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 …