Sources: Apple asks suppliers to ensure shipments from Taiwan to China are labeled as “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei”, after Pelosi's visit stirs tensions
Stepped up scrutiny of import documents raises disruption fears for iPhone maker
Amazon plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7B in an all-cash deal; Colin Angle will remain as iRobot CEO
Amazon this morning announced plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot for an all-cash deal valued at $1.7 billion. — “Since we started iRobot, our team has been on a mission …
Crypto bridge Nomad says anyone returning at least 90% of stolen tokens will be viewed as a white-hat hacker and the remaining 10% will become the reward
Cryptocurrency company Nomad is offering a bounty to recoup funds spirited away in a $190 million hack that again highlighted security vulnerabilities in the digital-token sector.
Filing: Twitter says Elon Musk's counterclaims “are factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant” and don't justify ending the deal
We still don't have Elon Musk's response to Twitter's lawsuit over his efforts to back out of his $44 billion acquisition …
Google updates search results for queries with quotes to show where the phrase appears in the results snippet instead of an overall description of the page
Google has updated how search result snippet in Google Search for queries that contain quotes. Now, Google will show …
After Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan, sources say shipments to Pegatron's factory, used by Microsoft, Tesla, and others, were being held by Chinese customs
iPhone manufacturer denies reports Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Philip Elmer‑DeWitt : So far, Apple's Pegatron shipments have been spared Chinese slowdown Tweets: Cheng Ting-Fang / @chengtingfang : The move ...
The UK government plans to require that migrants convicted of a crime scan their faces up to five times per day on a smartwatch; locations will be tracked 24/7
Home Office and MoJ plans will require migrants convicted of crimes to take photos up to five times a day
How crypto developer Ian Macalinao posed as 11 independent devs and created a web of DeFi protocols that temporarily inflated the total value locked on Solana
The Macalinao brothers used a web of bogus identities to create the illusion of a dev community, juicing value on the Saber protocol and Solana blockchain.
A prototype of NSO's Pegasus for Israeli police in 2014 shows the UI and features, including real-time wiretapping, reading messages, and remote camera control
Israel Police planned to present cabinet with the system eight years ago. It was intended to be capable of turning the infected phone …
Microsoft tests a Game Pass widget on Windows 11, showing games that have been recently added, are leaving soon, come from certain categories, and more
Microsoft's first new Windows 11 widget — Microsoft's first new Windows 11 widget should make it even easier to find out which games are coming to PC Game Pass.
A New York judge allows Voyager Digital to return $270M in customer cash deposits, settling one of the company's larger issues after filing for bankruptcy
Crypto broker got bankruptcy court approval to return cash deposits — Cryptocurrency brokerage firm Voyager Digital Holdings Inc. secured approval …
After criticism, DuckDuckGo says its browser will now block Microsoft tracking scripts on third-party websites; Microsoft was exempt due to a search agreement
After an uproar over an exception, DuckDuckGo is promising transparency. — After a revelation in May that DuckDuckGo's (DDG) …
Microsoft starts testing an Xbox Game Pass family plan in Colombia and Ireland, letting users add up to four people in the same country to their subscription
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Visa and Mastercard end ties with the ad arm of Pornhub owner MindGeek, after a court ruled Visa must face a lawsuit alleging it is liable for CSAM distribution
Visa (V.N) and Mastercard (MA.N) on Thursday said they had suspended ties with the advertisement arm of MindGeek …
YouTube tests pinch to zoom with its Premium subscribers, letting them zoom into a video, even in landscape mode
YouTube has a program that allows Premium subscribers to access brand new features that aren't quite fully baked. Today, YouTube dropped a new one called “pinch to zoom” …
The Solana Foundation says exploited addresses were “created, imported, or used” in Slope mobile wallets and there's “no evidence” the protocol was compromised
As Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, cyberattacks from China and Russia increased on the island; some 7-11 store TVs displayed “Warmonger Pelosi, get out of Taiwan!”
US mobile gaming revenue fell 9.6% YoY to $11.4B in H1 2022 and downloads declined 2.5% YoY to 2.4B; only the arcade game genre saw notable revenue growth
Arcade and Tabletop were the only categories to see revenue increase during the first half of the year, Sensor Tower data shows.
Block reports Q2 revenue down 6.6% YoY to $4.4B, $2.62B net revenue excluding bitcoin, and Cash App bitcoin revenue down 34% YoY to $1.79B
Despite beating projections, the payments company said its overall revenue fell because of a decrease in bitcoin revenue. Source: Block, Inc. .
A staff member from Senator Cynthia Lummis' office says the SEC is investigating Binance and every US crypto exchange, including Coinbase
Widely circulated reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating $20 billion crypto exchange Coinbase are just the tip of the iceberg …
Meta releases its BlenderBot 3 chatbot, which searches the web to answer questions, to US users on the web in order to collect feedback
What could possibly go wrong? — Meta's AI research labs have created a new state-of-the-art chatbot and are letting members of the public talk …
BlackRock partners with Coinbase to help institutional investors manage and trade crypto, starting with BTC, using BlackRock's Aladdin system; COIN jumps 10%+
Bloomberg :
As SoftBank Vision Fund managing partners Yanni Pipilis and Munish Varma leave, the fund has lost 10+ top execs since 2020, putting pressure on Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son is losing a growing number of top executives at SoftBank Group Corp., putting more responsibility on the founder's shoulders … Tweets: @caixin , @pelstrom , and @athomson6 Tweets: @caixi...
Meta begins rolling out NFT support on Instagram in 100 countries after launching Coinbase Wallet and Dapper integrations and support for the Flow blockchain
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk :
Sources: Tencent plans to raise its Ubisoft stake, aiming to become its single largest shareholder, after buying a 5% stake in 2018; Ubisoft's stock jumps 10%+
report Daniel Sims / TechSpot : Tencent is negotiating for a bigger stake in Ubisoft Into The Metaverse : This Week in the Metaverse Episode 12 Lewis Rees / Pocket Gamer.biz : Tencent reportedly seeki...
Sources: EU-based hedge fund Brevan Howard has raised $1B+ from institutional investors for its crypto unit BH Digital, in the largest crypto hedge fund launch
once privately derided for believing in crypto when no one else did on Wall Street — must be smiling. https://blockworks.co/... Tony Edward / @thinkingcrypto1 : Holy Cow! this is happening in a bear m...
Lyft reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $990.7M, vs. $986.7M est., a $377.2M net loss, and active riders up 16% YoY to 19.9M, vs. 19.8M est.; the stock is up 5%+
Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg : Source: Lyft, Inc. .
India's Enforcement Directorate freezes assets worth ~$8.16M of Binance-owned crypto exchange WazirX, citing suspected foreign exchange rule violations
Nupur Anand / Reuters :
Sources: Intel and Italy aim to clinch a deal, by the end of August 2022, initially worth $5B, to build an advanced semiconductor packaging and assembly plant
DoorDash reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $1.6B, vs. $1.5B est., orders up 23% YoY to 426M, vs. 419M est., gross order value up 25% YoY to $13.1B; stock up 10%+
Exhibit 99.1 August 4, 2022 Fellow Shareholders, DoorDash's mission is to grow and empower local economies.
Clubhouse starts beta testing private communities called Houses, which can be created by a person or group looking for a more intimate alternative to Clubs
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Berlin-based LiveEO, which offers analytics tools for geospatial data from satellites, raised €19M led by MMC Ventures, following a €5.25M Series A in 2021
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Twilio reports Q2 revenue up 41% YoY to $943.4M, a $311.9M loss from operations, and 275K+ active customer accounts; the stock is down 8%+ on a weak Q3 forecast
Wallace Witkowski / MarketWatch : Source: Twilio .
Afresh, which uses AI to help grocery stores reduce food waste, raised a $115M Series B led by Spark Capital, bringing its total funding to $148M
Deena Shanker / Bloomberg :
Cloudflare reports Q2 revenue up 54% YoY to $234.5M, vs. $227.3M est., a $63.5M net loss, and forecast for both Q3 and 2022 above estimates; stock rises 20%+
Hello and welcome to Protocol Enterprise! Jessica Kuruthukulangara / Seeking Alpha : CloudFlare stock soars postmarket on upbeat guidance as large customer base grows
Meta is selling US corporate bonds for the first time; source: the bond sale may be between $8B and $10B, in as many as four parts
Sources: former TikTok content moderators working for a third-party company say they were trained using CSAM from a shared document with wide internal access
Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes : Tweets: @ali_lev Tweets: Alexandra S. Levine / @ali_lev : NEW: TikTok content moderators at the third-party company Teleperformance were shocked to be shown graphic vid...
A look at the Microsoft Offensive Research & Security Engineering team, which internally promotes safe coding practices to reduce bugs in the company's software
Sources: Didi fears further retribution and sanctions by Chinese regulators; its app remains unavailable two weeks after CAC's fine was expected to lift the ban
Financial Times : Tweets: @sariarhohavren and @muradahmed Tweets: @sariarhohavren : “The CAC lambasted the company's data practices, saying it ‘seriously impacted national security’.” “The gov does n...
Kurtosis, a blockchain-focused developer tooling and testing system, raised a $20M Series A led by Coatue, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch :
B2B payments provider Plastiq plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a ~$480M valuation; Plastiq CEO Eliot Buchanan and his management will continue to lead
Sources: TripActions, which offers corporate travel and expense reporting tools, is close to confidentially filing for an IPO
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