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Sources: Qualcomm has told regulators around the world, including the FTC and UK's CMA, that it is against Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm — - Qualcomm has told regulators around the world that it is against Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer Arm, according to sources familiar with the matter.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm are among companies asking US to intervene in Nvidia's Arm acquisition, and at least one company wants the deal killed — Some of the world's largest technology companies are complaining to U.S. antitrust regulators about Nvidia Corp.'s acquisition …
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| Kate Klonick / New Yorker: |
A look at the making of Facebook's Oversight Board, its members, Zuckerberg's rationale for its existence, and criticisms of the endeavor — The company has created a board that can overrule even Mark Zuckerberg. Soon, it will decide whether to allow Trump back on Facebook.
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Sources: Facebook is building an Android-based smartwatch with health and fitness capabilities, which it aims to launch in 2022 — Facebook is building a smartwatch it hopes to start selling next year, according to people with direct knowledge of the device.
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Sources: US investigators say hardware and firmware of Supermicro servers were tampered with as late as 2018, via chips with backdoors sending data to China — In 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense found thousands of its computer servers sending military network data to China …
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| TechCrunch: |
Jack Dorsey and Jay Z create ₿trust endowment with 500 bitcoin, worth $23M+, to fund teams working on Bitcoin development, initially in Africa and India — Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey and rapper Jay Z have created an endowment to fund bitcoin development initially in Africa and India, Dorsey said Friday.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Spotify says it is adapting a Work From Anywhere model and will provide co-working space memberships for employees who choose to work remotely — - Spotify is adapting a “Work from Anywhere” model, which will allow employees to choose whether they want to be in the office full time, be at home full time or a combination of the two.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T installs fiber for a 90-year-old after his WSJ print ad complaining of slow AT&T Internet service speeds goes viral — From 3Mbps DSL to 300Mbps fiber: Aaron Epstein's newspaper ad gets amazing result. — When 90-year-old Aaron Epstein bought a Wall Street Journal print ad … | Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon sues NY state AG, seeking to prevent her from penalizing Amazon for alleged retaliation against staff and failures in its safety response to the pandemic — - Covid-19 worker safety claims are federal matters, Amazon says — Company has been at odds with AG since firing worker activists
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| Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: |
According to an estimate Apple Watch reached 100M users in December, 30M of which came in 2020; 35% of US iPhone users wear an Apple Watch — More than 100 million people wear an Apple Watch. Based on my estimates, Apple surpassed the important adoption milestone this past December.
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MacDailyNews, Thurrott, Computerworld, The Mac Observer, TechSpot, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada Blog, 500ish, MacRumors, Gizchina, Patently Apple, Ubergizmo, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, phonearena.com, and Redmond Pie
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon drivers say Mentor, the company's app to track drivers and score their driving, is invasive and its bugs can lead to unfair disciplinary action — - Amazon confirmed last week it has started putting AI-equipped cameras in some delivery vans. — It already requires contracted delivery workers …
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Tweets: @ron_miller, @jordannovet, @robotodd, @kifleswing, @annierpalmer, @alfredwkng, and @lauren_feiner. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Facebook says it is limiting the distribution of all content posted by Myanmar's military, which has been using the platform to spread misinformation — detailed how it's handling the political situation Myanmar in a new post, where it has revealed that it's limiting the distribution of all content posted by the country's military.
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Tweets: @tgisoe2021, @nslwin, @silvermanjacob, and @alexwitzleben
| Reuters: |
South Korean eCommerce giant Coupang filed for a US IPO, reporting $12B in revenue in 2020 vs $6.3B in 2019; a source says the company aims for a $50B valuation — (Reuters) - South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc, backed by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp, on Friday filed to go public …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US and other countries should adopt Australia's proposed media rules, which require tech firms to pay for news content — Microsoft President Brad Smith told Axios in an interview that the U.S. and other countries should consider adopting media rules …
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Tweets: @tomfriedman, @carnage4life, @rasmus_kleis, @mathewi, @jamesallworth, @knightfdn, @gerritd, @caseynewton, @benyt, @googlenews, and @brooklynmarie
| Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: |
Settlement agreements for the copyright dispute between French media and Google show Google will pay $22M annually in total to 121 publications for three years — PARIS (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of French news publishers … | Will Oremus / OneZero : |
Clubhouse employs an unusually aggressive user onboarding process, pressuring users to upload contacts before ranking those contacts based on total connections — The app pressures you to upload your phone's contacts — and makes them visible in surprising ways
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