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Report: Magic Leap sold ~6,000 headsets in six months after release, compared to a goal of 100,000 in the first year, and recently laid off dozens of employees — And Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly left its board — Magic Leap's sales numbers reportedly haven't matched CEO Rony …
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| Caroline Spivack / Curbed NY: |
Report: Amazon leases 335K square feet of office space in NYC without any tax incentives, less than a year after pulling out of its larger HQ2 campus deal — The e-commerce titan remains interested in the Big Apple — Amazon has inked a lease in midtown Manhattan less than a year …
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| Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
Bernie Sanders unveils a “High-Speed Internet for All” plan with $150B to build publicly owned broadband networks, wants to break up ISPs like Comcast and AT&T — - Bernie Sanders announces a plan to expand rural broadband internet access and break up giant internet service providers.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool launched in 2015, from Facebook — New updates will be coming in 2020 — Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool originally revealed by the Facebook-owned VR company in 2015.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Profile of VSCO, a photo-sharing app with a reported valuation of $550M, which is trending towards 4M paying users in 2020, up from 2M in late 2018 — No likes, no comments, no follower count — VSCO sells a sense of belonging — Long before Instagram toyed with removing “likes,” VSCO …
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Galaxy S11 and Galaxy Fold clamshell to sport a 108MP sensor for the main camera and 5x optical zoom, with S11 also getting an ultrawide-angle lens — - The Galaxy S11 and clamshell Galaxy Fold will feature 5x zoom — Next flagship to have almost every camera phone feature
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
SEC has rejected NYSE's proposal to allow companies going public through a direct listing to raise capital at the same time — - Last week, the New York Stock Exchange filed for a rule change that would allow companies in a direct listing to raise capital.| Washington Post: |
In safety report, Uber says only 37% of the 464 rape cases during its US rides in 2017 and 2018 were reported to law enforcement — Buried inside Uber's inaugural safety report this week that detailed thousands of sexual assaults and more than 100 deaths was another staggering revelation …
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| Kelsey Sutton / Adweek: |
Survey of 2,000+ US users: 50% plan to subscribe to new OTT services, of which 64% intend to downgrade/cancel existing subs; say they spend ~$76/month on video — 25% of people are actively looking to cancel video subscriptions, according to a new PwC survey — Key Insights:
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Amazon expands Bezos' elite ‘S-team’, adding 6 execs from its emerging branches such as advertising and fashion, bringing the number of execs on the team to 22 — Amazon's executive suite, nicknamed the “S-team,” is adding six new members as the company doubles down on emerging fields such as advertising and fashion.| Brian Feldman / New York Magazine: |
Facebook's tactic of announcing features for a small minority of its users often garners positive press coverage, even if the features aren't live for most — Yesterday, Facebook announced an uncharacteristically useful tool, one that would transfer photos from a user's Facebook account to their Google Photos account.
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| Tali Arbel / Associated Press: |
14 US state AGs seeking to stop the T-Mobile and Sprint merger head to trial on Monday — NEW YORK (AP) — A high-drama telecom deal is heading to court. — T-Mobile, in its attempt to buy Sprint for $26.5 billion, has already notched approvals from key federal regulators.| David Cohen / Adweek: |
Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck is leaving at the end of the year, to be replaced by David Shim, who joined Foursquare as president in June — Jeff Glueck is leaving after leading the company for 4 years — David Shim, who joined the location-based recommendation platform Foursquare as president in June … | Scott Stein / CNET: |
Qualcomm unveils 5G-compatible Snapdragon XR2 to power standalone headsets, says it is working with Niantic Labs to develop a reference design for smart glasses — VR headsets take you places and AR headsets show you things in the real world that aren't really there.
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