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July 12, 2021Mon. 07/12 – Is InfoSec The New Fintech?
Is InfoSec the new Fintech when it comes to investor hotness? Did ByteDance make the right move by putting its IPO on ice? Why Amazon looks like it’s going heavy into the sleep gadget game. Why the EU is postponing its digital tax initiative. And why Black Widow’s release this weekend is giving Hollywood streaming hope.
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Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Cybersecurity Company RiskIQ (Bloomberg)
ByteDance Shelved IPO Intentions After Chinese Regulators Warned About Data Security (WSJ)
Amazon.com Wants to Monitor You in Your Sleep, for Your Benefit (Bloomberg)
Samsung’s next Galaxy Unpacked device lineup may have been entirely spoiled in huge new leak (The Verge)
EU Delays Push for Digital Levy to Focus on Global Tax Deal (Bloomberg)
Box Office: Marvel’s ‘Black Widow’ Debuts With Dazzling $80 Million in Theaters, $60 Million on Disney Plus (Variety)
18 min
July 08, 2021Thu. 07/08 – The States Go After Google First
State Attorneys General file an antitrust suit against Google. But why them, first? Visa wants you to spend crypto via their platform. Fintech leads a record first half of the year for VC raises. And if payment for order flow were nixed by the SEC, what would that do to Robinhood?
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36 states, D.C. sue Google for alleged antitrust violations in its Android app store (Politico)
Visa is partnering with over 50 crypto companies to allow clients to spend and convert digital currencies (Markets Insider)
OnePlus confirms the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro throttle many popular apps to improve battery life (XDA Developers)
Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time High In First Half Of 2021, With $288B Invested (Crunchbase News)
London fintech funding soars in first half of the year (Reuters)
Twitter Pledges to ‘Fully Comply’ With India Internet Rules (Bloomberg)
Robinhood’s Debut Is Clouded by SEC Scrutiny of Payment for Order Flow (Wall Street Journal)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump (New York Times)
The U.S. says humans will always be in control of AI weapons. But the age of autonomous war is already here. (Washington Post)
GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (Julia Reda)
Ireland’s Days as a Tax Haven May Be Ending, but Not Without a Fight (New York Times)
19 min
July 07, 2021Wed. 07/07 – Pentagon, RE: The JEDI Contract: Jkjkjkjkjk
The Pentagon wants a do-over for that JEDI contract. YC wants to do Tinder but for founder matchmaking. Amazon open sources its gaming engine. How about NFT’s but for the stock market? And if you think China is cracking down on tech companies, wait till you hear how they want to regulate when and how kids can play videogames.
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Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over (CNBC)
Biden Sets Up Tech Showdown With ‘Right-to-Repair’ Rules for FTC (Bloomberg)
Y Combinator launches a new way for co-founders to find each other (Protocol)
Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies (Venture Beat)
Fake Tesla, Apple Stocks Have Started Trading on Blockchains (Bloomberg)
China's Tencent Says It'll Use Face Recognition to Keep Minors From Gaming at Night (Gizmodo)
20 min
July 06, 2021Tue. 07/06 – New Nintendo Switch (Finally/Kinda)
Nintendo finally announces the new Switch, but how new is it really? What the heck is happening with Didi and China? REvil strikes again, and what that might mean for the hacking situation going forward. And on a day of big geopolitical news, might big tech platforms be chased out of India and Hong Kong because their employees are in danger of being sent to jail?
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Nintendo Switch OLED model will go on sale October 8th for $350 (The Verge)
Chinese Regulators Suggested Didi Delay Its U.S. IPO (Wall Street Journal)
Didi Shows China’s Tech Giants Must First Answer to Beijing (Bloomberg)
China’s Big Tech Crackdown Puts Dozens of U.S. IPOs at Risk (Bloomberg)
Hundreds of Businesses, From Sweden to U.S., Affected by Cyberattack (New York Times)
REvil gang asks for $70 million to decrypt systems locked in Kaseya attack (The Record)
Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says (Tech Crunch)
American Internet Giants Hit Back at Hong Kong Doxxing Law (New York Times)
19 min
July 03, 2021(SPC CST) The Facebook Antitrust Blowup With @Kantrowitz
lex Kantrowitz of the Big Technology newsletter comes on to try to help us work out what happened with that Facebook Antitrust case blowup. Also, what does this mean for regulating other companies.
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1 hr 17 min
July 02, 2021Fri. 07/02 – Robinhood’s IPO Success Depends On Doge?
Robinhood files for its long-awaited IPO. The Chinese government took the shine off of Didi’s recent IPO. More new features from Twitter. Is Apple the first to take advantage of 3nm chips? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
Robinhood files for long-awaited IPO (Axios)
How Robinhood's explosive growth rate came to be (Tech Crunch)
Didi shares fall after China announces cybersecurity review just days after IPO (CNBC)
Twitter considers new features for tweeting only to friends, under different personas and more (Tech Crunch)
Apple and Intel become first to adopt TSMC's latest chip tech (Nikkei Asia)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Three Weeks with iOS and iPadOS 15: Foundational Updates (Mac Stories)
Amazon Primed Andy Jassy to Be CEO. Can He Keep What Jeff Bezos Built? (Wall Street Journal)
ROBBING THE XBOX VAULT: INSIDE A $10 MILLION GIFT CARD CHEAT (Bloomberg)
‘Time and space don’t exist in the spirit world’: How psychics are embracing remote work (Los Angeles Times)
The Tin Man Gets His Heart: An Oral History of ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ (The Ringer)

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19 min
July 01, 2021Thu. 07/01 – Instagram Is “No Longer A Photo-Sharing App”
Instagram and TikTok are on a collision course. Instagram wants to be more like TikTok, while TikTok hopes to move the goalposts first. Amazon wants Lina Khan to recuse herself. Big tech is not only taking over advertising, it’s consolidating it. And anyone can get their hands on Starlink next month, but not everyone might want to.
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Facebook is testing drastic changes to Instagram to make it more like TikTok (CNBC)
TikTok is rolling out longer videos to everyone (The Verge)
Federal judge puts Florida 'deplatforming' law on hold, citing First Amendment (NBC News)
Amazon Wants FTC Chair Khan Recused Over Past Criticism (Bloomberg)
Maine has strictly banned facial recognition from schools and policing (Input)
The EU’s 'vaccine passport' and what it means for travel (BBC)
Quintopoly? Five tech companies now earn 46% of global ad revenues as news media left behind (Press Gazette)
Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m (BBC)
Starlink will be open to everyone in August — not that you'll want it (Input)
SpaceX's Starlink may bring faster Wi-Fi to commercial planes (Input)
17 min
June 30, 2021Wed. 06/30 – Facebook’s Substack Clone
Facebook launches its Substack clone. Emphasis on clone. Shopify joins the platform tax wars by going to zero. A truce between Microsoft and Google has just lapsed. A big raise in the drone space. And would you pay to get actual search results instead of ads?
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Links:
Facebook announces Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor (The Verge)
Shopify drops its App Store commissions to 0% on developers’ first million in revenue (Tech Crunch)
Google and Microsoft End Their Five-Year Cease-Fire (Bloomberg)
T-Mobile is offering iPhone owners no-hassle network ‘test drives’ (The Verge)
Alphabet’s Wing launches OpenSky drone airspace authorization app in US (Tech Crunch)
Zipline raises $250M at $2.75B valuation to build out its instant logistics service (Tech Crunch)
Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers (Fast Company)
19 min
June 29, 2021Tue. 06/29 – Facebook Beats The Rap
A judge has completely thrown out the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Facebook and sent them back to the drawing board. Microsoft and OpenAI and Github have a tool that will suggest code to you as you code. And Sam Altman, as I understand this, wants to do Universal Basic Income on the blockchain. But first, he wants to scan your eyeball.
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Links:
Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook (CNBC)
Microsoft Office is getting a new design and a native 64-bit Arm version for Windows 11 (The Verge)
Microsoft and OpenAI have a new A.I. tool that will give coding suggestions to software developers (CNBC)
YouTube TV Unveils Dolby Digital Support & Premium Add-on with 4K, Offline Downloads, and Unlimited Streams (The Streamable)
Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency (Bloomberg)
19 min
June 28, 2021Mon. 06/28 – Binance Runs Into Trouble Around The Globe
The UK orders a halt to regulated activities by Binance, joining everybody, all the sudden. Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 888 Plus. Lenovo unveils an Android tablet that works as a portable monitor. And meet the activists perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance.
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Links:
Financial watchdog bans crypto exchange Binance from UK (Financial Times)
The world’s biggest crypto exchange is running into trouble everywhere (Quartz)
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 Plus will speed up gaming, AI in high-end 5G phones (Cnet)
Lenovo announces $679 13-inch Android tablet that works as a portable monitor (The Verge)
Apple Explores Bigger iPads and Reshuffles Its Car Team (Bloomberg)
Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply chain fiasco (Bleeping Computer)
Microsoft keeps hinting at an October release for Windows 11 (The Verge)
Meet the activists perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance (Financial Times)
18 min