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Sources: Apple has cut back on iPad production by 50% from its original plans for the past two months, to allocate more chips to the iPhone 13 — U.S. tech giant produces 50% fewer tablets than planned in September-October — TAIPEI — Apple has cut back sharply on iPad production …
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Microsoft will bring its mixed-reality platform Mesh, along with avatars and VR support, to Teams in the first half of 2022 — Microsoft and Meta are on a collision course for metaverse competition — Microsoft is entering the race to build a metaverse inside Teams … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Loop, an app that combines a “flexible canvas” with collaborative components that sync across Microsoft 365 services — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Zoom says it is testing showing ads to free users; the ads appear on the browser page shown to users at the end of a call — They'll appear in a browser page at the end of meetings — Zoom is piloting showing ads to users on its free “Basic” tier, the company has announced in a blog post.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Researchers discover a Unicode security vulnerability that affects most code compilers, including for Go, C++, C#, JavaScript, Java, Rust, and Python — Virtually all compilers — programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code …
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Sources: Nintendo will only be able to produce ~24M units of Switch game console in FY 2021 due to chip shortages, 20% below its original plan of 30M — Production revised down to 24 million units for fiscal 2021 despite high demand — OSAKA — Nintendo will only be able to produce …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Edge for Linux is now available for all users, supporting multiple distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE — It's ‘Chredge’ time for Linux: Microsoft's Edge browser is now generally available for a number of Linux distributions.
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Hong Kong-based Sandbox, which lets users build a virtual world using NFTs, raises $93M led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 — The Sandbox, a Hong Kong-based gaming platform that allows users to build a virtual world using non-fungible tokens (NFTs), has raised $93 million from investors led …
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| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo pulls its services in China in a largely symbolic gesture, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment”, following LinkedIn — Yahoo Inc. said it pulled its services in China, citing an increasingly challenging business and legal environment.| CNBC: |
NHTSA says Tesla is recalling nearly 12K cars after finding an update to its “Full Self-Driving” system led to inadvertent activation of emergency braking — - Tesla is recalling nearly 12,000 U.S. vehicles sold since 2017 because a communication error may cause … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches new Dynamics 365 offerings such as cloud-powered marketing, supply chain insights, observing how people move in retail spaces, and more — Beyond updates across Azure, this week at its Ignite 2021 conference, Microsoft has announced additions to its Dynamics 365 business app …
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Leaked memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will step down as ByteDance's CFO to focus on running TikTok full time, amid a major reorganization of ByteDance — TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Zi Chew will step down as its parent ByteDance's chief financial officer (CFO) to focus on running …
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Chipper Cash, which provides cross-border payments services in Africa, raises a $150M Series C extension led by cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX — Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments company, has raised $150 million in a Series C extension round led by Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX.| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Permutive, whose ad platform allows publishers to deliver personalized ads in a privacy-safe manner, raises a $75M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 — London's Permutive has raised $75 million in a Series C round. The eight-year-old company specialises in providing publishers … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Zillow is pitching institutional investors on the sale of 7K homes for ~$2.8B to recover from buying too many, which it blames on its bidding algorithm — - Online listing giant has been buying thousands of homes — Zillow Group Inc. is looking to sell about 7,000 homes as it seeks …
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Microsoft will invite select businesses to use GPT-3 as an Azure tool; Open AI will continue selling its own API for GPT-3 that offers the latest upgrades — A promising and problematic AI tool — It's the AI system once deemed too dangerous to release to the public by its creators.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Microsoft will integrate its recently acquired video editing web app Clipchamp into Office apps and adds an audio “recording studio” to PowerPoint — Microsoft is boosting Office with some (arguably overdue) media creation tools. As part of a sweeping set of updates … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Biden admin urges Congress to subject stablecoin issuers to federal oversight like banks and limit their interactions with non-financial companies, such as Meta — If U.S. lawmakers don't act, regulators have the authority to take their own measures, according to the long-awaited report …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
With Spotify on pace to cross $1B in ad sales this year, a look at its growing ambitions in advertising and its plans to become the YouTube of podcasting — Millions of people watch videos of Joe Rogan's podcast. They used to do that on YouTube, where Rogan posted full episodes.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raises a $600M Series D led by Tiger Global, sources say at a valuation of $8.6B, up from $5B in November 2020 — Autonomous vehicle (AV) company Nuro has raised $600 million in a series D round of funding from high-profile investors, including Tiger Global Management and Google.
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Prepaid Technologies, which provides payments software to financial institutions and government agencies, raises $96M led by Edison Partners — Prepaid Technologies, a Birmingham, Ala.-based provider of prepaid digital payment solutions, raised $96m in growth funding.
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
China-based Moka, which aims to automate the talent acquisition process for Chinese companies, raises a $100M Series C led by Tiger Global — Moka, a six-year-old Chinese startup that wants to make human resources management easier with software, said today it has closed a $100 million Series C round.
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Meta takes down a troll farm run by the Nicaraguan government since 2018 that involved 937 Facebook accounts, 140 Pages, 24 Groups, and 363 Instagram accounts — Company says it took down hundreds of accounts, pages and groups ahead of Sunday's election — Meta's Facebook has accused …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Fiverr acquires Stoke Talent, which helps companies manage their freelance teams, for $95M; Stoke raised about $20M and was last valued at around $44M — On the heels of LinkedIn last week launching Service Marketplace, a competitor to freelance platforms like Fiverr and Upwork … Sponsor Posts
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