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Allbirds CEO Joey Zwillinger on the startup’s $100 million round, profitability, and SPAC mania

Indian startups blame Google for "unfair exploitation" of Play Store's monopoly after Google began to enforce its in-app purchasing policy with 30% commission (The Economic Times)

Indian startups explore forming an alliance and alternative app store to fight Google’s ‘monopoly’

Facebook says, as part of its recent crackdown on QAnon and militia movements, it has removed 6,500 groups belonging to 300 organizations (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Facebook says it will ban Facebook and Instagram ads that seek to delegitimize the outcome of an election, including calling specific voting methods fraudulent (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

Google introduces a new Android feature called Hold for Me, which uses Assistant to monitor held phone calls and notify the user when taken off hold (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

US Election: Whoever becomes the next president, social media is changing

The joke is on consumers as Liquid Death raises $23 million more

Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian national convicted by a San Francisco federal jury in July for hacking LinkedIn and Dropbox in 2012, sentenced to 7+ years in prison (DataBreaches.net)

Coinbase offers an exit package with four to six months severance pay and six months COBRA for employees who are not comfortable with its apolitical mission (Frank Chaparro/The Block)

Broadband 'so bad I work from my friend's shed'

Coronavirus doctor's diary: Trying out tech that may help make worship Covid-secure

E-scooter startup Neuron Mobility adds $12M to its Series A for expansion in Australia and New Zealand

Sonos files another patent lawsuit against Google, alleging infringement of five wireless audio patents across the entire line of Nest and Chromecast products (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Sources: DOJ is expected to sue Google as soon as next week and is currently urging state attorneys general to sign onto the lawsuit (Reuters)

LG says its Wing smartphone will be available in the US beginning October 15 from Verizon and later this fall from AT&T and T-Mobile, starting at $1,000 (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

Cloudflare launches a free "privacy-first" analytics tool to rival Google Analytics that records how users engage with websites without invasive tracking (David Meyer/Fortune)

Clubhouse courted fresh controversy after a conversation with hundreds of listeners devolved into a platform for anti-Semitic comments on a Jewish holy day (Bloomberg)