Sources: amid lockdowns, Chinese staff and suppliers contributed more complex work to the iPhone 14 than to past models as Apple tries to cut its China reliance (Tripp Mickle/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

As Chinese consumers become thrifty amid an economic slowdown, Insider Intelligence forecasts just 9.1% increase in e-commerce sales in 2022, lowest since 2008 (Shen Lu/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Singapore-based Docquity, a collaboration and learning platform for health care professionals, raised a $44M Series C, bringing its total funding to $57.5M (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Venture Intelligence: Indian startups raised 18 $100M+ funding rounds totaling $3.6B in Q2 2022, down from 29 such rounds worth a total of $6.7B in Q1 2022 (The Economic Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

The EU launched its new San Francisco office to liaise with US tech companies and promote EU standards and technologies, digital policies, and governance models (Vish Gain/Silicon Republic) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Utility company Xcel locked 22,000 Colorado users in an energy saving program out of their smart thermostats for hours on August 30 citing an "energy emergency" (Jaclyn Allen/TheDenverChannel.com) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Amazon plans to partner with small and medium-size pharmacies in Japan to launch an online prescription drug marketplace in the country in 2023 (Nikkei Asia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Binance will stop supporting the world's second biggest stablecoin USDC and convert users' USDC, USDP, and TUSD into its own stablecoin BUSD on September 29 (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

A look at Saudi Arabia's Kollona Amn app, launched in 2017 to let its citizens inform on activists, as the country expands the use of surveillance technology (Peter Guest/Insider) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:41 Rating: 5

How the North Atlantic Fellas Organization, or NAFO, a group of national security experts and ordinary Twitter users, is using memes to fight Russian propaganda (Mark Scott/Politico) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 01:41 Rating: 5