- A look at teen TikTok stars like "Mooptopia", who achieved sudden viral fame and found it hard to contend with the devotion and nonstop attention of fans (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)
- YouTube taught its recommendation system how to recognize and demote conspiratorial videos, but organic link-sharing and bot promotion are thwarting its efforts (Clive Thompson/Wired)
- Starting Oct. 1, all new source code repositories on GitHub will be named "main" instead of "master" as part the company's effort to abandon non-inclusive terms (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
- At Snowflake's IPO price, Sutter Hill Ventures' stake was worth $5.9B, Altimeter Capital's ~$4.4B, ICONIQ Capital's $4B+, Redpoint's $2.6B, and Sequoia's ~$2.5B (Sophia Kunthara/Crunchbase News)
- French startup Antaios raises $11M for developing SOT-MRAM that can potentially replace embedded non-volatile memory and SRAM cache in microprocessors and SoCs (Peter Clarke/eeNews Europe)
- Swedish digital health company Joint Health raises $23M Series B for its app that connects patients with chronic hip and knee pain with physical therapists (Tammy Lovell/MobiHealthNews)
- ByteDance says that it is not aware of the news that TikTok is setting up a $5B education fund in the US as part of a deal to continue operating in the US (Reuters)
- LA-based Boosted Commerce, which is building a portfolio of e-commerce brands, raises $87M and announces the acquisition of six Amazon fulfillment companies (PYMNTS.com)
- US delays TikTok ban by a week, as company says Oracle and Walmart may take 20% stake in TikTok Global's pre-IPO round, host US user data and computer systems (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)
- Medigate, a provider of IoT and medical device security and asset management, raises $30M Series B led by Partech, bringing its total raised to $50M (Fred Pennic/HIT Consultant)
- Trump says he has approved Oracle's bid for the US operations of TikTok "in concept" (Bloomberg)
- Companies like IBM and ADP are developing tools to automate decision making, reduce risks and frictions of bringing employees back to the office (Chip Cutter/Wall Street Journal)
- TikTok asked a court on Friday to block its ban, saying the govt. exceeded its authority, the ban was issued for political reasons, and violates First Amendment (Bloomberg)
- In a new filing, Epic rejects Apple's claim that "interest" in Fortnite declined by 70%, says active players grew 39% between October 2019 and July 2020 (Jon Fingas/Engadget)
- iOS 14 Picture in Picture functionality stops working for YouTube's mobile website in Safari for users who do not subscribe to YouTube Premium (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
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