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Walmart says it is working with Microsoft on the TikTok deal, sources say with the idea of turning TikTok US into an e-commerce app for creators and users — Microsoft is working with Walmart on its efforts to buy TikTok's U.S. business from China's ByteDance, Axios has learned from multiple sources close to the process.| Financial Times: |
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns, sources say after Trump threatened to ban the app; Vanessa Pappas, currently general manager of TikTok, will become interim head — Former Disney executive resigns just months after appointment by Chinese video platform — Kevin Mayer has quit TikTok …
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: TikTok likely to announce a sale of US, Canada, Australia, and NZ operations in a deal worth $20B to $30B as soon as next week — - TikTok is nearing an agreement to sell its U.S., Canadian, Australian and New Zealand operations in a deal that could be announced as soon as next week, sources say.
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| The Wrap: |
Sources: Oracle has taken the lead position to acquire TikTok and is offering $10B in cash, $10B in stock, and 50% of TikTok's annual profit to ByteDance — Oracle, the technology giant led by Larry Ellison, has taken the lead position to acquire the Chinese-owned social app TikTok …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon announces Halo, a $99.99 fitness band with an app to track emotional tone and create 3D scans for body fat, with a $3.99/month subscription service — It makes a 3D model of your body and tracks the emotional tone in your voice — Amazon is getting into the health gadget market …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Facebook users reported Kenosha Guard's Page and event to Facebook before the shootings but were told it did not violate its policies; the Pages are now gone — Multiple users reported the account for inciting violence, but were told it did not violate platform policy| Rafat Ali / Skift: |
A few lessons for the events industry from digital turning points in music, video, and news industries, as Zoom transforms events like Napster changed music — All types of business events are in danger of their revenue streams of tickets, sponsorships, memberships, and other types of fees being eroded.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook warns publishers that Apple's upcoming privacy changes in iOS 14, which clamp down on ad tracking IDFA usage, will make Audience Network less effective — Facebook is warning advertisers that they can expect weaker ad performance from iPhone users once iOS 14 comes out next month …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
SEC approves new NYSE rules that will let companies raise capital through direct listings, a technique that Spotify and Slack used — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday approved the New York Stock Exchange's rule change that will allow companies to raise new capital as part of a direct listing.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
CDN provider Fastly to acquire security monitoring and management company Signal Sciences for $775M — Los Angeles was always more than a one industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, but media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in tinseltown.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon opens its first Fresh grocery store in Los Angeles to select customers, equipped with Dash Carts and voice-activated Echo Show displays — - Amazon is opening the first location of its new chain of Fresh grocery stores. — The store, located in Los Angeles' Woodland Hills neighborhood …
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| Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint: Apple's AirPods are expected to sell 82M pairs this year, but their worldwide market share of true wireless earphones will drop from ~50% to 35% — - AirPods maker is projected to sell 82 million pairs this year — Wider market growing even faster, driven by cheaper models
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Inside Facebook's Horizon, a VR massive multiplayer world, as it enters an invite-only beta, as questions remain about privacy and safety — We're standing in an escape room space, where one of us is trying to guide a block into a target and communicate to the other person, standing behind a wall at a control panel.
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Restream, a service that helps creators stream to around 30 platforms simultaneously, raises $50M Series A co-led by Sapphire Ventures and Insight Partners — Live streaming of video has come into its own during the coronavirus pandemic, with services like Zoom, YouTube, Twitch … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic says Fortnite gamers on iOS and macOS will not be able to play the game's next season, arriving Thursday, and will lose cross-play with non-Apple platforms — Apple players are losing cross-play — Fortnite's next season arrives tomorrow, but if you're on iOS or macOS, you won't be able to play it, Epic announced today.
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| Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal: |
Visa says it has developed a more advanced AI system that can approve or decline credit and debit transactions on behalf of banks whose own networks are down — The deep-learning application makes more accurate decisions on behalf of banks experiencing network disruptions, Visa says
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| C. Scott Brown / Android Authority: |
Leaked video appears to show LG's forthcoming dual-screen Wing, which has a rumored 6.8-inch main display and a flip-out 4-inch second display — - The video gives us ideas of possible use cases for a phone with this design, and they are pretty compelling.
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Fairphone debuts modular €469 Fairphone 3+ with 40% recycled plastics, launching on September 14; Fairphone 3 users can upgrade camera module for €70 — Fairphone is a Dutch social enterprise that's trying to improve supply chain and labor conditions in the tech industry.
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| Shubham Agarwal / Digital Trends: |
Twitter says it “may limit the visibility” of “copypasta” tweets that feature text that has been copy and pasted without any modifications from the source — Twitter will now hide tweets that feature text that's been copy and pasted without any modifications from the source.| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail US antitrust investigations into Google, which are focusing on how the company bundles its ad tools in potentially anticompetitive ways — - Investigators ask rivals about Google bundling adtech tools — Probe has parallels to the U.S. case against Microsoft in 1998| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Swedish online payments startup Klarna reports a ~$59.8M net loss for H1 2020, a sevenfold increase YoY, as total net operating income rose 37% YoY to ~$528M — - Klarna racked up a net loss of 522 million Swedish krona ($59.8 million) between January and June, a sevenfold increase from the same period a year ago.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DC AG sues Instacart, claiming it deceived customers into thinking service fees would go to workers, after bringing a similar charge against DoorDash in Nov. — - District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced a lawsuit Thursday against Instacart, claiming the grocery delivery … | Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes: |
ChartHop, which provides charts to companies about their employees including data such as ethnicity and base compensation, raises $14M Series A led by a16z — Organizational platform ChartHop, which provides companies with visual charts that include various data points about their employees …
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reMarkable 2 E Ink tablet review: enjoyable writing experience, and excellent display, but limited capabilities, no backlight, and expensive at $399 — Swapping pen and paper for E Ink — The pen, as the saying goes, is mightier than the sword. And modern computers, apparently …
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Sources say problems at Intel are likely to delay the DoE's exascale supercomputer project, which was scheduled to be installed near Chicago in 2021 — The chip maker was selected for an Energy Department project meant to show American tech independence. But problems at Intel have thrown a wrench into the effort.
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