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Sources: Amazon in late-stage talks with several cities including Crystal City, VA, Dallas, New York for HQ2, may place smaller operations in runner-up cities — The tech giant's decision, which may be announced in November, could include multiple locations involving smaller sites
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
A look at HQ Trivia as it deals with its app's fading popularity, races to publish its next game, and has its new CEO facing an HR complaint from an HQ employee — A boardroom battle and more alleged management issues have raised new questions about HQ's future. — HQ could use another win.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
An expert says Georgia's voter registration site looks poorly secured, but the secretary of state, a candidate for governor, appears to deflect blame to rivals — IN DECEMBER 2016, Georgia secretary of state Brian Kemp accused the Department of Homeland Security of attempting to hack his office's systems … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Unlike 10 years ago when Steve Jobs unveiled the first MacBook Air, the newest one faces strong competition from Windows PCs and Apple's own iPads — It's not the same as 2008 — Steve Jobs changed the world of laptops 10 years ago when he introduced the MacBook Air by removing it from a tiny paper office envelope.
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| Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports Q2 profits of $6.2B, more than half of which came from Vision Fund investments as Masayoshi Son says fund will continue to invest Saudi money — SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son is starting to see the benefits of his enormous technology investments …
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Telegraph, Recode, Axios, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Channel NewsAsia, Phys.org, The Star Online, and Financial Times. Tweets: @teddyschleifer
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon waives $25 minimum spend to offer free Christmas deliveries for all US customers — Amazon has announced its latest plan to coin in on the lucrative Christmas shopping extravaganza: free deliveries for all customers with no minimum spend required. — The ecommerce giant has dabbled …
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The Verge, Reuters, Amazon.com, Inc., GeekWire, TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Toys, Forbes, ABC News, and CBS News
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Charlie Shrem, who spent a year in prison for helping people buy drugs online, is being sued by the Winklevoss twins for allegedly spending bitcoin he owed them — Charlie Shrem went to prison in 2015 after he pleaded guilty to helping people buy drugs online. Now he's being sued by the Winklevoss twins.
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Ars Technica, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, SludgeFeed, Gizmodo, and Bitcoinist.com
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @nathanielpopper, and @nytimesbusiness
| Chris Williams / The Register: |
Intel announces Xeon E-2100 CPUs aimed at low-end servers and Cascade Lake AP, a top-end variant of the next gen Xeon Scalable processors, with up to 48 cores — The AP does not stand for ‘AMD P**-off’ — In brief Intel will today talk up two new Xeon processor family members: Cascade Lake Advanced Performance (AP), and the E-2100.
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VentureBeat, Engadget, Intel Newsroom, ZDNet, AnandTech, Ars Technica, The Tech Report, Tom's Hardware, HPCwire, and nextplatform.com
| Clare McGrane / GeekWire: |
98point6, a Seattle-based startup developing a virtual primary care service delivered via its app and website, raises $50M Series C led by Goldman Sachs — 98point6, a Seattle-based startup developing an entirely virtual primary care service, has raised $50 million in a round led by Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division.
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire, MobiHealthNews, The Seattle Times, FierceBiotech, and VentureBeat. Thanks:@toddbishop
| Jana Winter / BostonGlobe.com: |
DHS election threat reports say hackers have had “limited success” in hacking election-related tools, despite publicly saying all attempts have been thwarted — Hackers have ramped up their efforts to meddle with the country's election infrastructure in the weeks leading … | Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Source: Apple will launch an iPhone with Intel's 8161 5G modem chip in 2020; Intel will likely be the sole modem supplier for that year's iPhones — Apple's 5G iPhone will come to market in 2020, a source with knowledge of Apple's plans says. — Apple plans to use Intel's 8161 5G modem chip in its 2020 phones.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based omni:us, which extracts structured data from insurance-related documents, says it has closed its Series A, bringing the total raised to ~$22.5M — Earlier this year omni:us, an AI-driven service which is able to process digital documents (some of which contain handwriting) … Sponsor Posts
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