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| Seth Schiesel / Protocol: |
Interview with Jason Rubin, Facebook's VP of Play, on Facebook Gaming, the company's battles with Apple, technical challenges of delivering cloud games, more — Facebook on Monday revealed a broad new cloud gaming strategy aimed at upending the lucrative and fast-growing mobile games ecosystem.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says App Store prices for apps and IAPs in Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa will increase in the next few days — Apple announced today that the App Store prices in Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa will be increased in the next days.
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft, Adobe, and C3.ai launch C3 AI CRM powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365, a new customer relationship management software to compete with Salesforce — Microsoft Corp. is teaming with Adobe Inc. and C3.ai, the company of customer-software pioneer Tom Siebel, in another bid to better compete …
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| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
Zoom adds support for end-to-end encryption, but when it's enabled several features like cloud recording, telephone dial-in, and 1:1 private chat will not work — Our mission to help you navigate the new normal is fueled by subscribers. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today.
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Twitter says it will place messages it calls “pre-bunks” at the top of users' feeds to pre-emptively debunk false info about voting by mail and election results — Twitter said Monday it would begin placing messages at the top of users' feeds to pre-emptively debunk false information …
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| Washington Post: |
Study of ~200K US Internet users: Facebook users read more polarized news as they spend more time on the service, and the impact is 5X greater for conservatives — Steven L. Johnson, Brent Kitchens and Peter Gray are information technology professors at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce.
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Adweek. Tweets: @caseynewton, @mikeisaac, @nxthompson, @mims, @jr_foust, @misterglass, @alexisohanian, @mrsilva, and @elifitch
| Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
As the election looms, Nextdoor is facing the same challenges of polarization and misinformation as Facebook and Twitter, often in closed-off groups — Want to see how polarized America is? Look no further than Nextdoor. — SHARE All sharing options — Ray Wang is bothered about what's happening on Nextdoor lately.
Tweets: @henshaw and @hypervisible
| Frederic Filloux / Monday Note: |
A look at VC firm a16z's media and podcast offerings, led by ex-Wired editor Sonal Chokshi, which feature an array of voices across 500+ episodes — Andreessen-Horowitz firm has developed a sophisticated podcast system. Its mission: becoming the go-to place to understand the future.| Patrick Moorhead / Forbes: |
AMD says it will buy rival chipmaker Xilinx for $35B in an all-stock deal — I talked to AMD CEO Lisa Su last night and got the download on what could be a historic, $35B semiconductor deal to acquire Xilinx. AMD had a monster Q3 and guide and has been on a growth tear for years …
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New York Times, AnandTech, Bloomberg, Reuters, VideoCardz.com, TechPowerUp, and TweakTown News. Thanks:@patrickmoorhead
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Twilio reports Q3 revenue of $448.8M, up 52% YoY, vs. $409.8M est., says it now has 208,000 active customer accounts, up from 172,000 in Q3 2019 — The cloud communications as a service provider says it now has 208,000 active customer accounts, up from 172,000 in Q3 2019.
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SiliconANGLE, Twilio, Bloomberg, and Reuters
| Liana Baker / Bloomberg: |
Ansys, which makes software used by aerospace and manufacturing sectors, is acquiring Analytical Graphics, maker of software used in space missions, for $700M — - Cash-and-stock deal to boost Ansys's aerospace customer base — Deal expected to add up to $85 million in non-GAAP revenue
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SpaceNews, Pittsburgh Business Journal, PR Newswire, and C4ISRNET
| Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg: |
The US appeals court in San Francisco has rejected DOJ's request to allow the US government to immediately bar downloads of WeChat from US app stores — - Trump administration loses bid to pause judge's Sept. 19 order — Tencent rises to an intraday record after the court's decision| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tinder is rolling out Face to Face, its opt-in video chat feature, globally — Tinder, currently the world's biggest biggest dating app for people to find matches and connect with them, is expanding another feature today to extend the time people spend in the app, and the communications they can have within it.
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Engadget and Pocket-lint
| New York Times: |
Jack Ma's Ant Group set out to disrupt China's banks but now partners with many of them while counting huge Chinese institutions as shareholders — The tech giant, which is preparing for a mega I.P.O., has transformed personal finance in China. Regulators have taken notice.| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
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