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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Sources: IBM is laying off thousands of workers in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri, and New York — - Thousands of IBM workers in North America likely affected — Newly unemployed staff fear finding another job in a recession — International Business Machines Corp. cut …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
With Spotify owning shows, a podcast player, tools to make new shows, and selling ads, the podcasting world is now divided into open and closed ecosystems — The Joe Rogan deal makes the company's big ambitions known — In what's likely the biggest deal ever for a single podcast …
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Tweets: @dp16, @mattstasoff, @willrinehart, @lthomasnews, @yoda, and @donthatebehated
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Audible is in talks to acquire celebrity podcasts and considers selling original shows individually; Amazon Music is also preparing to add podcasts — Under growing pressure from Spotify, the e-commerce giant is looking to spend big in podcast land| Bloomberg: |
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| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Court rules that turning on a phone to view its lockscreen without unlocking it qualifies as searching the phone and thus would generally need a warrant — Location data requires a warrant since 2018; lock screen may now, too. — Smartphones are a rich data trove not only for marketers but also for law enforcement.
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Sources: while Amazon has pushed its annual Prime Day to September, the company is preparing for an earlier “Summer Sale” to let brands sell excess inventory — After losing some online shoppers to rivals during the pandemic, the retail giant is turning back to faster shipping times and big sales.| Steven Melendez / Fast Company: |
Report: the official COVID-19 contact tracing app for North Dakota is sharing location data with Foursquare and an advertising ID with Google — The official COVID-19 contact tracing app for the state of North Dakota, designed to detect whether people have potentially been exposed to the coronavirus …
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Washington Post, AppleInsider, Jumbo Blog, Observer, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, al.com, Mashable, and The Mac Observer
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| Bloomberg: |
Interviews shed light on the strained relationship between Masayoshi Son and Vision Fund leader Rajeev Misra, who some say has created a divisive workplace — Son's support tested after $18 billion in writedowns, clashes with internal rivals — In early March, before the coronavirus pandemic triggered …
Tweets: @economictimes, @andresbarreto, @bradstone, @menakadoshi, and @bloombergquint. Thanks:@tsgiles
| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Comparing Nvidia's new A100 Ampere chip with competition from Intel and GraphCore in terms of performance, economics, and software — Now that the dust from Nvidia's unveiling of its new Ampere AI chip has settled, let's take a look at the AI chip market behind the scenes and away from the spotlight
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Sources: a version of iOS 14 dated Dec. 2019, likely obtained via a development iPhone 11, has been circulating among researchers and jailbreakers for months — Security researchers and hackers have had access to a leaked early version of iOS 14, the iPhone's next operating system, since at least February, Motherboard has learned.
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Internal memo: Magic Leap has raised $350M from new and existing investors and is withdrawing notices laying off remaining employees — Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz told employees Thursday his struggling augmented reality firm had raised $350 million from existing and new investors.
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Tweets: @hughlangley, @eringriffith, @tommylee, @mikeelgan, @jessiwrites, @dtunkelang, @tomgara, @brianmcc, @scobleizer, and @alexeheath
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Statespace, whose software recreates the physics of popular FPS games to help players work on their weaknesses, raises $15M Series A led by Khosla Ventures — Statespace has today raised a $15 million Series A financing round led by Khosla, with partner Samir Kaul joining the board.| Yujie Xue / South China Morning Post: |
Report: Chinese investors in US tech companies closed 11 deals worth $400M in Q1, down from 18 deals worth $1.8B in Q1 2019, as China looks to EU for investment — There were 11 deals for Chinese investments into US tech companies in the first quarter, compared to 18 in the same period …
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| David Jagneaux / UploadVR: |
Facebook says its $1,000 enterprise-edition Oculus Quest, which sells as part of the Oculus for Business platform, is now available for companies to purchase — Today Facebook announced that its enterprise-edition Oculus Quest that sells for $1,000 as part of its Oculus for Business platform …
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| Business Wire: |
Alibaba Q4 beats estimates with revenue up 22% YoY to $16.14B and income of $447M, down 88% YoY due to loss in investments, cloud computing revenue up 58% YoY — HANGZHOU, China—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988, “Alibaba” or “Alibaba Group") …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
KKR to invest $1.5B in Reliance Jio for a 2.32% stake; this is Reliance Jio's fifth major raise in just as many weeks — Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Platforms has agreed to sell 2.32% stake to U.S. equity firm KKR in what is the fifth major investment in the top Indian telecom firm in just as many weeks.| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Facebook says it will let many of its 50,000 employees work from home permanently, “aggressively” open up remote hiring, first in the USA, then elsewhere — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the social media giant will start allowing many of its 50,000 employees …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
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