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As Apple is expected to announce a headset in January and Meta slows VR investment, a look at opportunities for the VR supply chain and competing headset makers (Ming-Chi Kuo/Medium) https://ift.tt/azOLghx

Ming-Chi Kuo / Medium : As Apple is expected to announce a headset in January and Meta slows VR investment, a look at opportunities for the VR supply chain and competing headset makers   —  (1) One of the keys to the VR industry's rapid growth in the past 2-3 years is Meta sold VR headsets at a loss and aggressively promoted its VR business.

Tapcheck, a financial wellness service that works with companies like McDonald's to let workers access their earnings before payday, raised a $20M Series A (FinSMEs) https://ift.tt/ne5NDIx

FinSMEs : Tapcheck, a financial wellness service that works with companies like McDonald's to let workers access their earnings before payday, raised a $20M Series A   —  Tapcheck, a Los Angeles, CA-based financial wellness benefit company, raised $20m in Series A funding.  —  The round was led by PeakSpan Capital.

China issues new rules for live streamers, including requiring them to have relevant qualifications to discuss some topics, such as law, finance, and medicine (Tracy Qu/South China Morning Post) https://ift.tt/K3iCbod

Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post : China issues new rules for live streamers, including requiring them to have relevant qualifications to discuss some topics, such as law, finance, and medicine   —  The severe acute respiratory syndrome gave the city its first major health scare since the handover, while in the years that followed …

Cryptoys, which is building blockchain-based kids toys in partnership with Dapper Labs, raised a $23M Series A led by a16z, after a $7.5M seed in October 2021 (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch) https://ift.tt/mgNF5uG

Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Cryptoys, which is building blockchain-based kids toys in partnership with Dapper Labs, raised a $23M Series A led by a16z, after a $7.5M seed in October 2021   —  The past several months haven't been entirely kind to the NFT market — while transaction volume hasn't stuttered too significantly …

Microsoft details how it curbs Russian propaganda, largely about the war in Ukraine and vaccines; US traffic to such stories rose 80%+ in the war's first weeks (Brad Smith/Microsoft On the Issues) https://ift.tt/aCFO1IR

Brad Smith / Microsoft On the Issues : Microsoft details how it curbs Russian propaganda, largely about the war in Ukraine and vaccines; US traffic to such stories rose 80%+ in the war's first weeks   —  Editor's note: Today Microsoft published a new intelligence report, Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War.

Microsoft report details Russian cyber attacks across 40+ countries since the war in Ukraine began, with a 29% success rate and NATO governments prioritized (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill) https://ift.tt/V4qd2NK

Zach Schonfeld / The Hill : Microsoft report details Russian cyber attacks across 40+ countries since the war in Ukraine began, with a 29% success rate and NATO governments prioritized   —  Russia has levied dozens of cyber espionage campaigns in 42 countries since it invaded Ukraine in February, according to a new Microsoft report.

Meta settles its housing discrimination lawsuit with the DOJ, agreeing to alter its ad targeting methods and pay a $115K fine (Mike Isaac/New York Times) https://ift.tt/1C9cuHb

Mike Isaac / New York Times : Meta settles its housing discrimination lawsuit with the DOJ, agreeing to alter its ad targeting methods and pay a $115K fine   —  HUD had accused Meta of engaging in housing discrimination by letting advertisers restrict who could see housing ads on Facebook based on characteristics like race, religion and national origin.

The CEO and COO of Pornhub's parent company MindGeek resign, shortly after a report that looked at sexually explicit nonconsensual videos hosted on the site (Todd Spangler/Variety) https://ift.tt/8ZDsrjU

Todd Spangler / Variety : The CEO and COO of Pornhub's parent company MindGeek resign, shortly after a report that looked at sexually explicit nonconsensual videos hosted on the site   —  MindGeek, the internet company best known for operating Pornhub, said that CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo have resigned.

Some SMB owners complain about Google ending its G Suite legacy free edition after more than a decade on August 1, arguing it lured them with a free service (Nico Grant/New York Times) https://ift.tt/n62a8ve

Nico Grant / New York Times : Some SMB owners complain about Google ending its G Suite legacy free edition after more than a decade on August 1, arguing it lured them with a free service   —  Google is charging some small businesses for email and other apps after more than a decade of free use.  Business owners say Google is being callous.

Telegram surpasses 700M MAUs and unveils Telegram Premium, which will let users follow up to 1,000 channels, send files up to 4GB, and more for ~$5/month (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) https://ift.tt/2ENSsb4

Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Telegram surpasses 700M MAUs and unveils Telegram Premium, which will let users follow up to 1,000 channels, send files up to 4GB, and more for ~$5/month   —  Telegram has amassed 700 million monthly active users and is rolling out a premium tier with additional features as the instant messaging platform makes …

Interviews with the members of Peter Thiel's inner circle describe how he came to the decision to leave Facebook's board (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post) https://ift.tt/GXM0si9

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post : Interviews with the members of Peter Thiel's inner circle describe how he came to the decision to leave Facebook's board   —  Inside the billionaire investor's journey from Facebook board member to an architect of the new American right  —  On a summer morning in 2019 …