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Investigation details ForcedEntry, an iMessage “zero-click” attack used by NSO Group that circumvents iOS 14's BlastDoor, likely used by the Bahraini government — Summary & Key Findings — We identified nine Bahraini activists whose iPhones were successfully hacked … | Erin Woo / New York Times: |
TikTok partners with Shopify to launch a pilot program letting merchants add a shopping tab to their profiles and link to products in their posts — TikTok and Shopify, the e-commerce platform, said on Tuesday that they were working together to add the ability for consumers to shop directly in the TikTok app for the first time.
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Tweets: @shopify, @alex_danco, @harleyf, and @markdistef
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Sources: Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, and Andy Jassy plan to attend a meeting with Joe Biden on Wednesday to discuss efforts to improve cybersecurity — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella plan to attend a White House meeting with President Joe Biden …
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Tweets: @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @chuckreynolds, and @agentkyle
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify says all US-based podcasters using Anchor can sell subscriptions to episodes available on RSS and Spotify, expanding internationally later — Plus new price tiers and email addresses — Spotify is broadening the number of people who can offer subscription podcasts and have their shows play on its service.
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| New York Times: |
Apple and Google call on the White House to oppose a South Korean bill, set to face a vote this week, that would mandate multiple payment systems for IAPs — A proposal in the South Korean legislature is an early test of how forcefully the Biden administration will defend the companies abroad while trying to trim their power at home.
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Reuters, The Economic Times, Thurrott, Techaeris, iMore, Patently Apple, SlashGear, and AppleInsider
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says it is retiring the swipe-up link feature, which lets users visit external links by swiping up, in favor of tappable stickers, starting August 30 — The swipe-up will be no more. Instagram is planning to retire the feature, which allows people to visit external webpages by swiping up …
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Forbes, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, Firstpost Tech, KnowTechie, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR India, Benzinga, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, MobileSyrup, and Social Media Today
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook is testing bringing voice and video calling back to the main Facebook app in the US, reducing the need to jump between Facebook and Messenger — - New test will bring Messenger technology back into Facebook — Facebook Inc. is bringing voice and video calling …
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Tweets: @mattnavarra, @kurtwagner8, @zerohedge, and @kurtwagner8
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 review: water resistant with an improved screen feel and multitasking, but terrible under-screen camera, expensive, and heavy — As good as foldables get, but is that good enough? — The Galaxy Z Fold 3 is the best possible case Samsung can make for a phone that unfolds into a small tablet.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Ramp, which provides corporate cards and spend management software, raises $300M Series C at a $3.9B valuation, up from $1.6B after raising $115M in April — Less than five months after raising $115 million, spend management startup Ramp announced today it has raised $300 million …
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FinLedger, The Irish Times, Forbes, AlleyWatch, Ramp, VentureBeat, CNBC, and PRWeb
Tweets: @deenashakir and @justinkan
| Charles Riley / CNN: |
Brian Chesky says Airbnb will provide free housing for 20,000 Afghan refugees without specifying for how long — London (CNN Business)Airbnb has pledged to provide free housing for 20,000 Afghan refugees. — CEO Brian Chesky said Tuesday that the program would begin immediately, and that Airbnb would pay for the stays.| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Poly Network says it has now recovered all of $610M in cryptocurrencies it lost to a hacker, and is in the process of returning them to their rightful owners — One of the most unusual cryptocurrency heists in recent memory has come to a close. On Monday, Poly Network …
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Tweets: @lorenzofb, @polynetwork2, @lorenzofb, @daphnehk, and @mmasnick
| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Bungalow, a marketplace for residential real estate that offers tools for landlords, raises $75M at a $600M+ valuation led by Deer Park Road Management — - Coatue, Khosla, Founders Fund bet on residential marketplace — Initially a roommate-finder, firm expanded into family rentals| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Automotive cybersecurity startup Upstream raises $62M Series C led by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and plans to expand into insurance telematics and data analytics — Back in 2015, researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely hacked into a Jeep Cherokee driven by a Wired reporter … | Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it will hire 40,000 employees over the next three years in a $205B expansion, led by Samsung Electronics and Biologics — - Samsung Electronics and Biologics will lead spending plans — Samsung outlines expansion days after Jay Y. Lee wins freedom| Wall Street Journal: |
Cryptocurrency companies are moving mining hardware out of China post-crackdown, with US-based Bit Digital trying to send 20K+ mining rigs to Canada and the US — Miners face high costs, other hurdles in removing their machines after Chinese crackdown — When China vowed to crack …
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South China Morning Post, Bitcoinist.com, CoinJournal, CryptoSlate, Benzinga, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @jchengwsj
| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
London-based Plentific, which offers a marketplace for property management services, raises $100M Series C and plans a US expansion — London-based property management platform Plentific has raised $100 million in a Series C round. In addition to a significant push into the US market …
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Silicon Republic, TechCrunch, Insider, Silicon Canals, and FinSMEs
| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Testing of carriers across the US shows T-Mobile with a commanding lead in 5G, winning speed tests in 24 cities and rural regions to AT&T's eight, Verizon's two — For our 12th annual test, we drove more than 10,000 miles, speed-testing AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon 4G and 5G in cities, towns, and rural regions all over the US.
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Mashable, 9to5Mac, and The Mac Observer
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Grafana Labs, developer of the open source analytics and data visualization suite Grafana, raises $220M at $3B valuation, a tenfold increase from two years ago — - Sequoia and Coatue co-lead round for enterprise tech startup — Company's open-source software is used by JPMorgan, PayPal| Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
Blockstream, which offers Bitcoin infrastructure and apps, raises $210M Series B at a $3.2B valuation and will acquire Israeli mining manufacturer Spondoolies — With years invested in building its sidechain-based settlement network, Blockstream has raised significant funding to continue …
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Finextra, Bitcoin Magazine, Globe and Mail, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and Bitcoinist.com. Thanks:@tron
| Android Developers Blog: |
Google says it will make app ratings on the Play Store more personalized by localizing by users' country from November 2021 and device type from early 2022 — Ratings and reviews are important. They provide valuable quantitative and qualitative feedback on your users' reported experience …
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KnowTechie, 9to5Google, PCMag, Android Headlines, ZDNet, MUO, Pocket-lint, TNW, phonearena.com, Trusted Reviews, Phandroid, Gizchina, TechRadar, Neowin, SlashGear, The Verge, Engadget, Android Central, Android Police, DroidMaze, and XDA Developers
Tweets: @androiddev and @glenngabe
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Brazilian startup Cora, which offers a digital checking account and other financial services to SMBs, raises $116M Series B, after a $26.7M Series A in April — Cora, a Brazilian digital lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $116 million in a Series B round led by Greenoaks Capital.
Tweets: @bayareawriter
| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
SpaceX says it has now shipped 100K Starlink terminals to customers, and has launched more than 1,700 satellites since its first in November 2019 — Elon Musk's Starlink project, which aims to provide global broadband connectivity via a constellation of satellites, has shipped 100,000 terminals to customers.| Ben Brody / Protocol: |
As Congress fails to regulate Big Tech, state and local governments move ahead to pass their own laws on privacy, gig work, anticompetitive conduct, and more — Andrew Rigie said it isn't worth waiting around for tech regulation in Washington. — “New York City is a restaurant capital of the world,” Rigie told Protocol.
Tweets: @issielapowsky and @benbrodydc
| Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: |
Baidu says its AI voice assistant Xiaodu has raised a Series B round at a $5.1B valuation, up from $2.9B in November 2020 — Chinese tech giant Baidu Inc (9888.HK) said on Tuesday its artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistant Xiaodu Technology has closed Series B financing at a $5.1 billion valuation.
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| Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
A look at the decade long struggle to bring the script of Tulu, an Indian language, into Unicode, and the problem of keeping languages alive in the digital age — For 10 years, experts have tried to bring Tulu to smartphones. But they can't agree on how. — • BENGALURU, INDIA
Tweets: @xor, @restofworld, @mvzelenks, @restofworld, @restofworld, @cengizyar, @dlberes, @raju, @varshaabansal, and @restofworld
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