| 11:20 PM • | Bloomberg: Samsung's Jay Y. Lee, who spent 18 months in prison for bribery, wins a pardon from South Korea's President, letting him regain his company leadership role |
| 10:25 PM • | Alexandra Alper / Reuters: Sources: SK Hynix plans to pick a US site for its chip packaging plant that would qualify for CHIPS Act funding by Q1 2023 and hit mass production by 2025-2026 |
| 9:55 PM • | The Guardian: Google agrees to pay $42.7M to settle a court case with Australia's ACCC over misleading some Android users about the collection of personal location data |
| 7:05 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: LinkedIn rolls out new features to court creators, including a clickable link on images and videos, text post templates, and the option to mix images and videos |
| 6:25 PM • | Megha Paul / Tech.eu: Frankfurt-based AAA games studio Gunzilla Games has raised $46M led by Republic Capital and plans to handle in-game item trading using NFTs in an upcoming title |
| 5:10 PM • | South China Morning Post: Chinese chipmaker SMIC reports Q2 revenue up 41.6% YoY to $1.9B, vs. $1.89B est., but net profit fell 25% YoY to $514M, amid lockdowns and harsher US sanctions |
| 4:05 PM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Google appears to be testing letting users launch cloud games from Stadia, Amazon's Luna, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia's GeForce Now from search results |
| 3:00 PM • | Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: Some companies are hiring B2B influencers, mostly on LinkedIn, to pitch to other companies; LinkedIn says 11M+ users have enabled “creator mode” as of July 2022 |
| 1:40 PM • | Bloomberg: CryptoCompare: Coinbase's market share of global spot trading volume among the top 15 crypto exchanges fell from 10.7% in January 2022 to 6.3% in July 2022 |
| 12:45 PM • | Jason Nelson / Decrypt: Mailchimp is suspending the accounts of crypto-related creators and media outlets, telling some that crypto content conflicts with its Acceptable Use Policy |
| 11:50 AM • | Eric Mandel / Atlanta Business Journal: Mailchimp co-founder Ben Chestnut plans to step down as CEO after 21 years and transition to a founder-advisor role; Intuit's Rania Succar will take over |
| 11:40 AM • | Makena Kelly / The Verge: The US FEC approves Google's proposal to keep campaign emails from being marked as spam, after GOP lawmakers said Gmail was censoring right-wing emails |
| 10:25 AM • | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Researchers bought 5G IoT plans from 10 carriers and found security flaws exposing private SIM card data and, in some cases, large streams of other users' data |
| 9:25 AM • | Twitter: Twitter outlines its Civic Integrity Policy ahead of the 2022 US midterm elections, including redesigned tweet labels and “prebunks” for misleading narratives |
| 9:15 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Stockholm-based Superblocks, whose drag-and-drop tools help companies build internal apps, raised $37M led by Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks, Spark, and Meritech |
| 9:05 AM • | Financial Times: A look at livestreamed e-commerce, already mature and established in China, which TikTok, YouTube, Meta, Amazon, and others want to bring to the US and Europe |
| 8:30 AM • | Felix Krause: A detailed look at how Facebook and Instagram for iOS open links with a custom in-app browser, letting Meta track every interaction including entering passwords |
| 8:00 AM • | Bloomberg: As Flutterwave prepares for an IPO, the Nigerian payments startup faces allegations of financial impropriety, a culture of harassment and bullying, and more |
| 7:40 AM • | John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: The US FTC seeks public comment on federal online privacy rules, which could take years to enact, and is considering various paths, such as focusing on children |
| 7:25 AM • | Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: Twitter lets Saudi official and MBS aide Bader al-Asaker, who is implicated in a plot to recruit Twitter staff, keep his verified account with 2.1M+ followers |
| 7:15 AM • | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: After the Nebraska abortion case, Meta tests more E2EE chats and backups in Messenger, and says default E2EE messages and calls will roll out globally in 2023 |
| 6:55 AM • | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: FundamentalVR, a cross-platform simulation tool for medical and health care workers, raised $20M led by EQT Life Sciences, bringing its total funding to $30M+ |
| 6:45 AM • | Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: In its first known crypto probe, the US FTC compels crypto exchange BitMart to turn over information about a December 2021 hack leading to $150M-$200M in losses |
| 6:35 AM • | Mariella Moon / Engadget: Google says Search info snippets will use its latest AI model, Multitask Unified Model, to find consensus in results and expands its “About this result” tool |
| 5:55 AM • | Kristin Robinson / Billboard: Docs and sources: how two men in Phoenix, Arizona ran one of the largest known YouTube music royalty scams, leading to a 30-count indictment in November 2021 |
| 4:25 AM • | Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: Microsoft and CISA warn users about DogWalk, a now-patched actively exploited RCE vulnerability in Windows 7, 10, 11, and Server 2008 through 2022 |
| 2:35 AM • | Vishal Chawla / The Block: Ethereum's third and final proof-of-stake test merge goes live on the Goerli test network, a dress rehearsal for the mainnet merge planned for September 2022 |
| 1:50 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Los Angeles-based Boulevard, whose tools let beauty and wellness salons book appointments, message clients, and accept payments, has raised a $70M Series C |
| 1:00 AM • | Malavika Kaur Makol / Bloomberg: India's central bank releases guidelines for digital lending, which is projected to reach $350B in India by 2023, after complaints over harsh recovery tactics |
| 12:35 AM • | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine, which uses machine learning to identify potential drug targets, raised $35M from Prosperity7, bringing its Series D to $95M |
| 11:45 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Elon Musk's lawyers asked the judge in the Twitter case to compel the company to hand over the names of employees who count spam and bot accounts |
| 11:25 PM • | Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: Disney lowers its Disney+ subscriber forecast to between 135M and 165M by 2024, and separates its Disney+ Hotstar subscriber guidance, aiming to hit 80M by 2024 |
| 11:10 PM • | Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: Coinbase disclosed in its latest quarterly filing that the US SEC is investigating its token listing processes, staking programs, and yield-generating products |
| 10:50 PM • | Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Beijing-based Geek+, which makes autonomous warehouse robots, has raised a $100M Series E1 from Intel Capital, Vertex Growth, and others at a $2B+ valuation |
| 10:20 PM • | Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: Omaha-based Pinata, which offers NFT media infrastructure and support for crypto projects, raised a $18M Series A led by Greylock and Pantera and a $3.5M seed |
| 10:05 PM • | Brianna Wessling / The Robot Report: StradVision, a developer of deep learning-based perception processing software for autonomous vehicles, has raised an $88M Series C from ZF, Aptiv, and others |
| 8:25 PM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Cisco confirms the Yanluowang ransomware group breached its network in May 2022; Yanluowang claimed to have stolen 2.75GB of data, or ~3.1K files including NDAs |
| 7:25 PM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Elliptic: cross-chain bridge RenBridge has been used to launder $540M+ in crime-related crypto cash since 2020, including 53M+ by the Conti ransomware group |
| 6:25 PM • | Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: Bumble reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $220.5M, vs. $219.4M est., a $6.4M net loss, vs. $2.6M est., and a Q3 guidance below estimates; stock drops 8%+ |
| 5:50 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Disney hit 221.1M global streaming subscribers in its Q3, above Netflix's 220.7M in its Q2; Disney+ had 152.1M subscribers, Hulu had 46.2M, and ESPN+ had 22.8M |
| 5:30 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Apple signed a Futuro Studios deal to fund podcast development and production in exchange for the first look to turn any podcast into a film or TV show |
| 5:05 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Nightfall AI, which provides cloud data loss prevention services, announces a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, bringing its total funding to $60M |
| 4:30 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Disney announces Disney+ Basic, its ads tier for $7.99 per month, launching in the US on December 8, and raises the ad-free price from $7.99 to $10.99 per month |
| 4:15 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: In documents filed with Brazil's competition regulator, Microsoft says Sony pays for “blocking rights” to “prevent developers from adding content to Game Pass” |
| 3:50 PM • | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: The FCC rejects SpaceX's application for an $885M subsidy to provide Starlink broadband to rural America over 10 years, after tentatively approving it in 2020 |
| 2:05 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft open sources its library of 1,500+ 3D emoji, available now on GitHub and Figma, letting creators remix and customize them for free |
| 12:15 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: NFT startup Dapper Labs hires Nick Grudin, who was at Meta for nearly 12 years and at Newsweek before that, as chief business officer starting in September 2022 |
| 11:10 AM • | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: A look at Invisv's Pretty Good Phone Privacy mobile data service, available in beta on Android, which is designed to separate users from specific identifiers |
| 10:45 AM • | Pew Research Center: An in-depth look at US teenagers and social media in 2022: 95% say they use YouTube, 67% use TikTok, 62% use Instagram, 59% use Snapchat, and 32% use Facebook |
| 10:25 AM • | Vincent Manancourt / Politico: Ireland's data regulator says it received objections from other EU regulators to its draft order to block Meta's EU-US data sharing, a reprieve for the company |
| 10:05 AM • | Reuters: Iran's Tasnim agency says the country made its first official import order paying with cryptocurrency this week, worth $10M, helping circumvent US sanctions |
| 9:55 AM • | Tom Matsuda / The Block: NYC-based Injective, a Layer 1 blockchain that focuses on DeFi use cases, raised $40M in a private token sale, which closed in July 2022, led by Jump Crypto |
| 9:45 AM • | Mat Smith / Engadget: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 hands-on: an incremental but nice upgrade on the Flip 3, including improvements to durability, the 1.9-inch front display, and Flex mode |
| 9:40 AM • | Nirave Gondhia / XDA Developers: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 hands-on: improved, more durable displays, easier one-handed use, lighter than the Fold 3, and better cameras, but only 25W charging |
| 9:23 AM • | Jon Fingas / Engadget: Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z Flip 4, featuring the same 1.9" and 6.7" displays, battery and camera upgrades, and the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, starting at $999 |
| 9:20 AM • | Florence Ion / Gizmodo: Samsung announces the $230 Galaxy Buds 2 Pro with a smaller form factor, improved ambient noise cancellation, 24-bit Hi-Fi audio, and more; preorders now open |
| 9:15 AM • | Victoria Song / The Verge: Samsung debuts the $280 Galaxy Watch 5 and $450 Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, with a touch bezel and better BioActive sensor, mapping features for Pro; preorders now open |
| 9:10 AM • | Allison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung debuts the $1,800 Galaxy Z Fold 4 with 6.2" and 7.6" displays, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, 12GB of RAM, 256GB+ storage, and a 50MP camera; preorders now open |
| 8:10 AM • | Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: After suffering huge losses, SoftBank plans to reduce its Alibaba stake from 23.7% as of June 30, 2022, to 14.6% by the end of September, gaining ~$34B in Q3 |
| 8:00 AM • | Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: Snap launches Snapchat+ in India for ~$0.62 per month, offering exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features; the service costs $3.99 per month in the US |
| 7:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Indonesian digital wallet provider Dana raised $250M from local conglomerate Sinar Mas and Alibaba's Lazada Group and says it processes 10M transactions per day |
| 7:35 AM • | Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: Meta raises $10B in its first-ever bond offering, to fund share buybacks and investments to revamp its business; Meta was the only Big Tech company without debt |
| 7:25 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Spotify quietly tests Spotify Tickets, directly selling live music tickets to users in the US, instead of redirecting buyers to Ticketmaster or Eventbrite |
| 7:10 AM • | Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Many small businesses that use personalized online ads are cutting back on marketing, in part due to Apple's ATT, as they face rising customer acquisition costs |
| 6:30 AM • | Harri Weber / TechCrunch: Vancouver-based Hootsuite plans to lay off 30% of its workforce, or an estimated 400 people; PitchBook says the social media marketing startup has raised $300M+ |
| 6:15 AM • | Paul Sandle / Reuters: Deliveroo reports H1 revenue rose 12% YoY to £1B, its pretax loss widened to £147.3M, up 54% YoY from £95.4M, and plans to exit the Netherlands in November |
| 6:05 AM • | Kim S. Nash / Wall Street Journal: AWS, Splunk, IBM, CrowdStrike, Rapid7, Cloudflare, Salesforce, Okta, and 10 others launch the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework to monitor hacking attempts |
| 5:55 AM • | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to ~$50B and ~$1.1B net income, as cloud product sales helped weather supply chain issues and sluggish smartphone demand |
| 4:45 AM • | Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: Filings: Elon Musk sold ~7.9M Tesla shares, worth ~$7B, between August 5 and 9, Musk says to avoid “an emergency sale” if a judge forces his Twitter acquisition |
| 2:40 AM • | JD Alois / Crowdfund Insider: Las Vegas-based Fortress Blockchain Technologies, which is building financial, regulatory, and B2B infrastructure tech for Web3 companies, raised a $22.5M seed |
| 1:45 AM • | Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: Forage, whose software helps grocers accept online SNAP food stamp payments, has raised a $22M Series A led by Nyca Partners, valuing the startup at ~$100M |
| 1:05 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches Get The Message, a campaign to pressure Apple to support RCS over SMS/MMS, highlighting low-resolution photos and videos, no e2ee, and more |
| 12:12 AM • | Meta: Meta says the warrants in the Nebraska case didn't mention abortion, only the burning and burial of a stillborn, came before Roe's reversal, and had a gag order |
| 11:15 PM • | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Cloudflare says three employees fell for an SMS phishing scam, but the company's hardware MFA keys stopped the hackers from accessing its internal network |
| 11:00 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NYC-based PreciTaste, which uses computer vision to monitor food quality and predict demand and supply in quick-service kitchens, has raised a $24M Series A |
| 10:45 PM • | Russell Redman / Supermarket News: Amazon plans to expand its Amazon One palm-recognition payment service to 65+ Whole Foods locations in California in the coming weeks, its first broad rollout |
| 10:10 PM • | Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: Sources: Taiwan's national security officials want Foxconn to unwind its $800M stake in Chinese chip company Tsinghua Unigroup, which was announced in July 2022 |
| 9:00 PM • | Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: President Biden's antitrust adviser Tim Wu denies reports he is leaving the White House, saying “I'm not leaving anytime soon — still have lots of work to do” |
| 7:15 PM • | Mahira Dayal / The Information: Source: BeReal had 7.9M DAUs in July, up from 2M in January and 10K in March 2021, and raised a Series B led by DST at a $600M pre-money valuation this spring |
| 7:00 PM • | CNBC: Court and financial docs show a complex relationship between Voyager and Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda, including a possible $1.6B crypto asset loan from Voyager |
| 6:15 PM • | Stephen Shankland / CNET: Nvidia unveils its Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine, a suite of cloud-based AI models and services for developers building 3D models of lifelike chatbot avatars |
| 6:05 PM • | New York Times: Sources: Walmart has held talks with Paramount, Disney, and Comcast, as the retailer explores bundling a streaming service into its Walmart+ membership program |
| 5:30 PM • | Bloomberg: A jury finds former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over Saudi dissidents' account data in exchange for bribes |
| 5:20 PM • | Jason Koebler / VICE: Served with warrants, Meta gave a teen's Messenger chats to Nebraska authorities, who charged her and her mother with breaking laws related to an abortion |
| 5:15 PM • | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox misses with Q2 bookings down 4% YoY to $639.9M, vs. $657.2M est., and average DAUs up 21% YoY to 52.2M, vs. 54M est.; stock drops 5%+ |
| 5:05 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Coinbase misses with Q2 revenue down 64% YoY to $808.3M, vs. $832.2M est., a $1.1B net loss, trading volume down 53% YoY to $217B, and 9M MTUs |
| 4:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: the US DOJ is preparing to sue Google over its ad market business as soon as September, as the DOJ's antitrust division lawyers interview publishers |
| 4:20 PM • | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Cryptocurrency exchange Nuri, previously known as Bitwala, filed for insolvency in Berlin and says its customers still have access to their deposits |
| 3:05 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Miami-based Column, a public benefit company offering software to streamline placing public notices in newspapers, raised a $30M Series A led by Lux Capital |
| 2:45 PM • | Reuters: Unity announces it has struck a deal to create Unity China, a joint venture valued at $1B, with partners including Alibaba, China Mobile, Oppo, and Douyin Group |
| 2:25 PM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Mountain View-based customer engagement and retention service Clevertap raised a $105M Series D led by CDPQ, valuing it at ~$775M, up from $385M in October 2019 |
| 2:10 PM • | Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: CreatorDAO, a DAO offering creators capital and operational support for a cut of their future earnings, raised a $20M seed led by a16z and Initialized Capital |
| 1:55 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Spotify gives its Android app's home screen separate feeds for Music and Podcasts & Shows to better highlight recommendations, will bring the change to iOS soon |
| 1:30 PM • | Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: A profile of SMIC co-CEO Liang Mong Song, a Taiwanese chip wizard who previously led Samsung's chip development and was one of the key people behind TSMC's rise |
| 12:20 PM • | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Truework, which integrates with payroll services like Zenefits to help lenders verify borrowers' income and employment, raised a $50M Series C led by G Squared |
| 11:35 AM • | CoinDesk: An anonymous Tornado Cash user sent ETH to high-profile crypto users, such as Jimmy Fallon and Brian Armstrong, from a sanctioned address, likely to troll them |
| 11:25 AM • | Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: President Biden signs the CHIPS and Science Act into law, including $52B+ for US companies producing semiconductors, as well as billions more in tax credits |
| 10:55 AM • | Reuters: AppLovin offers to buy Unity for $58.85 per share, an 18% premium to Unity's Monday closing price, in a $17.54B all-stock deal; AppLovin's stock drops 10.29% |
| 9:50 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Tel Aviv-based Shopic, whose shopping cart clip-on device uses AI to identify items, raised a $35M Series B led by Qualcomm, bringing its total funding to $56M |
| 9:40 AM • | Chainalysis: A breakdown of the $7.6B+ in ETH sent to Tornado Cash since August 2019: 49.6% was from DeFi, 17.7% was from sanctioned entities, and 10.5% was stolen funds |
| 9:35 AM • | Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: The DOJ says former BitMEX Head of Business Development Gregory Dwyer pled guilty to violating US federal anti-money laundering rules and agreed to a $150K fine |
| 9:25 AM • | Mike Truppa / The Block: Reddit partners with Ethereum Layer 2 scaling platform Arbitrum to bring its Community Points system to the Arbitrum Nova blockchain; FTX and others will advise |
| 8:01 AM • | Prarthana Prakash / Bloomberg: Micron plans to spend $40B by 2030 to expand US chip manufacturing capacity, helped by government grants and credits, and expects to begin production after 2025 |
| 7:35 AM • | Reuters: South Korea's telecoms regulator plans an investigation into Apple, Google, and One Store over suspected violations of the country's in-app payment law |
| 7:15 AM • | Sophie Fullerton / Washington Post: YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram travel influencers are documenting trips to Syria, helping burnish the regime's image, often sponsored by brands like Surfshark |
| 6:25 AM • | New York Times: Russia has rerouted internet traffic in occupied Ukrainian territories through Russian networks since June 2022, blocking uncensored information and services |
| 6:05 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Beijing has grown frustrated with a years-long failure to develop semiconductors that can replace US chips, capped by anti-graft probes into top execs |
| 5:45 AM • | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: GitHub partners with code-signing service Sigstore to add end-to-end signing of npm software packages, helping improve the security of open-source projects |
| 5:35 AM • | Coco Liu / Bloomberg: Filing: Alibaba reduced its workforce by 9,241 employees between April and June 2022 to just over 245,000 total, after laying off 4,375 from January to March |
| 4:15 AM • | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert / Insider: Meta's BlenderBot 3 chatbot, released in the US on August 5, repeats antisemitic stereotypes, claims Donald Trump is the current US president, and more |
| 3:04 AM • | WABetaInfo: WhatsApp rolls out privacy features to let users leave Groups silently, choose who can see when they are online, and block screenshots of View Once messages |
| 3:00 AM • | Bloomberg: ByteDance acquired Amcare Healthcare, one of China's largest private hospital chains, source says for about $1.5B, deepening its foray into health care |
| 2:15 AM • | Nikita Mazurov / The Intercept: Amazon's registries for weddings, birthdays, new babies, and more are publicly visible by default, a sensitive personal data one-stop shop for identity thieves |
| 1:10 AM • | Brad Stone / Bloomberg: Amazon's planned acquisitions of iRobot and One Medical are emblematic of Andy Jassy's hunt for a so-called fourth “pillar”, beyond AWS, Prime, and Marketplace |
| 12:17 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Snapchat rolls out parental controls through a new Family Center feature, letting parents see who teens are talking to, but not view the content of the messages |
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