Apple says a virtual event, titled “Unleashed”, will be held on October 18 at 10am PT, where new MacBook Pros with M1X are expected
Apple today announced that it will be holding a special event on Monday, October 18 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
Sources: Apple will likely cut its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by 10M units, due to shortage of Broadcom and Texas Instruments parts
Apple Inc. is likely to slash its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by as many as 10 million units because of prolonged chip shortages …
Sources: Apple is exploring adding health-related features to AirPods, including for enhancing hearing, reading body temperature, and monitoring posture
Earbuds could be offered as hearing aids and include an in-ear thermometer and posture warnings — Apple Inc. is studying ways …
Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked Part 2 event will be held virtually on October 20 at 7am PT
Who's left? — Samsung has just sent out invitations for an event it is holding online on Wednesday, October 20th at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. It's called “Galaxy Unpacked Part 2,” … Source: YouTube .
Research: China's bitcoin hashrate share fell from 44% to 0% between May and July, as the US rose from 17% in April to 35% in August and Kazakhstan rose to 18%
Crackdown on digital currencies knocks country's share of crypto production to zero — The US overtook China as the world's biggest source … Source: Cambridge Judge Business … .
Regulating social media algorithms, an increasingly appealing idea among US lawmakers, is very hard to get right without running afoul of the First Amendment
Whistleblower Frances Haugen says the software that decides what we see in our social feeds is hurting us all. But reforming it won't be easy.
Sources: TSMC and Sony are planning a semiconductor factory in Japan, opening in 2024 and costing ~$7B, half of which will come from the Japanese government
Toyota group parts maker Denso considers signing up — TOKYO — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chipmaker …
Internal documents show Amazon's Indian arm ran a systematic campaign to create knockoff goods and boost them in search, starting in 2016
A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results …
Apple Watch Series 7 review: bigger display, dust resistance, and multiple timers, but only one day battery life and no third-party watch faces or Qi charging
A bigger screen and faster charging are nice, but not reasons to upgrade — The most important questions to ask …
Snap says it is aware of an issue that has taken some Snapchat features offline for over two hours
The company was aware of the issue — For a couple of hours on Wednesday morning, Snap Streaks were at risk as many users reported they couldn't successfully post story updates or send messages on th...
US to host a two-day ransomware virtual event from Wed. with 30 countries, excluding Russia and China; source says Russia wasn't invited “for a host of reasons”
The Biden administration did not invite Russia to participate in the first meeting of a global effort to combat cybercrime …
Acer announces ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop, which uses eye tracking for a glasses-free 15.6-inch 3D display, available in December starting at €3,599
That kind of tech doesn't come cheap, though — Acer is finally bringing its glasses-free 3D SpatialLabs tech to a laptop you can buy …
The Intercept publishes Facebook's secret blacklist of ~4,000 “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” that users are barred from speaking favorably about
To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users …
Stripe begins hiring a crypto team to “build the future of Web3 payments”, three years after ending bitcoin support
Payments company Stripe has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. — The team - described in LinkedIn posts and job listings …
Frances Haugen's lawyer says the SEC has been communicating with her lawyers, but experts say her allegations don't resemble a typical securities fraud case
An overview of possible Section 230 reforms and why each proposed change might as well be an outright repeal, given each one's practical effect
Cathy Gellis / Techdirt :
Analysis: competitors are gaining on Huawei and Apple in the 5G equipment and handset markets; US is catching up fast to China in 5G subscriptions per capita
The competition among equipment makers, countries and cellphone companies is heated. Here are the leaders in each of those races. Tweets: @meghanbobrowsky , @atbwebb , @chinarealtime , @edourdooo , @...
Reddit now lets subreddit moderators create Predictions Tournaments, where participating users get 1K tokens to bet on different questions
Reddit today is introducing a new way to post to its communities with the launch of the on-platform feature called “Predictions.”
Waze announces a “Drive with Headspace” feature, letting users choose from five “moods” and an accompanying custom Spotify playlist with content from Headspace
Daily commutes to the office can be exhausting and, depending on the amount of traffic you're dealing with, very stressful. Source: Waze .
Stockholm-based Funnel, which makes a no-code tool to organize and create reports from marketing data, raises $66M, says it is planning for an IPO in Sweden
The world of marketing has become a world of marketing tech. But marketers are not necessarily engineers, so working with the terabytes …
London-based Hibob, which offers cloud-based HR tools, raises a $150M Series C, reportedly at a $1.65B valuation, led by General Atlantic
On the heels of Personio raising a big round yesterday, one of its competitors and another big startup in the area of HR has also picked up some fundning.
Weights & Biases, which builds tools for machine learning researchers, raises a $100M Series C at a ~$1B valuation from Felicis and others
Update: The round in question was $135 million, not $100 million as originally noted. I apologize for the mistake! — What do you call AI these days?
Carl Pei's Nothing, which launched Ear (1) earlier this year, raises a $50M “Series A Extension”, bringing total funding to $74M
In the wake of the July 31 launch of its first product, the Ear (1), Nothing today announced a “Series A Extension” of $50 million, bringing its total funding to $74 million to date.
Coinbase announces it will let users buy, sell, and showcase Ethereum-based NFTs by the end of the year
they are “digital goods” after all, and subject to the 30 percent IAP fees. Dying to know what Coinbase will try and do here https://www.theverge.com/... Li Jin / @ljin18 : Coinbase is speaking my lan...
Seattle-based Karat, which helps companies conduct technical interviews, raises a $110M Series C at a $1.1B valuation led by Tiger Global
The news: Karat, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, raised a $110 million Series C round at a $1.1 billion valuation.
1Password launches Psst!, which lets users share login credentials with just a link
Mariella Moon / Engadget : Source: 1Password Blog .
TripActions, a booking and management service that offers insights into business travel and expenses, raises a $275M Series F at a $7.25B valuation
Justin Bachman / Bloomberg :
Microsoft says it mitigated a 2.4Tbps DDoS attack on an Azure customer at the end of August, breaking AWS' record of mitigating a 2.3Tbps attack in Feb. 2020
Q&A with Sundar Pichai, Thomas Kurian, and other Google executives on Google Cloud's new sustainability features, which help customers track emissions, and more
and reduce—your environmental impact Alex Woodie / Datanami : Google Cloud Gives Spanner a PostgreSQL Interface Tweets: @googleearth : Google #EarthEngine is now available in preview to commercial cus...
Ohio-based Aware, which analyzes internal company chat tools for legal compliance, sentiment, and more, raises a $60M Series C led by Goldman Sachs
Organizations have been using social media monitoring for years to get a better idea of how they are being perceived in the world at large …
Twitter now lets web users remove followers without having to block them, after testing the option for over a month
Kris Holt / Engadget :
Analysis of leaked data from 4.9M Twitch accounts: the top 1% of streamers made over half of the money paid out in 2021, 3/4 made under $120, and more
Slack has changed corporate culture, acting as a Trojan horse that flattens the communication hierarchy, largely to the benefit of employees
how the app blends hard work and soft work, blurs labor and leisure, reflects and warps company culture, and blurs the line between bosses and employees in potentially revolutionary ways https://www.t...
Dexterity, which is developing a full-stack service for collaborative warehouse robots, raises a $140M Series B at a $1.4B valuation
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
Analysis: payments processing and automation company AvidXchange raised $660M in its IPO, selling shares for $25, giving an implied $4.9B valuation
Bloomberg :
London-based Global Processing Services, which offers APIs for payments and other financial services, raises $300M from Advent International and Viking Global
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Crunchbase: startups with only female founders raised 2.3% of VC funding in 2021, the lowest in five years; 86% went to startups with only male founders
Arielle Pardes / Wired :
In 2020, the Seattle region was the top US market for large office space leased by tech companies, due in part to a deep talent pool and undeveloped land
Julie Weed / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimestech , @nytimes , and @stevecase Tweets: @nytimestech : .@Julie_Weed notes that among the 100 largest technology leases, 14 were in the Seattle area, tot...
FourFront, a startup creating fictional storylines with actors on TikTok, says it aims to build an interconnected TikTok “universe” and has raised a $1.5M seed
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch :
CarDekho, an online marketplace for new and used cars in India, raises a $250M Series E led by LeapFrog Investments at a $1.2B valuation
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Mexico City-based buy now, pay later startup Nelo raises a $20M Series A led by Two Sigma Ventures and says it's used by over 100 merchants
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch : Tweets: @allenpenn and @31kylemiller Tweets: Allen Penn / @allenpenn : Excited for what Stephen, Kyle and the Nelo team are building! They bring so much int'l payments...
UK Gambling Commission is investigating soccer NFT trading service Sorare for failing to obtain licenses; Sorare says it does not offer “regulated gambling”
ReshaMandi, an online B2B marketplace focused on silk products in India, raises a $30M Series A, a mix of equity and debt, led by Creation Investments
The Economic Times :
Atomic, which offers payroll APIs for consumers to connect their income to services such as neobanks, raises a $22M Series A led by Innovation Capital
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch :
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