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Poshmark, an online clothes resale marketplace, says it has confidentially filed its draft S-1 with the SEC for an IPO
Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin discloses hack that emptied its hot wallets, with the minimum loss currently estimated at $150M
SEC filing: Postmates posted a loss of $32.2M in Q2, compared to a loss of $73M in Q1; Postmates lost $105.2M in H1 2020 vs. $239M in the same period of 2019
Interview with Visa's Terry Angelos and Cuy Sheffield on the future of blockchain networks, partnering with crypto payment firms, and the Libra Association
Putin calls for a "reboot" between the US and Russia in cyberspace, offering "nonintervention into internal affairs of each other" including in elections
Fitbit says its OS 5.0 has been developed exclusively for the new Versa 3 and Sense smartwatches, and older devices, including last year's Versa 2, won't get it
A look at how Iranians are using satellite file-casting app Toosheh to bypass state internet blackouts as the country pushes its national intranet
US sets export restrictions on China's biggest chipmaker SMIC, saying exports to SMIC posed an "unacceptable risk" of being diverted to "military end use"
CB Insights: cloud computing startups raised almost $3B across 97 deals in Q2 2020, up from 76 deals in Q2 2019, with deal volume reaching a three-year high
Facebook exec says right-wing drives more engagement because its "populism is always more engaging," as it speaks to "an incredibly strong, primitive emotion"
Inside eBay's alleged plot that targeted a blogging duo and a Twitter gadfly using cockroaches, porn, death threats, physical surveillance, and pizza deliveries
Poll: 52% of US voters support shutting down social media platforms for the week of the election, with 62% not confident platforms can stop election misinfo
Source code of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has leaked online on various file sharing sites this week; Microsoft says it is "investigating the matter"
Apple's Craig Federighi details how ML behind handwriting recognition on iPad works, which was trained using data sourced directly from people as they wrote
Tech groups consider legal action against Trump's EO barring federal contractors from offering Diversity and Inclusion training, raising First Amendment issues
Google has announced the general availability of AI Platform Prediction, a service for developers to prepare, build, run, and share ML models in the cloud
Report: longtime Ubisoft veteran and Rayman creator Michel Ancel retired from the game publisher earlier this month while being investigated for toxic behavior
Future AR wearables from Facebook, Apple, and Amazon will track how we move and react in real time, setting up a privacy minefield
Epic acquires SuperAwesome, a UK-based platform offering devs a toolkit for implementing kids' safety features in their products; will remain standalone company
Humane raises a $30M Series A led by Sam Altman and Lachy Groom, with Marc Benioff and others participating, to build some new kind of computing platform
SEC filing: Alexis Ohanian is raising a fund called 776, with a target of $150M, three months after leaving Initialized Capital
Within3, an Ohio-based collaboration and communication service for the biotech and pharma industries, raises over $100M from Insight Partners and others
Twitter has emailed developers warning that it may have exposed their private app keys and account tokens due to a bug that stored them in browser caches
Interview with Dantley Davis, Twitter's chief design officer, on building diverse and inclusive design teams in tech
The European Commission says it will appeal the July 2020 ruling that reversed the original $15B fine against Apple and Ireland over State Aid and taxes
Vodafone scored a crucial victory in a years-long tax dispute with the Indian government, which will potentially save the UK wireless carrier almost $3B
Justice Department asks a federal judge to allow the government to bar Apple and Google from offering WeChat for download in US app stores pending an appeal
A group of about 25 experts say they have formed the Real Facebook Oversight Board, a group to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions
Sources: Google to issue new guidelines emphasizing that developers must use Google's own billing service for in-app purchases and subscriptions in Play Store
Colombia-based delivery app Rappi has raised over $300M from T. Rowe Price and others
Apple has agreed to allow Facebook to process payments for its paid online events feature via Facebook Pay, without taking a 30% cut, until December 31
Alphabet settles shareholder lawsuit over its handling of sexual harassment claims, agrees to eliminate mandatory arbitration and limit Google's use of NDAs
Leaked email: Google informed its advertisers on Friday that it will block election ads referencing "the election, or its outcome" after polls close on Nov. 3
Stan Chudnovsky, head of Messenger at Facebook, says Facebook has asked Apple for years to give users an option to make Messenger the default iOS messaging app
Chinese startup Showmac Tech, which makes eSIMs for Xiaomi IoT devices, raises $15M Series A+ led by Addor Capital
Apple confirms it had acquired cross-platform podcast app Scout FM, which created podcast stations for users based on listening history, before shutting it down
Amazon says it monitors internal listservs to gather feedback at scale, after an AWS employee claimed the listservs are being monitored for labor organizing
vice.com · 6 days ago
Clearview AI SEC filing revealed $8.6M in equity sales from undisclosed investors and identified two previously unknown board members
Sources: ahead of public market debut on Sept. 30, Palantir has told investors that its shares could start trading at $10 apiece, valuing the company ~$22B
SignalFire's in-depth report on the state of the creator economy, which has ~50M pro or semi-pro content creators across Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms
Ahead of US elections, YouTube says it is including info panels under videos about voting by mail, pointing viewers to a report by the Bipartisan Policy Center
A malware attack on a rural Texas county's email system, sending fake emails to voters, shows a significant weakness of America's election security
Amazon unveiled the AZ1 Neural Edge processor, a silicon module it made with MediaTek to allow for on-device neural speech recognition in its new Echo devices
theverge.com · 7 days ago