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| Dawn Chmielewski / Forbes: |
Profile of Reed Hastings as Netflix thrives during the pandemic, adding ~1M subscribers/month in the US and Canada and another 2M/month globally since March — The man responsible for keeping the world entertained does so, at least this day, alone in front of a computer screen, in his son's largely unadorned childhood bedroom.
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| Maureen Dowd / New York Times: |
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple has hired Tim Connolly, a former executive at Hulu and Quibi, to work on Apple TV+, as the company explores bundling content — In addition to expanding the amount of content on the service, Apple has shown an interest in bundling Apple TV+ with other properties.
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9to5Mac, New.blicio.us, MacRumors, iMore, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @sigjudge, @tzm_tmt, @annemariebridy, and @charlesarthur
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Italy's antitrust authority says it has opened an inquiry into Google, Apple, and Dropbox over cloud computing services, including “unfair clauses in contracts” — Italy's competition authority has opened an investigation into cloud storage services operated by Apple …
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Reuters, AppleInsider, Engadget, Associated Press, The Hill, Thurrott, CNBC, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @baphometx
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
TikTok is trying to remove a graphic suicide video from its app and is banning accounts that re-upload the clip, says video was originally streamed on Facebook — Clips started circulating on Sunday night — TikTok is trying to remove graphic videos circulating the app that show …
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Engadget, BuzzFeed News, YouTube, Dailystar.co.uk, Mirror.co.uk, Heavy.com, and Input
Tweets: @jce_pc, @hinkelbert, @chrisgorham, @alexistangmanva, @martinsfp, @stokel, @taylorlorenz, @_andyburrows, and @kalhanr
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs on the “Holy Wars of Wireless” and why there is no US equivalent to Huawei that is pioneering next gen wireless infrastructure — Plus: Wireless at the turn of the century, a highly anticipated question, and a surprise in the stratosphere.
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New.blicio.us, Financial Times, and Beyond Search
Tweets: @quinnypig, @jaygoldberg, and @mgsiegler
| Mike Monticello / Consumer Reports: |
Review: Tesla's “Full Self-Driving Capability” option, which offers some advanced features, still requires significant driver attention to mitigate safety risks — The $8,000 option doesn't make the car self-driving, though it does offer a host of advanced features. CR evaluated all of them.
Tweets: @consumerreports
| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Electronics says it has won a $6.6B order to provide 5G wireless solutions to Verizon in the US — - It's one of Samsung's largest so far in 5G networking — Samsung is pushing hard to compete with Nokia and Ericsson — Samsung Electronics Co. won a 7.9 trillion won …
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Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Nikkei Asian Review, Light Reading, International Business Times, Associated Press, ZDNet, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, Coinspeaker, CNET, Android Headlines, Neowin, South China Morning Post, PhoneArena, and ajudaily.com
Tweets: @lanceulanoff, @vijayshekhar, @drewfitzgerald, and @adrianweckler
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Four employees of SF-based sales document management startup PandaDoc arrested in Belarus on fraud charges after the founders joined protests against Lukashenko — Yesterday the four employees (pictured) of US-headquartered enterprise startup PandaDoc were arrested in Minsk by the Belarus police … | Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
How iOS app developers draw on behavioral psychology to design user ratings pop-ups that appear at opportune times, like after a high score or on payday — Rating an iPhone app takes just a second, maybe two. “Enjoying Skype?” a prompt will ask, and you click on a 1-5 star rating.
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BBC, Tom's Guide, and Slashdot
Tweets: @simonchanwh, @joshspero, @bzamayo, @daveleeft, @ftopinion, @carnage4life, @financialtimes, @carnage4life, @patrickmcgee_, and @faktoider
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amsterdam-based Mollie, which offers plugins and an API to easily integrate payments into a site or an app, raises $106M Series B led by TCV valuing it at $1B+ — E-commerce has seen a huge jump in the last eight months, driven by consumers shopping more for goods online while spending more time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tweets: @hellahueck
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it stores Hong Kong users' iCloud data in US and that HK authorities' data requests go through DOJ, after saying it was “assessing” HK's security law — After Beijing unilaterally imposed a new national security law on Hong Kong on July 1, many saw the move as an effort …
Tweets: @zackwhittaker
| Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
US government is considering putting export restrictions on SMIC, which would block US companies from selling SMIC tech without a license; stock down 20%+ — Pentagon says the Trump administration is weighing possible trade sanction on SMIC — The Trump administration …
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BBC, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Financial Times, Engadget, Reuters, MSPoweruser, MediaNama, Softpedia News, XDA Developers, Android Headlines, CNBC, Coinspeaker, Bloomberg, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @benktallmadge, @danrdimicco, @markseibel, and @jchengwsj
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