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Amazon says it will not ask employees to remove TikTok from their mobile devices, and an internal email asking them to delete the app was sent in error — The company confirms that an email was sent out in error earlier today — Amazon says that it will not ask employees to remove …
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Wells Fargo tells employees to remove TikTok from corporate-owned devices due to privacy and security concerns, says devices are only for company business use — It was a head-spinning day for TikTok, the hit video-sharing app. Hours after Amazon told employees to delete TikTok from their phones … | Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
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Sources: Facebook is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its network in the days leading up to the US election in November — Facebook Inc. is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its social network in the days leading up to the U.S. election in November …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple is making thousands of semitransparent lenses for its AR headset at a Foxconn factory as part of engineering validation test stage of the product — Apple and Foxconn have reached a key milestone in the development of Apple's long-rumored augmented reality headset …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple Silicon Macs to include 13-inch MacBook Pro this year, MacBook Air this year or Q1 2021, and 14.1-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models in 2021 — At last month's WWDC, Apple officially announced that its Mac computers will be transitioned from Intel x86 to homegrown Apple Silicon chips.
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Microsoft details how it is collaborating with Google to help developers get their Progressive Web Apps into the Play Store — Microsoft has been collaborating with Google to ensure that their tools interoperate and can help developers get their Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) into the Play Store.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
An issue with Facebook SDK, which lasted for about 3 hours, crashed iOS apps for TikTok, Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest, and others that use Facebook Login — The issue has now been resolved and apps are working once more — A number of popular apps and services including Spotify, Pinterest …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Foxconn to invest up to $1B over the next three years in a factory near Chennai in India where it currently assembles iPhone XR — Sankalp Phartiyal, Yimou Lee — NEW DELHI/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn (2317.TW) plans to invest up to $1 billion to expand a factory in southern India …
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Rackspace, a cloud services company which went private in 2016 after a $4.3B buyout by Apollo Global, once again files for a US IPO — (Reuters) - Cloud services firm Rackspace Technology Inc, owned by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, filed for a U.S. initial public offering on Friday.
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CBP says there is no practical way for Americans to avoid its license plate reader tracking, will use commercial database to pull private and public plate data — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has admitted that there is no practical way for Americans to avoid having their movements tracked … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The App Store's primary purpose should be to steer third-party apps toward excellence; split screen multitasking in Gmail for iPad should't have taken 5 years — Feel free to file Google's release this week of an update to their iPad Gmail app with support for split-screen multitasking under …
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