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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asian Review: |
Sources: TSMC, the biggest contract chipmaker, has halted new orders from Huawei in response to new US export controls; orders placed before are not impacted — Taiwan chipmaker's relationship with its second biggest customer under fire — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Minecraft has now topped 200M sales, up from 100M in 2016, with 126M monthly players; Minecraft saw a 25% increase in new players last month — Minecraft continues to grow despite being 11 years old — Minecraft sales have officially topped 200 million, with 126 million people playing the game monthly.
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| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
Alibaba's Jack Ma resigns from SoftBank board, as he pulls back from formal business roles to focus on philanthropy; SoftBank to propose three new appointments — TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp said on Monday that Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma will resign from its board …
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| Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank Vision Fund records $17.7B loss in the last fiscal year after writing down investments including WeWork and Uber, reports a net loss of $8.96B — SoftBank Group Corp. said its Vision Fund business lost 1.9 trillion yen ($17.7 billion) last fiscal year after writing down the value of investments …
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
In email to staff, Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber will cut 3,000 more jobs, in addition to the 3,700 that were let go earlier this month, and will close 45 offices — The ride-hailing giant also is exploring selling noncore businesses — Uber Technologies Inc. is cutting several thousand additional jobs …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple says it's reopening 25 US stores this week plus 12 stores in Canada, adding to nearly 100 global locations that have reopened so far — - Company has 100 stores back in operation after virus closures — Plans temperature checks and face coverings at every location
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| Ranjan Roy / Margins: |
DoorDash is listing restaurants on its service without their permission, leading to inaccurate menus, unhappy customers, and even arbitrage opportunities — There is such a thing as a free lunch — If capitalism is driven by a search for profit, the food delivery business confuses the hell out of me.
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Facebook's VP of consumer hardware Andrew Bosworth says users have spent over $100M on Quest VR content and Portal sales are up 10x compared to mid-March — The latest on Oculus Quest, Portal and COVID-19 supply chain issues from Facebook's top hardware exec.| Sachin Ravikumar / Reuters: |
Indian food delivery startup Swiggy says it will lay off 1,100 employees, or nearly 14% of its workforce, to cut costs amid the pandemic — BENGALURU (Reuters) - Indian food delivery startup Swiggy said on Monday it would lay off 1,100 employees, or nearly 14% of its workforce, to cut costs …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GO1, an online service for professional training courses with over 3,000 enterprise customers, raises $40M Series C from Microsoft, Salesforce, and others — With a large proportion of knowledge workers doing now doing their jobs from home, the need for tools to help them feel connected …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Edison Mail says it has “rolled back” an iOS app update that gave a “small percentage” of users full access to other users' email accounts — Edison Mail is one of the more popular third-party email applications for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, but an apparent bug in the service is raising major privacy concerns.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Logitech announces its new privacy-focused Circle View smart camera with Apple's HomeKit Secure Video, shipping this month for $159.99 — Logitech has officially unveiled its new Circle View smart camera that works exclusively with Apple's HomeKit Secure Video platform.
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