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China's crackdown on its tech giants wiped a combined $823B off their market value since a Feb. peak, with Tencent, Alibaba, and Kuaishou as the biggest losers — - Selling in technology sector seen continuing this quarter — Hang Seng Tech Index has lost 31% from February high
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Sources: China plans rule changes requiring Chinese companies to seek approval to list overseas, even if the unit selling shares is incorporated outside China — - Securities regulator working to change overseas listing rules — Change would require VIE firms to get nod to list offshore
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| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
In an attempt to keep ahead of China's regulations, Tencent says it'll use a facial recognition system to prevent minors from playing games late into the night — Shenzhen, China-based gaming giant Tencent has announced it will use a face recognition system to prevent minors in its home country …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla's crowdsourced study about YouTube over a 10-month period finds 71%+ videos flagged as objectionable by participants were recommended by YouTube itself — For years YouTube's video-recommending algorithm has stood accused of fuelling a grab-bag of societal ills by feeding users …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft confirms it's developing Assassin's Creed Infinity, an online service with evolving gameplay that expands over time, seeking to emulate Fortnite and GTA — Assassin's Creed, a video game franchise set in huge worlds where each one can take hundreds of hours to complete, is getting even bigger.
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Donald Trump says he is suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google, as well as their CEOs, alleging the companies have violated his First Amendment rights — - Former President Donald Trump announced he is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as their respective CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai.
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| Michael P. Regan / Bloomberg: |
A look at synthetic shares of Apple, Amazon, and others, which track the prices of real stocks and are being traded on blockchain projects like Mirror Protocol — - A DeFi ‘Trojan Horse’ finds its way to the stock market — Sounds like ‘investor-protection issue,’ says Themis's Saluzzi
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| Alfred Ng / The Markup: |
Public records and a 2019 version of its user guide show just how invasive AnyVision's facial recognition software can be; AnyVision's customers include schools — One school using the software saw that a student's face was captured more than 1,000 times during the week
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Evernote founder's Mmhmm, a video service that works with Zoom, Teams, and Webex and can add effects to calls, raises $100M led by SoftBank's Vision Fund — When Phil Libin created note-taking app Evernote in 2007, he was making a bet that smartphones would be the next big thing.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Report: Indian startups raised a record $10.46B in H1 2021, vs. $4B in H1 2020 and $11.6B in all of 2020; India produced 16 unicorns this year — Indian startups have raised a record $10.46 billion in the first half of 2021, up from $4 billion in H1 2020. — A startup founder … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: state-backed Russian hacking group APT29 breached the RNC last week, possibly via IT provider Synnex; RNC says there's is no indication it was hacked — - Hackers part of ‘Cozy Bear,’ people familiar with matter say — RNC official says ‘no indication’ computer systems hacked
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| Justin Sink / Bloomberg: |
Source: Biden will direct the FTC to draft new right-to-repair rules, with an explicit mention of mobile phone manufacturers expected in the directive — - Order may loosen rules on who can undertake phone repairs — Pentagon contractors, farm equipment also under scrutiny
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| Thomas Shum / Bloomberg: |
Sotheby's auction house says it will accept bitcoin and Ether at the sale of a 101.38-carat diamond, which could fetch as much as $15M, on Friday — - Pear-shaped flawless gem could fetch $15 million at auction — Bitcoin, Ether will be accepted at Hong Kong sale on Friday
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| Carson Kessler / ProPublica: |
Some users have reported getting locked out of their accounts at Chime, a “neobank” serving millions, with 920 complaints filed to CFPB since April 15, 2020 — Chime, a “neobank” serving millions, is racking up complaints from users who can't access their cash.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Wise begins trading in London direct listing, valuing the money transfer firm at $11B, and launches OwnWise, a program to let users own a stake in the company — - Wise shares opened at £8 a share Wednesday morning, giving the company a market value of £8 billion ($11 billion).
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| Financial Times: |
Binance says it will temporarily suspend euro bank deposits from the EU's Single Euro Payments Area network due to “events beyond our control” — Latest block comes after flurry of regulatory pushbacks against crypto exchange — Binance said it will suspend euro bank deposits …
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Tweets: @mayazi, @pesa_africa, and @dsquareddigest
| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
EU's new law will let tech companies scan their platforms for child sexual abuse material for the next three years without fear of violating EU's privacy laws — The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a controversial law that would allow digital companies to detect and report child sexual abuse … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Utah-based Entrata, which develops property management software, raises $507M led by Silver Lake and others, its first raise in its 18-year history — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Can a new CEO, half a billion dollars and the support of some of Utah's … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Skedulo, a workforce management and scheduling service for “deskless” mobile employees, raises $75M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. — Skedulo, a workforce management … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Juni, a neobank catering to e-commerce and online marketing companies, raises $21.5M Series A co-led by partners from DST Global and Felix Capital — E-commerce in Europe is expected to grow 30% this year to $465 billion, and that's giving rise to a new ecosystem of services built to cater to e-commerce merchants.
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