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What to expect from Apple's September 14 event: narrower iPhone 13 notch, LTPO displays on Pro models, redesigned Watch Series 7, no M1X MacBook Pros, and more — This is the free version of Power On. If you like it, consider subscribing to Bloomberg.com — you'll receive … | Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: |
Kuo: iPhone 13 Pro lineup will gain a 1TB storage option; Apple to announce AirPods 3 at September event, but will continue to sell current generation AirPods — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has chimed in on what he expects to see during Tuesday's Apple Event, and is taking some stabs at pricing.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Beijing wants to break up Ant Group's Alipay, which has over 1B users, and create a separate app for the company's highly profitable loans business — Chinese fintech will turn over user data to new joint venture partly owned by state — Beijing wants to break up Alipay … | Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Epic has filed an appeal to Friday's ruling in its lawsuit against Apple with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit — The court ruled Friday that Epic should pay damages — Epic Games has filed an appeal to a Friday's ruling in its lawsuit against Apple, calling on a higher court … | M.G. Siegler / 500ish: |
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Analysis: Irish DPC has failed to apply EU's privacy laws to US Big Tech companies, with 98% of 164 significant complaints about privacy abuses still unresolved — Irish regulator has not resolved 98% of 164 significant data protection complaints — Ireland is failing to apply … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Copado, a DevOps service for multiple clouds including Salesforce and Heroku, raises $140M Series C at a $1.2B valuation — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! — Copado, a developer operations (DevOps) … | Reuters: |
Filing: CRM software maker Freshworks is aiming for a nearly $9B valuation in its IPO and could raise $912M at the top end of its $28-$32 range — Freshworks Inc is aiming for a nearly $9 billion valuation in a U.S. initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing by the business … | Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
A look at the state of the VC industry: from over-paying in the face of absurd valuations, to big bets on decentralized “Web 3.0” apps, cybersecurity, and more — The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
JumpCloud, a cloud-based directory service for enterprises, raises $159M Series F at a $2.56B valuation, bringing its total raised to $350M — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Commercetools, which provides e-commerce APIs that retailers can use to build customized services, raises $140M Series C led by Accel at a $1.9B valuation — E-commerce these days is now a major part of every retailer's strategy, so technology builders and platforms that are helping … | Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Toast, which offers cloud-based restaurant management tools, seeks $717M in US IPO at a valuation of as much as $16.5B, after pricing shares at $30-$33 — Toast Inc., which helps restaurants handle payments, is seeking as much as $717 million in a U.S. initial public offering.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Billogram, which has built a service for third parties to handle recurring payments, raises $45M from Partech — Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the Covid-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses; and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person went cash-free.
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