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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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| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Report: Raspberry Pi Trading hired investment banks Stifel and Liberum to advise on a London IPO planned for this spring that would value it at ~$500M — The listing could see Raspberry Pi valued at $500m — According to a report in The Telegraph, Raspberry Pi Trading … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Slice, whose credit cards are used by 5M+ people in India and let users pay their bills interest-free over three months, raises a $220M Series B — Rajan Bajaj, founder of fintech Slice, chimed in on a Twitter thread earlier this year and wondered aloud what he needs to do to turn his startup into a unicorn before he turns 30.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How “neo-conglomerates” like Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta replaced and outgrew industrial conglomerates like GE, Toshiba, and Johnson & Johnson — As General Electric and other old-school behemoths break up, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta are taking …
Tweets: @fmbutt, @halsinger, @mims, and @brian_callaci
| 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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| 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: @sub8u, @hankgreelylsju, @condenast, @jetjocko, and @rossdawson
| 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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Tweets: @stephanievasko and @jak1192
| Financial Times: |
Sky Mavis says its crypto-based game Axie Infinity quadrupled DAUs in under 3 months to 2M in October, as some analysts question Axie's economic sustainability — Video game analysts are questioning the economic sustainability of pay-to-play ‘Axie’ — Eight months ago …
Tweets: @saemin4655, @smdiehl, and @financialtimes
| New York Times: |
Recent cyberattacks on Iran's fuel distribution system and an Israeli LGBTQ dating site show that Iran-Israel cyberwar is impacting civilians on a large scale — Iranians couldn't buy gas. Israelis found their intimate dating details posted online. The Iran-Israel shadow war is now hitting ordinary citizens.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Gurman: Apple is still working on a multi-device charger, other short and long-distance wireless chargers, and reverse wireless charging for its devices — Despite its failed AirPower experiment a few years ago, Apple is reportedly still working on a multi-device charger for its products.
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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.
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The Hindu, pib.gov.in, Gizmodo, Techaeris, The Verge, PCMag, Engadget, and Insider
Tweets: @jeffnolan, @gyude_moore, and @gojomo
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Vestager asks the EU Parliament and Council to approve the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act as a matter of urgency, even if they are imperfect — EU competition chief argues in favour of getting “80 per cent now than 100 per cent never” — Margrethe Vestager …
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