Indian government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, WeChat, and Clash of Kings, citing national security and maintaining public order
Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh — As tensions along the Line of Actual Control …
India's app ban may present a model for other countries from Europe to Southeast Asia that seek to curtail China's access to their residents' data
- Ban shows the increasingly fractured nature of tech industry — Chinese firms may find themselves excluded from key markets Tweets: @brij and @next_china Tweets: Brij Singh / @brij : Indian gov's ...
Sources: Uber in talks to buy Postmates for ~$2.6B in a deal that could be announced next week if not sooner
A deal between Uber and the San Francisco-based food-delivery company could be announced next week if not sooner — Uber Technologies Inc. is in discussions to buy Postmates Inc …
Amazon launches Watch Party on Amazon Prime Video, a desktop feature for US Prime members to watch content together and chat with up to 100 viewers
Amazon Prime Video is beginning to roll out a co-viewing feature to Amazon Prime members in the U.S., the company announced today.
Facebook will change its News Feed algorithm to prioritize news stories with original reporting and demote ones that are not transparent about their authors
Beginning today, Facebook will be updating the way news stories are ranked in its News Feed to prioritize original reporting, executives tell Axios.
Lululemon says it plans to acquire home fitness startup Mirror for $500M; Mirror was last valued at $300M
Lululemon today announced plans to acquire home exercise startup Mirror, for $500 million. The fitness apparel company noted its plans by way of a press release …
Memo: Microsoft suspended its ads on Facebook and Instagram in the US in May and has since expanded the pause globally, over concerns of “inappropriate content”
Microsoft suspended its advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the U.S. in May and recently expanded that to a global pause …
Spotify will launch real-time lyrics in 26 markets across Southeast Asia, India, and Latin America in partnership with Musixmatch, starting June 30
Last November, Spotify confirmed it was testing real-time lyrics synced to music in select markets. Tomorrow, the company will announce …
Netflix says it will put 2% of its cash holdings, currently ~$100M, toward financial institutions and organizations dedicated to helping Black communities
- Netflix announced plans to start putting 2% of its cash holdings into financial institutions and organizations to “directly support Black communities in the U.S.”
Google says it is acquiring Canadian smart glasses company North, which is winding down Focals 1.0 hardware and canceling its plans to ship Focals 2.0
Google confirmed today via blog post that it has acquired Canadian smart glasses company North, which began life as human interface hardware startup Thalmic Labs in 2012.
Despite pretending to be a free speech alternative to Twitter, Parler is taking down content and shutting down accounts
Well, that did not take long at all. On Friday we predicted that just like every other social media platform out there, the new favorite among people who falsely …
AWS makes CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs and suggest potential optimizations, generally available
AWS today announced that CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs …
Amazon is boosting efforts to lure military and commercial space organizations as major users of AWS, hoping to benefit from rising spending in the sector
AWS's move comes during a multiyear surge in U.S. military and civilian agency spending on space projects
Qualcomm debuts Snapdragon 4100 chips for smartwatches, the first update since 2018, bringing much-needed performance improvements to upcoming Wear OS watches
But is it too late to save Wear OS? — Qualcomm is announcing two new Wear OS processors today, the Snapdragon Wear 4100 Plus …
Leading universities and tech firms back a new project to give scientists access to the data centers of tech giants and to public data sets for AI research
A proposal to give scientists access to huge data sets and powerful computers. — Leading universities and major technology companies agreed …
YouTube bans six channels, including those of white supremacists Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, and Richard Spencer, for violating its hate speech policies
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
Twitch temporarily bans President Trump for “hateful conduct” that was aired on stream, noting it does not make exceptions for “political or newsworthy content”
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
Reddit will ban r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and ~2,000 other subreddits, most of which are inactive, after updating rules to more explicitly ban hate speech
which has one post in the last 100 days—is now banned. https://www.nbcnews.com/... @alexisohanian : So happy to see this progress. All credit to all the redditors who have been pushing for this. https...
German startup solarisBank, which offers financial services to other fintech companies through a set of APIs, raises $67.5M Series C at a valuation of $360M
Despite the Wirecard fallout, German fintech startup solarisBank has raised a Series C funding round of $67.5 million (€60 million).
The New York Times pulls its stories from Apple News, saying the service does not align with its strategy of building direct relationships with paying readers
one that can hopefully be converted to subscription,” and a platform like Apple News does not help enough with that goal to make it worth participating. https://www.niemanlab.org/... Nancy Scola / @na...
Benchmark scores for Apple's Developer Transition Kit unit, with A12Z chip used in iPad Pro, suggest it outperforms Surface Pro X even under Rosetta 2 emulation
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Data integration company Fivetran raises $100M Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst at a $1.2B valuation
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Some Japanese companies are stepping in to help China build its $150B national 5G network, filling a void created by US sanctions on supplying Huawei
River Davis / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsjtech , @piie , @baldingsworld , @mdubowitz , @jchengwsj , @reconasia , @asiapolicy , and @scottlincicome Tweets: @wsjtech : With the U.S. and China bat...
TikTok says it's moving privacy oversight of its European users from its US entity to its entities in the UK and Ireland starting July 29
Ciara O'Brien / The Irish Times :
Chat app Discord raises $100M led by Index Ventures at a $3.5B valuation, up from $2.05B 18 months ago, and says it has ~100M MAUs, up 50% YoY
By shutting out white supremacists and reinventing itself to be more accessible, Discord has added millions of more diverse users—teachers …
Sundae, a real estate marketplace for distressed residential properties, raises $16.55M Series A led by QED Investors, bringing its total raised to $19.7M+
Mary Ann Azevedo / HousingWire :
Tel Aviv-based startup Hunters, which helps enterprises defend and analyze hacker attacks, raises $15M Series A from M12 and US Venture Partners
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Upsolver announces $13M Series A led by Vertex Ventures US to ease management of cloud data lakes by allowing users to query the data using SQL
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Google brings free product listings to Search results, after adding them to its Shopping tab in April, to help businesses during the pandemic
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Google says it has removed search ads linking to sites that charged US users large fees for voter registration or harvested their data, after a watchdog report
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters :
Researchers find Toronto-based OneClass left data of 1M+ students exposed, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, and the name of schools attended
Guy Fawkes / vpnMentor :
As China passes new national security laws for Hong Kong, people are altering their digital footprints or removing their social media posts to avoid detection
Nikkei Asian Review :
Hulu, Samsung have pulled apps focused on 360-degree videos, as Oculus sunsets its 360-video optimized Go headset; Facebook: the future is more immersive 6DOF
Janko Roettgers / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol Tweets: @protocol : 360-degree video drove early VR headset adoption. Now some companies are shutting down their VR video apps https://www.protocol.com/...
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