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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.| 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.| 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: |
Interview with Reed Hastings, on the future of Hollywood, the US election and social media, his new book about Netflix's aggressive company culture, and more — Netflix started with sending DVDs — remember them? — through the mail, but now the streaming pioneer sits atop a Hollywood it has thoroughly upended.
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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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 …
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| Andreessen Horowitz: |
Traditional tabletop games are being reinvented by digital tools such as live-streaming, UGC, and audio to provide new experiences and reach larger audiences — Dungeons & Dragons, the granddaddy of all role-playing games, has never been more popular than it is today.| 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 … | 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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| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
A historic drop in releases of pirated content has followed a US-led bust targeting SPARKS and other piracy communities, with dozens of topsites taken down — Every day, millions of people download or stream pirated content including movies, TV-shows, games, MP3s, and books.Sponsor Posts
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