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Google says it will let Android app developers use alternative billing systems in the Google Play store in South Korea, complying with a new law — Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it will add the option for developers to offer alternative billing systems on its Android app store in South Korea …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram brings back support for Twitter Card previews after removing the feature in 2012 — Instagram is bringing back support for Twitter Card previews starting today. Now when users share an Instagram link on Twitter, a preview of the post will be shown in the tweet.
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Livemint, Android Police, The Verge, Pocketnow, Protocol, KnowTechie, The Overspill, iMore, TechRadar, Digital Trends, Observer, Social Media Today, MobileSyrup, PetaPixel, iDownloadBlog.com, TalkAndroid.com, Mashable, and 9to5Mac
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta announces new Facebook creator tools, including custom subscription links that use its native payments system to bypass Apple and Google's IAP cut — The change is specifically about circumventing Apple's 30 percent tax, according to Zuckerberg — Facebook has found a way to skirt Apple's 30 percent tax on in-app transactions.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @fbforcreators, @mikeisaac, @eric_seufert, @muchiriimike, @stonemountain64, @kyurieff, @bettemidler, @oakleyboiii, @zerohedge, @bestpinoza, @kattenbarge, @kattenbarge, @kattenbarge, @omri_legacy, @jaredfps, @epro, @btj_games, @skasriel, @alexeheath, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, and @wongmjane
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
FCC approves Boeing's application to deploy and operate satellites providing broadband internet to US consumers and business; application was filed in 2017 — According to the FCC, Boeing plans on using the satellite internet system to supply broadband to residential, commercial, and government customers.
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| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
PitchBook: female-founded startups raised a record $40.4B across 2,661 VC deals in the first three quarters of 2021, with the value of exits reaching $59B — The pandemic took a toll on female founders in 2020: Funding to their companies fell 3% even in a bullish startup climate that saw overall venture funding rise by 16%.
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| Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
Meta will retain some of its facial recognition systems, including its DeepFace model, and plans to incorporate biometrics into its metaverse products — The social network is scaling back facial recognition, but similar technology could show up in the metaverse.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Mythical Games, which is developing a game platform with “playable NFTs”, raises $150M led by a16z at a $1.25B valuation, four months after raising $75M — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo says it doesn't see “component shortages recovering” at the moment as it cuts Switch sales target from 25.5M to 24M for FY 2021 — - Company upgrades operating profit outlook citing FX rates — Sustaining sales momentum will depend heavily on OLED model
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| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
US-based game publisher Devolver Digital raises around $261M in a London IPO, at a valuation of about $950M — Fall Guys publisher is biggest US firm to trade on AIM, Sony Interactive Entertainment makes 5% investment in Devolver — Devolver Digital has begun trading on AIM …
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| New York Times: |
Google is aggressively pursuing a major cloud computing and AI contract with the Pentagon, three years after employee outcry ended similar work on Project Maven — Three years ago, the company walked away from a Defense Department project after employees objected to it.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Cloudbeds, which makes management software for the hospitality industry, raises a $150M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, bringing total funding to $253M — As U.S. hotel occupancy hit pre-pandemic levels this summer, the hospitality industry is bracing for what is expected to be a rush of activity as people resume travel.| PYMNTS.com: |
Klarna to acquire PriceRunner, a product and price comparison service, for ~$124M as it looks to strengthen its buy now, pay later service — Klarna announced on Tuesday (Nov. 2) that it will acquire U.K.-based price comparison service PriceRunner for 1.06 billion Swedish crowns ($124.36 million) … | Chunying Zhang / Bloomberg: |
Chinese self-driving startup Momenta raises $200M from investors including SAIC and Jack Ma's Yunfeng Capital, bringing its total raised this year to ~$1.2B — - Latest funding takes total raised this year to $1.2 billion — Investors include auto giants GM, Toyota; Singapore's Temasek| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Google strikes a cloud deal with CME and invests $1B in the futures exchange — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has invested $1 billion in futures-exchange giant CME Group Inc. and struck a deal to move the company's core trading systems to the cloud. — Under the deal, the technology giant's Google Cloud unit … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A look at Match Group's plans for Tinder and Explore, including an expansion of virtual goods that incentivize engagement and a metaverse-like dating platform — Tinder has already undergone a big revamp with its recent launch of “Explore,” a new section inside the app that will enable … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down on November 15; Thomas Dohmke, who became chief product officer in August, will take over as CEO — GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down from his role on November 15 to become the Chairman Emeritus of the Microsoft-owned service.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
US sanctions four companies, including NSO Group, that sell spyware or hacking tools, adding them to a list of entities engaging in “malicious cyber activities” — The US government has sanctioned today four companies that develop and sell spyware and other hacking tools, the US Department of Commerce announced today.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Fountain, which provides an applicant tracking system for hourly workers, raises a $85M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, bringing total funding to $119M — You may have visited some quick-service restaurants or other retailers in the past few months and noticed signs posted … Thanks:@christinemhall
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PubNub, which provides messaging, presence, and other data-based APIs for apps, raises a $65M Series E led by Raine Group, bringing its total funding to $130M+ — Data streams with continual, real-time updates of information are a critical building block of how apps and sites function today … | Bloomberg: |
Sources say Masayoshi Son's profit-sharing plan for Vision Fund employees is contributing to a stream of defections, because it is based primarily on seniority — Ever since billionaire investor Masayoshi Son set up the giant Vision Fund in 2017 to provide backing for technology startups …
Tweets: @gilliantan and @pelstrom
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Internal documents shed light on Facebook's “holdout” experiments, where it withholds certain protections from a subset of users to see how they will react — In her testimony before Congress last month, whistleblower Frances Haugen told lawmakers Facebook has conducted experiments …
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