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A look at the rapidly declining morale at Uber amid budget cuts for basic amenities, mass layoffs, and a 30% decline in stock price since its IPO — Uber's CEO told staff: “We need to ship more quickly and operate more effectively and efficiently than we are today.”
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 13.1.2 and iPadOS 13.1.2 with fixes for several bugs including those affecting Camera, iCloud Backup, shortcuts on HomePod, and flashlight — Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 13.1.2, updates to the iOS and iPadOS 13.1.1 software that was released on Friday.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Verizon to acquire the software and technology assets of VR startup Jaunt XR, which raised $100M in funding from Disney, GV, and others; Jaunt is pivoting to AR — - The start-up develops tools that enable brands and consumers to make high-quality VR content, among other things.
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Sources: Facebook is planning to pay only about a quarter of the 200 publishers that will be featured in its news tab, set to launch as soon as the end of Oct. — Social-media giant plans to pay about a quarter of news organizations whose content will be featured
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
HP updates HP Spectre x360 13 with 10th-gen Intel CPUs, 4K OLED display, up to 22 hours battery life, optional LTE, available in October starting at $1,099 — A smaller, faster 2-in-1 laptop — HP's Spectre x360 13 has undergone a fairly drastic makeover for 2019.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US Treasury goes after the planes and yacht of the founder of Russia's IRA troll farm, with new sanctions imposed for alleged meddling in 2018 midterm elections — US Treasury takes new approach to imposing sanctions on IRA's owner. — The US Treasury Department announced today the third set … | Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto exchanges including Coinbase, Kraken, Circle, and Bittrex form the Crypto Ratings Council to rate digital assets on whether they are securities — Businesses to score which assets can be traded without ire of regulators — The U.S.'s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges have developed …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Nasdaq tightens restrictions and slows approvals for small Chinese firms' IPOs, which increasingly raise a majority of capital from Chinese investors — (Reuters) - Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ.O) is cracking down on initial public offerings (IPOs) of small Chinese companies by tightening restrictions … | Lawrence White / Reuters: |
Revolut partners with Visa to expand into 24 new markets including the US and Japan by the end of 2019, plans to increase staff from 1500 to 5000 by next summer — LONDON (Reuters) - British-based digital banking app Revolut is set to hire around 3500 staff as it expands into 24 new markets thanks … | Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance, owner of TikTok, had a revenue of $7B-$8.4B in H1 2019, and posted a profit in June after operating at a loss in H1 2019 — BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok and one of the world's most valuable unicorns … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
WeWork says it will withdraw its S-1 filing as it seeks to postpone its IPO — - WeWork has announced it will withdraw its S-1 filing as it seeks to postpone its highly-anticipated initial public offering. — The future of the IPO had been in question after WeWork moved to delay its investor roadshow earlier this month.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: a US online privacy bill is not likely to come before Congress in 2019, forcing companies to deal with a stricter law in CA that takes effect on Jan. 1 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. online privacy bill is not likely to come before Congress this year, three sources said … Sponsor Posts
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