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Kuo: Apple AR headset to launch in late 2022 with an M1-like chip and no tethering to a Mac or an iPhone; Apple wants to replace the iPhone with AR in 10 years — Apple's long-rumored augmented reality (AR) headset project is set to bear its first fruit late next year with the launch …
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Nextcloud and ~30 other EU companies file an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft for bundling OneDrive and Teams with Windows — Nextcloud and almost 30 other European companies have filed a complaint about Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior with its OneDrive cloud storage offering.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK's CMA says Google has agreed to expanded oversight in the development of Privacy Sandbox as part of the regulator's antitrust investigation — As part of an ongoing antitrust investigation into Google's Privacy Sandbox by the UK's competition regulator, the adtech giant has agreed …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Italy fines Apple and Google €10M each for “aggressive” data practices and not providing users with clear enough information on commercial uses of their data — Apple and Google have been fined €10 million apiece by Italy's competition and market authority (AGCM) …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China asked Didi Global to delist from the NYSE citing concerns about leaking sensitive data; options include privatization or a Hong Kong listing — - Regulators asked Didi brass to devise a plan to go private — Forced delisting will be severest action against China Tech
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Now that most video game platforms have a digital-only purchasing option, paying separately for the same video game on each is indefensible — Hey, this is Vlad in Tokyo, your substitute for Jason from a land where we worked on Thursday. Today we're going to be discussing the lucrative fragmentation …
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| Reuters: |
Indian government tells Starlink to stop “booking/rendering the satellite internet service” as it does not have a license to operate in the country — Starlink Internet Services, a division of billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX aerospace company, as it does not have a licence to operate in the country.| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
Gartner: global chip makers are projected to spend $146B this year, about 50% higher than before the pandemic and double the amount five years ago — Samsung's $17 billion bet on Texas mirrors large spending increases in Asia and elsewhere — SEOUL—Investment in U.S. chip production is on the rise.| The Economic Times: |
Paytm reports Q2 revenue of $144.8M, up 64% YoY, and a net loss of $63M, up 8%+ YoY, in its first post-IPO earnings report — Bengaluru: Payments firm Paytm, in its first quarterly earnings as a public company, reported a nearly 64% jump in its consolidated revenue from operations …
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| Stephen Diehl: |
Crypto tokens allow venture capitalists to dump their investments on an enthusiastic public without regulation, in the midst of a speculative mania — These days I read a lot of cross-disciplinary commentary on the crypto asset bubble, and what strikes me as particularly strange is the sheer level …
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| Arol Wright / Android Police: |
Spotify confirms it is retiring the Car View mode in its mobile apps, offering no replacement, but says it is working to improve how users listen while driving — Everyone likes listening to music in their car, so it's little surprise that Spotify had a Car View mode, allowing users to jam …
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The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, TechRadar, Android Central, PCMag, PhoneArena, Pocketnow, MobileSyrup, Mashable, Gizchina, MSPoweruser, and Phandroid. Tweets: @jak1192
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Klarna posts a pre-tax loss of $344M from January to September, up 4x YoY, and says it has 90M+ customers after entering nine markets since the start of 2020 — - Klarna posted a pre-tax loss of 3.1 billion Swedish krona ($344 million) from January to September, a fourfold increase from the same period a year ago.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Cloud Village, the music streaming arm of Chinese gaming giant NetEase, raises ~$422M in a Hong Kong IPO, pricing shares at HK$205, or ~$26.30 — - Cloud Village prices shares at midpoint of HK$205 after delay — Chinese tech firms listing in Hong Kong face new data rules| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Adobe: US consumers spent $8.9B online on Black Friday, down from the record $9B in 2020, the first ever YoY decline — - Traffic at retail stores on Black Friday dropped 28.3% compared with 2019 levels, according to preliminary data from Sensormatic Solutions.
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ABC News, Axios, CNET, Benzinga, and Reuters
Tweets: @laurenthomas, @itsreapagain, and @darjohn25
| Adam Rogers / Wired: |
A look at efforts to develop brain-computer interfaces, including Musk's Neuralink and a DARPA program to build a 64,000-electrode array for brain implants — The idea of a synthetic experience uploaded to the mind has been a sci-fi fantasy forever. New brain-computer interfaces are making it nonfiction—very slowly.
Tweets: @condenast and @jetjocko
| Bloomberg: |
China considers setting up a digital asset exchange in Beijing as it calls for faster trials of the digital yuan — China is considering setting up a digital asset exchange in Beijing as officials push to promote usage of the digital yuan and crack down on cryptocurrencies.
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Coingape, AMBCrypto, South China Morning Post, BeInCrypto, CryptoPotato, and Cryptonews
| Jing Yang / Wall Street Journal: |
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