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Sources: SoftBank is exploring a full/partial sale or public offering of Arm; SoftBank bought Arm for $32B four years ago — Japanese conglomerate bought British tech company four years ago for $32 billion — SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 4.23% is exploring alternatives including a full …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple pushes retail workers to begin working from home, says full return to offices won't happen in 2020 and it's shipping employees COVID-19 test kits — - Full return to U.S. offices won't happen before end of 2020 — Apple Inc. is readjusting operations as Covid-19 cases continue …
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Huawei posts revenue of $64.88B in H1 2020, up 13.1% YoY despite sanctions and the pandemic, with its consumer businesses accounting for 56% of total revenue — Huawei reported a 13.1% year-over-year revenue growth in the first half of 2020, even if countries around the world continued …
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MGM's 2019 data breach may have affected 142M+ guests, not 10.6M as first reported, according to dark web marketplace; data includes contact details and DoB — EXCLUSIVE: The MGM Resorts 2019 data breach is much larger than initially reported. — The MGM Resorts 2019 data breach … | Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, others back Harvard and MIT's suit against ICE directive that will send international students home if classes are online — A number of top tech companies say the Trump administration's new directive to strip foreign students of their visas could crush the tech industry's workforce.
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Microsoft and Samsung announce partnership to build tech for real estate development and property management using Azure IoT and Samsung's SmartThings platforms — Microsoft and Samsung today announced a global partnership to transform the real estate development and property management industries.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Walmart invests an additional $1.2B in India's Flipkart to increase its majority stake, valuing Flipkart at $24.9B post-money — Walmart is increasing its stake in Flipkart by investing an additional $1.2 billion in the Indian e-commerce giant. The fresh equity round from Walmart … | Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Crypto app Abra and partner company Plutus settle charges from SEC and CFTC for $300K after allegedly facilitating unregistered security-based swap transactions — Crypto financial app Abra has settled charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission …
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| Bloomberg: |
Facebook-provided data shows Trump's campaign micro-targets its ads more than Biden's; 68% of Trump's ads are seen fewer than 1,000 times vs 34% for Biden's — - Trump's campaign has run almost half a million ads on platform — Two-thirds of Trump ads seen by small groups of voters
Tweets: @bpolitics, @misyrlena, @kimmaicutler, @misyrlena, and @californiapanda
| Sarah Kessler / OneZero : |
A look at Amazon Handmade, an Etsy competitor that Amazon launched in 2015, which sellers say operates like the rest of Amazon with little differentiation — D — ave Stencil was puzzled when he noticed his Amazon sales spiking in mid-May. — The San Diego-based carpenter had been selling …
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An analysis of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's dissertation at a German university in 2002 and how it presaged the work he would go on to do at Palantir — Since the election of Donald Trump, a growing body of research has examined the role of digital technologies in new right wing movements … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is in advanced talks to invest $4B in Reliance Industries' Jio Platforms and an announcement could come as soon as the next few weeks — - Announcement could come as soon as the next few weeks — Google on Monday pledged to invest $10 billion in India
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