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Report: India's antitrust authority found that Google abused the dominant position of Android in the country to illegally hurt competitors
Ireland raises privacy question over Facebook smart glasses
General Motors says it is building direct relationships with chip manufacturers to address shortages, following production halts at six assembly plants
GitLab files for a US IPO; the company was valued at $6B after a secondary share sale in January
U.S. court upholds dismissal of lawsuit against NSA on 'state secrets' grounds
Facebook says it will use the same tactics that it uses to remove bot networks to target real-user accounts engaging in tactics like mass reporting
Simone Biles condemns U.S. Olympic Committee, FBI for sex-abuse crisis
Amazon reaches agreement with trade unions in Italy
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Melio, a B2B payments startup for small businesses, raises $250M Series D led by Thrive Capital and General Catalyst at a $4B valuation, up 3x from January
WhatsApp launches its first test of a public directory for businesses within the app, starting in São Paulo
Report: Uber CTO, Sukumar Rathnam, has resigned after a year in the position amid tensions with Uber CPO Sundeep Jain
Ex-NSA cyberspies reveal how they helped hack foes of UAE (2019)
Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in FL schools
Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America
Norwegian enterprise software maker Visma says it is planning an IPO next year in Oslo after being valued at $19B in a secondary share sale
Box stockholders voted to re-elect three board directors, including CEO Aaron Levie, giving a blow to activist investor Starboard, which failed to win any seats
Paid influencers must label posts as ads, German court rules
AI ethics chiefs at Google, IBM, and Microsoft say their companies rejected client requests for developing AI for credit scoring, facial recognition, and more
Snyk, which helps fix vulnerabilities in open source dependencies and container images, raises a $300M round at a $8.5B valuation, ~2X its March valuation
Microsoft says it has now fixed a flaw that could have allowed hackers to access data of some Azure customers; Palo Alto Networks reported the flaw in July
Egyptian microfinance lending and payments service MNT-Halan raises $120M, as investors say it has 4M+ customers in Egypt and disbursed over $1.7B in loans
Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing foundation's bank account
Bitcoin fell 17%+ to ~$43K before rising to $47K as El Salvador adopts it as legal tender, where high demand led to the Chivo wallet being temporarily unplugged
Source: Google has temporarily locked an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, as the Taliban seeks to acquire former officials' emails
China says it will set up a new stock exchange in Beijing that will primarily serve "innovation-oriented SMEs"
Renaissance executives agree to pay around $7B to settle dispute with IRS
Filings: NLRB is investigating two complaints by Apple employees, including one by senior engineering PM Ashley Gjøvik who alleges workplace harassment and more
Sources: Reddit is seeking to hire investment bankers and lawyers ahead of an IPO that may occur as soon as early 2022, following a $10B valuation in August
Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO – sources
Sources: AWS plans to hire content moderators to look for emerging extremist groups and remove content that violates its cloud service policies
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