Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Pinterest redesigns its home feed, adding a Watch tab for short videos and photo albums (Queenie Wong/CNET)

Queenie Wong / CNET:
Pinterest redesigns its home feed, adding a Watch tab for short videos and photo albums  —  The redesigned home feed includes two sections: browse and watch.  —  Pinterest said Wednesday it's revamping its home feed, adding a new tab called Watch where people can scroll through short videos or a series of photos.



Egypt's state-run e-payments company, E-Finance, rises 40% on its market debut, after raising $370M (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Egypt's state-run e-payments company, E-Finance, rises 40% on its market debut, after raising $370M  —  Egypt's state-run e-payments company soared Wednesday in its trading debut after the biggest initial public offering on the local stock exchange since 2015.



HR Acuity, which develops employee relations and investigations management software, raises $47M from K1 Investment Management (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
HR Acuity, which develops employee relations and investigations management software, raises $47M from K1 Investment Management  —  HR Acuity, a platform built for employee relations and investigations management, today announced that it raised $47 million in a minority investment from K1 Investment Management.



How to locate your AirPods using Find My feature

At this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple announced a capability to locate lost AirPods. The feature was earlier expected to roll out with iOS 15 update, however, it was delayed and rolled out to AirPods Max, AirPods Pro and AirPods via a firmware update. https://ift.tt/3lXBd0R

Panasonic Lumix GH5M2 With 4K Video Recording Support Launched in India

Panasonic Lumix GH5M2 mirrorless camera was launched in India on Wednesday. The new model allows users to record up to 4K videos. It also provides live streaming support over wired and wireless... https://ift.tt/3AWCQ3a

Polkadot Founder Hints at Funding Network Using DOT Tokens

Polkadot founder will be incorporating changes to the network using suggestions from investors and DOT supporters. If not put to use, these idle DOT tokens valuing over $700 million would have had to... https://ift.tt/3AY1yQD

Huawei Enjoy 20e With HarmonyOS 2 Launched: All the Details

Huawei Enjoy 20e was silently launched in China. The smartphone is expected to start shipping before November 11 and is available to pre-order on the company's online store - Vmall. It is powered by... https://ift.tt/3AYgAG2

Are Blockchain Games Stealing Away From Axie Infinity's Popularity?

A DappRadar report disclosed that seven other blockchain games were more popular than Sky Mavis' Axie Infinity in terms of unique active wallets (UAW) interactions over the last month. https://ift.tt/3vByVI0

Draft EU document: finalization of the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act has been pushed back further into next year from an initial spring 2022 goal (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Draft EU document: finalization of the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act has been pushed back further into next year from an initial spring 2022 goal  —  European Union countries will delay a key target of finalizing new rules hitting tech platforms by the spring of next year …



UK's CMA fines Facebook £50.5M for breaching an order imposed during its ongoing Giphy acquisition investigation, saying Facebook refused to report information (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
UK's CMA fines Facebook £50.5M for breaching an order imposed during its ongoing Giphy acquisition investigation, saying Facebook refused to report information  —  Social media giant Facebook has been fined £50.5 million ($69.1 million) for breaching an order imposed …



Sources: China tells McDonald's to expand its e-renminbi payments system ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics; source says Visa and Nike are also under pressure (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: China tells McDonald's to expand its e-renminbi payments system ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics; source says Visa and Nike are also under pressure  —  Digital renminbi issued by central bank draws security concerns from US critics  —  China has told McDonald's to expand …



Sources: Jack Ma has left China for the first time since Alibaba came under regulatory pressure last November, traveling to Europe to see friends (Keith Zhai/Wall Street Journal)

Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Jack Ma has left China for the first time since Alibaba came under regulatory pressure last November, traveling to Europe to see friends  —  The Alibaba co-founder's trip to Europe suggests he hasn't been banned from leaving the country by Chinese authorities



District of Columbia AG Karl Racine plans to add Mark Zuckerberg to an ongoing privacy lawsuit, which began in 2018 following the Cambridge Analytica scandal (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
District of Columbia AG Karl Racine plans to add Mark Zuckerberg to an ongoing privacy lawsuit, which began in 2018 following the Cambridge Analytica scandal  —  The District of Columbia case, which grew out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, could expose the chief executive to financial and other penalties.



Oppo K9s With Snapdragon 778G SoC, Triple Rear Cameras Launched

Oppo K9s has launched in China. It is an addition to the Oppo K9 5G and Oppo K9 Pro that were launched earlier in the series. The Oppo K9s is powered by a Snapdragon 778g SoC and packs a 5,000mAh... https://ift.tt/3vrIDfM

Indy Autonomous Challenge: Students to Race With Self-Driving Cars

University students will gather at the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) this week to showcase their talent at a racing event unlike any other. For the first time in the history of IMS, home... https://ift.tt/2Z7Hhuv

US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; CompTIA: developer job listings are down 56% since 2019 (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)

Sarah Kessler / New York Times : US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; Com...