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Ahead of Monday's closing arguments in the Apple vs Epic trial, a closer look at the judge's pointed questioning of Cook that touched on the lack of competition — Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over the Epic v. Apple antitrust trial, saved her best for last.
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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Study: among 44 tech startups that completed a SPAC deal from the start of 2020 through April 2021, their share prices had fallen 12.6% on average by May 17 — Entrepreneurs are increasingly wary about the money-raising tool after watching peers' stocks slide and investors balk
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google's partnership with Samsung to merge Wear OS with Samsung's Tizen comes after years of Google failing to build a cohesive wearables strategy — Third time might not be the charm — Once again, Google is hitting the reset button, combining with Samsung's Tizen wearable operating system …
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Pro-Palestinian activist campaign targets Facebook's app store ratings via 1-star reviews; Facebook's internal chats show Apple declined to remove the reviews — Pro-Palestinian activists are running a coordinated campaign to downgrade Facebook's app review ratings to protest …
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| Ken Norton / Bring the Donuts Newsletter: |
Q&A with Michael Siliski, a business lead at Stripe, on product culture, how written long-form documents facilitate the flow of information at Stripe, and more — Go deep, move fast, and build multi-decade abstractions — This is the next part of my ongoing series about product culture.
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Over 500 AI researchers are working on a project to build an open-source large language model that will be used to conduct research independent of any company — Hundreds of scientists around the world are working together to understand one of the most powerful emerging technologies before it's too late.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian startup Zeta, which helps banks launch fintech products, raises $250M Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a valuation of $1.45B — Zeta, a startup that helps banks and fintech firms launch products, is the newest to attain the coveted unicorn status after closing a new financing round.| John McCormick / Wall Street Journal: |
How Pinterest's neural network curates pins for users, pairing them with tailored ads on their search results, drawing 480M people to the site in Q1, up 30% YoY — Using neural networks, the site is able to find images—and ads—that will catch the consumer's eye
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| David J. Lynch / Washington Post: |
A look at the greater role automation is playing in the US, with labor shortages driving greater adoption since the start of the pandemic — From warehouses to oil fields, artificial intelligence, robots and advanced software are leaving a mark — The United States today is producing roughly …
Tweets: @mckinsey_mgi, @washingtonpost, and @davidjlynch
| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says HomePod and HomePod mini will receive a software update in the future to natively support Apple Music Lossless — After a week of controversies, Apple released a support page with everything users need to know about Apple Music Lossless. For example, we've now discovered …
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| Shoko Oda / Bloomberg: |
Japan's leading matchmaking app Omiai was hacked in April, exposing personal information, including photo IDs, of 1.7M+ users; no credit card info was leaked — A leading Japanese matchmaking app was hacked, likely exposing the personal information of more than 1.7 million account holders, in the latest high-profile online attack.| Sneha Shah / The Economic Times: |
PitchBook: Indian startups raised $7.8B from Jan. to Apr 2021, ~70% of $12.1B raised in 2020; average funding size is $25.21M in 2021, up from $14.94M in 2020 — Startup funding party continues amid second wave of Covid-19 — Risk investors continue to pump in record funds … Sponsor Posts
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