Facebook warns it will block Australian users and news organizations from sharing news stories on Facebook and Instagram if the ACCC's proposal passes
The move, a response to pressure to pay publishers when their stories are posted on the social network, could add to internet silos springing up around the world.
Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold2 will cost $2,000, have a 4,500 mAh battery, 5G, 12GB RAM, 256GB storage, 7.6" 120Hz primary display, and start shipping on Sept. 18
After endless leaks and the company's own teasing, Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold2 at its “Unpacked Part 2” event today.
Sources: Apple is building ~75M 5G iPhones for later this year, along with two new Apple Watch versions, iPad Air with edge-to-edge screen, and smaller HomePod
- Headphones, new Watch models, iPad Air, smaller HomePod coming — Supply chain, consumer interest hold up in pandemic, recession
Walmart unveils its new membership service Walmart+, launching Sept. 15 for $98 per year, offering free, unlimited same-day delivery, fuel discounts, and more
Walmart today officially unveiled its new membership service and Amazon Prime rival, which it's calling “Walmart+.”
Kuo: shipments of Apple's mmWave-enabled 5G iPhones could be several million units lower than expected this year and next, due to the impact of the pandemic
Apple's upcoming iPhone 12 models will all include 5G support, and several rumors have suggested that some if not all the new iPhones coming …
Facebook announces a research project into its impact on the 2020 election, with two dozen staffers working alongside 17 independent researchers
Facebook is teaming up with academics across the country to determine once and for all whether Facebook is in fact influencing the 2020 election.
Twitter now shows quote tweet counts directly under tweets, rebranding “Retweets with comments” as “Quote Tweets”
Twitter has been testing a new way to let users easily find quote tweets by separating them from regular retweets. The company confirmed today …
Zoom reports Q2 revenue of $663.5M, up 355% YoY, ~370K customers with 10+ employees, up 458% YoY, and net income of $186M, up from $5.5M YoY; stock up 10%+
- Zoom raised its fiscal-year guidance, easily exceeding analysts' estimates. — The company made executive and board appointments in the quarter as usage soared.
Amazon has two job listings for “intelligence analysts” who will give assessments of “labor organizing threats” for use in filings, including restraining orders
Jeff Bezos obviously doesn't want a union in his company. Amazon's increasingly flippant statements …
Researcher finds a macOS adware campaign using malware notarized by Apple; after being notified, Apple shut it down, but then another notarized variant emerged
The ubiquitous Shlayer adware has picked up a new trick, slipping past Cupertino's “notarization” defenses for the first time.
Apple and Google unveil a framework to help states easily generate and deploy interoperable contact tracing apps, coming in iOS 13.7 now and Android 6.0+ later
States can now deploy exposure notifications without building their own apps — Apple and Google are launching …
Apple says App Store policy changes, including not delaying bug fix updates over guideline violations and letting developers challenge guidelines, are now live
Back in June at WWDC, Apple announced several changes to its handling of App Store review, noting that it would in most cases …
Facebook acts more like a PR firm than a tech company, being good at deflecting bad press while avoiding any real accountability
What happens when PR eats the world? — 1 hr … A couple weeks ago, I talked about the dual reality I seemed to be living in.
ZTE announces 6.92" Axon 20 5G, with a camera under the display and Snapdragon 765G and 4,220 mAh battery, starting at ~$322 only in China
ZTE has been teasing the Axon 20 5G for a few weeks now. It's understandable for the company to heavily push this new device because it's …
Sources detail attempts by Amazon delivery drivers in Chicago to beat peers to new orders by hanging smartphones in trees near Amazon's delivery stations
- Scammers seem to have rigged Amazon system to get orders first — Operation reflects ferocious rivalry for gigs in a bad economy Tweets: @kateconger , @parismartineau , @caseynewton , @kimbhasin ,...
German startup factory Rocket Internet will delist six years after going public; its market value fell from as much as €6.7B at IPO to €2.6B, down 15% YTD
- Rocket Internet said it was offering investors 18.57 euros ($22.23) for each of their shares, lower than Monday's closing price of 18.95 euros.
UK-based ad tech startup InfoSum, which lets organizations match customer data in a privacy-compliant way, raises $15M led by Upfront Ventures and IA Ventures
InfoSum, a UK-based data platform that allows companies to match data in a privacy compliant-way, has raised $15 million …
Amazon says Alexa can now handle paying for gas at over 11,500 Exxon and Mobil stations in the US, via Echo Auto and other Alexa-enabled mobility devices
In January, Amazon announced a new feature would allow Alexa users to pay for their gas at the pump using voice commands via Echo Auto and other Alexa-enabled mobility devices.
Amazon Music partners with Twitch to let artists livestream to the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android
Amazon is leveraging its investment in live-streaming site Twitch to expand its Amazon Music service. The company announced this morning Twitch's livestreams will now be available …
Report details how Google and Facebook harm local communities by siphoning resources from local businesses, undermining local news, distorting local democracy
Since 2016, commentators across a swath of disciplines have pointed to Google and Facebook as consequential and harmful actors in the global political and social order.
A leading antitrust scholar says Google's ad marketplace should be regulated as it both runs the market and competes as its biggest buyer and seller
A leading antitrust scholar says yes. Congress may be listening. — The days of suit-clad men shouting out orders on the bustling floors … Tweets: @wired , @scottthurm , @dinasrinivasan , and @nxtho...
Consumer groups and privacy activists in the EU are increasingly turning to courts, rather than regulators, for speedier resolution of their GDPR complaints
With regulators faltering, privacy activists are turning to the courts to get the rules enforced. — Forget regulators. Tweets: @politicoeurope , @vmanancourt , and @alistair_sloan Tweets: @politicoe...
Cosmose, which tracks foot traffic in brick-and-mortar stores to help predict customer behavior, raises $15M Series A led by Tiga Investments
Cosmose tracks foot traffic in brick-and-mortar stores to help predict customer behavior, providing data that is increasingly important as companies try to weather COVID-19's economic impact.
Netflix is offering free access to select original content for non-subscribers, on Android and web but not on iOS, with a 30-second skippable ad for Netflix
give non-subscribers a free sample and, if they want more, they have to subscribe https://techcrunch.com/... Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : First-Watch Free :) That can def. attract new members -> Netflix ...
At least half a dozen startup founders from non-Western markets say YC's fully remote S20 Demo Day put them on a more equal footing with their US counterparts
Due the merchant connected nature of their business the founders didn't bother applying to YC having to operate on a different timezone than their customer. Virtual YC baited them. They applied. Got i...
Google launches Kids Space, a mode for Android tablets with kid-friendly features and content as well as parental controls, coming first to Lenovo's new tablets
Monica Chin / The Verge :
Google Images now lets users search for photos by licensing type and adds a Licensable badge on images linking to licensing requirements and where to buy rights
Sam Byford / The Verge :
E-commerce marketplace Wish, which offers a range of discounted goods, says it filed for an IPO; the company was valued at $11.2B in August 2019
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Sources: SEC, FINRA are probing Robinhood's handling of March outage; in H1 2020, FTC received over 3x more complaints about Robinhood than rivals like Schwab
more than all of its major competitors combined. Bloomberg gets the goods on just how much dissatisfaction the app is facing from customers and regulators. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Sonali Basak /...
TikTok partners with Teespring to let creators sell merch directly from the app, a first for the platform, planning to roll out the integration soon
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
US hotel operator MCR Development to buy StayNTouch, a cloud platform for hotels, for $46M, after Trump said StayNTouch's Chinese owners threaten US security
Katy Stech Ferek / Wall Street Journal :
Stanford launches Cable TV News Analyzer, a free AI-powered online service for querying the screen time of public figures or specific topics on cable TV news
Thomas Macaulay / The Next Web : Tweets: @jeremyscheel1 , @janinezacharia , and @scheufele See also Mediagazer Tweets: @jeremyscheel1 : This is a uniquely powerful tool in our atmosphere of propagand...
Lenovo announces a new flagship laptop line, the Yoga 9: convertible 14" and 15" Yoga 9i starts at $1,399, while non-convertible Yoga Slim 9i starts at $1,599
Monica Chin / The Verge :
KKR says it is selling Epicor to another PE firm, CD&R, in a $4.7B deal; Austin-based Epicor sells back-office software to manufacturing and retail companies
KKR has sold Epicor to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) in a deal believed to be around US $4.7 billion. Tomi Kilgore / MarketWatch : KKR to sell Epicor Software in $4.7 billion deal, 4 years after buy...
Internal postings show Ankhi Das, a top Facebook exec in India, supported “strongman” Modi's party before he was elected in 2014 and disparaged its main rival
and never spoke up about blatant election misconduct on the platform. This is FB India, but it matters here, too. https://www.wsj.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Facebook's top policy exec in Indi...
Cryptocurrency intelligence startup CipherTrace claims to have developed a tool to trace Monero transactions, which it says the DHS will use in investigations
Rachel Wolfson / Cointelegraph :
Google quietly updates its AdMob Help Center with iOS 14 information and says it will use Apple's ATT API for triggering the IDFA opt-in notice
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger :
OfferUp says it has combined marketplaces with letgo, its former top rival, following OfferUp's acquisition of it earlier this year
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Reinvent Technology Partners, a new SPAC formed by Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and hedge fund manager Michael Thompson, have filed for a $600M IPO
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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