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COVID-19's impact on tech this week: cancelled conferences, supply chain and sales disruptions, murky business outlook for online travel firms, and rise of Zoom — Companies are telling investors that sales are slumping because of the outbreak, conferences are being canceled, and workers are being instructed not to travel.
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| Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
Kuo: iPhone production will not significantly improve before Q2, as suppliers like lens manufacturer Genius Electronic Optical struggle to keep up amid COVID-19 — Apple's iPhone production will not significantly improve until the second quarter of 2020, according to a research note …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher demos multiple ways of how to take over and repurpose allegedly state sponsored Mac malware — Former NSA hacker repackages in-the-wild Mac malware for his own use. — SAN FRANCISCO—Malware developers are always trying to outdo each other with creations that are stealthier and more advanced than their competitors'.
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| Ben Gilbert / Business Insider: |
Indie game developers and publishers say Stadia's library is sparse because Google wasn't offering devs enough money and may abandon the platform in the future — - Last November, Google finally launched a major gaming platform that was in development for years: Google Stadia.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO after over half a decade; Pekka Lundmark, outgoing President and CEO of energy firm Fortum appointed as President and CEO — Rajeev Suri, the chief executive of Nokia, is stepping down from his leadership role after overseeing the Finnish networking giant for more than 10 years.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Union of Concerned Scientists study: ride-hailing trips today result in an estimated 69% more climate pollution on average than the trips they displace — Union of Concerned Scientists recommends more electric cars and pooled trips — Uber and Lyft have weathered criticism about pollution …
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Apple has been asking for proof of government license for iOS games in China since 2016, but did not enforce the policy, a loophole it is now closing — Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch's China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Process Street, which is developing a no-code workflow builder for businesses, raises $12M Series A led by Accel — Process Street, which has developed no-code workflow builder, has raised a $12 million Series A led by Accel. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
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| Rajiv Rao / ZDNet: |
How Apple, after languishing in India for years, became the fastest growing premium smartphone brand in the country in 2019 — For the first time in its brief history in India, the premium brand has gone all out to woo customers with big price cuts, and thanks to local manufacturing efforts, it has worked wonders.| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
The Intuit-Credit Karma deal, driven by the latter's stash of user data, poses an important test case for US regulators' budding interest in data-driven mergers — Antitrust regulators say they're interested in data-driven mergers. Intuit's $7 billion deal to buy Credit Karma will show how serious they are.| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Profile of Turntable.fm founder's social network, Botnet, populated by adoring bots that give users an experience of being internet famous without facing trolls — A social network populated entirely by adoring bots aims to mimic the experience of being a celebrity online—trolls not included.| Douglas Busvine / Reuters: |
Europe-focused Lakestar raises $735M with one third of the commitments allocated to early stage startups and two thirds to its growth stage fund — BERLIN (Reuters) - Venture capital investor Lakestar said on Tuesday it had raised a total of $735 million (568 million pounds) …
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