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| 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 …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: UK's CMA is expected to block Meta's proposed acquisition of Giphy — Move would be the first time the competition watchdog has reversed a Big Tech acquisition — The UK competition regulator is expected to block Meta's acquisition of online gif platform Giphy in the coming days … | 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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| 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 …
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| 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.
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Entrackr, Tech in Asia, DealStreetAsia, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @refsrc
| Warren P. Strobel / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the challenges spies face with biometrics, smartphones, and surveillance cameras, and how AI sifting through data changes espionage — U.S., rivals seek ways to adapt spycraft to a changing world; being on the grid can blow your cover, but so can staying off
Tweets: @tuomorusila, @evanselinger, @jayshams, @vmsalama, @jessmarindavis, and @niubi
| 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.| 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, @rossdawson, @condenast, and @jetjocko
| 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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| 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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iThinkDifferent, iMore, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, Gizchina, Forbes, AppleTrack, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @joshuaswingle
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Motorway, a second-hand car auction site used by 4K+ car dealers, raises a $190M Series C at a $1B+ valuation after raising a $67.7M Series B in June — It was only in June that Motorway - a U.K. platform on which professional car dealers can bid in an auction for privately owned cars for sale …
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| 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: @smdiehl, @financialtimes, and @saemin4655
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