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Waymo raises $2.25B from Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, parent-company Alphabet, and others to scale up its autonomous vehicles operations — Waymo, the autonomous vehicles division of Google parent company Alphabet, just got a massive capital infusion from a coterie of investors.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Apple agrees to pay up to $500M to settle a US class-action lawsuit accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google updates Pixel phones with new Motion Sense gesture controls, emoji, AR effects, car crash detection for its Personal Safety app, photo and video features — One of the benefits of owning a Pixel smartphone is that it improves over time as Pixels are first to receive updates that deliver the latest fixes and improvements.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AT&T TV launches across the US after rolling out in over a dozen markets last year, with prices that start at $49.99/month but go up dramatically after a year — AT&T's next big TV play has a problem: pricing — AT&T TV is launching nationwide today after initially rolling out to over a dozen markets last year.
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Tweets: @patiencehaggin, @georgeslefo, @wsj, and @backlon
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Behind Facebook's rewrite of Messenger, going live today, that has shrunk the iOS app's size from 130MB to 30MB and its codebase from 1.7M to 360K lines of code — To make its iPhone messaging app run better—especially on older phones—Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Verge survey of 1,123 US adults: 72% said Facebook has too much power; 51% said Google and YouTube should be split up into separate companies — Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information …
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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Airbnb's long-planned IPO, previously scheduled for March or April, has been derailed by the coronavirus fallout and could be pushed back to 2021 — - Startup was targeting first half to kick off the process — Shares of rivals dive as travel bookings canceled globally
Tweets: @bgurley, @ericnewcomer, @bgurley, @bgurley, and @bgurley
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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| Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple and its suppliers are among the 83 big companies benefitting from China's abusive labor transfer programs for Uyghur Muslims and other minorities — A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think-tank has named Apple among 83 other major companies benefiting …
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| Bloomberg: |
Robinhood says it has been experiencing a “system-wide outage” today that it is affecting “all functionalities” on the platform — - Issue has been identified and fix is under way, company says — Some customers of online broker couldn't access their accounts
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Tweets: @markets, @finplan, @bw, @bloombergasia, @shaig, and @danberger
| Financial Times: |
Analysis: one-third of donations from employees at big tech firms went to Sens. Warren and Sanders, despite a lack of enthusiasm from tech executives — Progressive Democratic candidates receive most cash from tech workers ahead of Super Tuesday — Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders …
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| CNBC: |
Apple shares jumped 9.3% today, closing at $298.81, with the Dow up 5.1% and Nasdaq up 4.5%, as the market rebounded from last week's coronavirus-fueled selloff — Tim Anderson: I don't see how cutting rates is going to solve problem — Stocks rose sharply in volatile trading on Monday … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US sanctions two Chinese nationals for allegedly laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea's Lazarus Group, which has hacked two crypto exchanges since 2018 — Two Chinese men laundered funds from two hacked cryptocurrency exchanges. — The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions today …
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Tweets: @mayazi, @nathanielpopper, and @kevincollier
| 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.
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Tweets: @nokia, @arashmassoudi, and @financialtimes
| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Study: YouTube has reduced recommendations of some conspiracy theories like flat earth and QAnon but has let others flourish for topics like climate change — A new study examines YouTube's efforts to limit the spread of conspiracy theories on its site, from videos claiming the end times are near to those questioning climate change.
Tweets: @oliverdarcy, @hshaban, @hshaban, @broderick, @nytimesbusiness, @slpng_giants, @jacknicas, @kevinroose, and @jacknicas
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
A look at WireGuard, an open source VPN tool and protocol that will soon be part of the Linux kernel and has clients for Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, and Windows — The virtual private network software from security researcher Jason Donenfeld wins fans with its simplicity and ease of auditing.
Tweets: @martijn_grooten and @wired
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Spotify is making a big push for artists and record labels to pay to promote their music in its app, complicating talks over long-term music rights — - Music service needs ad revenue source to reach profitability — The three major record labels are balking at Spotify's plans
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Cult of Mac. Tweets: @juddgreenstein, @tedgioia, @markets, @tedgioia, @bw, @joshconstine, and @lucas_shaw
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