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US Customs seized a shipment of OnePlus Buds thinking they were counterfeit Apple AirPods (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Chris Welch / The Verge: US Customs seized a shipment of OnePlus Buds thinking they were counterfeit Apple AirPods — Well this is awkward — In a truly bizarre situation that I'm still trying to wrap my head around, US Customs and Border Protection tonight tweeted that its officers had “recently seized 2,000 … https://bit.ly/3hsGGqQ

As Amazon reportedly considers a $20B investment in Reliance's retail business, a look at the outsized influence Reliance Industries' Mukesh Ambani has in India (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: As Amazon reportedly considers a $20B investment in Reliance's retail business, a look at the outsized influence Reliance Industries' Mukesh Ambani has in India — - Reliance said to be in talks to sell retail stake to Amazon — India has encouraged the development of local businesses https://bit.ly/3hwIBe2

The public's phobia of touching cash amid COVID-19 could help SoftBank popularize mobile payments in cash-addicted Japan; SoftBank has invested $1B+ in PayPay (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asian Review)

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asian Review: The public's phobia of touching cash amid COVID-19 could help SoftBank popularize mobile payments in cash-addicted Japan; SoftBank has invested $1B+ in PayPay — Masayoshi Son zeros in on Japan, where he is ready to lose billions in a battle to conquer cash https://bit.ly/35tH8Tz

Several H-1B employees hired at TikTok's Silicon Valley campus are facing visa approval delays that, legal experts say, are unusual (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)

Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times: Several H-1B employees hired at TikTok's Silicon Valley campus are facing visa approval delays that, legal experts say, are unusual — The hits to California's TikTok workers just keep coming: First, the Trump administration threatened to shutter the company's U.S. operations; then its CEO quit after just three months on the job. https://bit.ly/3ir4Hjf

Canalys: companies in China spent a record $4.3B on cloud services in H1 2020, up 70% YoY; Alibaba accounted for around 40% of total Q2 cloud spending in China (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)

Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: Canalys: companies in China spent a record $4.3B on cloud services in H1 2020, up 70% YoY; Alibaba accounted for around 40% of total Q2 cloud spending in China — Businesses in China are accelerating their digitization efforts, helping make local cloud providers into giants to rival Amazon and Microsoft https://bit.ly/3mgmOuC

Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph (Sarah Manavis/New Statesman)

Sarah Manavis / New Statesman: Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph — On a typical day, a long-time user of Goodreads, the world's largest community for reviewing and recommending books, will feel like they're losing their mind. https://bit.ly/3keLguu

How Sundar Pichai is leading Google at a time when many of the company's strengths become the focus of intense public criticism and antitrust scrutiny (Rob Copeland/Wall Street Journal)

Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: How Sundar Pichai is leading Google at a time when many of the company's strengths become the focus of intense public criticism and antitrust scrutiny — The low-key chief is contending with possible antitrust lawsuits, a revenue drop and pressure to take the company in new directions https://bit.ly/2ZwdJEy