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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
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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Tweets: @markscott82, @robinberjon, @adrianweckler, @cillian, @hhariri, @profcarroll, @maxschrems, @estelmp, @estelmp, @carissaveliz, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @markscott82, @evamaydell, @jason_kint, @markscott82, @willgoodbody, @daithaigilbert, @jason_kint, @johnnyryan, @dpcireland, @noybeu, @ronmknox, @samschech, @samschech, @markscott82, @samschech, and @markscott82
| 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 …
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Japan Fair Trade Commission, The Guardian, Telecoms.com, The Hill, Six Colors, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, BBC, Wccftech, The Mac Observer, New York Post, TechSpot, Nieman Lab, Redmond Pie, Thurrott, Inc42 Media, HotHardware.com News, PCMag, Forbes, PYMNTS.com, techadvisor.com, iThinkDifferent, WRAL TechWire, Barron's Online, GamesIndustry.biz, and 9to5Mac
| The Verge: |
Apple's updated rules allowing web signup links appear to apply only to apps that don't make much money for Apple, like Netflix and Spotify — It's for apps that don't make Apple any money anyways — While vocal app developers accused Apple last week of spinning a lawsuit settlement …
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, The Information, Ars Technica, New York Times, world.hey.com, Michael Tsai, XDA Developers, KnowTechie, Protocol, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, MediaNama, MacRumors, and GeekWire
| 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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The Verge, MobileSyrup, The Hill, Mashable, Appleosophy, Gizmodo, Social Media Today, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Android Central, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @stevesi, @caseynewton, @dragnet_news, @markgurman, @patrickruffini, @brooklynmarie, @fmanjoo, @hshaban, @marshacollier, @gus_jordm, @caseynewton, @kellycrandall, @fancytomboy, @tomgara, @tomwarren, @db, @get_innocuous, @mattnavarra, @reneritchie, @eliasmakos, @backlon, @kurtwagner8, and @martinsfp
| 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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AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, iMore, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Inc42 Media, iThinkDifferent, Game Developer, and Associated Press
| 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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Cointelegraph and Collisions
Tweets: @zoink, @vitalikbuterin, @dhof, @coindesk, @moesalih_, @chrismessina, @carbono_com, @not3lau_capital, @wrappedstrikers, and @popo
| 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 …
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The Verge. Tweets: @sheila_dang, @martinavila, @cortessteve, @reutersbiz, @reutersbiz, and @mdudas
| 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 … | 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.| 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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Facebook Gaming, Billboard, About Facebook, Social Media Today, Protocol, and Engadget
Tweets: @ricker666, @officialofchase, and @facebookgaming
| 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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PCMag, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Detroit News, The Hill, CNBC, Automotive News, Reuters, TechSpot, Associated Press, USA Today, and New York Times
Tweets: @repdebdingell, @hplemke, and @stephenfleming
| 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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Wired, Creator Hype, Eurogamer.net, PC Gamer, GamesIndustry.biz, GameSpot, and Tubefilter
Tweets: @wired, @dantelfer, @cecianasta, @cecianasta, and @cecianasta
| 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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Decrypt and The Block
Tweets: @andrewbusey, @chrisfralic, @openoutcrier, @brianroemmele, @bazcap, @neerajka, and @ryandoofy
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Texas' abortion law creates new legal challenges and risks for tech companies, such as subpoenas requesting user data or providing on-demand rides to clinics — With the Supreme Court deciding not to block Texas' effective ban on abortion this week, fears have been rightly focused on the people … | 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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Silicon Valley Business …, Forbes, Axios, Callin, Fortune, and PR Newswire
Tweets: @cameron, @romeensheth, @jason, @greenspringvc, @theallinpod, @leishman, @cnbctechcheck, @davidsacks, @davidsacks, and @clintbetts
| Insider: |
Sources: Amazon will launch their 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.Thanks:@jpmanga
| 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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Dallas Morning News, USA Today, CNET, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Insider, Austin American-Statesman, and CNBC
Tweets: @pardesoteric, @eff, @issielapowsky, @mmasnick, @mhbergen, @meganmorrone, @issielapowsky, @gerritd, and @issielapowsky
| 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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Roblox Blog. Tweets: @tayhatmaker, @tayhatmaker, @gavinsbaker, @panzer, @tayhatmaker, @michaelsayman, @bloxy_news, and @casualeffects. Thanks:@samanthaspielm1
| 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 … | 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.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook says it helped airlift 175 Afghan citizens out of Afghanistan to Mexico, including journalists and some of its own employees — Facebook on Wednesday confirmed that it was part of an effort to fly 175 Afghan citizens out of Afghanistan to Mexico, including some of its own employees, according to a statement provided to Axios.
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Government of Mexico, Reuters, People.com, ANI News, and Daily Mail
Tweets: @glennbeck, @cameronwilson, @samfbiddle, and @sree
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
YouTube Music reached 50M paying subscribers in August, up from 30M paid music and premium subscribers that YouTube had reported in October 2020 — Google-owned platforms have grown rapidly to become serious streaming competitor — YouTube's paid music streaming services have amassed 50m subscribers …
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YouTube Official Blog, MobileSyrup, The Verge, Android Police, Variety, Input, phonearena.com, Android Headlines, Wccftech, Tubefilter, CNET, Billboard, Digital Music News, Thurrott, Android Central, and Tech Xplore
Tweets: @lucas_shaw, @rkyncl, @nealmohan, @mattnavarra, and @dailymaverick
| Coco Liu / Bloomberg: |
Following Tencent, Alibaba pledges ~$15.5B over five years towards China's “common prosperity” vision, spreading the money across 10 initiatives — - E-commerce giant to devote 100 billion yuan to societal good — Alibaba joins tech giants in backing Xi Jinping's key priority| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
A look at Alfi, which plans to use facial detection to target ads in public places based on age, gender, and ethnicity; activists say the tech invites abuse — The artificial intelligence software company uses metrics like age and gender to target highly specific ads to people in public places
Tweets: @counternotions and @brodyford_
| Kait Sanchez / The Verge: |
Twitter launches Super Follows for iOS, letting a select group of US test users charge either $2.99, $4.99, or $9.99 per month for their tweets — Select users in the US can now charge for tweets — Twitter is starting to roll out Super Follows, its new feature that lets users charge for subscriber-only content.
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Twitter. More:
MacRumors, TechSpot, Android Headlines, FinLedger, MediaNama, PCMag, and iMore
Tweets: @wongmjane, @superfollows, @grady_booch, @krzyzanowskim, @zhugeex, and @jtwdesign
| 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 …
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Microsoft. More:
Phandroid, Android Authority, Android Headlines, t3.com, Windows Central, and PCWorld. Tweets: @microsoft
| Tom Krisher / Associated Press: |
NHTSA sends Tesla a letter asking for detailed information on how Autopilot detects and responds to parked emergency vehicles as part of a wider investigation — DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government's highway safety agency wants detailed information on how Tesla's Autopilot system detects …
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New York Times, Ars Technica, and Benzinga
Tweets: @zerohedge, @nspector4, @plainsite, @lorakolodny, and @faizsays
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