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| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
South Korea's National Assembly passes a bill that forces Apple and Google to allow alternative payment systems in their app stores — Seoul requires the companies to allow competing payment systems, threatening their 30% cut of most in-app digital sales — SEOUL—Google and Apple Inc …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple's upcoming Watch is suffering production snags as manufacturers adjust to a new design, likely leading to supply constraints or shipment delays — - Revamped device has a larger screen and other new features — Wearables category has been one of fastest-growing for Apple
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| New York Times: |
Investigation shows Accenture is Facebook's biggest content moderation partner, employing over a third of its moderators, with annual contracts exceeding $500M — The social network has constructed a vast infrastructure to keep toxic material off its platform. At the center of it is Accenture, the blue-chip consulting firm.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows 11 will not support Android apps at launch on October 5; support for Android apps will likely arrive in 2022 — Microsoft will start testing Android apps on Windows 11 in the coming months — Microsoft won't ship support for Android apps on Windows 11 in time for the operating system's launch on October 5th.
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Tweets: @windows, @megaran, @cainlatwitch, @tomwarren, @satyanadella, @panos_panay, @bigcheesekit, and @bradsmi
| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Apple bars staff from making a Slack channel about pay equity; Apple says it's because it's not work related, despite other channels on pets and jokes — The company's rules around Slack usage are not being evenly enforced — Apple has barred employees from creating a Slack channel to discuss pay equity.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Sundar Pichai informs Google employees that plans to return to offices are being pushed back again, from October to January 10 — Google is pushing back its return-to-office date by three months, to Jan. 10, in a decision that reflects the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Source: Facebook plans to downrank current events content and political posts in the News Feed, after users approved of tests that limited such content — Facebook plans to announce that it will de-emphasize political posts and current events content in the News Feed based on negative user feedback, Axios has learned.
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Politico, Wired, The Independent, Reclaim The Net, Fast Company, Social Media Today, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Hill, SlashGear, and Engadget
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
United Talent Agency signs NFT art projects CryptoPunks, Meebits, and Autoglyphs, all created by Larva Labs, for representation across film, TV, games, and more — The agency will represent the crypto-art projects from Larva Labs for film, TV, video games, and publishing projects …
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TechCrunch, The Block, Decrypt, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, and Crypto Briefing
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| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
El Salvador's plan to make Bitcoin legal tender has been unpopular, with protests over concerns of money laundering, forcing trade in BTC, unconstitutionality — El Salvador will soon accept Bitcoin as legal tender, but not everybody shares the President's enthusiasm as citizens took to the streets this week.
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Tweets: @decryptmedia, @coindesk, and @alfonslopeztena
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Syndicate, a decentralized investing platform that wants to make it easier for users to create DAOs, raises $20M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz — Syndicate, a decentralized investing platform, raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
LinkedIn is abandoning its Stories format at the end of September and has told advertisers to adjust their ad campaigns accordingly — Brands will have to adjust ad campaigns when video format leaves the platform after September — LinkedIn is telling advertisers to prepare for the end …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Amazon is developing a live audio feature, led by its Music division, with a focus on live music and potentially radio and podcasts — Amazon is investing heavily in a new live audio feature that's similar to other live audio offerings like Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces and Spotify's new live audio platform, sources tell Axios.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Alpaca, which offers APIs for fintech apps to connect and trade in US stocks, raises $50M Series B led by Tribe Capital and says it is expanding into crypto — Alpaca said this morning that it has closed a massive $50 million Series B round of capital. TechCrunch previously covered …
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Alpaca, Blockworks, and Crowdfund Insider
Tweets: @patrick_oshag, @genesistrading, @howardlindzon, and @ycombinator
| Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: |
FTX acquires US-regulated crypto derivatives exchange LedgerX for an undisclosed sum, to expand its futures and options products in the US — - Strategy is to offer array of assets in regulated markets — Majority of global crypto volume trades through derivatives
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PR Newswire, Forkast, CNBC, Coinspeaker, and Blockworks
| Wall Street Journal: |
Wall Street institutions are increasingly tracking amateurs on Reddit, Twitter, and Discord to find trading opportunities, following GameStop's meteoric rise — Deep-pocketed banks and hedge funds now take their cues from armies of Main Street traders — Wall Street professionals tell everyday investors what stocks to buy.
Tweets: @wsj, @anthony, @wsjmarkets, @jerrycap, and @newley
| Micah Singleton / Billboard: |
Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic, giving users six free months of Apple Music, and will launch its own classical music app in 2022 — Apple has acquired Primephonic, the classical music streaming service, for an undisclosed amount, the company tells Billboard.| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Streamers organize #ADayOffTwitch walkout to bring awareness to the recent increase of “hate raids”, and say Twitch isn't taking the issue seriously enough — On Wednesday, September 1st, a number of channels on Twitch will go dark as streamers participate in #ADayOffTwitch … | MIT Technology Review: |
Sources and experts say US-funded Afghan government databases containing sensitive personal data could be used by the Taliban to identify millions of Afghans — As the Taliban swept through Afghanistan in mid-August, declaring the end of two decades of war, reports quickly circulated …
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| Riley de León / CNBC: |
Data analytics company Databricks raises $1.6B Series H led by Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global fund at a $38B valuation, up $10B from February — - Databricks has raised a $1.6 billion Series H funding round that boosts its valuation to $38 billion. — Its latest funding round …
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TechCrunch, Databricks, PYMNTS.com, Protocol, ZDNet, Insider, Forbes, Tech News, and Crunchbase News
Tweets: @lucascerdan and @jordannovet
| Paul Bischoff / Comparitech: |
Study: in 2020, 77 ransomware attacks affected over 1,740 US schools and colleges, potentially impacting 1.36M students and costing ~$6.6B in downtime alone — In 2020, 77 individual ransomware attacks affected over 1,740 schools and colleges, potentially impacting 1.36 million students.
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ZDNet, infosecurity-magazine.com, Dark Reading, and TechRepublic
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Offchain Labs, which is aiming to make Ethereum transactions faster and cheaper using its Arbitrum tools, raises $120M Series B at a $1.2B valuation — As the broader crypto world enjoys a late summer surge in enthusiasm, more and more blockchain developers who have taken the plunge are bumping … | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Getting a water-damaged MacBook Pro fixed shows how independent repair shops can make repairs more affordable to consumers if Apple allows them access to parts — New legislation aims to provide more options for fixing our broken gadgets. A journey to fix two MacBooks illustrates … | TechCrunch: |
Roundup of 180+ companies that launched at YC's Summer 2021 Demo Day 1, including food delivery, investment, edtech, AI, and payment startups — Today Y Combinator kicked off the Demo Day cycle for its Summer 2021 cohort. The collection of early-stage startups on day one-of-two alone numbered … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
135+ subreddits have gone private in protest of Reddit's refusal to ban communities that spread misinformation about the COVID pandemic and vaccines — PokemonGo, Futurology among big subreddits going private until Reddit takes action. — Over 135 subreddits have gone dark this week … | Carol Zhai / Bloomberg: |
A look at indie developers building tools for Shopify's 1.7M merchants, as developers made $230M+ from app sales in 2020 — - Finkelstein has called hiring challenge a growth ‘limiter’ — Pair of Bangalore developers say marketing help yielded profit
Tweets: @wicary
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Eight Sleep, which makes smart mattresses that cost $3K+ and use ML to regulate temperature for better sleep, raises $86M Series C led by Valor Equity Partners — The venture world is — quite literally — waking up to the potential of applying artificial intelligence to a wider variety of real-world … Thanks:@ingridlunden
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