Techmeme: When I Work, which helps businesses manage shift scheduling, timesheets, and more, raises $200M led by Bain Capital, bringing its total raised to $224M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Chip shortage hits Apple at the worst possible time ahead of the holidays, and Meta and Apple are set to be smartwatch and mixed reality headset rivals in 2022 — Apple had seemingly avoided the chip shortage for months, but the company's fortunes have now changed.

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Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Apple plans a “crash detection” feature next year for iPhones and Watches, which measures a spike in g-forces to detect car accidents and auto-dial 911 — Safety feature is also planned for Apple Watches expected in 2022, according to company documents

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Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal:

Digital Currency Group raises $700M at a $10B+ valuation led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 and Latin America Fund, with CapitalG and others participating — The Grayscale and CoinDesk owner sells $700 million of shares at a $10 billion valuation, in a funding round led by two SoftBank funds

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Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku:

After a three-day outage, Roblox says it is back online — According to Roblox's status page, all versions of the game have been down since Oct 28 starting at 7 pm EST — Roblox, one of the most popular games in the world, has been down for over a day now and while many frustrated players …

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Sami Fathi / MacRumors:

Some Mac owners report that upgrading to macOS Monterey bricked their computer — macOS Monterey, released last week as the latest version of macOS, is bricking older Mac computers, rendering them unusable and unable to even turn on, according to a number of reports from users across social media and online forums.

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Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:

ByteDance limits staff working hours from 10am to 7pm on weekdays, becoming one of the first tech companies in China to officially end its “996” culture — - Employees will need to seek permission to work overtime — China's 996 culture has drawn criticism, government scrutiny

More: TechCrunch, Insider, Washington Post, and Silicon Republic. Tweets: @catkngai

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Review of new $200 Beats Fit Pro: comfortable with very good active noise cancellation and transparency mode but no wireless charging and little Android support — The latest Beats earbuds are the company's best product since the Powerbeats Pro — Beats has been busy.

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Tweets: @chriswelch, @chancehmiller, and @dcseifert

Richard Waters / Financial Times:

Dell spins off its 81% stake in VMware, creating a $64B independent software company; Dell's remaining hardware operations have an implied value of $33B — Share sale completes eight-year saga that will unwind part of the 2018 deal for server and storage company EMC

More: Ars Technica, Protocol, Benzinga, and TechRadar. Tweets: @tejeshwi_sharma

Axios:

NewsWhip: interest in Facebook, measured by social media interactions per article, declined over 2021, with little mainstream attention for “Facebook Papers” — The Facebook Papers and whistleblower accounts were a public relations nightmare for Facebook, but so far …

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