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    UN report: 2.9B people, or 37% of the world's population, have never used the internet, while internet users rose from 4.1B in 2019 to 4.9B in 2021 (M

    Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: UN report: 2.9B people, or 37% of the world's population, have never used the internet, while internet users rose from 4.1B in 2019 to 4.9B in 2021 — But the pandemic has fueled a rapid surge of worldwide internet users. — Alerts — Nearly two-thirds of the world's...
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    The Facebook Papers offer glimpses into how users perceive Meta's ad products, like the impact of its reaction emojis, and the concerns raised by empl

    Marty Swant / Forbes: The Facebook Papers offer glimpses into how users perceive Meta's ad products, like the impact of its reaction emojis, and the concerns raised by employees — The “Facebook Papers” have been revelatory when it comes to how the company formerly known as Facebook deals with...
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    24 Exchange, which wants to let users trade stocks 24/7 like crypto, raises $14.25M led by Point72 Ventures; SEC approval or rejection is expected in

    Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: 24 Exchange, which wants to let users trade stocks 24/7 like crypto, raises $14.25M led by Point72 Ventures; SEC approval or rejection is expected in 2022 — 24 Exchange aims for round-the-clock stock trading; Mr. Cohen's Point72 Ventures is leading a...
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    Twitch unveils Suspicious User Detection, a tool for streamers and moderators that uses ML to detect users attempting to evade bans (Jay Peters/The Ve

    Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitch unveils Suspicious User Detection, a tool for streamers and moderators that uses ML to detect users attempting to evade bans — Suspicious User Detection will be turned on by default — Twitch is furthering its efforts to reduce harassment with a new tool that...
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    Amazon unveils SageMaker Canvas, which lets business users build ML prediction models with a point-and-click UI, following similar offerings by Azure

    Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Amazon unveils SageMaker Canvas, which lets business users build ML prediction models with a point-and-click UI, following similar offerings by Azure and others — AWS today announced a new machine learning service, Amazon SageMaker Canvas. Unlike its existing...
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    UK's CMA says Meta must sell Giphy, after finding the deal could harm social media users, rival platforms by denying access to GIFs, and UK advertiser

    Jon Porter / The Verge: UK's CMA says Meta must sell Giphy, after finding the deal could harm social media users, rival platforms by denying access to GIFs, and UK advertisers — After its investigation found it could harm competition — The UK's competition regulator has officially ruled that...
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    Yassir, an Algerian startup with 3M+ users offering on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery, raises a $30M Series A (Tage Kene-

    Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Yassir, an Algerian startup with 3M+ users offering on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery, raises a $30M Series A — Yassir, an Algerian startup that provides on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery, has raised a $30...
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    Chegg acquires Busuu, an online language learning startup that has reached 120M+ users across 160+ countries, for approximately $436M (Mike Butcher/Te

    Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Chegg acquires Busuu, an online language learning startup that has reached 120M+ users across 160+ countries, for approximately $436M — Chegg, the NYSE listed student media learning platform is acquiring Busuu, the online language learning startup established in...
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    Slice, whose credit cards are used by 5M+ people in India and let users pay their bills interest-free over three months, raises a $220M Series B (Mani

    Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Slice, whose credit cards are used by 5M+ people in India and let users pay their bills interest-free over three months, raises a $220M Series B — Rajan Bajaj, founder of fintech Slice, chimed in on a Twitter thread earlier this year and wondered aloud what he needs...
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    Spotify confirms it is retiring the Car View mode in its mobile apps, offering no replacement, but says it is working to improve how users listen whil

    Arol Wright / Android Police: Spotify confirms it is retiring the Car View mode in its mobile apps, offering no replacement, but says it is working to improve how users listen while driving — Everyone likes listening to music in their car, so it's little surprise that Spotify had a Car View...
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    Italy fines Apple and Google €10M each for "aggressive" data practices and not providing users with clear enough information on commercial uses of the

    Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Italy fines Apple and Google €10M each for “aggressive” data practices and not providing users with clear enough information on commercial uses of their data — Apple and Google have been fined €10 million apiece by Italy's competition and market authority (AGCM) …
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    Source: WhatsApp has almost 20M users in India using its payment services and received regulatory approval to double the number to 40M (Aditya Kalra/R

    Aditya Kalra / Reuters: Source: WhatsApp has almost 20M users in India using its payment services and received regulatory approval to double the number to 40M — WhatsApp (FB.O) has won regulatory approval to double the number of users on its payments service in India to 40 million, a source...