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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Snap eliminates Snapchat's speed filter, which let users show how fast they were moving, after a US court ruled that Snap could be sued for a fatal car crash — The maker of the Snapchat app is eliminating a feature known as the “speed filter” that lets users capture how fast they are moving …
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Protocol, SiliconANGLE, iMore, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed News, phonearena.com, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, MUO, Engadget, and The Hill
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Researchers: encryption algorithm GEA-1, used in GPRS data in 2G networks, was deliberately weakened by its designers; ETSI blames export regulations — A new paper shows that two old encryption algorithms still used in mobile networks can be exploited to spy on phones' internet traffic.| Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: |
Emails from 2016 show Ring provided ~100 LAPD officers with free devices or discount codes and encouraged them to promote its devices to fellow LAPD, the public — In a bid to bolster its claims as a crime-fighting tool, Ring deployed a tactic popular in the business world: influencer marketing.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Insider, The Verge, and Input
Tweets: @normative, @jmbooyah, @mguariglia, @jmbooyah, @hypervisible, @kevrector, @brooklynmarie, @latimes, @latimes, @eff, and @pringlelatimes
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will begin testing ads on Oculus headsets, starting with the shooter game Blaston, and won't use data stored on devices to target ads — - Facebook on Wednesday announced that it will begin testing advertisements that will appear within the company's Oculus virtual reality headsets.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Spotify has acquired Podz, a podcast discovery startup whose tech helps podcasters promote their show using ML to select 60-second clips of key moments — Podcasts are all the rage, but podcast discovery is a challenge. Today, Spotify announced its acquisition of Podz …
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| Ryan Barwick / Morning Brew: |
Study: 48% of ad traffic on “fake” news publishers and 32% of ad traffic on “low credibility sites” like Breitbart is served by Google — It's about a third for"low credibility" sites. … Fake news is a problem. Yet the sites that publish it keep surviving … | Joe Weisenthal / Bloomberg: |
Mark Cuban calls for stablecoin regulation, after trading Iron Finance's algorithmic stablecoin DeFi Titanium, which then crashed from $60 to $0 in a day — Here's a chart you never want to see. It's of the DeFi Titanium token, which in one day went from being valued around $60 to $0.| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Palmer Luckey's Anduril raises $450M Series D led by Elad Gil, with a16z and others participating; Anduril is now valued at $4.6B, up from $1.9B in July 2020 — The AI-powered defense company founded by tech iconoclast Palmer Luckey has landed a $450 million round of investment that values …
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Wise, previously known as TransferWise, plans to go public on the LSE via a direct listing, the first company to choose an alternative listing in the UK — - Founders, employees get extra voting rights for limited time — Direct listings are becoming more popular among U.S. startups
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CNBC, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Finbold, Coinspeaker, Finextra, and cryptodaily.co.uk
Tweets: @technation, @wsjmarkets, and @abhinavvr
| John Koblin / New York Times: |
Nielsen announces a new metric, The Gauge, to measure streaming viewing in ~14,000 US homes via hardware that watches internet traffic passing through a router — The company known for measuring television ratings said Netflix and YouTube are far ahead of their digital competitors in time watched on TVs …
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nielsen.com, The Verge, and CNBC
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches ads in Reels worldwide; the ads can be up to 30 seconds and vertical in format — Instagram Reels are getting ads. The company announced today it's launching ads in its short-form video platform and TikTok rival, Reels, to businesses and advertisers worldwide.
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The Verge, CNBC, Android Headlines, Tubefilter, Social Media Today, SlashGear, BGR India, Livemint, Engadget, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @varunmayya, @with_practice, @maxbalzer_, and @vgoud55
| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Profile of Doug Guthrie, an advocate for doing business in China who advised Apple from 2014-2019, as he now warns of the risks of China's nationalist turn — Doug Guthrie, once one of America's leading China bulls, rang the alarm on doing business there. He spoke about his time at Apple.
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Big Technology. Tweets: @liyuan6, @gwbstr, @jacknicas, @nytimesbusiness, @yaqiu, @jacknicas, @nytimes, and @trippmickle
| Laurel Deppen / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Leafly, which runs an online marketplace for cannabis, raises $23M from existing investors; Leafly has 120M annual visitors — Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace Leafly has closed $23 million in new funding, GeekWire confirmed with the company.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Transform, which develops tools for businesses to query and build metrics from data troves, comes out of stealth with $20M Series A, after $4.5M seed in 2020 — The biggest tech companies have put a lot of time and money into building tools and platforms for their data science teams …
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APK teardown of new version of Google Play Services suggests that Google is working to build an Android device network like Apple's Find My — Because Apple tightly controls the iOS ecosystem, they're able to build a massive, crowdsourced network of devices that can help locate other devices.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google says it is funding a project to increase Linux security by writing parts of the operating system's core in Rust — Google said Thursday it's funding a project to increase Linux security by writing parts of the operating system's core in the Rust programming language … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Unit, which helps companies build financial and banking products, raises $51M Series B led by Accel, bringing its total raises to ~$70M — We've all heard the phrase, “Every company is a fintech.” — But these days, that's becoming more and more true as an increasing number of companies …
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Unit - Blog, PYMNTS.com, Globes Online, FinLedger, Finextra, and CTech
Tweets: @unit_co_, @itaidamti, @joeoehmke, @sriramkri, @iankar_, @hserunjogi, @nikmilanovic, @emmalynshaw, @dionlisle, and @amitavner
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Neo4j, which offers a graph-centric database and related products, raises $325M Series F led by Eurazeo at a $2B+ valuation — Databases run the world, but database products are often some of the most mature and venerable software in the modern tech stack.
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VentureBeat, The Register, CRN, Database Trends …, Crunchbase News, and FinSMEs
Tweets: @maxniederhofer and @dannycrichton
| Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC: |
23andMe goes public via merger with a Richard Branson SPAC, raises $600M in IPO at a valuation of $3.5B; shares were up 21% on its first day at Nasdaq — - 23andMe, the genetic testing company that pioneered the business of personalized gene testing kits, traded higher in its public market debut under … | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Adobe beats in Q2 with revenue of $3.84B, up 23% YoY, vs est. of $3.73B, with YoY revenues of Digital Media up 25%, Creative up 24%, and Document Cloud up 30% — Adobe beat top and bottom-line expectations for the quarter, with cash flows from operations hitting a record $1.99 billion.
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Adobe Press Releases, SiliconANGLE, TheStreet, MarketWatch, Barron's Online, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, and Adobe
Tweets: @mukund and @jordannovet
| Simon Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
JPMorgan buys UK-based digital wealth manager Nutmeg, which has 140K+ customers and about $5B in assets under management; sources say deal is worth about $1B — Digital wealth manager Nutmeg has around 140,000 customers and $5 billion in assets — JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed …
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Finbold and PYMNTS.com
| Eric Geller / Politico: |
Senate confirms ex-NSA director Chris Inglis as national cyber director; Congress still has not funded his office, despite authorizing him to hire 75 employees — Inglis, a former NSA deputy director, will confront the mammoth task of streamlining the government's approach to a growing crisis.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
PUBG Mobile returns to Google Play Store in India with new name Battlegrounds Mobile India, after being banned for nine months on national security grounds — Krafton, which filed for an IPO earlier this week, has built a gigantic gaming empire. If the firm is able to raise the target $5 billion …
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