Berlin-based Charles, which lets businesses sell products and offer support on messaging apps like WhatsApp, raised a $20M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Berlin-based Charles, which lets businesses sell products and offer support on messaging apps like WhatsApp, raised a $20M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures  —  Conversational commerce isn't exactly a new phenomenon, with countless companies using live chats, messaging apps, chatbots …

How to create and join Twitter Spaces: A step-by-step guide

Currently, this feature is only available on Twitter for iOS and Android devices. You can only listen to any conversation in Spaces on the web version of Twitter. Like Tweets, all Spaces are open to the public, so anyone can access them. https://ift.tt/VQ2Ikf4

A coalition representing Apple, Meta, and others asks India to amend its proposed IT rules, including allowing a self-regulatory grievance redressal mechanism (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
A coalition representing Apple, Meta, and others asks India to amend its proposed IT rules, including allowing a self-regulatory grievance redressal mechanism  —  An industry group representing several tech giants has requested the Indian government to make a series of changes …

Biden administration to work with private sector in a 120-day sprint to create hundreds of cybersecurity apprenticeship programs to fill out cybersecurity roles (Brian Fung/CNN)

Brian Fung / CNN:
Biden administration to work with private sector in a 120-day sprint to create hundreds of cybersecurity apprenticeship programs to fill out cybersecurity roles  —  Washington (CNN Business)The Biden administration is pushing to fill hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity jobs in the United States …

Source: UK mobile banking startup Starling told staff it ended a four-year process to get an Irish banking license, signalling a shift in its expansion strategy (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: UK mobile banking startup Starling told staff it ended a four-year process to get an Irish banking license, signalling a shift in its expansion strategy  —  The digital lender told staff on Monday that a four-year ambition to launch a retail bank in Ireland was being brought to a close, Sky News learns.

Through some "cryptic" puzzles posted on Twitter, Samsung appears to confirm the date of its next Unpacked event as August 10, 2022 (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:
Through some “cryptic” puzzles posted on Twitter, Samsung appears to confirm the date of its next Unpacked event as August 10, 2022  —  Sure looks like the leaks were accurate  —  In a trio of images posted to its official Twitter account, Samsung Mobile appears to have confirmed …

Why Amazon is suing thousands of Facebook group administrators

Amazon on Tuesday said it has filed legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that attempt to orchestrate fake reviews on the platform in exchange for money or free products. https://ift.tt/ql6aAgK

How to add special effects to your Instagram messages

Instagram DMs offer the ability to set up custom chat themes, vanish mode, custom emoji reactions, shortcut texts, user avatars as reactions, and much more. These features also include adding special effects to the messages you send. These are also called "animated messages". https://ift.tt/TdkQfKp

Meta's 2022 diversity report: remote work options helped Meta recruit PoC and from underrepresented groups, as ~75% of its teams work across multiple locations (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Meta's 2022 diversity report: remote work options helped Meta recruit PoC and from underrepresented groups, as ~75% of its teams work across multiple locations  —  Maxine Williams, the company's chief diversity officer, said the unexpected benefit to expanding remote work options was that it helped the company improve diversity

Sources: China will impose a $1B+ fine on Didi over its cybersecurity practices and ease restrictions, letting Didi restore its apps and pursue a Hong Kong IPO (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China will impose a $1B+ fine on Didi over its cybersecurity practices and ease restrictions, letting Didi restore its apps and pursue a Hong Kong IPO  —  The move ends a yearlong investigation and will free up the company to pursue a second listing in Hong Kong

How to use automated captions for your voice tweets on Twitter

Only some supported languages will have captions generated automatically. English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, French, Indonesian, Korean, and Italian are among the currently supported languages. https://ift.tt/YBjMdTE

Indeed forays into regional language with Hindi

Job site Indeed on Monday announced that it is now available in Hindi, making it easier for jobseekers to discover and apply for jobs and create online resumes in Hindi on the platform. https://ift.tt/Ma9O4eN

The linchpin in Microsoft's Netflix deal was Xandr, the ad tech firm it recently acquired from AT&T that's helping fuel Microsoft's online advertising ambitions (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
The linchpin in Microsoft's Netflix deal was Xandr, the ad tech firm it recently acquired from AT&T that's helping fuel Microsoft's online advertising ambitions  —  Tech company, embracing underdog role, reignites its ambitions in online advertising  —  Microsoft Corp. MSFT 1.04%&#9650 …

AI, deep learning to now assist in diagnosing birth defects

Canadian researchers have in a breakthrough experimented with the use of Artificial Intelligence-based deep learning as a tool for the early identification of birth defects. https://ift.tt/NVlei9k

Clients of crypto lender Celsius face long wait over fate of their funds

Customers of crypto lender Celsius face a long and anxious wait to know how, when and even if they will get their money back after the company filed for bankruptcy, becoming one of the biggest victims of the collapse in crypto markets this year. https://ift.tt/GEM7YUc