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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 … | Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: |
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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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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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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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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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| 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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| Maria Bustillos / The Nation: |
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.| Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: |
Vancouver-based Klue, which develops AI-powered software aimed at giving enterprises better insights into their competitors, raises $15M Series A — Vancouver-based artificial intelligence startup Klue, which has developed software aimed to give enterprises a better view of their competitors …
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Franchised esports leagues have allowed players to become full-time employees but critics say game publishers like Activision have too much power over players — Franchised leagues are a modern experiment in what happens when a marketing initiative becomes a billion-dollar industry.| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Ubicquia, which helps cities provide services such as public WiFi through connected streetlights, raises $30M Series C, claims its tools are used in 100+ cities — Ubicquia is helping keep the streetlights on in cities across the country, and its smart cell and smart grid technologies have investors taking notice.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Paris-based insurance tech startup Descartes Underwriting, specializing in climate risk modeling and transfer, raises $18.5M Series A to expand in US and Asia — Descartes Underwriting, an insurance tech company specializing in climate risk modeling and transfer, today announced it has raised $18.5 million.
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| Joseph F. Kovar / CRN: |
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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DealStreetAsia, ChannelE2E, TheStreet, Times of India, Wall Street Journal, DealStreetAsia, and Virtusa
| 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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