Global smartphone shipments fell 7% YoY to 291M units in Q2 2022; Samsung had a 21.5% market share, followed by Apple's 16.3%, its best Q2 in the past 10 years (Strategy Analytics) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Brazilian prosecutors ask WhatsApp to delay its Communities feature launch in Brazil until January to avoid spreading misinformation around the October election (Anthony Boadle/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Crypto network Helium claimed for years that Lime is a client, but Lime says the claim is false; source: Lime is preparing to send a cease and desist to Helium (Matt Binder/Mashable) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

An interview with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on the company's post-IPO stock plunge, catering to its most active users, job cuts, reining in expenses, and more (Annie Massa/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Apple expands App Store ads from the Search tab and Search results to the App Store's Today homepage and individual app pages (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

SEC adds Alibaba to a list of Chinese companies facing delisting in three years if they fail to comply with US auditing standards; Alibaba stock is down 9%+ (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Variant, an early stage crypto-focused fund, has raised $450M for a third fund focused on the "user-owned web", after previously raising $22.5M and $110M (Taylor Locke/Fortune) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Ashraf Ismail, who Ubisoft fired in mid-2020 amid misconduct allegations, was hired by Tencent in 2021 to develop a game at its TiMi Studio Group (Stephen Totilo/Axios) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty (Salvador Rodriguez/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Meta's Reality Labs division posts a $2.81B loss for Q2 2022, vs. $3.67B est., on $452M in revenue, compared to a $2.96B loss for Q1 2022 on $695M in revenue (Nelson Wang/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5