| 11:05 PM • | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: 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 |
| 9:25 PM • | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: As Microsoft moves Lynda.com users to LinkedIn Learning, libraries protest the requirement for patrons to create a LinkedIn profile, citing privacy concerns |
| 9:05 PM • | Alison Frankel / Reuters: Oracle board committee recommends court to proceed with a shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison and Safra Catz over the $9.3B NetSuite acquisition in 2016 |
| 8:07 PM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Amazon buys a 49% stake in Future Coupons, which, filings show, may be worth ~$104M, giving Amazon a 3.58% stake in India's No. 2 retail chain Future Retail |
| 6:50 PM • | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: HP says its CEO Dion Weisler will step down and Enrique Lores, president of HP's imaging, printing, and solutions business, will become new CEO from November 1 |
| 6:30 PM • | Joseph Cox / VICE: Cities are paying companies like Host Compliance to be “Airbnb Police” and find real addresses of vacation rentals to enforce short term rental legislation |
| 6:00 PM • | BBC: Microsoft says it stopped listening to Xbox recordings to improve tech months ago, but at times reviews recordings between users on reports of TOS violations |
| 5:35 PM • | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google says it has shut down 210 YouTube channels after it found they had been tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters |
| 5:22 PM • | Nick Statt / The Verge: DoorDash announces a new tipping policy that will let drivers keep 100% of tips, rolling out next month, and pledges to bump up base pay across the board |
| 5:12 PM • | Martin Selsoe Sorensen / New York Times: Flaws in cellphone tracking data used in Denmark, which may have linked innocent people to crime scenes, prompt a review of 10K+ court cases dating back to 2012 |
| 4:25 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: VMWare to acquire cybersecurity company Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B |
| 4:22 PM • | CNBC: Salesforce beats with Q2 revenue of $4B, up 22% YoY, vs. $3.95B est. and Sales Cloud revenue of $1.13B, up 13% YoY; stock up 5%+ |
| 3:50 PM • | Nitasha Tiku / Wired: Girls Who Code study of 1,000 young women highlights the challenges faced when seeking internships, often an unpleasant experience in a male-dominated workplace |
| 3:05 PM • | Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: 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 |
| 3:00 PM • | Brian Fung / CNN: Sources: FCC and FTC officials raised concerns about the constitutionality and scope of a Trump draft executive order on CDA Section 230 and alleged censorship |
| 2:40 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service called Knewz, to address publisher concerns about Google and Facebook |
| 2:25 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Valve patches recent Steam 0-days, calls turning away researcher who found them “a mistake”, and updates bug bounty program to start accepting “LPE"-class bugs |
| 1:50 PM • | Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Despite a legally mandated ban enacted last year, ~2,000 Chinese surveillance cameras from Hikvision and Dahua remain active in US government networks |
| 1:30 PM • | Washington Post: Palantir's revenue from US government contracts under Trump surpassed its total under Obama's second term, as sources describe staff debates about work with ICE |
| 1:10 PM • | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Krishna Bharat, who led the team that built Google News, returns to the company as a distinguished research scientist after a four-year hiatus |
| 1:00 PM • | ProPublica: Interviews with 36+ DOD and tech officials shed light on tech giants' fight for $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract using backdoor lobbying and an advisory board |
| 12:40 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: DOJ says it has indicted 80 individuals, many based in Nigeria, as part of a massive business email scam and money laundering scheme |
| 12:35 PM • | Tony Romm / Washington Post: AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and seven other US carriers announce an agreement with 51 attorneys general to implement new tech to block robocalls |
| 12:25 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Bose announces the $349 Portable Home Speaker with WiFi and Bluetooth and support for Google Assistant, Alexa, AirPlay 2, and Spotify Connect |
| 12:08 PM • | CNBC: Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after his comments about being involved in a “Deep State” investigation of 2016 election |
| 11:55 AM • | Georgina Torbet / Engadget: Google is rolling out its face-grouping feature in Google Photos, first introduced in 2015, across Europe |
| 11:35 AM • | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Knotel, a WeWork rival that uses blockchain to make acquisition decisions, raises $400M Series C at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $560M |
| 11:30 AM • | Facebook Technology: A look at Oculus Insight, Facebook's technology that makes inside-out VR tracking on Oculus Quest and Rift S headsets possible |
| 10:55 AM • | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Shanghai-based The CareVoice, which is building an end-to-end mobile platform for insurers to integrate their existing solutions, raises $10M Series A |
| 10:45 AM • | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: Users whose accounts have been disabled by Facebook say the opaque review process, the endless wait, and the inability to contact an employee can be maddening |
| 10:30 AM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Note10+ review: the screen is beautiful and handwriting recognition with S Pen is neat but software backslides into confusion and DeX is a mess |
| 9:55 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: SpotHero, which allows users to buy and sell parking spaces, raises $50M Series D led by Macquarie Capital, bringing its total raised to $118M |
| 9:40 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google's Chrome team proposes new privacy and anti-fingerprinting open standard to make it harder for marketers and advertisers to track users across the web |
| 9:35 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Remediant, which develops privileged account management software, raises $15M Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and ForgePoint Capital |
| 9:30 AM • | Sameer Samat / The Keyword: Google stops using dessert-themed names for Android for better worldwide accessibility, names Android Q Android 10, and refreshes Android brand logo and color |
| 9:20 AM • | Joseph Cox / VICE: Assessing the impact of telecoms' poor privacy practices through the story of a woman stalked by a man who obtained her real-time location data from T-Mobile |
| 9:10 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Zenoti, which develops booking software for spas and salons, raises $20M from Steadview Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$100M |
| 8:57 AM • | Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: Investigation reveals popular on-demand massage app Zeel repeatedly ignored therapists' complaints about sexual harassment and inappropriate client behavior |
| 8:10 AM • | Stephan Kahl / Bloomberg: Numbrs, an app that enables users to manage their existing bank accounts and to buy financial products in one place, raises $40M at a $1B+ valuation |
| 7:57 AM • | Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: Drop, which scans users' credit card purchases and offers personalized rewards, raises $44M Series B led by HOF Capital |
| 7:45 AM • | Alnoor Peermohamed / The Economic Times: Amazon is bringing its online grocery store, Amazon Fresh, which will offer two-hour delivery, to India, starting with Bengaluru on August 23 |
| 7:35 AM • | Mehreen Khan / Financial Times: The European Commission is planning regulation to impose strict limits on the use of facial recognition technology by companies and public authorities |
| 7:20 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning to launch Pro iPhones with three-sensor camera systems for better low-light, new iPads, and a 16-inch MacBook Pro next month |
| 5:25 AM • | Ryan Calo / OneZero: The definition of hacking under US federal law needs to evolve to account for new technological developments such as adversarial machine learning |
| 2:45 AM • | Rani Molla / Vox: A snapshot of Amazon's financial history and why free cash flow, which Bezos called Amazon's “ultimate financial measure”, is always higher than its profits |
| 12:50 AM • | Ana Wolsztajn / Tech.eu: Berlin-based Mister Spex, an online store selling various brands of prescription glasses and contact lenses, raises €65M for store and international expansion |
| 11:10 PM • | Christina Farr / CNBC: Fitbit wins a Singapore government contract to provide fitness trackers for free for up to a million citizens who subscribe to the $10/month premium service |
| 10:05 PM • | Takahiko Hyuga / Bloomberg: Wireless giant SoftBank Corp's brokerage unit, One Tap BUY, will allow individuals in Japan to participate in IPOs for as little as $10, starting next year |
| 7:55 PM • | Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: Eminem's publisher Eight Mile Style sues Spotify claiming copyright infringement, challenges the constitutionality of the Music Modernization Act passed in 2018 |
| 7:50 PM • | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: IAC has acquired short-term nursing jobs marketplace NurseFly, source says for $15M |
| 7:25 PM • | Glenda Toma / Forbes: Used clothing online marketplace ThredUp says it has raised a total of $175M over the past year; ThredUp is valued at ~$670M according to PitchBook |
| 7:15 PM • | Joseph Cox / VICE: Google, Mozilla, Apple to block root certificate issued by Kazakhstan which could be used to monitor users; Microsoft says cert not in its Trusted Root Program |
| 5:35 PM • | Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: 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 |
| 4:55 PM • | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: Big data analytics service Splunk to acquire cloud monitoring company SignalFx for $1.05B |
| 4:15 PM • | Rose Eveleth / Slate: A look at the weird and wacky patents filed by tech companies, some seemingly unrelated to the industry, and the reasons behind filing for them |
| 3:50 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Baidu, IBM, ARM, Intel, Red Hat, and others form the Confidential Computing Consortium to promote better data security practices |
| 3:00 PM • | Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo: A look at the many failed social networks launched since 2002, including Friendster, Myspace, Bebo, ConnectU, Path, Yik Yak, Orkut, Google+, and Vine |
| 2:25 PM • | Joseph Cox / VICE: Microsoft contractors say they listened to recordings, including accidentally invoked ones, of Xbox users, many of them children, to improve voice command tech |
| 2:20 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google officially rolls out a redesign for the Play Store, using its Material design language, and creates two distinct destinations for games and apps |
| 1:55 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Researcher who was banned from Valve's HackerOne bug bounty program after submitting a Steam 0-day that Valve downplayed, reveals details of another Steam 0-day |
| 1:43 PM • | Bloomberg: Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, who led a heavily criticized unit focusing on practical AI uses, has been placed on leave for unspecified reasons |
| 12:45 PM • | Scott Gilbertson / Wired: Raspberry Pi 4 review: still very cheap with an improved processor, true Ethernet, and more RAM; the new Desktop Kit add-on makes the device even more useful |
| 12:25 PM • | Jay Greene / Washington Post: As criticism from Trump and Democrats mounts, Amazon is courting US policymakers of all stripes with warehouse tours, which are later posted on social media |
| 11:55 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Crossbeam, which builds a platform for potential partner companies to compare data, raises $12.5M Series A led by FirstMark Capital |
| 11:45 AM • | Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: Lyft has been sued at least seven times in August by women alleging sexual assault by drivers, and there has been little action from the company |
| 11:25 AM • | Sean Captain / Fast Company: WeWork offices use the same WiFi password across many locations and employ the weak WPA2 Personal security protocol, creating potential for abuse |
| 11:15 AM • | Reuters: Amazon says it is opening an office in Hyderabad, India, which will house over 15,000 employees, making it the company's biggest campus in the world |
| 11:00 AM • | John Whitehouse / Media Matters for America: Contrary to conservatives' claims, data from 2018-19 shows right-leaning Facebook Pages with over 500,000 likes consistently outperform left-leaning rivals |
| 10:50 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube says it is shutting down its Messages feature for mobile and web, introduced in 2017, to encourage usage of posts, comments, and stories |
| 10:35 AM • | Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Facebook's conservative bias “audit” draws criticism from both sides after relying on interviews with 130 unnamed conservatives over internal data |
| 9:55 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Tala, a PayPal-backed startup that provides uncollateralized loans in emerging markets, raises $110M Series D led by RPS Ventures to expand into India |
| 9:45 AM • | Ryan Smith / AnandTech: Intel unveils 10th-gen Comet Lake CPUs with up to 6 cores for thin and light laptops, based on its Skylake CPU architecture and 14nm process |
| 9:35 AM • | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Waymo releases a self-driving open data set with 1,000 segments of 20-second footage in a range of driving conditions, free for non-commercial research |
| 9:25 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: PlusAI, which develops self-driving trucks and is backed by Sequoia Capital, is close to raising ~$200M at a valuation of $1B+ |
| 9:10 AM • | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: Box unveils Box Shield, a set of native security controls with machine learning-powered threat detection for customers' cloud content, in private beta |
| 8:35 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Alibaba has delayed its listing in Hong Kong, which had been slated for late August and aimed to raise $10B-$15B, amid growing political unrest |
| 8:05 AM • | Amrita Khalid / Engadget: Google and Mozilla to block web surveillance in Kazakhstan |
| 7:25 AM • | Nat Levy / GeekWire: LinkedIn says it blocked or removed 21.6M fake accounts in the first half 2019, of which 19.5M were blocked at the registration stage |
| 6:45 AM • | Washington Post: Apple is delaying its plans to limit third-party tracking and ads in kids' apps, which it planned to implement in Sept., after some developers raised concerns |
| 4:35 AM • | TechCrunch: A roundup of the 82 companies that launched at Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Day 2, including logistics, e-commerce, real estate, and crypto startups |
| 2:25 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Google says it has started rolling out AI-powered real-time spell check and grammar check features on Gmail for all G Suite users |
| 9:20 PM • | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Internal raises $5M seed round from David Sacks' Craft Ventures to help companies deploy consoles to manage employee access to sensitive customer data |
| 7:50 PM • | TechCrunch: DoorDash buys Scotty Labs, which raised $6M in VC funding to help remotely control self-driving cars, quietly hires co-founders of high precision map maker Lvl5 |
| 7:20 PM • | David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: How companies like McDonald's and Facebook use podcasts, such as Gizmodo-produced The Sauce, as subtle brand-building efforts meant to entertain and persuade |
| 6:47 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Adult website Luscious left data of 1M+ users exposed, including user email addresses, location data, the content they uploaded, liked, and shared |
| 6:00 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple Music launches a new chart, the Shazam Discovery Top 50, powered by Shazam data and featuring songs trending in the US and 10+ other countries |
| 5:25 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: RubyGems team found a backdoor in 11 Ruby libraries, including rest-client, that could leak data and issue commands remotely, say it was abused for cryptomining |
| 4:55 PM • | Financial Times: Uganda partners with Huawei to debut a facial recognition, AI-powered surveillance system, as part of Huawei's Safe City program, now in 200+ cities |
| 4:15 PM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Sources: to satisfy regulators, YouTube officials are finalizing plans to end targeted advertisements on videos kids are likely to watch |
| 3:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Source: the European Commission is “investigating potential anti-competitive behavior” and use of consumer data related to the Libra digital currency project |
| 2:50 PM • | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: Adult website data leak connected private users to content uploads |
| 2:15 PM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: IBM open sources the Power Instruction Set Architecture, which is used for its Power Series chips, and moves its OpenPower Foundation to The Linux Foundation |
| 1:45 PM • | Todd Feathers / VICE: As ~20 US states use AI to grade standardized test student essays, a look at the problematic practice that has little oversight, misses nuance, introduces bias |
| 1:35 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Homeis, a social network for immigrant communities and expats, raises $12M Series A led by Canaan and Spark Capital |
| 1:10 PM • | Jeff Benjamin / 9to5Mac: Hands-on with an early preview of Apple Arcade, which will reportedly cost $4.99/month, and some early-access trial games on macOS |
| 12:50 PM • | Stephen Shankland / CNET: Microsoft debuts a new, more stable Edge beta, available for Windows 7, Windows 10, and macOS, says 1M+ people have tried the Chromium-based Edge browser so far |
| 12:45 PM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Pre-IPO analysis of WeWork, weighing its big capital needs and other issues against its bull case: that it can overcome commoditization of its space, as AWS did |
| 12:25 PM • | Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: Profile of The Athletic, which has 400+ editorial staffers and expects ~1M subs to its sports news service by 2020; source: a funding in May valued it at ~$500M |
| 12:20 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google Go, the lightweight search app that takes up only ~7MB of phone storage, launches to Android users worldwide, is optimized to save about 40% on data |
| 12:10 PM • | Fanny Potkin / Reuters: Sources: WhatsApp is in talks with multiple digital payment firms in Indonesia to integrate their mobile transaction services in the country |
| 12:05 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Zendrive, which uses AI to lower insurance premiums by accounting for good driving habits, raises $37M Series B led by XL Innovate |
| 11:30 AM • | Christina Farr / CNBC: Sources: a slew of staff have left Apple's health unit as some feel it could be tackling more ambitious projects but is limited to wellness and prevention goals |
| 11:10 AM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: After announcing the Clear History privacy tool over a year ago, Facebook finally begins rolling it out in Ireland, South Korea, and Spain |
| 10:00 AM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Facebook debuts first findings from conservative bias audit led by former GOP senator, says it influenced policy changes like creating a content oversight board |
| 9:50 AM • | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Starship Technologies, which builds autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, raises $40M Series A led by Morpheus Ventures, says it has crossed 100K deliveries |
| 9:30 AM • | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple announces that Apple Card is now available to all iPhone users in the United States, with a 3% cashback offer for Uber and Uber Eats |
| 9:25 AM • | Mike Isaac / New York Times: Facebook to hire a small team of journalists to curate a Top News section in its upcoming news tab, which it plans to release as a test before the year-end |
| 9:10 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: a group of as many as 20 states will launch a joint antitrust investigation of big tech companies as soon as next month |
| 8:55 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: H2O.ai, which provides an open source machine learning platform to build smart applications, raises $72.5M led by Goldman Sachs and Ping An Global Voyager Fund |
| 8:20 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Yubico launches USB-C and Lightning-compatible Yubikey 5Ci, with native support for iOS apps like LastPass and 1Password out of the box, for $70 |
| 8:10 AM • | Reuters: Xiaomi misses expectations with Q2 revenue of $7.36B, up 15% YoY, and profit of $277M, down 87% YoY; total smartphone shipments rose to 32M |
| 7:55 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Reputation.com, formerly known as ReputationDefender, which helps businesses track and improve online reviews, raises $30M led by Ascension Ventures |
| 7:20 AM • | Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Microsoft acquires jClarity, which provides performance tuning tools for Java developers, to help optimize Java workloads on Azure |
| 3:01 AM • | Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: Inside China's ambitious program to dominate the emerging field of quantum technology, overseen by physicist Pan Jian-Wei, as it pours billions into R&D |
| 9:40 PM • | TechCrunch: A roundup of the 84 companies that launched at Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Day 1, including education, finance, AI, and AR/VR startups |
| 8:50 PM • | Amanda Bartlett / San Francisco Chronicle: FogCam, a webcam set up by two San Francisco State students on a campus roof and widely deemed to be the longest-running webcam, is shutting down after 25 years |
| 8:10 PM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Baidu reports Q2 revenue of ~$3.73B, up 12% YoY, beating estimates, and a net income of ~$344M, down 62% YoY; iQiyi revenue topped ~$1.01B, up 15% YoY |
| 7:50 PM • | Samit Sarkar / Polygon: Sony Interactive Entertainment says it is acquiring Insomniac Games, developer of PS4 hit Marvel's Spider-Man; Insomniac to join PlayStation's Worldwide Studios |
| 7:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning to roll out Apple TV+, its subscription service, by November and is considering $9.99/month pricing after a free trial |
| 7:15 PM • | Matt Day / Bloomberg: A look at Amazon's efforts to compete with Apple and Google in cars, with Audi and BMW agreeing to include Alexa in some models by default |
| 6:50 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: Apple has committed $6B+ for original shows and movies, many featuring huge names, ahead of Apple TV+'s launch, expected within the next two months |
| 6:35 PM • | Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times: FTC chairman says he intends to complete the Facebook antitrust probe before 2020 election and WhatsApp-Instagram integration would make breaking it up harder |
| 6:05 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: TikTok launches a feature that allows users to shop for products associated with a sponsored Hashtag Challenge without leaving its app |
| 5:45 PM • | Brian Martin / Twitter: Twitter open-sources Rezolus telemetry tool, designed to uncover resource utilization spikes too brief to be captured through normal metrics systems |
| 5:30 PM • | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Without evidence or any attempt at further explanation, Trump accuses Google of manipulating millions of votes in 2016's election, says Google “should be sued” |
| 4:55 PM • | Jane Manchun Wong: A deep look at Spotify's Android app shows the company is working on Stories for Playlists, opened by tapping a profile picture at the top of the playlist page |
| 4:50 PM • | Aaron Tilley / The Information: Bill Stasior, former longtime Apple exec who oversaw Siri, has joined Microsoft as corporate VP of technology, reporting to CTO Kevin Scott |
| 4:30 PM • | Julia Alexander / The Verge: YouTube sues an alleged copyright troll who, using 15+ identities, filed fraudulent strikes against multiple Minecraft YouTubers and demanded money from them |
| 4:25 PM • | Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC: Amazon raises seller fees by 3% for thousands of SMBs in France, blaming the country's new digital tax |
| 3:30 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: US Commerce Department adds 46 Huawei affiliates to its Entity List and extends the temporary general license by 90 days for US firms doing business with Huawei |
| 3:05 PM • | Twitter: Twitter says it proactively suspended ~200K “spammy” accounts, before they became “substantially active”, alongside its initial ban of 936 China-linked accounts |
| 2:45 PM • | Twitter: Twitter says it will no longer accept advertising from state-controlled news media entities, but the rule does not apply to “taxpayer-funded entities” |
| 2:42 PM • | Nathaniel Gleicher / Facebook: After a tip from Twitter, Facebook removes 7 Pages, 3 Groups, 5 accounts originating in China “involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior” regarding Hong Kong |
| 2:28 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Twitter accuses China of running a disinformation campaign against Hong Kong protesters, attempting to “sow political discord”, suspends 936 associated accounts |
| 2:15 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Facebook is expanding its data abuse bounty program, first introduced after Cambridge Analytica, to Instagram after more data incidents |
| 1:50 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Nvidia says that its GeForce Now game streaming service, which is in public beta for Mac, PC, and Shield TV, will be coming to Android later this year |
| 1:40 PM • | Arielle Pardes / Wired: Reddit to test live video streaming for users, from 9am to 5pm through the end of this week, to be entirely moderated by Reddit employees |
| 1:35 PM • | Tushar Mehta / XDA Developers: Microsoft brings SMS Organizer, its Android app to filter spam texts and get smart notifications about bills, flights, and more, from India to Australia, UK, US |
| 12:40 PM • | Reuters: Sources: Facebook contractor Genpact has hiked pay for Indian content reviewers, doubling minimum salaries to ~$3,500/year, after reports in February of low pay |
| 12:20 PM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: The first public jailbreak in years for up-to-date iPhones has been posted online, researchers say, after a bug that was patched in iOS 12.3 was reintroduced |
| 11:55 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Simon Data, a platform to leverage customer data for marketing, used by companies like Venmo, raises $30M Series C led by Polaris, bringing total raised to $59M |
| 11:35 AM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Sources: Root Insurance, an auto insurance startup that leverages telematics data from its mobile app to gauge driving style, raises ~$350M at a $3.5B valuation |
| 11:06 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Roku Channel adds an ad-supported kids section with 7K free TV episodes and movies from 20 partners |
| 10:20 AM • | Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten launches crypto exchange for trading in bitcoin, ether, and bitcoin cash, via an Android app, with no fees for making trades |
| 10:10 AM • | Reuters: Google shuts down its free service to show carriers weak spots in their coverage, sources say to avoid potential scrutiny over sharing data from its users |
| 9:50 AM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: The Roku Channel is adding a kids and family section with free TV shows and movies |
| 9:45 AM • | Elisabeth Brier / Forbes: Online mortgage service Better.com raises $160M Series C led by Activant Capital, bringing total raised to $254M |
| 9:35 AM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Disney+ to launch in Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand along with the US in November, streaming on all major platforms except Fire TV |
| 9:05 AM • | Tiernan Ray / Fortune: Cerebras Systems unveils the world's biggest semiconductor chip that is the size of a large mousepad, with 400K cores, 1.2T transistors, and 18GB of SRAM memory |
| 8:50 AM • | Sam Byford / The Verge: Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo are working on an AirDrop-style wireless file transfer protocol that will work between their devices with speeds of up to 20MB/s |
| 8:20 AM • | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: Cloud-based file transfer company WeTransfer raises €35M in a secondary funding round led by European growth equity firm HPE Growth |
| 7:45 AM • | Yogita Khatri / The Block: Binance says it plans to launch Venus, an “independent regional version of Libra”, which will develop “localized” stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies |
| 7:30 AM • | Steven Loeb / VatorNews: Two Chairs, which operates mental health clinics using a personalized therapist-client matching system, raises $21M Series B, six months after a $7M Series A |
| 7:15 AM • | Steve Dent / Engadget: Spotify's Premium Family Plan is getting parental controls with an explicit content filter and a Family Mix personalized playlist for the whole family |
| 7:00 AM • | Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: 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 |
| 6:15 AM • | Wouter Geerts / Skift: Report: top 5 short-term rental firms like Airbnb, which accounted for only 4% of bookings in 2010, are estimated to account for 73% of gross bookings in 2019 |
| 4:30 AM • | Thomas Ohr / EU-Startups: UK property finance marketplace LendInvest raises €216M in additional funding from the National Australia Bank, has raised €1.94B+ in debt and equity since 2008 |
| 1:15 AM • | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 12:30 AM • | Chad Bray / South China Morning Post: Accenture: global investment in fintech firms in H1 2019 was $22B, down 29% YoY, as investments in China dropped 79% to $820M, from $17.7B in H1 2018 |
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