Source: Apple's planned satellite capabilities for the iPhone are focused on emergencies, enabling texts and crisis reports in areas without cellular coverage
- Apple plans an emergency-reporting tool for future iPhones — Apple Inc.'s push to bring satellite capabilities to the iPhone …
Microsoft says Windows 11 will not support Android apps at launch on October 5; support for Android apps will likely arrive in 2022
Microsoft will start testing Android apps on Windows 11 in the coming months — Microsoft won't ship support for Android apps on Windows 11 in time for the operating system's launch on October 5th. S...
South Korea's National Assembly passes a bill that forces Apple and Google to allow alternative payment systems in their app stores
Seoul requires the companies to allow competing payment systems, threatening their 30% cut of most in-app digital sales — SEOUL—Google and Apple Inc …
Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic, giving users six free months of Apple Music, and will launch its own classical music app in 2022
Apple has acquired Primephonic, the classical music streaming service, for an undisclosed amount, the company tells Billboard. Source: Apple .
State media says China is restricting online gaming for minors to three hours most weeks of the year, from 8pm to 9pm on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays
- The country is imposing its strictest limits yet on play time — Beijing is waging a campaign to groom productive youths
White House announces the US Digital Corps, a two-year fellowship aiming to recruit early-career software engineers and other technologists to federal agencies
The White House launched a two-year fellowship Monday designed to place early-career software engineers, data scientists and other technologists at federal agencies. Source: United States Digital Corp...
A flaw in Go Ethereum, used to verify transactions, has been fixed after it caused about half of the Ethereum ecosystem to split into a separate chain
- Ethereum blockchain was divided by mistake in client software — Network patch swiftly stabilized the blockchain system
Getting a water-damaged MacBook Pro fixed shows how independent repair shops can make repairs more affordable to consumers if Apple allows them access to parts
New legislation aims to provide more options for fixing our broken gadgets. A journey to fix two MacBooks illustrates …
Some Apple employees say their privacy is not well protected by Apple, as they decry norms and rules that encourage personal iCloud accounts be used at work
Jacob Preston was sitting down with his manager during his first week at Apple when he was told, with little fanfare …
Source: Facebook plans to downrank current events content and political posts in the News Feed, after users approved of tests that limited such content
Facebook plans to announce that it will de-emphasize political posts and current events content in the News Feed based on negative user feedback, Axios has learned.
The Central Bank of Nigeria says it will work with blockchain and payments startup Bitt Inc. to launch Nigeria's eNaira digital currency later this year
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said Monday it will work with Bitt Inc., a blockchain and payments startup, to launch …
Sources and experts say US-funded Afghan government databases containing sensitive personal data could be used by the Taliban to identify millions of Afghans
By capturing 40 pieces of data per person—from iris scans and family links to their favorite fruit—a system meant to cut fraud …
Data analytics company Databricks raises $1.6B Series H led by Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global fund at a $38B valuation, up $10B from February
- Databricks has raised a $1.6 billion Series H funding round that boosts its valuation to $38 billion. — Its latest funding round …
Russia's Yandex says it will buy Uber's stakes in their joint foodtech, delivery, and self-driving businesses in a $1B deal
Russian internet giant Yandex (YNDX.O) said on Tuesday it would buy Uber's (UBER.N) stakes in their joint foodtech, delivery and self-driving businesses …
Zoom beats with Q2 revenue of $1.02B, up 54% YoY, vs. $991.0M est., and now has 2,278 customers paying $100K+, up 131% YoY; stock down 10%+ on weak Q3 guidance
reported its fiscal Q2 2022 earnings after the bell on Monday, beating analysts' expectations on the top and bottom line. Source: Zoom .
Sources: Indian ride-hailing company Ola is seeking to raise about $1B at an $8B+ valuation in a Mumbai IPO; source says the filing could arrive by October
- Citigroup, Kotak Mahindra, Morgan Stanley are on the listing — Startup to seek valuation of more than $8 billion in the IPO
Singapore-based digital asset exchange Zipmex raises $41M Series B with participation from Krungsri Finnovate, the VC arm of one of Thailand's largest banks
Singapore-headquartered digital asset exchange Zipmex has completed its $41 million Series B funding round with participation coming from one of Thailand's largest banks.
Sources: Amazon is developing a live audio feature, led by its Music division, with a focus on live music and potentially radio and podcasts
Amazon is investing heavily in a new live audio feature that's similar to other live audio offerings like Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces and Spotify's new live audio platform, sources tell Axios. Tweets: @...
Eight Sleep, which makes smart mattresses that cost $3K+ and use ML to regulate temperature for better sleep, raises $86M Series C led by Valor Equity Partners
The venture world is — quite literally — waking up to the potential of applying artificial intelligence to a wider variety of real-world …
Cloudera reports Q2 revenue of $236.06M, up 10% YoY, subscription revenue of $213.3M, up 11% YoY, and ARR of $832M, up 13% YoY, announces departure of its CPO
Cloudera also said Arun Murthy, chief product officer, will leave the company effective immediately.
PayPal has hired the co-founder of online brokerage TradeKing to lead the “Invest at PayPal” unit, which, sources say, plans to let US customers trade stocks
Snap Raise, a Seattle-based startup that helps high school teams and clubs with digital fundraising, raises $90M, bringing its total raised to date to $114.8M
Talk about reaching your fundraising goal. — Snap Raise, the Seattle-based startup that helps high school teams and clubs …
Global smartphone shipments are expected to grow by 7.4% in 2021, reaching 1.37B units, with iPhone shipments growing 13.8% and Android shipments growing 6.2%
A look at indie developers building tools for Shopify's 1.7M merchants, as developers made $230M+ from app sales in 2020
- Finkelstein has called hiring challenge a growth ‘limiter’ — Pair of Bangalore developers say marketing help yielded profit Tweets: @wicary Tweets: Stephen Wicary / @wicary : Shopify is relying m...
Tech investor Prosus NV says it has agreed to buy Indian payments service BillDesk for $4.7B to complement its own PayU business
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Fossil announces Gen 6 Touchscreen smartwatch with a Snapdragon Wear 4100+ processor, starting at $299, and says it won't get Wear OS 3 until sometime in 2022
Offchain Labs, which is aiming to make Ethereum transactions faster and cheaper using its Arbitrum tools, raises $120M Series B at a $1.2B valuation
As the broader crypto world enjoys a late summer surge in enthusiasm, more and more blockchain developers who have taken the plunge are bumping …
PitchBook: VC firms invested $5.4B into hardware startups across Greater China during H1 2021, already surpassing the $5.1B raised in total last year
- Hardware startup investments hit $5.4 billion in 1H: PitchBook — Regulators launched a crackdown in internet firms since 2020 Tweets: @tom_fowdy Tweets: Tom Fowdy / @tom_fowdy : China's regulator...
Autonomous trucking startup Gatik AI raises $85M Series B led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, bringing total raised to $114.5M
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Japan's Nippon Foundation wants its crewless ships to make up 50% of Japan's local fleet by 2040; a container ship will test a 236-mile voyage in February 2022
Bloomberg : Tweets: @jimpethokoukis Tweets: James Pethokoukis / @jimpethokoukis : “Kuwahara, a captain himself, says there's a real need for autonomous ships in Japan as the country's workforce shrin...
As ad revenue surges, Alphabet shares are up 65% over 2021, and up more than 7% in August to reach a record high of $2,891.81, the longest rally since 2009
- Shares are poised for their eighth straight month of gains — Yearly rise nearly twice as much as Facebook, Microsoft
Manchester-based Peak AI, which helps non-tech companies build AI apps, raises $75M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, bringing total funding to $118M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Technologists say Google's Privacy Budget proposal to reduce fingerprinting is vague, and could create privacy harms and break some of the web's functionality
and chaos online https://digiday.com/... Kate Kaye / @katekayereports : “[Google's] Privacy Budget is kind of poisoning the space,” says @brave's Pete Snyder @pes10k - he and others worry that Google ...
Facebook, Google, and Xiaomi are eyeing India's digital loan market, which Boston Consulting Group estimates to triple to $350B by 2023 and reach $1T by 2025
India's digital loan market is becoming a battleground for companies from Facebook Inc. to Xiaomi Corp., seeking a foothold in what's set to be a $1 trillion industry.
New York and San Francisco are moving to make commission caps for delivery platforms permanent; NYC voted to approve a 23% cap, below the 30% usually charged
Dave Lee / Financial Times : Tweets: @toddntucker Tweets: Todd N. Tucker / @toddntucker : Price caps! “We really have an imperative to protect independent restaurants from the exploitive and predator...
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan reported a third consecutive loss of $519M in Q2, compared to a $341M profit last year, while revenue rose 77% YoY to $6.8B
Chong Koh Ping / Wall Street Journal :
Experts have traced most of the cyberattacks that have reverberated across the Australian economy in recent months to China-linked hacking groups
Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business , @msnabilaahmed , @rpotter_9 , and @business Tweets: @business : Wave after wave of cyberattacks in Australia show the range of tactics experts say Chin...
Russia has made steady progress toward its goal of weaning Russians off US tech, including by mandating Russian-made software in government offices and schools
Andrei Soldatov / The Moscow Times : Tweets: @imposecost , @michaelbkelley , @alubacap , @taosecurity , and @mcfaul Tweets: Andrew Thompson / @imposecost : It seems they will not see the security gai...
Sensor Tower: Telegram crossed 1B global downloads, with ~214.7M installs in H1 2021, up 61% YoY, and 22% of total global downloads coming from India
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Brazil-based marketplace for pet products and services Petlove raises ~$150M led by Riverwood Capital, bringing its total raised to $225.8M
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Sources: Byju's, an Indian edtech giant with millions of paying subs, has a “toxic” sales culture with tactics pushing low-income parents into taking out loans
and if you, as a parent, can't [secure] your kid's happiness and future...you might as well have not had kids.” Inside the alarming growth tactics of the Indian edtech giant Byju https://restofworld.o...
Singapore-based telemedicine startup Doctor Anywhere raises ~$65.3M Series C led by Asia Partners, bringing its total raised to $140M
Kristie Neo / DealStreetAsia :
At the behest of South Korean regulators, payments service Kakao lowers its IPO target to ~$1.3B at the top of the range, down from ~$1.4B
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg :
In an email to some Square Invoices users, Square says it's working on Invoices Plus, a paid version with some features from the free version, plus new ones
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
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