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May 4, 2020, 10:35 AM

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Apple:
Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, 10th-gen CPUs, double the SSD storage, and faster RAM, available to order today starting at $1,299  —  Cupertino, California — Apple today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new Magic Keyboard for the best typing experience ever …
Jason Koebler / VICE:
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and VP at Amazon, resigns after nearly six years, criticizing the company on his blog for firing protesting workers  —  Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
PE firm Silver Lake announces it will invest $747M in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms, giving it a valuation of $65B, weeks after Facebook invested $5.7B  —  Weeks after Facebook invested $5.7 billion in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms, private equity firm Silver Lake is following suit.
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Tokopedia, Indonesia's largest e-commerce site, is investigating the alleged leak of 91M account details, which are being sold online for as little as $5,000  —  A hacker is selling a database containing the information of 91 million Tokopedia accounts on a dark web market for as little as $5,000.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Elliott Management is financing a patent lawsuit by interactive-video company Eko, which it will take an equity stake in, against Quibi  —  Elliott, run by billionaire Paul Singer, will fund the suit by interactive-video company Eko and take an equity stake
Carl Miller / BBC:
Om Malik / On my Om:
The pandemic brought tech-enabled behaviors previously considered on the fringe into the mainstream and compressed years of digital transformation into months  —  Disruptions, downturns, and recessions make the weak weaker and the strong stronger.  It was true centuries ago, and it is true today.

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