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Foursquare buys location analytics service Placed from Snap, raises $150M led by Raine Group; Placed reportedly raised $13.4M before Snap acquired it in 2017 (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch)
App performance monitoring startup PagerDuty raises its IPO price range to $21-$23/share, could raise $240M at a $1.69B valuation at the high end of the range (Becky Peterson/Business Insider)
Firefox starts blocking third-party cookies by default and brings its Lockbox password manager to the desktop, rebranding it as Lockwise (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)
Profile of UK-based Graphcore, which makes "Intelligence Processing Units", AI chips designed to be better at guesswork and have high energy efficiency (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
Connected bike and treadmill-maker Peloton says it confidentially filed for an IPO; the company raised $550M in August 2018 at a $4B valuation (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)
How 12,000+ videos watched by a young man on YouTube since 2015 first pulled him into a far-right rabbit hole and more recently into a left-wing universe (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
FloSports, a $150/year live and on-demand streaming service focusing on niche sports, raises $47M Series C led by Discovery, bringing the total raised to $75M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Luminous Computing, which aims to build a photonic chip, raises $9M seed round led by Bill Gates, with Dara Khosrowshahi, Travis Kalanick, others participating (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
FAQ on how Sign In with Apple works based on information at WWDC, including details about two-factor authentication support and private email relay service (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Researchers have developed an algorithm that allows video editors to modify human speech in "talking head" videos by altering text in transcripts (Andrew Myers/Stanford News)
Autonomous truck startup Starsky Robotics runs a traditional freight business, with 36 trucks and using about half of its staff, to learn the basics of trucking (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
Sources: Apple is preparing to buy self-driving car startup Drive.ai in a likely acquihire; Drive.ai has raised about $77M and was valued at about $200M in 2017 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Election Systems TITELTITELTITELTITEL Software says it "will no longer sell" paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots, amid election security concerns (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Google is rolling out Assistant in Waze on Android phones in English in the US (The Keyword)
Microsoft announces updates to Xbox gamertags, including ten new alphabets and Discord-like hashcodes that will allow gamers to select any gamertag (Lewis White/MSPoweruser)
Amazon announces general availability of Amazon Personalize, its fully-managed AI-powered recommendation service for AWS customers, starting in select regions (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
A comprehensive look at the US export law and why foreign companies like Arm Holdings and Panasonic may be subject to the US Huawei ban (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)
Raleigh, NC-based Pryon raises $20M Series A to automate enterprise workloads with AI (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Instagram says it will not remove deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg, will treat it the same way as it does all misinformation on the platform (Samantha Cole/VICE)
Fireblocks raises $16M Series A for its platform that enables secure movement of blockchain-based digital assets between exchanges, wallets, trading desks, more (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Sources: Slack is expected to be valued at $16B-$17B when it lists its shares publicly next week, up from the $7.1B in its last funding round in August 2018 (Bloomberg)
VidMob, which makes video advertising tools, raises $25M Series B led by Austin-based BuildGroup, bringing its total raised to $45M+ (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Huawei seems to be showing lock screen ads on the P30 Pro, P20, Honor 10, P20 Pro, and others when the built-in magazine background images are used (Corbin Davenport/Android Police)
Instagram is down for some users, says it is working quickly to fix the issue; Down Detector has recorded 50K+ outage reports from users around the world (Mathew Katz/Digital Trends)
Binance says it is setting up a US trading platform in partnership with FinCEN-registered BAM Trading Services, but offers no timeline for its launch (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
Google details how developers could use Chainlink to enable Ethereum smart contracts to communicate with BigQuery (Allen Day/Google Cloud Blog)
Google rolls out a new search bar with icons beside the text for search categories including news, video, maps, and images on desktop (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
Skupos, a data platform for convenience retail used by over 7,000 locations in the US, raises $26M Series B, bringing the total raised to $37M (Isabelle Gustafson/Convenience Store ...)
Amazon to allow devs of Alexa skills aimed at kids to offer premium content for purchase; parents can opt out of the new feature and must approve purchases (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Amazon shuts down Spark, its Instagram rival launched in 2017; URL directs to #FoundItOnAmazon, its product discovery site similar to its Interesting Finds tool (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Researchers find some sleep apps and trackers provide inaccurate data and can cause an increased fixation on sleep, which can worsen anxiety and insomnia (New York Times)
Jack Dorsey on plans to hire a team of five engineers and one designer, reporting directly to him at Square, to work on contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem (Matthew Hughes/The Next Web)
Alibaba partners with Audi, Renault, and Honda to offer a range of in-car voice services like finding restaurants using its AI platform Tmall Genie Auto (Sarah Dai/South China Morning Post)
Square competitor SpotOn, which offers merchant services such as payment processing and customer engagement tools, raises $40M to help its market expansion (Gordon Gottsegen/Built In Chicago)
Genius claims it has irrefutable proof of Google lifting song lyrics, displayed in search results, from Genius.com; Google says it licenses lyrics from others (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
Lifen, a France-based messaging platform for hospitals and healthcare practitioners which also allows users to send letters via post, raises $22.7M Series B (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
PayFit, a France-based payroll and HR SaaS startup for small and medium-sized businesses, raises $79M from Eurazeo and Bpifrance (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
Nvidia says it will collaborate with Arm to bring CUDA acceleration to Arm CPUs and will share its AI and high-performance computing software with Arm by 2020 (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
The current state of diversity and inclusion in the US tech industry and why new startups and VCs with inclusive-minded CEOs are critical to implementing change (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)
Optimizely, which offers tools for A/B testing and personalization on the web and in mobile apps, raises $50M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Hazelcast, which is developing a speedy in-memory computing platform, raises $21M Series C led by new investor C5 Capital (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Chair of the House Financial Services Committee says Facebook should halt development of Libra until Congress investigates, calls on Facebook execs to testify (Makena Kelly/The Verge)
YouTube unveils AR Beauty Try-On, which lets viewers virtually try on makeup while watching beauty tutorials, currently in testing, coming in summer (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Microsoft launches public preview of Azure Bastion, a service for remotely accessing virtual machines more securely (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
Cloudflare aims to make HTTPS certs safe from Border Gateway Protocol hijacking attacks with a new free service called "multipath domain control validation" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Anti-phishing startup Valimail, which develops a cloud-based platform for companies, raises $45M Series C from Insight Partners, bringing total raised to $84M (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
Oracle publishes out-of-band update to patch a zero-day code-execution vulnerability in WebLogic Server that is being actively exploited, per researchers (Jim Salter/Ars Technica)
People who buy and set up a used Nest Cam Indoor that was paired with a Wink hub may be allowing previous owners unfettered access to images from the camera (Wirecutter)
Analysis of Crunchbase data of 21K funding rounds for 13K US startups shows women leading "non-female-focused" startups raise 54% less VC than their fair share (Daniela Perdomo/Industrial Felt)
Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, which makes Hue-branded smart lights, announces new Li-Fi lights called Truelifi with data transfer speeds of up to 150 Mbps (Jon Porter/The Verge)
Swvl, a two-year-old Cairo-based startup that makes an app for booking buses, raises $42M, bringing its total raised to ~$80M (MENAbytes)
Sen. Josh Hawley introduces bill that would remove CDA 230 protections for online platforms with 30M+ US MAUs, which FTC could return after paid audit (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
France is creating a G7 task force to ensure cryptocurrencies are governed by regulations ranging from money-laundering laws to consumer-protection rules (Inti Landauro/Reuters)
Medallia, which offers a customer experience management platform, files for IPO; it reported a $82.2M net loss and $313.6M in revenue for its last fiscal year (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)
NASA says it was hacked in April 2018 via an unauthorized Raspberry Pi on the network; hackers had access for nearly a year, stealing Mars mission-related data (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Google was never really serious about tablets, with years of scattershot reboots; its decision to stop making tablets was rational but could be shortsighted (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
A look at the blossoming machine-learning community in Africa, where IBM and Google are trying to use AI to tackle challenges like hunger, poverty, and disease (Karen Hao/MIT Technology Review)
Less than a day after breaching $10K, Bitcoin climbs to $11K+, as the unveiling of Libra and increased institutional support spur hopes of mainstream adoption (Wall Street Journal)
Magic Leap sues Chi Xu, a former employee who founded the China-based AR startup Nreal, for alleged IP theft (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)
As Amazon and others offer ever speedier delivery, the climate benefits of e-commerce disappear due to reduced fuel efficiencies and increased warehouse space (Erica Pandey/Axios)
Privacy experts worry about how Amazon and Walmart will store and use videos captured by cameras worn by delivery associates during in-home deliveries (Sam Dean/Los Angeles Times)
Brian McCullough on the Internet History Podcast and Techmeme Ride Home: the start, turning a personal podcast into a business, plans for a Ride Home franchise (Simon Owens/The Business of Content)
A look at some egregious cases of counterfeit books sold on Amazon; this year Amazon began listing sales of counterfeit goods as a material risk in SEC filings (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: the number of self-reported full-time taxi drivers, including drivers for Uber and Lyft, nearly tripled in the past ten years (Quartz)
Trainline, a European online bus and train ticketing service, closes up 17% on its first day of trading at ~TITELTITELTITELTITELpound;2B valuation, after raising TITELTITELTITELTITELpound;110M in its London IPO (Jasper Jolly/The Guardian)
Google is expanding Be Internet Awesome, its digital safety and citizenship curriculum for children, to include six media literacy activities (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Xanadu, which aims to make photonic chips that can operate at room temperature, raises CAN$32M Series A led by the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Sean Silcoff/Globe and Mail)
Researchers say hackers have been stealing massive amounts of call records from over ten cell network providers worldwide to conduct targeted surveillance (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Australian judge allows man to sue media companies for defamation over Facebook comments written by their readers (Lane Sainty/BuzzFeed)
Israeli police arrest two brothers in connection with a multi-year crypto-focused phishing campaign and the 2016 hack of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
A deep dive on which phone vendor may be responsible for a supply chain attack that Google said resulted in pre-installed malware on budget Android devices (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
Uber to buy Seattle-based Mighty AI, which helps train computer vision models, to strengthen its self-driving car unit; Crunchbase: Mighty AI had raised $27.3M (Amir Efrati/The Information)
Ford-backed Argo AI will invest $15M over five years in a center for self-driving car research at Carnegie Mellon University (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
Profile of Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo, which has more rooms in China than in India, as it faces a bumpy rollout in the US, where it has 50+ hotel partners (Corinne Abrams/Wall Street Journal)
Classical music has been an awkward fit for major streaming platforms because their metadata schemes and algorithms are mostly designed to favor pop music (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
Twitch launches beta of Subscriber Streams, which will let Twitch streamers who are Twitch Affiliates or Twitch Partners offer subscriber-only streams (Julia Alexander/The Verge)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company could have acted more quickly to flag a doctored Nancy Pelosi video but defended its decision to leave it up (Queenie Wong/CNET)
Researchers demonstrate how the US Wireless Emergency Alert system, which uses LTE networks, can be easily spoofed with "pirate" cell towers to cause mass panic (Karl Bode/VICE)
An inside look at a treatment center in Beijing for internet addiction, which China classified as a mental disorder and a public health threat in 2008 (Celia Chen/South China Morning Post)
Axon, formerly Taser, a supplier of body cams and software for 47 out of the 69 largest US police agencies, to ban the use of facial recognition on its devices (Charlie Warzel/New York Times)
Waymo hired 13 robotics experts from Anki, including co-founder and former CEO Boris Sofman, to lead its nascent trucking initiative (Joann Muller/Axios)
Volkswagen launches WeShare, an on-demand rental car service with only electric cars, initially in Berlin, says it will expand to Prague and Hamburg in 2020 (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)
Jetson, a new prototype developed for the Pentagon, can identify people up to 200 meters away by analyzing their heartbeat using an infrared laser (David Hambling/MIT Technology Review)
Rakuten: around 48% of Amazon packages in the US are now delivered by Amazon itself, up from 15% two years ago, when the Postal Service delivered 60%+ packages (Erica Pandey/Axios)
GoFundMe is an increasingly popular way to raise money to cover medical expenses, where storytelling and personal connections often play a crucial role (Nathan Heller/New Yorker)
A behind-the-scenes account of how police and federal authorities helped teen girls in Belmont, NH bring down a cyberstalker who had harassed them for years (Stephanie Clifford/Wired)
Trump says he will allow sales of US equipment to Huawei, where there are no national security issues, for now; US will not impose new tariffs on China (Wall Street Journal)
Cloud computing, AI, and low-cost sensors have given rise to a slew of weather forecasting startups that think incumbents are vulnerable to new business models (Susan Adams/Forbes)
A look at the challenges, downsides, and huge costs of 5G rollout in the US, which may take a decade or more to complete (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Amazon Air has started operations in Anchorage, Alaska, which could allow Amazon to expand its in-house logistics to moving goods to and from Asia (Rachel Premack/Business Insider)
Walmart de Mexico says it is now offering grocery delivery via WhatsApp, charging ~$2.55 for a delivery within 90 minutes and ~$2.03 for longer waits (Daina Beth Solomon/Reuters)
Facebook says it will treat 2020 US Census like an election and will have "people, policies and technology in place to protect against census interference" (Sheryl Sandberg/Facebook)
Japan will tighten restrictions on export of materials used in smartphone displays and chips to South Korea from July 4, over a dispute about war-time labor (Makiko Yamazaki/Reuters)
Walmart China uses VeChainThor blockchain to show customers the path a food product took, from its source to the shelves, with 23 product lines listed now (Daniel Palmer/CoinDesk)
Israel-Based NeuroBlade raises $23M Series A from Check Point co-founder Marius Nacht, Intel Capital, and others to bring its AI chip to market (Tova Cohen/Reuters)
China ordered suspension or termination of 26 audio-focused apps on Friday; Apple restricted access to podcasts not hosted by Chinese partners in June (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
Apple representatives talk about Project Catalyst, and developers from Twitter, Gameloft, and TripIt share their experiences about developing apps with Catalyst (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
Metronome says its MET tokens can now be moved between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic blockchains, a feature that started rolling out last week (Daniel Kuhn/CoinDesk)
Following two deadly passenger incidents in 2018, Didi Chuxing says it has removed over 300K drivers that failed to meet its standards (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
A federal appeals court rules Amazon can be held liable for defective 3rd-party seller products, says it enables vendors to conceal themselves from the customer (Brendan Pierson/Reuters)
Until the US Biometric Exit Program prioritizes privacy and resolves technical and legal shortcomings, airport travelers should opt out of facial recognition (Allie Funk/Wired)
European e-scooter startup Dott, currently live in Brussels, Paris, Lyon, and Milan, raises $34M led by EQT Ventures and Naspers (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
Kuo: Apple to introduce a new scissor switch keyboard that supposedly offers durability and longer key travel, in the 2019 MacBook Air and the 2020 MacBook Pro (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
Almost all iCloud services are experiencing issues and outages, including problems with signing in and accessing accounts (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)
A long QTITELTITELTITELTITELA with three Google engineers on Android Q and Project Mainline, which aims to let Google and OEMs only update certain parts of the OS at a time (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)
Samsung says it projects Q2 operating profit of ~$5.5B, beating analyst estimates but down ~56% YoY following weakness in the price and demand of memory chips (Saheli Roy Choudhury/CNBC)
Waresix, which aims to digitize logistics in Indonesia, raises $14.5M Series A led by EV Growth; Indonesia, with 17K+ islands, has unique logistical challenges (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)
Naspers-owned payments company PayU to enter Southeast Asia with the acquisition of Red Dot in a deal that values the Singapore-based e-commerce startup at $65M (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)
Ola says it has received a private hire vehicle licence from Transport for London and plans to launch its ride-hailing service in the city in September (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
TrapX, which makes tools to thwart cyberattacks in real time via decoy databases and workstations, raises $18M Series C, bringing its total raised to ~$50M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Privacy advocates warn that innovation in satellite imagery is outpacing the ability to regulate the technology to prevent 24-hour real-time surveillance (Christopher Beam/MIT Technology Review)
B2B ecommerce marketplace IndiaMART closed up 34% on its first day of trading in India on Thursday, after raising ~$70M at a valuation of ~$400M in its IPO (Benjamin Parkin/Financial Times)
Profile of Omio, formerly GoEuro, a Berlin-based website and app for booking travel across Europe that has raised nearly $300M in VC funding (Klaus Fiala/Forbes)
A look at the growing demand for screen time consultants, parenting coaches getting paid up to $250/hour to help parents wean their kids off devices (Nellie Bowles/New York Times)
Comscore report: in March, 69.9M US homes had DVRs and 64.1M had smart TVs; monthly viewing hours on smart TVs hit 5.5B, vs. 4.6B for DVRs (Karlene Lukovitz/MediaPost)
Researchers say they have been able to store the digital data of thumbnail-sized images on molecules smaller than DNA and retrieve it with ~99% accuracy (Ruby Prosser Scully/New Scientist)
Apple tests Face ID and Touch ID sign-in for iCloudTITELTITELTITELTITEL#8228;com on iOS 13 and macOS Catalina betas (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Companies like Alibaba are helping Shanghai deal with a new compulsory recycling program with services like on-demand trash pickup and garbage sorting mini-apps (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
A member of The Scene, an infamous piracy group, details how content from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon is pirated (Andy/TorrentFreak)
Sony Xperia 1 review: the 6.5" 21:9 4K screen is big enough for content and narrow enough to hold comfortably but is too dim, and the phone is too expensive (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
After Tokyo abruptly tightened export controls to South Korea, chipmakers like Samsung and SK Hynix are struggling to find necessary supplies elsewhere (Reuters)
Microsoft says Azure SQL is launching soon and SQL Server 2019 preview is coming later this month, as it ends support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 (Andrew Brust/ZDNet)
Spotify Lite, which requires only 10MB of storage, is now available on Android in 35 countries across Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, and in Canada (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
IDC: out of 2,473 organizations using AI in their operations, only 25% have a broad AI strategy, and most report some failures among their AI projects (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Facebook will start taking 30% cut from fan subscriptions via desktop starting 2020 and 15% fee for second year subscriptions via mobile platforms (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Glitch, formerly Fog Creek Software, says its community has created 2.5M+ web apps using its collaboration and code sharing platform, reveals 2018 $30M Series A (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)
Trump admin to investigate whether a proposed French tax on big US tech companies amounts to an unfair trade practice that could be punished with tariffs (Ana Swanson/New York Times)
SEC approves the first-ever regulated token offering, letting blockchain startup Blockstack offer $28M in tokens under Regulation A+, an alternative to IPOs (Muneeb Ali/Blockstack Blog)
Apple says it has temporarily disabled the Apple Watch Walkie Talkie app, due to a vulnerability that could allow iPhone eavesdropping, while it works on a fix (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch)
Researchers analyze 6M posts on Reddit to investigate its "manosphere" across various subreddits, finding misogynist rhetoric has increased since 2016 (Emma Grey Ellis/Wired)
German mobile banking startup N26 launches in the US, will offer bank accounts with debit cards in partnership with Axos bank (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
Twitter says it will test a feature to let users hide replies to their tweets starting next week in Canada (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Etsy researchers, using their computer vision algorithms, were able to classify styles across 60M+ Etsy listings with 76% accuracy (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Hulu, which removed support for 4K content in early 2018, brings back the feature for Hulu Originals, starting with Apple TV 4K and Chromecast Ultra (Amber Neely/AppleInsider)
Investigation finds 151 tech companies, including GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Google, and Amazon, offering hosting, DNS, or CDN services to sites spreading hate speech (Aaron Sankin/Gizmodo)
How companies like Kenworth, ZF, and Team Inc., are using HoloLens and Microsoft Teams for employee training, and communication with frontline workers (Karen Weise/New York Times)
A look at how many founders and early-startup executives wrestle with issues like anxiety, drug addiction, insomnia, depression, and binge eating (Wall Street Journal)
An online education platform K12.com has left 7M records, including name, email, age, what school the student attends, and authentication keys, exposed online (AJ Dellinger/Engadget)
Profile of Meiya Pico, which claims a 40% share of the digital forensics market in China and which is believed to be linked to a spy app used by Chinese police (South China Morning Post)
A look at how surveillance is becoming more prevalent with almost nothing restricting how it is used, as automatic license plate reader software becomes cheaper (Josh Kaplan/Slate)
China Internet Report 2019 shows the scale of 5G infrastructure plans across the country, huge untapped potential for e-commerce in lower-tiered cities, more (Zen Soo/South China Morning Post)
Report: ~54M data workers, a quarter of knowledge workers globally, waste 44% of their time each week because of lack of collaboration, knowledge gaps, and more (Eileen Brown/ZDNet)
Source: James Murdoch has invested $20M in The Void, a startup that has launched immersive, interactive VR venues in 11 cities around the world (Bloomberg)
Chinese bike-sharing startup Hellobike is challenging Ofo and Mobike with a focus on smaller cities and a $145M joint venture for battery-swapping stations (Zen Soo/South China Morning Post)
Florida DMV earned $77M+ in fiscal 2017 from sales of driver and ID cardholder information to 30+ private companies, including data brokers like Acxiom (Adam Walser/WFTS)
Real estate computer vision startup Matterport to acquire AI startup Arraiy, which automates special effects processing and has raised $13.9M (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
Lendbuzz, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to underwrite auto loans, raises $130M in debt funding and $20M in new equity funding led by 83North (Brian Dowling/Xconomy)
AI-based drug discovery company Recursion raises $121M at a $646M valuation; VCs invested about $1B in AI drug discovery startups in 2018, up from $237M in 2016 (Robert Langreth/Bloomberg)
Intel says Pohoiki Beach, its neuromorphic computing system with 64 Loihi chips, has the computing power of 8M neurons and will be available to select partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Newsletter platform Substack raises $15.3M series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, says Substack newsletters now have 50,000 paying subscribers (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Sources: Apple plans to fund original, exclusive podcasts and has reached out to media companies, in a bid to compete with Spotify (Bloomberg)
Google Maps will now show bike-sharing station information on Android and iOS in 23 new cities globally, more than a year after debuting the feature in NYC (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
Tencent-backed Chinese game focused live-streaming platform DouYu raises $775M at $3.73B valuation, after pricing its US IPO at the bottom of its marketed range (Reuters)
The European Commission launches a formal antitrust investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct by Amazon in its dual role as marketplace and retailer (European Commission)
MacBook Air (2019) review: classic design works well and True Tone display looks great, but its CPU can struggle, keyboard is a worry, and USB-C can be a hassle (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
As part of World Emoji Day, Apple and Google share designs for around 60 new emoji, many focused on representation around disability (Greg Kumparak/TechCrunch)
Google removes seven stalkerware apps from the Play Store that were found by Avast researchers; the apps had been installed more than 130,000 times (Alfred Ng/CNET)
"Not designed for children" warning appearing on some Play Store listings; developers have the option to apply it where kids are outside the target age group (Abner Li/9to5Google)
German mobile banking startup N26 raises $170M from existing investors, a top-up to the $300M Series D it raised in January, at a $3.5B valuation (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
eBay picks up a 5.5% stake in Paytm Mall to open up its global inventory to ~130M+ users on Paytm platforms; sources say the deal is valued at ~$150M (Aditi Shrivastava/The Economic Times)
Sources: WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann has cashed out more than $700M from the company ahead of its IPO through a mix of stock sales and debt (Wall Street Journal)
Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)
BMW and Tencent partner to launch a computing center in China that will help develop autonomous driving solutions adapted to Chinese roads (Norihiko Shirouzu/Reuters)
Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Sources: the FTC has finalized a multimillion dollar settlement with Google in an investigation into YouTube for violating federal data privacy laws for kids (Washington Post)
How Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are racing for dominance as cloud platforms for game streaming, as the gaming industry is set to generate $152B in 2019 (Jonathan Vanian/Fortune)
London Met Police blames a breach of news distributor MyNewsDesk for bizarre messages appearing on its website, Twitter account, and in emails to subscribers (BBC)
India-based MogliLabs, which operates the B2B industrial goods marketplace Moglix, raises $60M Series D, sources say at a valuation between $200M and $300M (Biswarup Gooptu/The Economic Times)
BriteCore, a cloud-based insurance platform used by 50+ property and casualty insurers, raises $47.5M led by Warburg Pincus, bringing its total raised to $70M (FinSMEs)
Dust Identity, which covers objects with a diamond dust coating with a unique pattern to track them across complex supply chains, raises $10M Series A (Dzanemorris/Fortune)
Sources: Amazon offers Marketplace merchants perks like prominent placements, more if they agree to sell their successful brands to Amazon, often at $10K/brand (Jon Emont/Wall Street Journal)
European Commission changes its mind on the .eu domain again, now says it will allow citizens of EU countries resident in the UK to use it after Brexit (Kieren McCarthy/The Register)
Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in 2015 accusing it of age discrimination in hiring, paying out $11M across 227 people who joined the class action (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
LA-based three-year-old VC firm Fifth Wall Ventures raises $503M for its next real estate technology-focused fund, from 50 corporate investors in 11 countries (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
iflix, a streaming service targeting emerging markets, raises $50M ahead of a potential IPO, says it had around 17M users in May, up from 9M six months earlier (Miguel Cordon/Tech in Asia)
Uber is testing a $24.99/month subscription pass that includes a fixed discount on rides, free Uber Eats delivery, and free rides on JUMP bikes and scooters (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)
Once viewed as a frivolity, emojis are now key to clear and concise communication, esprit de corps, and cultivating a shared corporate culture (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Profile of Marcin Kleczynski, CEO and co-founder of Malwarebytes, who quietly grew the company in his dorm to a multi-million dollar/year business by graduation (Joe Tidy/BBC)
Sources: Apple to release three "iPhone 11" models this fall, each with an A13 chip, Lightning port, and a new Taptic Engine, as 3D Touch goes away (Guilherme Rambo/9to5Mac)
Profile of Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, who has donated $100M+ to charities and who champions "vigorous, trustworthy journalism" and women in tech (Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)
Google says the Google Nest Hub Max, its $229 10-inch smart display, will be released on September 9 in Australia, the UK, and the US (Kellen/Droid Life)
As streaming offerings get more expensive and convoluted, people are setting up their own platforms via Plex servers to share media, including pirated content (Bijan Stephen/The Verge)
Fake accounts, pages, and groups purporting to represent or sell Libra digital currency have sprung up across Facebook and Instagram (Washington Post)
The old enforcement mechanisms of regulatory agencies are no match for large companies and the unprecedented amount of lucrative personal user data they possess (Charlie Warzel/New York Times)
Amid slowing global demand and the US-China trade war, some chipmakers in Singapore say they are slowing production and laying off staff (John Geddie/Reuters)
Amazon launches a dedicated Prime Video VR app, available for Oculus Go, Quest, and Samsung Gear VR headsets in the US and UK (Janko Rottgers/Variety)
Google confirms the Google Nest Hub Max, its $229 10-inch smart display, will be released on September 9 in the US, UK, and Australia (Andrew Gebhart/CNET)
Existing Nacho Analytics customers can still access previously bought data, including private data leaked from browser extensions, via Google Analytics imports (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
A look at the potential downsides of using the "answers first, explanations later" approach to building and deploying AI systems for solving real world problems (Jonathan Zittrain/New Yorker)
Poland-based crowdsourced homework helper Brainly says it now has 150M users in 35 markets, up 50% from 2018, raises $30M, bringing its total raised to $68.5M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Health Catalyst, which provides data and analytics tech to healthcare organizations, raises $182M in its IPO, closing up 51% at $39.17 and now valued at ~$1.6B (Wall Street Journal)
Unity announces it is raising $525M from D1 Capital Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Light Street Capital, others, doubling its valuation to $6B (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
Rather than directly engage in controversial contracts, Google continues to invest in military and police AI tech by funding companies through Gradient Ventures (Lee Fang/The Intercept)
Monotype, the font and imaging company, says it is being acquired by PE firm HGGC for $825M in an all-cash deal (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Microsoft is rolling out a new chat-based Cortana UI for Windows 10 as a beta to Windows Insiders in the US, with support for text and voice queries (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Chairman of Dish on his plans to build a nationwide wireless carrier, including its first 5G launch in late 2020, possibility of big tech partnerships, and more (Ina Fried/Axios)
History of Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony, or Sprint, which transitioned to mobile, made some disastrous bets, and merged with T-Mobile (Eli Blumenthal/CNET)
A look at Earnin, an app to access money before payday with a suggested ~10% tip; critics say Earnin effectively acts as a payday lender but avoids regulations (Cyrus Farivar/NBC News)
How the tactics used by porn bots on Instagram keep evolving to avoid detection, including use of intermediary accounts and literary quotes in photo captions (Satnam Narang/Tenable)
Leaked report: UK harvested info from EU databases, including 54K files on criminals, terrorists, and missing persons, likely in preparation for no-deal Brexit (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)
BMW makes Apple CarPlay an $80/year subscription service for new car owners (Bradley Brownell/Jalopnik)
Since last year, UK and Netherlands police have been pushing young first-time accused cybercriminals into ethical computer training, instead of threatening jail (Jeff Stone/CyberScoop)
How China is trying to increase its influence in global tech standards organizations like ITU, IEEE, and 3GPP, and how the US and EU are pushing back (Alan Beattie/Financial Times)
Report: Venezuela uses digital wallet app Jetman Pay to convert taxes from one of its airports into Bitcoin and sell it abroad for USD, bypassing US sanctions (Yessi Bello Perez/The Next Web)
Tech companies, including Apple and Google, are petitioning the FCC to allow low-power devices for unlicensed use of the 6GHz Wi-Fi band without restrictions (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sales enablement platform MindTickle raises $40M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, bringing its total raised $81M+ (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Sources: machine learning tools provider DataRobot has raised a ~$200M Series E led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1B+ valuation, following a $100M Series D in 2018 (Brian Dowling/Xconomy)
Microsoft acquires BlueTalon, a data privacy and governance startup; BlueTalon had raised about $27.4M, per Crunchbase (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Report: Chinese VCs invested ~$2.5B in Indian startups in 2018 and almost $1B so far this year; number of such deals jumped from 1 in 2013 to 27 in 2018 (Vasudevan Sridharan/South China ...)
Google Project Zero researchers publish details and demo exploit code for five of six "interactionless" iOS security bugs; iOS 12.4 patched all but one of them (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Sony and LG still struggled to sell smartphones in Q2 2019, with LG reporting mobile division sales of $1.38B, down 21% YoY (Scott Scrivens/Android Police)
Attabotics, which hopes to make fulfillment centers more efficient with its robots, raises $25M Series B led by Coatue, Comcast Ventures, Honeywell (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Confluera, which makes a cybersecurity platform that it claims offers real-time attack interception and defense, raises $9M Series A led by Lightspeed (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
Waze now lets Carpool drivers invite up to four other riders to join a carpool; previously, riders beyond the first had to initiate requests to join a carpool (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
Amazon announces general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech and "newscaster style" in Amazon Polly, its cloud service that converts text to speech (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Sources: Facebook is working on a new TV device that can stream video and make video calls using its Portal tech, and has approached Netflix, Disney, and others (Alex Heath/The Information)
Singapore-based Aspire, a "neo-banking" service for SMEs to help raise working capital, raises $32.5M Series A from MassMutual Ventures and others (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Fitbit beat analyst estimates with Q2 revenue of $314M, up 5% YoY, but lowered Q3 guidance; stock down 14%+ after hours (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
After 6 months of fact-checking for Facebook, Full Fact published 96 fact-checks, was paid ~$171k, wants Facebook to share more data with fact-checkers (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
UK-based fintech startup Revolut launches commission-free US stock trading service, including the ability to buy fractions of shares (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
Report: more than 32M patient records were stolen between January and June 2019, more than double the 15M records stolen in all of 2018 (Christine Fisher/Engadget)
Dgraph, an open source graph database startup, raises $11.5M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures (George Anadiotis/ZDNet)
FTC asks that the 147M people affected by the Equifax breach take free credit monitoring as only $31M of the $575M+ Equifax settlement is allocated to consumers (Karl Bode/VICE)
UrbanClap, an India-based on-demand home services marketplace with a presence in ten Indian cities and in the UAE, raises $75M Series E led by Tiger Global (The Economic Times)
FTC is looking into the Amazon/Apple deal that kicked many small resellers off Marketplace, has interviewed at least one reseller of refurbished MacBooks (Nick Statt/The Verge)
Sources: Facebook plans to rebrand Instagram and WhatsApp to "Instagram from Facebook" and "WhatsApp from Facebook", causing surprise and confusion internally (Alex Heath/The Information)
Amazon says it will let users opt out of human review of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa, following similar moves by Apple and Google (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
Interview with Snap CTO Bobby Murphy on augmented reality, visual communications, Lenses, Spectacles, and a future world in which the camera dominates (Mark Wilson/Fast Company)
UK data science company DataSparQ has developed "AI Bar", an AI-powered facial recognition system to help bartenders check IDs, fill orders faster and fairer (Melanie Ehrenkranz/Gizmodo)
Sources: US officials warn the UK that a free trade deal would not happen if digital services tax on companies like Google and Amazon becomes UK law this fall (Ben Riley-Smith/Telegraph)
Diabetics in the US are increasingly using electronic skin patches and smartphones to better manage their disease through continuous glucose tracking (Peter Loftus/Wall Street Journal)
How companies use AI in customer service: some to serve clients better, and some to find the "breakpoint" at which their service is so bad that a customer quits (Sharon Terlep/Wall Street Journal)
Parks Associates: 39% of US broadband homes own a streaming media player, up 1% since 2018; Roku and Amazon Fire TV own 39% and 30% of the market, respectively (Colin Dixon/nScreenMedia)
AI-powered news aggregation app SmartNews raises $28M Series E led by Japan Post Capital, valuing the startup at $1.1B and bringing the total raised to $116M (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)
Cloudflare CEO on why the company terminated DDoS protection service for 8chan: the site was "lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths" (Matthew Prince/The Cloudflare Blog)
Fossil announces Gen 5, its latest smartwatch running Wear OS, with an updated Snapdragon chipset, 44mm case, and a built-in speaker, available now for $295 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Uber and Lyft publish research on ride sharing in six US cities, excluding NYC, finding few vehicle-miles traveled but a heavier impact on traffic in core areas (Laura Bliss/CityLab)
Cybereason, an endpoint detection and response platform, raises $200M Series E led by SoftBank at a $900M valuation (Monica Melton/Forbes)
Android Security Bulletin for August 2019 patches QualPwn bugs that could have allowed attackers to compromise devices with Qualcomm chips over a Wi-Fi network (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
InCountry, which offers a data-residency-as-a-service platform, raises $15M Series A led by Arbor Ventures and others, bringing its total raised to $21M (FinSMEs)
Slack announces several new enterprise security features, including secondary authentication via Face ID, Touch ID and domain whitelisting tools for IT admins (Slack)
Kansas-based C2FO, which operates a enterprise-focused marketplace for working capital, raises $200M led by SoftBank Vision Fund (Allison Ingersoll/Bloomberg)
US government releases an interim rule banning federal purchases of comms equipment from five Chinese companies, including Huawei and ZTE, as part of a 2018 law (Roberta Rampton/Reuters)
How Piano created a "propensity" paywall that uses machine learning with 76 metrics to predict how likely someone is to subscribe, and adjusts accordingly (Christine Schmidt/Nieman Lab)
Viva Republica, the startup behind popular Korean P2P payments app Toss, raises $64M at a valuation of $2.2B, bringing its total raised to about $250M (Park Ga-young/theinvestor.co.kr)
DeepMind execs talk about the importance of interdisciplinary research and how AI could help solve tough scientific problems, like predicting shapes of proteins (Greg Williams/WIRED UK)
Securiti.ai, which is developing an automated platform that helps enterprises comply with privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA, raises $31M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
11 current and past YouTube moderators say popular creators like Logan Paul often get special treatment in the form of looser interpretations of guidelines (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
FCC filing reveals Sonos is working on its first-ever Bluetooth speaker (Chris Welch/The Verge)
A reporter describes trying to regain privacy by hiding from Silicon Valley using a slew of location-altering, signal silencing, face-masking gadgets (Joel Stein/Bloomberg)
Profile of Amazon Publishing, which puts out around 1,100 titles a year and, like Prime Video, exists to reinforce Prime memberships (Blake Montgomery/The Atlantic)
Nike buys Celect, an AI startup focused on predicting what customers want, allowing better inventory management; Celect had raised over $30M from investors (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
Profile of WWT, which helps clients including the US federal government procure and install IT equipment; the company reported revenue of $11.2B last year (Lauren Debter/Forbes)
QR code payments, which require opening an app, are causing holdups for public transit commuters in China, where 100M+ WeChat users regularly pay with QR codes (Masha Borak/Abacus)
Teen hacker Bill Demirkapi on finding bugs, that exposed 5M student records across 5,000 schools, in educational software from providers Blackboard and Follett (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
Researchers: security flaws in 40+ kernel drivers from 20 vendors including Intel, AMD, and Huawei, can give hackers improperly elevated privileges on Windows (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
The FBI is seeking an early alerting tool that scans public data from social media to monitor threats to the US, which may violate Facebook and Twitter policies (Wall Street Journal)
Facebook-backed Indian social commerce startup Meesho raises $125M Series D led by Naspers, bringing its total raised to $190M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Wheels Up, a subscription-based private aviation company that wants to be the Airbnb of private aviation, raises $128M Series D at a valuation of $1.1B (Robert Frank/CNBC)
Coinbase tells UK customers to convert their Zcash to other coins or move it to external wallets, otherwise it will automatically convert to pounds on Aug. 26 (Daniel Palmer/CoinDesk)
Polarity, which uses AI to analyze text on employee screens to augment it with context overlays, raises $8.1M Series AA following a $3.5M Series A in 2017 (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
Behind the rise of "twinfluencers" on social media, as content produced by twins continues to explode in popularity on YouTube and Instagram (Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic)
Spotify for Podcasters comes out of beta, giving podcasters valuable listener data like age, gender, location, music taste, and episode listening duration (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
Amazon says it has added "fear" to the range of emotions that its Rekognition facial recognition software can now detect (Ed Targett/Computer Business Review)
JD.com reports Q2 revenue of ~$22B, up 23% YoY, and net income of ~$90.1M, beating analyst expectations of a $6.3M net loss on $20.9B revenue (Daniel Strauss/Business Insider)
A look at Senior Planet, a tech-themed community center that helps seniors and entrepreneurs over 65 use technology to work and make money (Lauren Smiley/MIT Technology Review)
Sources: technicians from Huawei have, in at least two cases, personally helped African governments spy on their political opponents (Wall Street Journal)
Overstock.com shares fall ~36% over three days, after its CEO Patrick Byrne said he was part of "Deep State" federal investigations related to the 2016 election (Jeran Wittenstein/Bloomberg)
OnePlus CEO talks about a second 5G phone coming in Q4, international expansion, and plans to launch a TV set (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
How St. Louis University is trying to help new students acclimate to campus life by putting an Echo Dot in every dorm room with a campus-specific Alexa skill (Molly Price/CNET)
Cloudflare files for an IPO, citing sites like 8chan as one risk factor, says it had revenues of $192.7M in 2018, up 43% YoY, and a net loss of $87.2M (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)
After the latest firmware update, some Surface Pro 6 and Surface Book 2 devices are throttling CPU speeds to 400 MHz; Microsoft says it is working on a fix (James Sanders/TechRepublic)
Sources and a leaked pitch deck indicate that Amazon may have offered vendors the ability to bid for an Amazon Choice badge in 2017 (Hilary Milnes/Digiday)
In a letter to Congress, the Trump administration asks lawmakers to reauthorize a law that lets the NSA gain access to logs of phone and text records (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
Flyhomes raises $21M Series B and $120M in debt for its platform that lets buyers make upfront cash offers for a house, and then helps them sell their own homes (Nat Levy/GeekWire)
Sources: JD.com is in talks to raise $500M in a US IPO for its online supermarket Dada-JD Daojia, a joint venture 10% owned by Walmart and controlled by JD.com (The Information)
Some Defcon attendees discuss why people are still getting hacked and what the cybersecurity community needs to do better (VICE)
A look at What3words, a location sharing app that divides the world into 57 trillion three meter squares, and assigns them a unique, random three-word address (Duncan Leatherdale/BBC)
QTITELTITELTITELTITELA with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who says the company is now working with 4,500 AI startups, compared to 2,000 in April, 2017 (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Google was so obsessed with beating Facebook that it missed an opportunity with Google+ to tackle the problems, like radicalization, plaguing social media now (Caroline McCarthy/Spectator USA)
[Thread] Twitter has been running ads from Chinese state news agency Xinhua that aim to discredit protesters in Hong-Kong (@pinboard)
How terrorist organizations, locked out of traditional financing options, have used cryptocurrency for donations in increasingly sophisticated ways (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)
Singapore-based hotel startup RedDoorz raises $70M Series C from Japanese e-commerce leader Rakuten and others, just weeks after it confirmed its $45M Series B (Nikkei Asian Review)
Report: 650K+ tests in the US from early 2018 to early 2019 show that carrier throttling on mobile for Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video, is pervasive (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
After launching Chats in Facebook Groups in October of last year, Facebook says it is removing the feature and will archive existing chats on August 22 (Andrew Hutchinson/Social Media Today)
Roku Channel adds an ad-supported kids section with 7K free TV episodes and movies from 20 partners (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Twitter says it proactively suspended ~200K "spammy" accounts, before they became "substantially active", alongside its initial ban of 936 China-linked accounts (Twitter)
Facebook debuts first findings from conservative bias audit led by former GOP senator, says it influenced policy changes like creating a content oversight board (Sara Fischer/Axios)
Adult website Luscious left data of 1M+ users exposed, including user email addresses, location data, the content they uploaded, liked, and shared (Charlie Osborne/ZDNet)
Adult website Luscious left data of 1M+ users exposed, including user email addresses, location data, the content they uploaded, liked, and shared (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Google says it has started rolling out AI-powered real-time spelling and grammar check features on Gmail for all G Suite users (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
A look at the many failed social networks launched since 2002, including Friendster, Myspace, Bebo, ConnectU, Path, Yik Yak, Orkut, Google+, and Vine (Whitney Kimball/Gizmodo)
Source: Google is planning an update to the Home Mini, called the Nest Mini, with a similar form factor, wall mount, improved sound, and 3.5mm jack (Stephen Hall/9to5Google)
The definition of hacking under US federal law needs to evolve to account for new technological developments such as adversarial machine learning (Ryan Calo/OneZero)
Shanghai-based The CareVoice, which is building an end-to-end mobile platform for insurers to integrate their existing solutions, raises $10M Series A (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)
Amazon says it will no longer use tips or supplemental earnings to cover promised wages of Flex drivers, who deliver for Prime Now, Fresh, and Whole Foods (Johana Bhuiyan/Los Angeles Times)
Sources: new data dump of 5.3M+ credit card accounts is linked to compromised gas pumps, coffee shops, and restaurants operated by Hy-Vee supermarket chain (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
Report: Facebook has pushed Instagram into doubling the number of ads since last year; Instagram is testing two back-to-back ads in Stories (James Loke Hale/Tubefilter)
A look at the life of Patrick Byrne, whose interests in blockchain and transforming Africa, among others, often overshadowed those of Overstock.com shareholders (Lauren Debter/Forbes)
Investigation finds 4,152 items on Amazon that were declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled, or are banned by regulators (Wall Street Journal)
Seven top US publishers sue Audible, aiming to block the planned rollout of Captions, a new feature that shows text on screen as a book is narrated (Ayanti Bera/Reuters)
Riot Games has settled for an undisclosed sum a class action lawsuit alleging gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation for speaking out (Matt Kim/IGN)
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