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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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| 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, @satyanadella, @tomwarren, and @panos_panay
| 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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Insider. Tweets: @satariano, @gregotto, @justinhendrix, @rmac18, @mattzeitlin, @hshaban, @sheeraf, @satariano, @mattrosoff, @satariano, @puiwingtam, and @kateconger
| 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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The Guardian, The Block, CoinDesk, cryptodaily.co.uk, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @coindesk, @decryptmedia, and @alfonslopeztena
| 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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The Independent, The Hill, The Verge, Engadget, Nieman Lab, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and 9to5Mac
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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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XDA Developers, GeekWire, Engadget, New York Post, Voicebot.ai, and TechSpot
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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.| 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: @jerrycap, @wsj, @wsjmarkets, and @anthony
| Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop: |
White House announces the US Digital Corps, a two-year fellowship aiming to recruit early-career software engineers and other technologists to federal agencies — The White House launched a two-year fellowship Monday designed to place early-career software engineers, data scientists and other technologists at federal agencies.| 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.
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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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| 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
| 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, Decrypt, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @rileyseanm, @jeremyjenson_, @alexmetaverse, @pythianism, and @zoink
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple's planned satellite capabilities for the iPhone are focused on emergencies, enabling texts and crisis reports in areas without cellular coverage — - Apple plans an emergency-reporting tool for future iPhones — Apple Inc.'s push to bring satellite capabilities to the iPhone …
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Tweets: @saschasegan, @markgurman, @erratarob, @benbajarin, @rjonesy, @tmfassociates, @markgurman, @trengriffin, @ronamadeo, @erratarob, @erratarob, @davegershgorn, @erratarob, @erratarob, @erratarob, @erratarob, @erratarob, @erratarob, @erratarob, @jcenters, @erratarob, @erratarob, @erratarob, @jcenters, @jcenters, @jcenters, and @jcenters
| 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 … | Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg: |
A flaw in Go Ethereum, used to verify transactions, has been fixed after it caused about half of the Ethereum ecosystem to split into a separate chain — - Ethereum blockchain was divided by mistake in client software — Network patch swiftly stabilized the blockchain system| 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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| 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.
Tweets: @zoeschiffer, @carnage4life, @braydenk, @josheidelson, @tim_stevens, @rebekahlsanders, @da_banks, @seyiakiwowo, @johnbattelle, and @pinboard
| 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 … | Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Snap Raise, a Seattle-based startup that helps high school teams and clubs with digital fundraising, raises $90M, bringing its total raised to date to $114.8M — Talk about reaching your fundraising goal. — Snap Raise, the Seattle-based startup that helps high school teams and clubs …
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| Reuters: |
Russia's Yandex says it will buy Uber's stakes in their joint foodtech, delivery, and self-driving businesses in a $1B deal — Russian internet giant Yandex (YNDX.O) said on Tuesday it would buy Uber's (UBER.N) stakes in their joint foodtech, delivery and self-driving businesses …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Indian ride-hailing company Ola is seeking to raise about $1B at an $8B+ valuation in a Mumbai IPO; source says the filing could arrive by October — - Citigroup, Kotak Mahindra, Morgan Stanley are on the listing — Startup to seek valuation of more than $8 billion in the IPO
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| 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 … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
State media says China is restricting online gaming for minors to three hours most weeks of the year, from 8pm to 9pm on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays — - The country is imposing its strictest limits yet on play time — Beijing is waging a campaign to groom productive youths
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| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
As ad revenue surges, Alphabet shares are up 65% over 2021, and up more than 7% in August to reach a record high of $2,891.81, the longest rally since 2009 — - Shares are poised for their eighth straight month of gains — Yearly rise nearly twice as much as Facebook, MicrosoftSponsor Posts
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