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Ireland's Data Protection Commission, on behalf of the EU, fines WhatsApp €225M for privacy violations, the second-largest fine 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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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple's planned VR/AR headset will need a wireless connection to an Apple device for full functionality; Apple completed work on VR/AR chips last year — New details of the custom chips designed by Apple for its forthcoming virtual reality and augmented reality headset indicate …
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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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| Anirban Sen / Reuters: |
Sources: Reddit is seeking to hire investment bankers and lawyers ahead of an IPO that may occur as soon as early 2022, following a $10B valuation in August — Reddit Inc, the operator of online message boards that became the go-to destination for day traders chasing this year's frenzy … | Andrew Thurman / CoinDesk: |
Dom Hofmann's Loot, with NFTs of random lists of items ostensibly from a fantasy video game, had $46M in sales in just 5 days, attaining a market cap of $180M+ — The latest non-fungible token (NFT) craze is among the simplest - and the strangest - yet: a randomly generated list …
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| Insider: |
Sources: Amazon will launch its own TV featuring Alexa software and without third-party manufacturer branding in the US, possibly as soon as October — - Amazon is planning to roll out its own Amazon-branded TV, Insider has learned. — A US launch is targeted for as soon as October.
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Indian non-profit Together We Fight Society has filed a complaint with the Competition Commission of India accusing Apple of anticompetitive App Store practices — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is facing an antitrust challenge in India for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the apps market … | The Verge: |
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| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Sources: AWS plans to hire content moderators to look for emerging extremist groups and remove content that violates its cloud service policies — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) plans to take a more proactive approach to determine what types of content violate its cloud service policies … | 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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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Gamesight data shows a dip in Twitch viewership on Wednesday, possibly 5%-15%, as some streamers took #ADayOffTwitch to bring awareness to “hate raids” — It seems as if the Twitch walkout was a success — Streamers took a day off Twitch on September 1st to bring attention …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Following Texas' abortion law, tech companies could face suits over providing on-demand rides to clinics, subpoenas requesting user data, and more — With the Supreme Court deciding not to block Texas' effective ban on abortion this week, fears have been rightly focused on the people in Texas …
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Tweets: @zittrain, @marybadthings, @lauragorsky, @gregabbott_tx, @jakelobin, and @lowkeykyrie
| Muyao Shen / CoinDesk: |
A doge meme NFT that sold for $4M in June is now valued at $225M+ after it was fractionalized into nearly 17B tokens and sold in a one-day auction — Just three months after a non-fungible token (NFT) representing an image of the original Shiba Inu dogecoin meme sold for about $4 million …
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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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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
General Motors says it is temporarily halting production at six of its North American factories due to the global chip shortage — ‘The situation remains complex and very fluid’ — General Motors, parent company of Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick, said it was temporarily halting production …
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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.| 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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| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Dallas-based Match Group creates a fund to help cover costs for staff and dependents who need care outside of Texas after the state's near-total ban on abortion — - Dubey says she felt compelled to speak out about her views — Fund would cover costs for those seeking care outside Texas
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| 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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Forbes, Axios, Callin, Silicon Valley Business …, and Fortune
Tweets: @davidsacks, @cameron, @romeensheth, @jason, @greenspringvc, @theallinpod, @leishman, @cnbctechcheck, and @davidsacks
| Reuters: |
Filings: NLRB is investigating two complaints by Apple employees, including one by senior engineering PM Ashley Gjøvik who alleges workplace harassment and more — The U.S. National Labor Relations Board is investigating two cases filed by employees against Apple, records on the agency's website show.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Neobank Point raises $46.5M Series B led by Valar Ventures, bringing its total raised to $60M — Challenger bank Point has raised a $46.5 million Series B funding round. The company offers an account associated with a debit card. And the startup positions itself as a premium debit card company … | 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 … | 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, @geoffreylitt, @generalatlantic, and @jeff
| Connor Smith / Barron's Online: |
HPE beats in Q3 with revenue of $6.9B, up 1% YoY, Intelligent Edge revenue of $867M, up 27% YoY, and HPC & MCS revenue of $741M, up 11% YoY — Hewlett Packard Enterprise beat earnings expectations during its fiscal third quarter, though sales came in a bit below expectations.Sponsor Posts
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