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Google unveils Pixel 6, with 6.4" FHD+ 90Hz display, and Pixel 6 Pro, with 6.7" QHD+ 120Hz display and 4x optical zoom, featuring a Google-designed Tensor SoC — Google's new Tensor SoC is the heart of its next phone — Google is announcing the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro today …
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| Greg Ahlstrand / CoinDesk: |
Square reports Q2 revenue of $4.88B, up 143% YoY; Cash App's bitcoin yearly revenue was $2.72B, up 200%, as Square's bitcoin holdings had a $45M impairment loss — Cash App's bitcoin gross profit rose to $55 million, Square said in its Q2 letter to shareholders.
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Square says it's buying Australia-based buy now, pay later service Afterpay for $29B in an all-stock deal, paying a 30% premium on Afterpay's last closing — U.S. fintech company Square Inc (SQ.N) said on Monday it had agreed to purchase Australian buy now/pay later giant Afterpay Ltd …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
YouTube trials Premium Lite subscription for €6.99/month, offering ad-free viewing across all major platforms, currently available in Europe — Currently being piloted in parts of Europe — Google is piloting a more affordable premium subscription tier for YouTube …
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Female journalists and activists share how they were targeted and harassed by authoritarian regimes through hack-and-leak attacks using the Pegasus spyware — Ghada Oueiss, a Lebanese broadcast journalist at Al-Jazeera, was eating dinner at home with her husband last June when she received …
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| Politico: |
Pro-Trump social network GETTR is awash with Islamic State propaganda, including graphic videos of beheadings and memes of a militant executing Trump — GETTR, the new platform started by members of the former president's inner circle, is awash with beheading videos and extremist content.
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| New Statesman: |
Investigation: in the last five years, six EU academic institutes received tens of millions of pounds in funding from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — The search giant has provided tens of millions of pounds of funding to academics investigating issues closely related to its business model.| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
A now-deleted tweet by an Intel executive suggests Thunderbolt 5 could double the bandwidth of existing Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 connections to 80 Gbps — An executive visiting various research divisions across the globe isn't necessarily new, but with a focus on social media driving named individuals … | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researchers say a collection of nine vulnerabilities impact pneumatic tube systems installed in ~80% of all major US hospitals — Details have been published today about a collection of nine vulnerabilities known as PwnedPiper that impact common a type of medical equipment that's installed …
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Following the UK's CMA, European Commission is launching an investigation into Facebook's acquisition of Kustomer with a deadline of December 22 for a ruling — - EU sets Dec. 22 deadline to examine customer-service software — EU will also examine Facebook's ad-targeting “data advantage”| Sifted: |
Current and former employees at German grocery delivery startup Gorillas describe arbitrary firings and exploitation of riders and warehouse workers — “It's like the new WeWork story,” says Ben*, who joined Gorillas' operations team last summer in Berlin. — The comparison to coworking company WeWork is a brutal one.
Tweets: @siftedeu, @fpratty, @mstothard, @davidbaratech, @hkanji, @mparts_, @mstothard, and @siftedeu
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Filings: Larry Page and Sergey Brin have sold a combined $1B+ in Google stock since May 2021, the most since 2017; Google's share price has since tripled — - Google founders and majority stakeholders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have sold more than $1 billion worth of stock combined since May.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Estonian ride hailing startup Bolt, formerly known as Taxify, raises $713M at a ~$4.75B valuation, led by Sequoia, Tekne, and Ghisallo — - Estonian ride-hailing start-up Bolt has raised $713 million in fresh funding to push into the rapidly-growing online grocery delivery industry.
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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Non-VC funds invested in a record 42% of tech startup funding deals in Q2 2021; H1 '21 US startup funding was $150B, with FY 2021 on pace to double 2020's total — Hedge, mutual and pension funds are investing heavily, leading to higher valuations and more leverage for company founders
Tweets: @mims, @heathersomervil, @timcohn, @jontreble, @amyssorrells, @sarahponczek, @dngusev, @notamitalegend, @mdudas, and @mv11151
| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources: FTC's lead economics expert in its antitrust case against Facebook, Carl Shapiro, has parted ways with the agency as it prepares to refile its case — Economics consultant Carl Shapiro, who hasn't commented on why he left the case, has a history of ideological differences with agency Chair Lina Khan.
Tweets: @florianederer, @leah_nylen, @politico, @cfcamerer, @lutherlowe, @leah_nylen, @leah_nylen, @scottlincicome, and @matthewstoller
| Marie Beaudette / Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood says 301,573 users participated in its IPO, representing about 1.3% of its 22.5M funded accounts as of June 30 — Buyers represented about 1.3% of the online brokerage's 22.5 million funded accounts — Hundreds of thousands of Robinhood Markets Inc.'s customers bought shares … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Zoom agrees to pay $85M and bolster its security practices to settle a class action lawsuit over alleged user privacy violations and Zoombombing — Zoom Video Communications Inc (ZM.O) agreed to pay $85 million and bolster its security practices to settle a lawsuit claiming …
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| The Economic Times: |
Fashinza, a B2B marketplace for apparel manufacturing, raises $20M Series A from Accel, Elevation Capital, and others — B2B manufacturing marketplace Fashinza on Monday said it has raised $20 million (about Rs 148.6 crore) in funding from investors, including Accel Partners, Elevation Capital and actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja.
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| Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal: |
New York City Council passes five bills aimed at reducing the power of food delivery platforms, including extending a cap on restaurant commissions to Feb. 2022 — New bills passed in New York City could curb some appeal of companies like Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats
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