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After ICANN lifted price caps on .org domains in June, the Internet Society has sold Public Interest Registry, the top level domain's operator, to PE firm Ethos — Ethos Capital, led by former ABRY Partners Managing Partner, buys .Org registry. — I thought this might happen. And now it has.
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as December, initially in Brazil, India, and Indonesia — The Chinese company behind the popular video app TikTok is set to go head-to-head with the likes of Spotify and Apple in the music streaming market … | Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
Sensor Tower: TikTok has passed 1.5B downloads worldwide on the App Store and Google Play, with 614M downloads in 2019 so far, up 6% YoY — The app has had 614 million downloads so far just this year, according to mobile intelligence firm Sensor Tower. — TikTok has passed 1.5 billion …
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KrASIA, Business Insider, Digiday, Gizchina, The Economic Times, The Next Web, TechNode, Deccan Chronicle, NDTV Gadgets 360, GO Tech Daily, Entrackr, and Neowin. Tweets: @rrhoover
| Paul Hill / Neowin: |
Microsoft updates its privacy rules for commercial cloud contracts, after a EU probe found that it failed to protect data under EU law — Microsoft has announced that it will update its privacy provisions for commercial cloud contracts. It comes after the European Data Protection Supervisor … | Nikkei Asian Review: |
Line and SoftBank's Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020 — SoftBank and Naver's venture to be Japan's largest online player — TOKYO — The operators of Yahoo sites in Japan and the Line chat app jointly announced …
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| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
Opera's Africa focused fintech startup OPay raises $120M Series B from Meituan-Dianping, SoftBank Asia, others, will expand to Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa — Africa focused fintech startup OPay has raised a $120 million Series B round backed by Chinese investors.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary for safe autonomous driving systems, raises $20M Series A — Wayve, a U.K.-based startup that's developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement learning …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Elavon, the payments subsidiary of US Bancorp, to acquire Sage Pay, a payment processor operating in the UK and Ireland, for £232M in cash — E-commerce continues to gain momentum — a trend we'll see played out in the next two months of holiday shopping — and with that comes more consolidation.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Chrome, Edge, Safari hacked at elite hacking contest Tianfu Cup, which is now China's top competition after a participation ban on foreign contests like Pwn2Own — China's top white-hat hackers have gathered in Chengdu to test zero-days against today's top software.| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
Intel unveils plans for a 7nm Xe GPU, codenamed Ponte Vecchio, meant to rival Nvidia in handling datacenter AI workloads, but fails to give a release window — The upcoming data center GPU, in combination with its new oneAPI programming interface, will give Intel more ammunition to compete …
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VentureBeat, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware, SemiAccurate, and PCWorld. Tweets: @dylanljmartin. Thanks:@dylanljmartin
| Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC: |
The White House confirms that President Trump will tour Apple's manufacturing plant in Austin on November 20 — - Apple announced its new Mac Pro will be assembled at the Austin factory after winning tariff exemptions from the Trump administration in September. — How Apple CEO Tim Cook won over Trump amid a trade war
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Engadget, Cult of Mac, Bloomberg, and AppleInsider
| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Musical.ly founder Alex Zhu, who now heads TikTok, says TikTok doesn't share data with China or Bytedance and doesn't censor videos at China's behest — Alex Zhu, the head of the Chinese-owned viral video app, is trying to assuage Washington's fears. “I am quite optimistic,” he said.Sponsor Posts
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