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India's Supreme Court rules in favor of Amazon to stall the $3.4B sale of Future Group to Reliance Industries (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India’s Supreme Court rules in favor of Amazon to stall the $3.4B sale of Future Group to Reliance Industries  —  India’s apex court on Friday ruled in favor of Amazon to stall the sale of Future Group to Reliance Industries in a major victory for the American e-commerce giant in the

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Patient engagement software maker Relatient raises $100M, plans to acquire Radix Health for its ML-based software that enables patient-provider matching, more (Elise Reuter/MedCity News)

Elise Reuter / MedCity News: Patient engagement software maker Relatient raises $100M, plans to acquire Radix Health for its ML-based software that enables patient-provider matching, more  —  Relatient, a company that makes patient engagement software, recently raised more than $100 million in growth equity capital. Patient engagement software maker Relatient raises 0M, plans to acquire

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KakaoBank, South Korea's first internet-only lender, goes public, rising over 70% in its trading debut in Seoul, giving it a market value of ~$28B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: KakaoBank, South Korea’s first internet-only lender, goes public, rising over 70% in its trading debut in Seoul, giving it a market value of ~$28B  —  – Bank’s $2.2 billion IPO is Korea’s second-largest this year  — Company becomes Korea’s biggest lender by market cap KakaoBank, South Korea's first internet-only lender, goes public, rising over

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Senators Warner and Portman propose an amendment to infrastructure bill that only excludes crypto miners from broker definition; White House shows support (James Rubin/CoinDesk)

James Rubin / CoinDesk: Senators Warner and Portman propose an amendment to infrastructure bill that only excludes crypto miners from broker definition; White House shows support  —  The bill excludes only proof-of-work mining, or the selling of hardware or software that gives individuals control of private keys to access digital assets. Senators Warner and Portman

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Facebook's decision to disable researcher's ability to run the NYU's Ad Observatory Project should be a call to regulate the ad tech industry as a whole (Nathalie Maréchal/Tech Policy Press)

Nathalie Maréchal / Tech Policy Press: Facebook’s decision to disable researcher’s ability to run the NYU’s Ad Observatory Project should be a call to regulate the ad tech industry as a whole  —  Another day, another Facebook accountability scandal.  —  On Wednesday, Facebook shut down the accounts of NYU researchers Laura Edelson … Facebook's decision

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Agricultural manufacturing giant John Deere acquires autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics for $250M (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Agricultural manufacturing giant John Deere acquires autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics for $250M  —  In the world of robotic startups, acquisition is often as good an outcome as any.  And when it comes to robotic tractor startups, you could do worse than being acquired by John Deere. Agricultural manufacturing giant

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Cloudflare beats expectations with Q2 revenue of $152.4M, up 53% YoY, 48% came from outside of the US; says ~19% of Fortune 1,000 firms are paying customers (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cloudflare beats expectations with Q2 revenue of $152.4M, up 53% YoY, 48% came from outside of the US; says ~19% of Fortune 1,000 firms are paying customers  —  Shares in content delivery network company Cloufdflare Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today after investors were not impressed by the size of the

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Twitter Spaces launches a co-hosting feature, which will now allow rooms to have one host, up to two co-hosts, and ten additional speakers active at once (José Adorno/9to5Mac)

José Adorno / 9to5Mac: Twitter Spaces launches a co-hosting feature, which will now allow rooms to have one host, up to two co-hosts, and ten additional speakers active at once  —  Twitter Spaces is launching a long-awaited feature for its users: co-hosting a Space.  The Clubhouse competitor has been improving … Twitter Spaces launches a

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In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement as "inaccurate" (Cristiano Lima/Washington Post)

Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook’s initial claim it cut off NYU researchers’ access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement as “inaccurate”  —  The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed as “inaccurate” Facebook’s claim that it cut off a group of researchers’ access … In a letter

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Twitch COO Sara Clemens, who took over for cofounder Kevin Lin in 2018, told staffers she is leaving Twitch to focus on consulting and serving on company boards (Todd Spangler/Variety)

{$inline_image} Todd Spangler / Variety: Twitch COO Sara Clemens, who took over for cofounder Kevin Lin in 2018, told staffers she is leaving Twitch to focus on consulting and serving on company boards  —  Twitch is losing of its most senior execs: Chief operating officer Sara Clemens today announced internally that she will be leaving

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Apple is prying into iPhones to find sexual predators, but privacy activists worry governments could weaponize the feature

Apple unveiled new software Thursday that scans photos and messages on iPhones for child pornography and explicit messages sent to minors in a major new effort to prevent sexual predators from using Apple’s services. Apple is prying into iPhones to find sexual predators, but privacy activists worry governments could weaponize the feature Source: Washington Post

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