. The authors of a new report say human rights are threatened by the practice.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AT&T decides not to sell its Warner Bros. gaming division, deciding to abandon a potential ~$4B deal once it realized the division's growth potential — - Boom in gameplay takes unit off list of assets to jettison — ‘No sacred cows,’ said Stankey, but this could be an exception
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Indonesia-based PasarPolis, an insurance marketplace aimed at those who have never purchased policies before, raises $54M Series B from LeapFrog and others — PasarPolis, the Indonesian-based startup focused on making insurance policies more accessible in Southeast Asia, has closed a Series B round totaling $54 million.
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| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
Government of Bermuda announces a pilot program for a digital stimulus token, based on Blockstream's Liquid, which lets users buy essential goods and services — Bermuda wants to use a digital token to stimulate its economy. — The government of Bermuda announced Tuesday it has started …
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| Laura Cooper / Wall Street Journal: |
Brazilian digital bank Neon Pagamentos raises $300M Series C led by General Atlantic, bringing its total raised to over $400M — The new funding round for Neon Pagamentos comes less than a year after the company announced it had raised $92 million for a previous financing round
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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Driven by the popularity of Cash App, Square's stock is up 28% in the past month and 166% in the past year; Cash App saw revenue double to $325M in Q2 2020 — Users have flocked to Cash App, which made it easy for people to accept stimulus checks and unemployment benefits
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