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Sources: eBay is in advanced talks to sell its classified ads business to Norway's Adevinta for ~$8B — Deal could value eBay unit at roughly $8 billion or more — EBay Inc. EBAY -0.89% is in advanced talks to sell its classified-ads business to Norway's Adevinta AS ADE -0.69% A … | Phillip Inman / The Guardian: |
Sources: TikTok halts talks with UK government to build the HQ for its non-China business in London, with British ban on Huawei seen as a factor — Video-sharing app suspends building plans, with British ban on Huawei 5G kit seen as factor — The Chinese social media firm TikTok has pulled …
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Mark Zuckerberg pushes back on rumors of a deal with Trump, saying there is “no deal of any kind” and describing the speculation as “pretty ridiculous” — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, under fire for allowing President Trump to post inflammatory statements on his platform …
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| Nikkei Asian Review: |
Shanghai's year-old STAR market is now second only to Nasdaq in value of IPOs and secondary listings, attracting 17.3% of total issuance, surpassing Hong Kong — Surging debuts on ‘domestic Nasdaq’ lure investors and bolster China's strategic aims — SHANGHAI — Pan Jianwei …
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Sources say plans to remake GE as a software powerhouse were scuttled by employee confusion and delusions about what it would take to reposition the company — The industrial giant hoped to remake itself as a software powerhouse. Here's what went wrong. — In early 2014 …
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Analysis of why the PACT Act is a far better approach to reforming CDA 230 than the EARN IT Act, even with its shortcomings and need for improvement — Alex Feerst, one of the great thinkers about Internet content moderation, has a revealing metaphor about the real-world work involved.
Tweets: @alexstamos, @mchrisriley, @daphnehk, and @ellanso
| STAT: |
Many hospitals and clinics are introducing AI-powered decision support tools, often novel and unproven, but most patients are unaware of them — Since February of last year, tens of thousands of patients hospitalized at one of Minnesota's largest health systems have had their discharge …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Ford says it is expanding its partnership with Intel's Mobileye, using its vision-sensing tech to improve driver-assist features — Ford is making big investments in autonomous driving — now it's using Mobileye's vision-sensing technology to improve driver-assist features, such as forward collision warning and lane centering
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Jack Ma's Ant Group, payments processor for Alibaba, plans a dual listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai, sources say seeking a valuation of $200B+ — - Ant is planning to list on Shanghai's STAR market, Hong Kong — Firm was valued at $150 billion in previous funding round
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| Rachel Kraus / Mashable: |
Snap partners with Headspace to debut Headspace Minis, in-app meditation tools, which are the first Snap Minis, “bite-size” in-chat apps to be used with friends — While bringing your attention to your breath and softening your gaze in the newest place to meditate with Headspace …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gyant, which provides AI-enabled remote patient-doctor engagement and symptom checking tools for hospitals and healthcare providers, raises $13.6M Series A — Last Chance: Register for Transform, VB's AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17. — Gyant, whose AI-enabled health platform …
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| Kira Tebbe / OneZero : |
In 2019, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were collectively granted ~27,000 H-1B visas, over 30% of total visas available to private companies — Five tech companies use nearly 30,000 H1-B visas, while over 50% of graduate STEM degrees are earned by international students
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