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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says Arizona and Georgia will be first to support adding IDs to Wallet in iOS 15, with six states, including Utah, Maryland, and Iowa, expected to follow — Apple's plan to digitize your wallet is slowly taking shape. What started with boarding passes and venue tickets later became credit cards …
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Tweets: @reckless, @kytc, @stevekovach, @katienotopoulos, @govlarryhogan, @zackwhittaker, @mcwm, @reckless, @richontech, @joannastern, and @lanceulanoff
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Google is developing Arm-based chips for laptops and tablets that run on Chrome OS, set to launch around 2023 — US software giant ramps up hiring blitz for semiconductor and hardware ambitions — TAIPEI — Google is developing its own central processors for its notebook and tablet computers …
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SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Android Police, CRN, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Tom's Hardware, Gizmodo, CNBC, TechSpot, The Verge, The Mac Observer, TechRadar, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCMag, Barron's Online, Laptop Mag, HotHardware.com News, iPhone Hacks, Thurrott, Android Central, Gizchina, Engadget, phonearena.com, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, Chrome Unboxed, MSPoweruser, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, Phandroid, and Insider
Tweets: @mikepeeljourno and @chengtingfang
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces an online-only Surface hardware event for September 22, where an updated Surface Duo and Laptop are expected — New Surface hardware is on the way — Microsoft is holding a special Surface hardware event on September 22nd. The software maker has started sending media invites …
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Microsoft. More:
ZDNet, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup, PCMag, Laptop Mag, techadvisor.com, Gizmodo, TNW, Windows Central, Engadget, Thurrott, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @microsoft, @backlon, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
| Jarrod Doherty / Twitter: |
Twitter introduces Safety Mode, which blocks harassing accounts for seven days, in beta for some English-language accounts — Feeling safe on Twitter looks different for everyone. We've rolled out features and settings that may help you to feel more comfortable and in control of your experience … | Kait Sanchez / The Verge: |
Twitter launches Super Follows for iOS users, allowing a select group of US test users to charge either $2.99, $4.99, or $9.99 per month for their tweets — Select users in the US can now charge for tweets — Twitter is starting to roll out Super Follows, its new feature that lets users charge for subscriber-only content.
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Twitter, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Reuters, 9to5Mac, CNET, MobileSyrup, Engadget, Variety, and KnowTechie
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says it has asked all of its US employees to report their vaccination status voluntarily by mid-September, but stops short of mandating COVID-19 vaccines — - Company is still stopping short of mandating Covid-19 shots — It previously ramped up an optional virus testing program| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is planning to add health features, including a blood pressure monitor and thermometer to track fertility, to Watch as soon as 2022 — Tech giant seeks to push past obstacles in adding health features on your wrist — Apple Inc. is working on new health-related features for its smartwatch …
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The Verge, PYMNTS.com, iThinkDifferent, iMore, AppleInsider, KnowTechie, phonearena.com, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Tweets: @rolfewinkler, @tonyromm, @asymco, @jeffnolan, and @jetscott
| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to hire over 55,000 corporate employees globally, including over 40,000 in the US, a 20% increase in tech and corporate staff — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is planning to hire 55,000 people for corporate and technology roles globally in the coming months, Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Reuters.
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About Amazon, Benzinga, GeekWire, CNN, Bloomberg, Ladders, BBC, and CNBC
Tweets: @scottlincicome, @trengriffin, @twi_mar, @ajassy, @tomgara, and @bytimlogan
| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Profile of Li Jin, an aggressively pro-worker VC who founded Atelier Ventures, which manages $13M, to invest in influencer-related startups — Li Jin, 31, began backing creators years ago. She has raised her own fund to invest in influencer-related start-ups.
Tweets: @mr312, @wwshaef, @backseatvc, @jessewldn, @brooke, @cindygallop, @skupor, @hunterwalk, @patrickxrivera, @ljin18, @ljin18, @dealbook, and @mg
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
FTC's refiled Facebook suit does not offer market definitions reflective of reality, misunderstands ad markets, and highlights harms of regulatory interference — It is coming up on two weeks since the FTC refiled its case against Facebook;1 from the Wall Street Journal:
Tweets: @sarthakgh, @robleathern, @stratechery, and @adamkovac
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Analysis: governments intentionally blocked internet access nearly 850 times in the past decade, including 213 shutdowns in 2019, 155 in 2020, and 50 in 2021 — A favorite tactic for stifling dissent in the 21st century — The number of government-led internet shutdowns has exploded …
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Jigsaw. More:
Protocol, Axios, Fast Company, The Hill, and Access Now
Tweets: @abramowitz, @raju, @torproject, @rankingrights, @joshdcaplan, @justinhendrix, @jangles, @issielapowsky, @accessnow, @jigsaw, @jaredcohen, @accessnow, @accessnow, and @accessnow
| Oscar Gonzalez / CNET: |
Reddit bans r/NoNewNormal, its largest anti-vax subreddit, for harassing other communities, following weeks of user moderators asking Reddit admins to ban it — It's also putting 54 other subreddits in quarantine. … Last week, more than a thousand subreddit's posted the same message calling … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
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The Guardian, Gizmodo, and Insider
Tweets: @benwhitelaw, @backlon, @karissabe, @benwhitelaw, @hypervisible, and @kebrightbill
| Financial Times: |
SEC's Gary Gensler says crypto trading platforms need to work with regulators to survive, as most trading happens with “really sparse” investor protections — Gary Gensler warns $2tn industry is too big to exist outside of ‘public policy framework’
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The Block, CoinDesk, europarl.europa.eu, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Cryptonews, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @jerrybrito, @sub8u, @jreade_wgc, @evamaydell, @deepakmohoni, @jp_koning, @katelouisemarie, and @c1aranmurray
| Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: |
How Ethereum's increase in value, up 350% this year, and the rise of NFTs and DeFi have dampened enthusiasm for Bitcoin as the most essential crypto — - Ether has gained 350% this year versus Bitcoin's 60% advance — August marked Ether's second monthly rise and best since April
Tweets: @crypto
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A look at the implications of South Korea's alternative app store payment law: confusion for non-technical users, difficulty managing subscriptions, and more — Apple, in a statement to MacRumors (and other media outlets), regarding South Korea's just-passed “Google power-abuse-prevention law” …
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Livemint, Game Developer, and Truth on the Market
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Intuit is in talks to buy Mailchimp for more than $10B; Mailchimp has also considered offering a minority stake and another buyer could still emerge — Intuit Inc., the software company that owns TurboTax, is in talks to buy email marketing startup Mailchimp for more than $10 billion …
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Silicon Valley Business …, TechSpot, and Slashdot
Tweets: @newsynick, @sadbillackman, and @jasonlk
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Telegram releases an update that removes the cap on live stream viewers, from 1,000 to unlimited, introduces more options for forwarding messages, and more — Along with more forwarding options — Telegram, the messaging app that's becoming more and more like a fully-fledged social media network …
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Telegram. More:
Windows Central, Droid Life, XDA Developers, MacRumors, and phonearena.com
Tweets: @abebrown716, @telegram, @vboykis, and @telegram
| Joe Williams / Protocol: |
Sources: Andy Jassy overruled an internal recommendation to fire a top AWS executive after a probe of claims the executive made discriminatory comments in 2019 — The parameters of the case involving AWS' Joshua Burgin are similar to other ones filed by current and former AWS executives.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is launching Facebook Fantasy Games in the US and Canada, available free on the Facebook app — Facebook is getting into fantasy sports and other types of fantasy games. The company this morning announced the launch of Facebook Fantasy Games in the U.S. and Canada on the Facebook app for iOS and Android.
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About Facebook. More:
9to5Mac, Engadget, and Tubefilter
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @stevenisbell, and @jamesliamcook
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Report: Amazon runs 164 flights per day on average to move stock in the US, up 17% over the past six months; 70% of Americans live near an Amazon Air presence — Amazon Air's operations have expanded rapidly during the pandemic — Amazon's presence in the skies continues to grow rapidly …
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College of Liberal Arts … and Benzinga. Tweets: @patrickmcgee_
| Zinnia Lee / Forbes: |
Malaysian used car marketplace Carsome Group raises $170M from MediaTek and others at a $1.3B valuation, making it Malaysia's largest tech startup — Carsome Group, an online platform for buying and selling used cars, said on Wednesday that it had become Malaysia's largest tech unicorn …
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Reuters and Tech in Asia
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Didi is helping workers establish their first union, likely including drivers, as China imposes rules to curb excessive work — - Its first-ever workers union came after Supreme Court's notice — Meituan is among peers considering labor rights issues| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Insurify, which has built an ML-based virtual insurance agent to help people get better rates, raises $100M Series B led by Motive Partners — How many of us have not switched insurance carriers because we don't want to deal with the hassle of comparison shopping? — A lot, I'd bet.
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FinSMEs and Business Wire
| Julie Zhu / Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese state-backed firms are set to take an 80%+ stake in Ant Group's credit scoring joint venture, potentially gaining access to data of 1B+ users — State-backed firms are set to take a sizeable stake in a key Ant Group asset for the first time, three people told Reuters …
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The Economic Times and Benzinga
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Humane, a hardware and software startup run by two ex-Apple executives that is currently in stealth, raises $100M Series B led by Tiger Global — A stealthy startup co-founded by a former senior designer from Apple and one of its ex-senior software engineers has picked up a significant round funding to build out its business.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Code Climate, which offers software engineering project management tools, raises $50M Series C from PSG, USV, and others — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! — Code Climate, a platform …
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FinSMEs and Business Wire
| Matthew Monks / Bloomberg: |
Samsara, a cloud-based fleet vehicle management service, says it has confidentially filed for an IPO; Samsara raised $400M at a $5.4B valuation last year — Samsara Inc., a software company valued at $5.4 billion last year, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering.
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Reuters
| The Tutanota Blog: |
Australia passes bill that lets police hack user devices to modify, collect, or delete data and take over social media accounts without a judge's warrant — The Microsoft database hack shows that data stored in the cloud must always be encrypted end-to-end.
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The Guardian and Sydney Morning Herald
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