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Apple will let developers of “reader” apps worldwide link to a website to set up or manage accounts early next year, closing an antitrust investigation by Japan — Apple will let developers of “reader” apps around the world link to an external website to set up or manage an account beginning early next year
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple is facing an antitrust investigation in India over forcing developers to use its in-app payment system — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is facing an antitrust challenge in India for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the apps market by forcing developers to use its proprietary …
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| The Verge: |
Apple's updated rules allowing web signup links appear to apply only to apps that don't make much money for Apple, like Netflix and Spotify — It's for apps that don't make Apple any money anyways — While vocal app developers accused Apple last week of spinning a lawsuit settlement …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Economic Times, and CNBC
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission, on behalf of the EU, fines WhatsApp €225M for privacy violations, the second-largest under GDPR; WhatsApp will appeal — Regulators say chat-service unit failed to disclose fully how it collected and shared data about its users
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple begins prompting iOS 15 users for consent to enable Personalized Ads for their Apple ID, which was previously on by default and led to antitrust scrutiny — For iOS 15 users, Apple has begun prompting for their consent to enable Personalized Ads for their Apple ID …
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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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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter is testing new privacy-focused tools, including archiving and hiding old tweets and editing follower lists, as part of a “social privacy” push — - Features give users more control over who sees which posts — ‘Social privacy’ push targets reputation, identity management
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Roblox adds voice chat, initially in some games as “spatial audio” where players chat with others around them, and plans a Discord-like persistent voice chat — As one the frontrunners in the race to build the metaverse, Roblox is thinking ahead to what virtual worlds really need.
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Roblox Blog. Tweets: @tayhatmaker, @bloxy_news, @tayhatmaker, and @panzer. Thanks:@samanthaspielm1
| Coco Liu / Bloomberg: |
Following Tencent, Alibaba pledges ~$15.5B over five years towards China's “common prosperity” vision, spreading the money across 10 initiatives — - E-commerce giant to devote 100 billion yuan to societal good — Alibaba joins tech giants in backing Xi Jinping's key priority
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Facebook Gaming expands its program that lets streamers play some copyrighted music during live streams from 1,000 to 100,000 streamers — A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next. — Facebook Gaming is expanding streamers' access to a library …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook says it helped airlift 175 Afghan citizens out of Afghanistan to Mexico, including journalists and some of its own employees — Facebook on Wednesday confirmed that it was part of an effort to fly 175 Afghan citizens out of Afghanistan to Mexico, including some of its own employees, according to a statement provided to Axios.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Callin, a social audio app founded by David Sacks that offers tools for turning live recordings into podcasts, raises $12M Series A led by Sequoia and others — As live audio becomes more and more popular, co-founders David Sacks (former COO of PayPal and CEO of Yammer) …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Jeeves, which is building tools to help startups manage expenses, raises $57M Series B at a $500M valuation, after raising $31M equity and $100M debt in June — The founders of a dozen unicorn companies join VCs in Series B — Last summer, Jeeves was participating in Y Combinator's summer batch as a fledgling fintech.
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BetaKit and PR Newswire
| Ben Bowman / The Streamable: |
Locast, which retransmits live TV, halts operations after lawsuit by ABC and others led a judge to revoke its nonprofit status, which offers copyright exemption — In a terse email to users this morning, Locast announced it was suspending operations entirely.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Associated Press, BetaNews, Light Reading, Engadget, The Verge, Broadcasting Cable, and Deadline
Tweets: @locastorg, @andrewmartonik, @jrmcgrail, and @eff
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
A look at Alfi, which plans to use facial detection to target ads in public places based on age, gender, and ethnicity; activists say the tech invites abuse — The artificial intelligence software company uses metrics like age and gender to target highly specific ads to people in public places
Tweets: @brodyford_
| Erhan Kahraman / Cointelegraph: |
Simba Chain, which provides a blockchain-based smart contract service to several US defense organizations, raises $25M Series A led by Valley Capital — The $25 million funding round, led by Valley Capital Partners, would enable Simba Chain to dedicate resources to new trends in the blockchain space.
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GlobeNewswire News Room, SiliconANGLE, and CoinDesk
| Tom Krisher / Associated Press: |
NHTSA sends Tesla a letter asking for detailed information on how Autopilot detects and responds to parked emergency vehicles as part of a wider investigation — DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government's highway safety agency wants detailed information on how Tesla's Autopilot system detects …
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New York Times, Benzinga, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Business of Business, and CNBC
Tweets: @lorakolodny, @faizsays, and @plainsite
| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Source: the DOJ is preparing to file a second antitrust lawsuit against Google by the end of this year, targeting Google's digital ads business — U.S. antitrust officials are preparing a second monopoly lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.'s Google over the company's digital advertising business …
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New York Times, Thurrott, and Fast Company
Tweets: @willis_cap, @jason_kint, @rustybrick, @aripap, and @volatilitywiz
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Filing: SEC sues Satish Kumbhani, the founder of now-defunct BitConnect, and a promoter over alleged $2B crypto fraud scheme; Kumbhani's location is unknown — The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday sued the founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform BitConnect …
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U.S. Securities …. More:
CoinDesk, Wall Street Journal, CoinJournal, Cryptonews, cryptodaily.co.uk, and Forkast
Tweets: @secgov, @collins_belton, @denverbitcoin, @steve_hanke, @zmanian, and @finplankaluaja1
| New York Times: |
Despite promoting an inclusive image, former Alibaba staff say casual sexism is common; sources say Alibaba fired 10 staff for leaking info on a rape allegation — A rape accusation at the Chinese e-commerce giant has shed light on a work culture that some former employees say is humiliating and toxic.
Tweets: @letahong, @nytimes, and @nytimesbusiness
| Luca Bertuzzi / Euractiv: |
EU court rules that “zero tariff” offers from Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom that offer unlimited streaming violate EU roaming and net neutrality rules — The EU court ruled on Thursday (2 September) that unlimited streaming offers from Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom violate EU roaming and net neutrality rules.
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Reuters and Telecoms.com
| 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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Windows Central, Android Authority, t3.com, PCWorld, Phandroid, Softpedia News, Android Headlines, and Pureinfotech. Tweets: @microsoft
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Panorama, which provides K-12 education software to 50 of the largest 100 school districts in the US, raises $60M Series C, bringing total funding to $105M — Panorama Education, which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic.
Tweets: @aaronfeuer, @generalatlantic, and @jeff
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Swedish startup Stravito, which offers cloud-based market research tools, raises €12.4M Series A led by Endeit Capital — Market research and insights are often underutilized assets for enterprises but it's usually too hard to find content and there's a lot of duplication, or information isn't used well.
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FinSMEs, EU-Startups, PR Newswire, and Tech.eu
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Botify, which offers AI-powered SEO tools, raises $55M Series C led by InfraVia Growth, bringing total funding to $82M — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! — Botify, provider of search engine optimization tools …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Solv, a provider of same-day and next-day appointment software for health care providers, raises $45M Series C co-led by Acrew Capital and Corner Ventures — Solv, a provider of same-day and next-day appointment software for health care providers, tells Axios that it's raised $45 million in new venture capital funding.
Tweets: @bgurley
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