Monthly Archives: July 2025

Cash App opens up to Apple Pay and Google Pay for the first time

PayPal’s Venmo continues to gain ground, reporting more than 20% year-over-year revenue growth in the second quarter.

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Apple opens manufacturing academy in Detroit as Trump ramps up pressure to invest in U.S.

The Apple Manufacturing Academy is opening in downtown Detroit, with a focus on artificial intelligence.

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Apple Is Shutting a Store in China, Its First Closure in the Country

The move speaks to slowing spending by consumers and Apple’s continuing struggles in China, its second-largest market.

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Adobe adds new AI-powered image editing features to Photoshop

Adobe is adding an improved background removal tool to Photoshop using AI, so the app doesn’t leave weird artifacts in your images.

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TikTok adds YouTube Music as an option to save songs playing in videos

You can now save tracks playing in TikTok videos directly to a playlist on YouTube Music.

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Meta’s AI spending spree is Wall Street’s focus in second-quarter earnings

Meta investors will be scrutinizing CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring blitz during the company’s second-quarter earnings on Wednesday.

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Rare earths are China’s bargaining chip in the trade war — the U.S. is trying to fix that

China mines around 70% and processes around 90% of rare earths. The U.S. is hoping to change that with investment in the domestic rare earth supply chain.

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

Delian Alliance Industries recently raised $14 million in funding to continue building its defense products, which include surveillance towers, and concealed sea drones.

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Sex toy maker Lovense caught leaking users’ email addresses and exposing accounts to takeovers

A security researcher went public after the sex toy maker asked for more than a year to fix the vulnerabilities, which leak users’ private email addresses and allow for accounts to be hijacked.

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Spotify stock falls on revenue miss, lackluster guidance

Spotify stock fell after the music streaming platform fell short of Wall Street’s revenue expectations.

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