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Sources: SoftBank is nearing a deal to sell Arm to Nvidia for more than $40B; SoftBank paid $32B for the UK chip designer in 2016 — Union of Arm, Nvidia would create a powerhouse in the chip industry — SoftBank Group Corp. is nearing a deal to sell British chip designer Arm Holdings …
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Facebook says it is removing misleading posts about how Oregon wildfires were started after initially saying it was reducing the distribution of such posts — As emergency responders in Oregon struggle to contain a record 900,000 acres of wildfires across the state, local police have been fighting …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Microsoft says Apple's App Store changes still create a bad experience for gamers, who want a catalog app and not to “be forced to download over 100 apps” — Apple is changing its App Store rules to allow game streaming services, which let people play video games over the internet …
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| Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times: |
Several H-1B employees hired at TikTok's Silicon Valley campus are facing visa approval delays that, legal experts say, are unusual — The hits to California's TikTok workers just keep coming: First, the Trump administration threatened to shutter the company's U.S. operations; then its CEO quit after just three months on the job.
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Sources: about a dozen states, mostly led by GOP, are considering joining DOJ's upcoming antitrust lawsuit against Google, while readying their own complaints — - Democratic states have sought more time for broader probe — States are scrutinizing Google search, advertising, Android
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Amazon's Voice Interoperability Initiative, which lets multiple assistants work on a single device, adds 38 new members including Facebook, Dolby, and Xiaomi — Last September, Amazon unveiled the Voice Interoperability Initiative, a program aimed at ensuring voice-enabled products …
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How book publishers are trying to turn the age-old library system into a “reading as a service” operation through their lawsuit against the Internet Archive — In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book.| Sarah Manavis / New Statesman: |
Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph — On a typical day, a long-time user of Goodreads, the world's largest community for reviewing and recommending books, will feel like they're losing their mind.
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IT service company Virtusa to be acquired by Baring Private Equity Asia in an all-cash deal worth about $2B — The large global IT services provider will join several other global IT solution providers that are partially or wholly owned by Baring Private Equity Asia.
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| Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
Canalys: companies in China spent a record $4.3B on cloud services in H1 2020, up 70% YoY; Alibaba accounted for around 40% of total Q2 cloud spending in China — Businesses in China are accelerating their digitization efforts, helping make local cloud providers into giants to rival Amazon and Microsoft
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| Kaye Wiggins / Financial Times: |
PE firm EQT to buy Madrid-based property classifieds site Idealista for €1.3B from Apax Partners; Idealista was valued at €235M during its acquisition in 2015 — Swedish buyout group to buy company for five times the price rival Apax paid five years ago
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How TechCrunch moved Disrupt online, expanding to 5 days to mitigate screen fatigue and creating a 3D rendering of Moscone Center using green screens and sets — Help us make your experience with Digiday even better by taking a quick survey. Respondents will be entered to win a $25 Amazon gift card.
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