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UK says it will bar telecom companies from purchasing new equipment from Huawei and gives them until 2027 to remove its technology from their 5G networks — British government gives cellular companies until 2027 to remove Chinese firm's technology — LONDON—The British government …
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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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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
TikTok outflanked Facebook, focusing on curation and user-made video, but its China ties mean privacy, censorship, and propaganda issues should lead to a US ban — Manage your Stratechery subscription. — Over the last week, as the idea of banning TikTok in the U.S. has shifted …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify is launching a Trending podcast chart with 50 rising shows, and expanding its Top chart to the 200 most popular shows overall, localized by region — A long-awaited feature — Spotify is revamping its podcast charts today to help listeners find new shows and keep up with what people are enjoying in their area.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils Dash Cart, a smart shopping cart that links with your Amazon account, tracks the items you place inside, and checks you out without a cashier — The Dash Cart is coming to Amazon's LA grocery store later this year — Amazon is expanding its real-world footprint …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Business giant SAP patches RECON bug, which impacted most of its customers and let hackers create admin accounts on SAP servers — SAP patches bug impacting most of its apps and customer base. — Business giant SAP released a patch today for a major vulnerability that impacts the vast majority of its customers.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Pass, Android's rival to subscription-based game store Apple Arcade, adds 150 more titles, a $29.99/year pricing option, and expands outside the US — Google Play Pass, the Android alternative to subscription-based game store Apple Arcade, is expanding.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Google Cloud debuts Confidential VMs, which keeps data encrypted while in use, and Assured Workloads for Governments, which helps meet compliance requirements — Confidential VMs are the the first product in Google's Confidential Computing portfolio, which will deliver breakthrough technology to encrypt data in use
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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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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
A look at Mitre Corp., a government-linked skunkworks organization that has been making bleeding edge tech for US agencies for more than six decades — Whether it's an invisible Aston Martin or an exploding pen, whenever James Bond needs a high-tech edge, he heads right for Q and his secretive MI6 lab.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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 …
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
AMD unveils its first line of workstation processors, Ryzen Threadripper Pro, with up to 64 cores, only available in OEM hardware; Lenovo is the launch partner — Last year we spotted that AMD was in the market to hire a new lead product manager for a ‘workstation division’.
Tweets: @anandtech, @tapbot_paul, and @iancutress
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat says it is testing exploring public content with vertical swipes, similar to TikTok — Snapchat could be gearing up to more directly challenge TikTok. The company confirmed it's testing a new experience that allows users to move through Snapchat's public content with a vertical swiping motion …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based BigCommerce, which develops online storefronts and other e-commerce tools, files for an IPO and says it had $112.1M in 2019 revenue, up 22% YoY — As expected, BigCommerce has filed to go public. The Austin, Texas, based e-commerce company raised over $200 million while private.
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Google Cloud unveils BigQuery Omni, which lets developers query data that sits in multiple clouds, covering GCP and AWS for now, with Azure support coming later — At its virtual Cloud Next '20 event, Google today announced a number of updates to its cloud portfolio, but the public alpha launch …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
RealityEngines.AI, the machine learning startup founded by ex-AWS and Google exec Bindu Reddy, rebrands as Abacus.AI and raises $13M Series A — RealityEngines.AI, the machine learning startup co-founded by former AWS and Google exec Bindu Reddy, today announced that it is rebranding …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Lattice, whose software helps track, reward and set goal achievement in the workplace, raises $45M Series D led by Tiger Global, at a ~$400M valuation — Working these days is not what it used to be. To enforce social distancing and slow the spread of the COVID-19 health pandemic …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Washington-based identity-as-a-service startup Auth0 raises $120M Series F led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1.92B post-money valuation, up from $1B in May 2019 — Take the latest VB Survey to share how your company is implementing AI today. — Bellevue, Washington-based identity …
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Walmart leads an additional $1.2B investment in India's Flipkart to increase its majority stake, valuing Flipkart at $24.9B post-money — Walmart is increasing its majority-stake in Flipkart by leading a new $1.2 billion financing round in the Indian e-commerce giant.
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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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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Massachusetts sues Uber and Lyft, alleging they misclassified drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, following California — 'Uber and Lyft set the rates. They alone set the rules. Drivers are employees' — Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Uber and Lyft …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Inside Google's secretive ATAP lab, which develops imaginative tech including touch-sensitive fabrics and Soli, which powers Motion Sense in Pixel smartphones — The consumer-electronics research arm has been quiet for years—but it's also been busy. Its new mission: Make Google hardware as smart as Google software.| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: UK-based travel service Skyscanner says ~20% of its 1,500 staff will be let go or offered redundancy, as it closes its Sofia and Budapest offices — - Internal email from CEO details drastic response to virus — Covid-19 impact on travel was worse than company had expectedSponsor Posts
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