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- ●Pinterest announces monetization tools for creators, including tagging products in Idea Pins to earn commissions, available to US and UK business accounts (Ashley Carman/The Verge)Ashley Carman / The Verge: Pinterest announces monetization tools for creators, including tagging products in Idea Pins to earn commissions, available to US and UK business accounts — Expect more encouragement to start shopping — Pinterest is going after the influencer market. The platform announced its first set …... Read more »
- ●Fireblocks, which lets users store, transfer, and issue digital assets, raises $310M Series D led by Sequoia, Stripes, and Spark at a $2.2B valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Fireblocks, which lets users store, transfer, and issue digital assets, raises $310M Series D led by Sequoia, Stripes, and Spark at a $2.2B valuation — Fireblocks, an infrastructure provider for digital assets, has raised $310 million in a Series D round of funding that tripled... Read more »
- ●Instagram announces changes for teen accounts, including making them private by default, restricting messages from "suspicious" adults, and limiting ads (Olivia Solon/NBC News)Olivia Solon / NBC News: Instagram announces changes for teen accounts, including making them private by default, restricting messages from “suspicious” adults, and limiting ads — Instagram has introduced protections for its teenage users to default young people into private accounts and make it harder for …... Read more »
- ●A look at the risks posed by rising sea water levels at Facebook, Google, and other Silicon Valley campuses and questions over who pays to protect them (Lauren Sommer/NPR)Lauren Sommer / NPR: A look at the risks posed by rising sea water levels at Facebook, Google, and other Silicon Valley campuses and questions over who pays to protect them — In the heart of Silicon Valley, the world's biggest tech companies are expanding their headquarters on the edges... Read more »
- ●Wiliot, which is developing IoT chips powered by ambient radio frequencies, raises $200M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 as it plans an SaaS pivot (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Wiliot, which is developing IoT chips powered by ambient radio frequencies, raises $200M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 as it plans an SaaS pivot — Wiliot — the IoT startup that has developed a new kind of processor that is ultra thin and... Read more »
- ●In its Q2 earnings report, Tesla says it suffered $23M in bitcoin-related impairments, after bitcoin dropped from $63K in April to under $40K now (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: In its Q2 earnings report, Tesla says it suffered $23M in bitcoin-related impairments, after bitcoin dropped from $63K in April to under $40K now — - Tesla reported bitcoin-related impairments of $23 million in the second quarter as crypto prices plunged.... Read more »
- ●Covariant, which builds AI-powered industrial robots, raises $80M Series C led by Index Ventures, following a $40M Series B in May 2020 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Covariant, which builds AI-powered industrial robots, raises $80M Series C led by Index Ventures, following a $40M Series B in May 2020 — In May of last year, Covariant announced that it had raised a $40 million Series B. It was a healthy sum of money... Read more »
- ●According to code found in the Oculus iPhone app, Facebook is exploring letting users synchronize Oculus workout data with Apple Health (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: According to code found in the Oculus iPhone app, Facebook is exploring letting users synchronize Oculus workout data with Apple Health — - Oculus could let users store workout data in iPhone Health app — Oculus Move lets users see calories burned in virtual reality... Read more »
- ●1Password raises $100M led by Accel at a $2B valuation, after raising $200M in 2019, and says it now has 90,000 business customers (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: 1Password raises $100M led by Accel at a $2B valuation, after raising $200M in 2019, and says it now has 90,000 business customers — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Password management platform 1Password has raised $100 million …... Read more »
- ●South Africa's state-owned port and rail company Transnet says a cyberattack five days ago continues to cause disruption at Cape Town and other major ports (Bloomberg)Bloomberg: South Africa's state-owned port and rail company Transnet says a cyberattack five days ago continues to cause disruption at Cape Town and other major ports — - Transnet says cyber attack affects operations at four harbors — Company turns to manual operations at affected port terminals... Read more »
Tesla second-quarter profits top $1bn even as it struggles to handle demand- Fight the Banksters with Cash Friday – #SolutionsWatchWhile you were distracted by the scamdemic, the banksters have been working on the greatest wealth transfer in the history of the world. It's called the Going Direct Reset, and it's going to fundamentally transform the monetary system as we know it. Today Catherine Austin Fitts of Solari.com joins us... Read more »
- Soros Gates, Scamlympics, Foo Pfizers – New World Next WeekThis week on the New World Next Week: Soros and Gates team up to buy a COVID company; the Tokyo fraudlympics kick off amid scandal, outrage and resentment; and the Foo Pfizers cancel their vaxxed concert due to COVID.... Read more »
- Interview 1652 – New World Next Week with James Evan PilatoThis week on the New World Next Week: Soros and Gates team up to buy a COVID company; the Tokyo fraudlympics kick off amid scandal, outrage and resentment; and the Foo Pfizers cancel their vaxxed concert due to COVID.... Read more »
- Research Tools You Should Know About – #SolutionsWatch (video)Have you ever wanted to download a video to save for later? Or highlight text in an online article? Or find out where an image comes from? Then today’s your lucky day! In the spirit of #SolutionsWatch, here are some tools that will improve the efficiency of your online research.... Read more »
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