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Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January 2023; Tan will step away from his role at his firm Initialized Capital — Y Combinator has tapped an outsider as its next president — sort of. — The storied Bay Area-based accelerator …
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| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
Crypto coin AVAX fell 10%+ after a self-described whistleblower said Avalanche weaponized litigation against rivals; CEO calls it “conspiracy theory nonsense” — Ava Labs CEO rejected the accusation as “conspiracy theory nonsense.” — Ava Labs CEO rejected the accusation as “conspiracy theory nonsense.”
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Meta partners with JioMart, an e-commerce venture between Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms, to launch a grocery shopping service on WhatsApp in India — Meta and an e-commerce venture between Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms are bringing JioMart grocery shopping to WhatsApp …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Snap adds a Dual Camera feature to Snapchat for iOS, letting users capture photos and videos using their phone's front-facing and rear cameras simultaneously — Snapchat is the latest app to add dual camera functionality. The app is launching the “Dual Camera” recording feature … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
FTC sues app analytics and data broker company Kochava, saying it sells data revealing “people's visits to reproductive health clinics, places of worship”, more — Data could identify people seeking abortions — The Federal Trade Commission has sued app analytics firm Kochava …
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Musk will likely focus more on “Mudge” Zatko's claims about Twitter's security practices instead of bots, potentially a better way to fight the acquisition deal — Musk v. Twitter — A month ago, Elon Musk's fight with Twitter Inc. was a merger dispute.
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| Sara Guaglione / Digiday: |
Apple says the number of Apple Podcast subscribers grew by 300%+ since June 2021 and 25%+ of the top 100 shows in its Top Shows chart now offer a subscription — Dateline, NBC's true crime newsmagazine show, is offering a paid podcast subscription through Apple's in-app product starting today.
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Tweets: @datelinenbc, @digiday, and @joshmankiewicz
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China opened corruption probes in July 2022 into some top executives in its semiconductor industry, as it rethinks its gold rush approach to chip self-reliance — Wearing a laboratory coat, China's top leader, Xi Jinping, inspected a subsidiary of Yangtze Memory Technologies Company, a national semiconductor company based in Wuhan.
Tweets: @rob_schmitz, @liyuan6, @davemcclure, @brianmannadk, @yangxifan, @neysunm, @andreasharsono, @pstasiatech, and @nytimes
| Yashu Gola / Cointelegraph: |
DappRadar: OpenSea processed nearly $5M of NFT transactions on August 28, down ~99% from a $405.75M high on May 1; Bored Ape Yacht Club's floor price fell 53% — An ongoing debt crisis at lending platform BendDAO is also increasing the risks of the NFT bubble going bust. — 463 Total views| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Reliance Jio, which has 421M+ subscribers, plans to spend $25B to launch a 5G network in October 2022 and expand to “every town” in India by the end of 2023 — Reliance Jio Infocomm, India's top telecom mobile operator, has earmarked a spending of $25 billion on the rollout …
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Reuters, Livemint, Moneycontrol, Social Media Today, TechCircle, RCR Wireless News, Bloomberg, BGR India, and NDTV
Tweets: @munsifv, @shobz, @reutersus, @adityakalra, and @varunkrish
| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: |
Microsoft to revise its licensing terms in the EU on October 1 to make it cheaper to run its software on rival cloud providers, following EU antitrust scrutiny — Responding to a three-year-old complaint, Microsoft today said that it would fix its unfair licensing terms in the EU.
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iTnews, The Register, Bloomberg, Reuters, ZDNet, and FOSS Patents
Tweets: @judsonalthoff, @mseurope, @arekfurt, @mspartner, and @azure
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Gabe Leydon, a co-founder of free-to-play game studio Machine Zone that sold to AppLovin for $600M, raised $200M in 2021 for blockchain game startup Limit Break — Gabe Leydon was a pioneer of free-to-play mobile games at Machine Zone, which was sold for $600 million in 2020 to AppLovin.Sponsor Posts
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