Google has agreed to pay $60M to settle a court case with Australia's ACCC over misleading some Android users about collection of personal location data (The Guardian) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

LinkedIn rolls out new features to court creators, including a clickable link on images, templates for posts, and the ability to mix images and videos (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Frankfurt-based AAA games studio Gunzilla Games has raised $46M led by Republic Capital and plans to include in-game item trading with NFTs in an upcoming title (Megha Paul/Tech.eu) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Chinese chipmaker SMIC reports Q2 revenue rose 41.6% YoY to $1.9B vs. $1.89B est., but net profit fell 25% YoY to $514M, amid lockdowns and harsher US sanctions (South China Morning Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Google appears to be testing a feature to let users launch cloud games from Stadia, Amazon Luna, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia's GeForce Now from search results (Sean Hollister/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Some companies are hiring B2B influencers, mostly on LinkedIn, to pitch to other companies; LinkedIn says 11M+ users have enabled "creator mode" as of July 2022 (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

CryptoCompare: Coinbase's share of global spot trading volume among the top 15 crypto exchanges fell from 10.7% in January to 6.3% in July (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Disney hits 221.1M global streaming subscribers in Q3, surpassing Netflix's 220.7M; Disney+ had 152.1M subscribers, Hulu had 46.2M, and ESPN+ had 22.8M (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Apple signs a deal with Futuro Studios to fund podcast development and production in exchange for priority to turn podcasts into films or TV shows (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Nightfall AI, which provides cloud data loss prevention services, announces a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, bringing its total funding to $60M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5