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Sources: Apple is in advanced talks to buy Intel's smartphone modem chip business in a deal valued at $1B+ covering staff and a portfolio of patents — Apple Inc. AAPL 2.29% is in advanced talks to buy Intel Corp. INTC 2.15% 's smartphone-modem chip business, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Tweets: @patrickmoorhead, @soumithchintala, @caro_milanesi, @greengart, @mollywood, @anshelsag, @pauljonesb, @benbajarin, and @lucasmtny
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it will invest $1B in OpenAI, beginning a partnership to jointly develop new AI technologies for the Azure cloud platform — Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman …
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OpenAI, Microsoft, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, CNBC, FinSMEs, The Seattle Times, Forbes, Reuters, MIT Technology Review, WinBuzzer, USA Today, DEVCLASS, Neowin, PYMNTS.com, CNET, HPCwire, BetaNews, Xconomy, MSPoweruser, GamesIndustry.biz, Thurrott, Crunchbase News, SiliconANGLE, FutureSin, Windows Central, TechSpot, The Register, Engadget, Telegraph, GeekWire, The Robot Report, EnterpriseAI, ZDNet, The Verge, Mashable, OnMSFT.com, and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @jwangark, @codybrown, @jwangark, @paulg, @seanmmcdonald, @benedictevans, @tomwarren, @epro, @ghadfield, and @jwangark
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Flaw in Facebook's Messenger Kids let kids invite a parent-approved user into a group chat even if that user wasn't authorized to chat with others in the group — ‘We recently notified some parents... about a technical error,’ a Facebook representative said
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Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CNET, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, MSPoweruser, Lifehacker, Mashable, Slashdot, and PYMNTS.com
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| Stacy Cowley / New York Times: |
Equifax will pay at least $650M and potentially significantly more to end an array of state, federal, and consumer claims over the 2017 data breach — The credit bureau Equifax will pay at least $650 million and potentially significantly more to end an array of state, federal and consumer claims …
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Federal Trade Commission, Equifax, Federal Trade Commission, Washington Post, Ars Technica, NY State Attorney General, BBC, ZDNet, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Washington Post, CNBC, Reuters, Dark Reading, Federal Computer Week, Marketing Land, Mashable, Graham Cluley, Security Boulevard, Nextgov, Gizmodo, ABC News, Fortune, KnowTechie, Digital Trends, DataBreaches.net, Mercury News, Threatpost, Engadget, Newser, CBS New York, TechCrunch, CyberScoop, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNET, Inquirer, The Hill, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Axios, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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| Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Commission-free trading app Robinhood raises $323M Series E led by DST Global at a $7.6B post-money valuation, has raised a total of $862M to date — Unless you were some hotshot finance person in the 1980s, you probably only recently started using your mobile phone to place trades.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Jeff Williams, Tim Cook's heir apparent as CEO, who is broadly regarded as a strong choice for the top job within Apple — Jeff Williams co-created the Apple Watch and runs the company's global operations. Can he also handle design—and everything else?
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MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iMore, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Appleosophy, 9to5Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @benedictevans, @kkiyer90, @markgurman, @markgurman, @thenickguy, @stroughtonsmith, and @markgurman
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber is testing a $24.99/month subscription pass that includes a fixed discount on rides, free Uber Eats delivery, and free rides on JUMP bikes and scooters — Uber is actively testing a monthly subscription pass that combines rides, Eats, bikes and scooters.
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Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Mashable, and CNET
Tweets: @semil, @yoda, @ai, @somospostpc, @mariainnyc, and @shiraovide
| Washington Post: |
Leaked documents show Huawei secretly helped North Korea build its wireless 3G network, raising the question of whether it violated US export controls — Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese tech giant embroiled in President Trump's trade war with China and blacklisted as a national security threat …
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GitHub, Engadget, Vox, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, TalkAndroid.com, TechSpot, Android Police, Telegraph, FierceWireless, Digital Trends, Gizchina, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Android Central, CNBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, The Hill, and Politico
Facebook: Senator Marco Rubio. Tweets: @narangvipin, @gerryshih, @kuriko_c, @nktpnd, @paulmozur, @nktpnd, @marcorubio, and @isaacstonefish
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Inside FTC's 16-month Facebook probe that ended in a $5B fine; sources: FTC initially considered imposing more direct liability for Zuckerberg and a bigger fine — Facebook's $5 billion fine from the FTC illustrates the challenges facing a 105-year-old Federal agency tasked with watching …
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Techdirt, Vanity Fair, Mashable, Digital Trends, and Politico
Tweets: @tonyromm, @tonyromm, @jason_kint, @jeffjohnroberts, @profcarroll, @caseynewton, @reckless, and @sokane1
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack updates its desktop app for Windows and macOS, which is still built on Electron, claims it now launches 33% faster and uses 50% less RAM than before — Slack's desktop app has been rebuilt for Windows and macOS — Slack is unveiling a new version of its desktop app for Windows …
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Slack Engineering, Slack, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Thurrott, iPhone Hacks, TechSpot, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Neowin, Cult of Mac, ZDNet, Engadget, OnMSFT.com, TidBITS, Windows Central, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @slackhq, @relsqui, @thelarkinn, @johnnyrodgersis, @hayatohuseman, @acemarke, @sandofsky, and @felixrieseberg
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple debuts watchOS 5.3, fixing Walkie-Talkie vulnerability, and iOS 12.4 with improvements to Apple News+ and a way to wirelessly migrate data to a new iPhone — A little over two months ago, Apple released the first beta versions of iOS 12.4 and watchOS 5.3 — late point releases for its 2018 iPhone …
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MacRumors, Ars Technica, Engadget, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, MacDailyNews, and Macworld. Tweets: @marcoarment
| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Pinterest updates its search, so when users type in an anxiety-related query like “dealing with stress”, a box with mental health resources appears above pins — ON THE INCREASINGLY polarized internet, Pinterest often feels like the good place.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, KTVU-TV, PhillyVoice, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @ninavasan, @pardesoteric, @nxthompson, @pinterest, @laurengoode, and @wired. Thanks:@jamiefavazza
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Square launches a Photo Studio service for all online merchants, not just Square customers, that lets them send in a product to be photographed for $9.95 — For $9.95, any online merchant — not just those that use Square's suite of products — can send in a product and have it robotically photographed.
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Microsoft settles with the SEC and the DOJ for $26M over potential bribery and corruption related to software sales in Hungary — The deal with the U.S. Justice Department and the SEC resolves claims the software giant violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
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Microsoft on the Issues, SEC.gov, U.S. Department of Justice, CNET, BetaNews, TechSpot, The Hill, The Register, GeekWire, MSPoweruser, and Windows Central
Tweets: @andrewfeinstein, @panyiszabolcs, and @cowcreekgeek
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Bird is raising a Series D round led by Sequoia Capital at a $2.5B valuation; Sequoia led Bird's $300M Series C in June 2018 — Bird is raising a Series D round led by Sequoia Capital at a $2.5 billion valuation, TechCrunch has learned. Sources, however, did not indicate the size of the round.| Daniel Jalkut / Bitsplitting.org: |
Mac developers who ship apps directly to end-users are required to agree to App Store developer contracts to have their apps notarized for macOS Catalina — In the years since Apple released the iPhone, with its “locked-down-by-nature” approach to application security …
Tweets: @flargh, @jsnell, and @danielpunkass
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
David Marcus' congressional testimony shows the Libra Association may take a much more hands-on approach towards regulatory compliance than initially envisioned — Under pressure from regulators, Facebook is rethinking Libra's design. — David Marcus, the head of Facebook's new Calibra payments division …
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Washington Post. Tweets: @jameswester, @woganmay, @amibendavid, @gazecoin, and @gregoryjbarber
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Etsy to acquire Reverb, a marketplace for new and used musical instruments, in a cash deal worth ~$275M; Reverb raised nearly $50M from Max Levchin and others — Etsy has announced plans to acquire Reverb, a marketplace for new and used musical instruments, in a cash deal worth approximately $275 million.
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Etsy, Inc., Engadget, Observer, TechSpot, The Verge, FinSMEs, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, and hypebot
| Reuters: |
Frenzied trading debut of STAR Market, China's Nasdaq-style board, added $44B in market cap across 25 companies, 16 of which more than doubled their IPO prices — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Trading on China's new Nasdaq-style board for homegrown tech firms hit fever pitch on Monday …
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Nikkei Asian Review, CNBC, The Next Web, Xinhua News Agency, TechCrunch, and South China Morning Post
Tweets: @johndetrixhe, @baldingsworld, and @chengevelyn
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK delays decision on Huawei, publishes a telecom supply chain review proposing a new framework for the industry to tighten security standards amid 5G rollout — Amid ongoing concerns about security risks posed by the involvement of Chinese tech giant Huawei in 5G supply …
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GOV.UK, BBC, The Register, ZDNet, New Statesman, The Guardian, The Guardian, and Notes from Silicon Valley. Tweets: @ruskin147
| Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
Mercedes Benz parent company Daimler partners with blockchain company Riddle & Code to create a hardware crypto wallet for the auto industry — Mercedes Benz parent company Daimler has partnered with blockchain firm Riddle & Code to produce a hardware wallet for automobiles.
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RIDDLE&CODE, InsideBitcoins.com, and Cointelegraph
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