| 10:25 PM • | PYMNTS.com: Olo, a white label restaurant ordering service, acquires Wisely, which offers restaurant-focused customer intelligence products, for $187M in cash and stock |
| 10:00 PM • | Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: VideoAmp, which offers audience and ad measurement tools across digital platforms and traditional TV, raises a $275M Series F at a $1.4B valuation |
| 9:35 PM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Pomelo, which was founded earlier this year to make fintech-as-a-service infrastructure for LatAm businesses, raises a $35M Series A led by Tiger Global |
| 8:45 PM • | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Windows 11 update fixes AMD CPU latency issues that reduced performance 3-5% for some apps and 10-15% for esports games |
| 7:55 PM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Sources: Brex, which offers credit cards tailored to startups, raises $300M at a $12.3B valuation, following a $425M Series D at a $7.4B valuation in April |
| 7:10 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft fixes Windows 11 AMD CPU performance issues with new update |
| 6:25 PM • | Reuters: Sources: ransomware gang REvil was hacked and forced offline this week by an active multi-country operation that includes US law enforcement |
| 5:35 PM • | The Markup: Analysis of 23K+ websites of nonprofits: about 86% had third-party cookies or trackers, with some, like Planned Parenthood, tracking user keystrokes |
| 4:40 PM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: Intel reports Q3 revenue of $18.1B, up 5% YoY, vs. $18.2B est., Client Computing Group revenue fell 2% to $9.7B due to component shortages; stock down 10%+ |
| 4:26 PM • | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Snap Q3: $1.07B revenue, up 57% YoY, vs. $1.10B est., DAUs up 23% to 306M, net loss down 64% to $72M, blames iOS ATT changes for revenue miss; stock down 20%+ |
| 4:00 PM • | Sami Fathi / MacRumors: Apple says the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max will feature a High Power Mode for intensive, sustained workloads |
| 3:35 PM • | Drew Harwell / Washington Post: The TOS for TRUTH Social shows it bans “excessive use of capital letters”, reserves the right to ban users, and hopes to benefit from Section 230 protections |
| 3:10 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter rolls out the ability for all Android and iOS users to host a Space, after previously limiting access to accounts with at least 600 followers |
| 3:00 PM • | Anna Kramer / Protocol: Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification |
| 1:45 PM • | Alan Rappeport / New York Times: Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and UK reach a deal with the US to drop digital services taxes on Big Tech companies as part of a global tax overhaul in 2023 |
| 1:20 PM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Parallel, which is making a sci-fi NFT card game based on the Ethereum blockchain, raises $50M from Paradigm at a $500M valuation |
| 12:55 PM • | MK Manoylov / The Block: Mojito, which lets clients like Sotheby's sell NFTs from their own storefronts or websites, raises $20M at a $100M valuation |
| 12:35 PM • | Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google begins offering Stadia as a white label product, starting with letting AT&T customers play Batman: Arkham Knight for free in Chrome or Edge |
| 12:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Intel's talks with chip designer SiFive ended without a deal and the startup instead plans to pursue outside investment and an IPO |
| 12:15 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon rolls out Local Selling, an in-store pickup option for items from local businesses in the US |
| 12:05 PM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Google lowers Play Store subscription fees to 15% and fees for ebooks and on-demand music streaming services to “as low as 10%”; IAP cut seems to be unaffected |
| 11:40 AM • | Joseph Cox / VICE: Mastodon founder says Trump's TRUTH Social seems to be using a Mastodon fork, based on a screenshot of an error message featuring Mastodon's elephant mascot |
| 11:30 AM • | Ryan Browne / CNBC: Sam Altman's Worldcoin launches its cryptocurrency that it gives in exchange for users' eye scans, says it has 100K users globally and is valued at $1B |
| 11:05 AM • | Jason Nelson / Decrypt: The Associated Press partners with crypto company Chainlink to authenticate data about elections, sports, and more via its blockchain |
| 10:45 AM • | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Rippling, an employee data management company led by Parker Conrad, raises $250M at a $6.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $450M |
| 9:55 AM • | Jabari Young / CNBC: Sports NFT service Candy Digital, owned by sports e-commerce company Fanatics, raises a $100M Series A at a $1.5B valuation from Vision Fund 2 and others |
| 9:35 AM • | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Venezuelan delivery app Yummy raises an $18M Series A led by Anthos Capital and says it has over 200,000 registered users |
| 9:25 AM • | Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service adds a $100/month tier with RTX 3080 GPUs, hosted inside a bespoke SuperPod server, offering 1440p games at 120fps |
| 9:05 AM • | Dan Seifert / The Verge: Microsoft Surface Duo 2 review: futuristic design, excellent multitasking, and useful pen support, but buggy, lousy camera, expensive, and awkward form factor |
| 8:33 AM • | Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX raises a $420.69M Series B-1 at a $25B valuation from 69 investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global |
| 8:26 AM • | Wall Street Journal: US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launches a broad investigation into the user data practices at Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google, and other tech companies |
| 8:20 AM • | Oversight Board: Facebook's Oversight Board releases a report demanding more transparency, including for the company's “cross-check” system, and says 524K appeals were submitted |
| 8:15 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple product orders, including iPad mini, MacBook Pro, and $19 cleaning cloth, are delayed into November and December due to supply chain issues |
| 7:50 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: China suggested Didi, Full Truck Alliance, and online recruitment service Kanzhun explore Hong Kong listings, as Beijing wraps up its investigations |
| 7:10 AM • | Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: French labor union-commissioned report: Amazon shipped 258M packages in France in 2020, up from 229M in 2019 but below 419M target, following warehouse closures |
| 6:35 AM • | Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: Plaid partners with Square, Stripe, and others to help consumers and businesses make payments funded by their bank accounts after its acquisition by Visa failed |
| 6:25 AM • | Mercedes Ruehl / Financial Times: Sources: Indonesia's GoTo is raising $1.5B at a $28.5B valuation, including $400M from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, ahead of an IPO next year |
| 6:20 AM • | Jinshan Hong / Bloomberg: Analysis: Chinese livestream salesman Li Jiaqi, known for trying on makeup on his show, sold $1.9B in goods on Alibaba's Taobao during its Singles' Day festival |
| 6:15 AM • | Liya Su / DealStreetAsia: Chinese chipmaker Clounix, which builds network chips and cloud software, raises $63M across angel and seed, the latter led by China Internet Investment Fund |
| 6:10 AM • | Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Paris-based collaborative learning service 360learning raises $200M from Sumeru Equity, Vision Fund 2, and others to fund a US expansion |
| 6:00 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Over 2,000 hourly workers at Amazon's Staten Island facilities sign union cards and plan to file with the NLRB by October 25; Amazon opposes the move |
| 5:25 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Susquehanna, which owns ~15% of ByteDance, is looking to sell a stake worth ~$500M; source says a shareholder recently sold at a $360B-$370B valuation |
| 5:15 AM • | Ben Sisario / New York Times: PleasrDAO, a group of digital asset collectors, says it created an NFT that will stand as an ownership deed for Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind physical album |
| 2:55 AM • | Alex Webb / Bloomberg: Apple's product design has improved since Jony Ive left, as it seems to be putting the emphasis back on function over form and is less obsessed with thinness |
| 2:45 AM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Batch, a startup founded by the team behind AppGratis to let companies manage push notifications at scale, raises $23M led by Expedition Capital |
| 2:30 AM • | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: Report: Yahoo Finance's mobile app disappeared from Apple's App Store in China, days after republishing a Bloomberg story critical of China's tech crackdown |
| 1:45 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: SkyHive, which develops workforce planning software that lets customers benchmark against competitors by analyzing labor market data, raises a $40M Series B |
| 11:30 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube Music's free tier will transition to audio-only with background listening next month, with videos reserved for Premium subscribers |
| 11:20 PM • | Sophia Yan / Telegraph: Report: Yahoo Finance's mobile app disappeared from Apple's App Store in China, days after republishing a Bloomberg story critical of China's tech crackdown |
| 11:05 PM • | Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: Internal memo: Facebook has quietly killed the “Hey Facebook” wake word for Portal, as customers were confused by the phrase and it was affecting usage |
| 10:50 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Honeycomb, which develops a software observability tool used by companies including Stripe and Slack, raises a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners |
| 10:40 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: A first look at Android app support on Windows 11: the apps are nicely integrated, run well, and installing them is simple, only requiring Amazon's Appstore app |
| 9:15 PM • | ABC News: Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and TRUTH Social, a social network coming in Nov. to “stand up” to Big Tech, in the App Store for preorder |
| 9:10 PM • | Casey Newton / Platformer: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has not settled on a new name for Facebook, which could be announced as early as Monday |
| 7:20 PM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Hex, which simplifies storing and sharing large data sets with integrations for Snowflake, BigQuery, and others, raises a $16M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures |
| 6:50 PM • | Adi Robertson / The Verge: Facebook will start demoting all Groups content from users who have violated policies elsewhere on the site, and will let admins review flagged content |
| 6:05 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Internal email: Apple will test unvaccinated corporate staff each time they enter offices starting Nov. 1, and asks US staff to report vaccine status by Oct. 24 |
| 5:45 PM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Twitter acquires London-based Sphere, which develops a group chat app and has raised $30M to date |
| 5:25 PM • | Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Superplastic, which owns an animated collab house of “synthetic superstars” on social media, raises a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $38M |
| 4:55 PM • | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: SAP's Qualtrics reports Q3 revenue of $271.6M, up 41% YoY, subscription revenue of $220.3M, up 49% YoY, Q4 projected sales of $297M, vs $264M est.; stock up 5%+ |
| 4:40 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: IBM reports Q3 revenue of $17.62B, vs. $17.77B est., Global Technology Services revenue of $6.15B, down ~5% YoY, vs $6.25B est.; stock drops 4%+ |
| 3:45 PM • | Yogita Khatri / The Block: Sommelier Finance, which offers an automated DeFi portfolio manager, raises a $23M Series A led by Polychain Capital |
| 3:18 PM • | Emily Birnbaum / Politico: Source: Pierre Omidyar's philanthropic organization Luminate handles Frances Haugen's PR in Europe; Omidyar donated $150K to Whistleblower Aid in 2020 |
| 2:40 PM • | Aisha Counts / Protocol: Since May, Google says it has blocked 1.6M messages and restored ~4,000 YouTube influencer accounts affected by a phishing campaign offering fake collaborations |
| 1:45 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: DC-based exploit broker Zerodium is now seeking to buy 0-days in ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and Surfshark's PC apps, namely those disclosing user info or allowing RCE |
| 12:55 PM • | Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: [Thread] Analysis of FTC's report on Big Tech's startup M&A between 2010 and 2019: half of the deals were <$10M, most had <10 people and were US-based, and more |
| 11:55 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft begins letting Windows 11 beta testers try Android apps from the Amazon Appstore, starting with 50 apps including Kindle, Apple Music, and Signal |
| 11:45 AM • | William Turton / Bloomberg: Sources: the recent ransomware attack against Sinclair is linked to Russian group Evil Corp., which changed names to avoid 2019 US sanctions |
| 11:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: PayPal has approached Pinterest about an acquisition, potentially valuing it at $39B; Pinterest stock had dropped 16% this year but is up 10%+ today |
| 11:25 AM • | Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: US Commerce Department announces rules banning the export or resale of hacking tools to China, Russia, and other countries of concern |
| 11:10 AM • | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Profile of Asana as it announces an Enterprise Work Graph, Workflow Builder, APIs for integrating with CRM tools, and more |
| 11:05 AM • | The Information: Analysis: Andreessen Horowitz's investment team has grown to 70 in the past four years, up by 170%, outpacing Sequoia, Accel, Lightspeed, and others |
| 10:50 AM • | James Vincent / The Verge: A look at Ask Delphi, a research project by the Allen Institute for AI that offers answers to ethical dilemmas, often with bewildering responses |
| 10:40 AM • | Ian Bremmer / Foreign Affairs: How Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon, and others increasingly rival states for geopolitical influence and are reshaping the global order as we know it |
| 10:25 AM • | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Samsung updates Galaxy Watch4 with Fall Detection, new watch faces, gesture controls, and more, rolling out in the US and South Korea |
| 10:05 AM • | CoinDesk: Bitcoin crosses $66K, an all-time high, after the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF rose by nearly 5% on the NYSE |
| 9:15 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Spotify partners with Shopify to let artists list merch on profiles for $29/month to $299/month, starting in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand |
| 8:45 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Invicti Security, which helps companies secure web apps, raises $625M led by Summit Partners; Invicti was created by merging Netsparker and Acunetix in 2017 |
| 8:35 AM • | BBC: UK's Royal Mint partners with Canadian startup Excir to extract and recycle gold and precious metals from old smartphones and laptops |
| 7:45 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Deci, which helps build AI models that can work with available data and compute power, raises a $21M Series A led by Insight Partners |
| 7:35 AM • | Eli Tan / CoinDesk: Animoca Brands, which lets players own in-game items as NFTs, raises $65M at a $2.2B valuation, up from $1B in May |
| 7:30 AM • | Lydia O'Neal / Wall Street Journal: Flock Freight, which uses AI to help shippers pool goods, raises a $215M Series D at a $1.3B valuation led by Vision Fund 2, bringing its total raised to $399M |
| 7:05 AM • | Queenie Wong / CNET: Pinterest redesigns its home feed, adding a Watch tab for short videos and photo albums |
| 6:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Egypt's state-run e-payments company, E-Finance, rises 40% on its market debut, after raising $370M |
| 6:15 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: HR Acuity, which develops employee relations and investigations management software, raises $47M from K1 Investment Management |
| 6:05 AM • | Bloomberg: Draft EU document: finalization of the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act has been delayed from spring 2022 to “as soon as possible” |
| 5:50 AM • | Naman Ramachandran / Variety: UK's CMA fines Facebook £50.5M for breaching an order imposed during its ongoing Giphy acquisition investigation, saying Facebook refused to report information |
| 5:40 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: China tells McDonald's to expand its e-renminbi payments system ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics; source says Visa and Nike are also under pressure |
| 5:30 AM • | Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Jack Ma has left China for the first time since Alibaba came under regulatory pressure last November, traveling to Europe to see friends |
| 5:20 AM • | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: District of Columbia AG Karl Racine adds Mark Zuckerberg to an ongoing privacy lawsuit, which began in 2018 following the Cambridge Analytica scandal |
| 4:45 AM • | Reuters: Report: US memory chip maker Micron Technology to build a $7B plant in Hiroshima to make DRAM chips, with production set to begin in 2024 |
| 4:30 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Sources: China's Oppo is developing high-end mobile chips, using TSMC's 3nm tech, for its premium handsets due out in 2023 or 2024 |
| 2:55 AM • | Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired UK: A look at the use of drones and online “in-play” betting at UK horse racing venues to gain a gambling advantage, which has angered many in the racing industry |
| 2:20 AM • | Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: Brave now uses its own privacy-centric Brave Search instead of Google as the default search engine in its browser |
| 1:50 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Prague-based Rossum, which uses AI to automate document processing, raises a $100M Series A led by General Catalyst, sources say at a $500M-$1B valuation |
| 1:25 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Comcast unveils XClass smart TVs starting at $298, available at Walmart, and offering 12 months of ad-supported Peacock Premium for free in the US |
| 12:55 AM • | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Despite its years-long opposition to foreign VPNs, China says foreign entities can now invest in VPN services in the country, limited to a 50% stake |
| 12:00 AM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Israel-based SeaLights, whose tech lets customers spot potential quality risks associated with their software changes in real time, raises a $30M Series B |
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