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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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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Donald Trump sues 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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| 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: |
Analysis: European tech startups raised $73.9B in H1 2021, compared to $108.8B across 2020; European tech IPOs raised $16.1B in 2021, ahead of 2020's $10.2B — - Continent's tech IPOs, deals on track to break records in 2021 — Tech unicorns in Europe are worth $800 billion: GP Bullhound
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Facebook-commissioned study by Comscore claims that most US iOS and Android users stick with preinstalled apps; Apple says the study is “seriously flawed” — If you use an iPhone or Android phone, chances are the majority of your most-used apps were made by Apple and Google.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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.| 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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| 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
Tweets: @themarkup, @evan_greer, @evan_greer, @jessedamiani, and @alfredwkng
| Rebecca Chowdhury / MIT Technology Review: |
Hands-on with New York's Excelsior Pass vaccine passport: low adoption, privacy concerns, persistent technical glitches, and limited use at top leisure venues — When we tested New York's Excelsior Pass, we found privacy concerns, technical glitches, and questions over who it's really for.
Tweets: @techreview, @rebecca_chowd, @techreview, @brianmcc, and @miarsato
| 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 … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Outbrain, which filed for an IPO last week, raises $200M from Boston-based hedge fund Baupost Group — Outbrain, an adtech company that provides clickbait ads below news articles, has raised $200 million in funding — Outbrain didn't disclose the valuation of the company for this deal.| 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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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
r2c, which is developing SaaS tools based on the Semgrep open source project, raises $27M Series B led by Felicis — This morning r2c, a startup building a SaaS service around the Semgrep open-source project, announced that it has closed a $27 million Series B. Felicis led the round, which the company said was a pre-emptive deal.| Parmy Olson / Wall Street Journal: |
How activists and fraudsters are evading facial recognition, including by using face masks and paint and combining multiple faces to form a new identity — The Future of Everything covers the innovation and technology transforming the way we live, work and play, with monthly issues on health, money, cities and more.
Tweets: @martijnrasser and @parmy
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Massachusetts-based Silk, which builds tools to improve database performance, raises $55M led by S Capital, bringing its total raised to $294M+ — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. — Silk, a platform designed to improve database performance …
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