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Microsoft says it has acquired speech tech company Nuance for $19.7B in cash, a 23% premium on its Friday closing price, as it boosts its healthcare offerings — Acquisition will combine solutions and expertise to deliver new cloud and AI capabilities across healthcare and other industries
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Nuance is Microsoft's fourth $5B+ acquisition since 2016; other than Microsoft, only Amazon among the Big Five has spent $5B+ on an acquisition in that span — - Microsoft has held talks to acquire a number of large technology companies in the past year. — Microsoft is paying $16 billion … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is in early stages of developing a product that combines an Apple TV with a HomePod speaker and has a FaceTime camera and smart home functions — - Company also exploring Amazon-like speaker with iPad as screen — Apple has trailed Amazon, Google in the connected home market
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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Sources detail how Facebook allowed state-backed political manipulation in small countries, prioritizing abuses considered PR risks in countries like the US — A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform — Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Nvidia unveils Grace, a high-performance Arm-based server CPU for large-scale neural network workloads, expected to become available in Nvidia products in 2023 — Kicking off another busy Spring GPU Technology Conference for NVIDIA, this morning the graphics and accelerator designer …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
The FCC releases a speed test app on Android and iOS to help measure internet speeds in the US, and will use the data to inform its broadband deployment efforts — The FCC Speed Test App could help the agency correct its data — The Federal Communications Commission has released …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple faces supply constraints due to issues with MiniLED display production, but still plans to debut two iPad Pros later this month — - New iPads planned for introduction in latter half of April — MiniLED display is key part of Apple's upgrade proposition
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Apple and Google block an update to NHS COVID-19 app that uploads logs of venue check-ins, citing API terms on collecting location data — An update to England and Wales's contact tracing app has been blocked for breaking the terms of an agreement made with Apple and Google.
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter says it plans to hire its first product and engineering teams in Africa, based in Ghana, calling the country a “champion of democracy” — Twitter Inc. is planning to hire its first product and engineering team in Africa, an effort to expand its workforce in emerging markets …
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| Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers: |
Google is rolling out “Heads Up”, a Digital Wellbeing feature that tells users to raise their head when walking while on Pixel devices — In November last year, XDA's Mishaal Rahman spotted an upcoming feature, called Heads Up, in a teardown of the Digital Wellbeing app.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple Support docs show that unusual mid-production hardware changes were made to its A12, A13, and S5 chips last fall, to update the Secure Storage Component — Apple made unusual mid-production hardware changes to the A12, A13, and S5 processors in its devices in the fall of 2020 to update …
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @pandrewhk
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Biden administration announces the nominations of ex-NSA deputy director Chris Inglis as first national cyber director and Jen Easterly as CISA head — The Biden administration plans on Monday to name a former senior National Security Agency official as the first national cyber director …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce to reopen its San Francisco tower in May, initially for people who are fully vaccinated, but employees can work from home through 2021 — - At first, a small group of fully vaccinated employees can volunteer to work in the 61-story Salesforce Tower and take coronavirus tests regularly.| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Under intense pressure from China, Ant Group will become a financial holding company that is regulated more like a bank, among other changes — - Chinese regulators summoned Ant for meeting on April 12 — Ant to fold all financial operations into holding firm
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Tweets: @probesreporter, @anthony, and @retailprophet
| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Binance launches Stock Tokens, a zero-commission tokenized stock trading service that lets users buy fractions of companies' shares, starting with Tesla — Binance has launched tradable stock tokens with the electric vehicle maker as the first to be listed.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
MLB announces that venerable trading card company Topps will begin selling new NFT baseball cards via the WAX blockchain starting on April 20 — The MLB has its answer to the NBA's Top Shot NFT clips — Major League Baseball has announced its latest move to cash in on the NFT craze …
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Tweets: @ibwaa, @michael_eisner, @toppsdigital, and @topps
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Following WH roundtable, Intel says it wants to help manufacture chips for car makers in the next 6-9 months to alleviate the US auto industry's chip shortage — (Reuters) - The chief executive of Intel Corp told Reuters on Monday the company is in talks to start producing chips for car makers …
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| Bloomberg: |
British cybersecurity company Darktrace announces plans for a London IPO; one source says it could value the company at around $3B to $4B — - IPO may value cybersecurity firm at $3 billion to $4 billion — ‘This is a very different technology company’: Gustafsson
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