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Canva acquires Affinity, popular with Mac users for its photo editing and other tools, to take on Adobe, Canva's COO says for “several hundred million pounds” — - Australian unicorn buys British team behind Affinity art suite — Affinity offers alternative tools to Adobe's flagship products
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Memo: Microsoft names Pavan Davuluri as its Windows and Surface chief; Microsoft split its Windows and Surface groups after Panos Panay left in September 2023 — Microsoft is naming Pavan Davuluri as its new Windows and Surface chief today. After Panos Panay's surprise departure to Amazon last year …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft's Bing and ads chief, is looking for a new position at the company, after Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman to run Microsoft AI — Parakhin, who had been chief executive officer for advertising and web services, will report to Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott … | Chris Plante / Polygon: |
An interview with Phil Spencer on bringing Xbox to handhelds via hardware or software, how Valve, Lenovo, and Asus “innovated in a new form factor”, and more — A handheld Xbox could be hardware, an app, or both — Phil Spencer has tried all of the new PC gaming handhelds …
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| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
The US OFAC sanctions 13 entities, including Netex24, and two individuals for helping Russian nationals potentially evade sanctions by building crypto services — - The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 13 entities and two individuals for helping sanctioned entities to evade sanctions in Russia.| CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ charges crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders with violating anti-money laundering laws, failing to register with US government, and more — The exchange was charged under the Bank Secrecy Act. — U.S. federal prosecutors charged crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety — Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts — but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and ruining their brand.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI releases seven Sora videos from select filmmakers, artists, ad agencies, and musicians; Fairly Trained CEO Ed Newton-Rex calls the move “artistwashing” — OpenAI has been releasing a steady drip of videos generated by its new highly realistic AI model, Sora, but the text-to-video …
More: OpenAI, Silicon Republic, PetaPixel, TweakTown, Tom's Guide, Analytics India Magazine, and MSPoweruser
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
AI search engines review: they are worse than Google at navigational queries, mixed on information queries, and offer helpful citations in exploration queries — The AI search tools are getting better — but they don't yet understand what a search engine really is and how we really use them.| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Tencent agrees to release some of its most important apps on the Apple Vision Pro — When Apple launched the Vision Pro headset, it leaned heavily on its own streaming app, as well as those of Disney and others, to market the headset's most compelling feature: an immersive video experience.
More: MacRumors, UploadVR, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MIXED Reality News, and Supercharged
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Internal Tesla memo: Elon Musk tells staff to give buyers a “short test ride” to demonstrate Full Self-Driving, now a “hard requirement” in North America — - New requirement will slow delivery process, Musk says in memo — Full Self-Driving, other features have generated controversy
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon launches same-day prescription medication deliveries in New York City and the greater Los Angeles area, and plans to add 12+ cities by the end of 2024 — The Amazon Pharmacy home screen is displayed on a laptop in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 17, 2020.
More: About Amazon, ZDNet, Forbes, Bloomberg, Neowin, TechSpot, Chain Store Age, Mashable, and The Verge
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony plans to add a new opt-in Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later in 2024 that can automatically create clips for helping other players complete games — Sony is introducing a new Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later this year that is designed to automatically create clips that can help other players.
More: PlayStation.Blog, Engadget, MobileSyrup, Lifewire, MSPoweruser, GamingBolt, IGN, TechRaptor, Push Square, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Press Start
| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Trump Media & Technology Group's shares jumped up to 58% to hit $78.80 on its trading debut before the Nasdaq briefly halted trading, following the DWAC merger — - Trump Media & Technology Group operates Truth Social — Deal provides a windfall on paper for the former president| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Telegram rolls out its Peer-to-Peer Login Program, giving some Android users a Premium sub for volunteering their phone numbers to relay SMS OTPs to other users — Telegram is offering a new way to earn a premium subscription free of charge: all you have to do is volunteer your phone number …
More: ZDNet, Telegram, TechCrunch, Android Police, PCMag, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, and PhoneArena
| Max Goldbart / Deadline: |
The BBC has “no plans” to use AI again to promote Doctor Who, after the marketing team used AI “as part of a small trial” to help draft emails and notifications — The BBC has “no plans” to use AI again to promote Doctor Who after receiving complaints from viewers.| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
Filings detail Meta's Project Ghostbusters to get data analytics about Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon, using Onavo VPN on iOS and Android between 2016 and 2019 — Unsealed court filings reveal Meta's secret plan, “Project Ghostbusters,” to acquire valuable intel about Snapchat through its users' devices.| Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Sun Microsystems co-founder Andreas Bechtolsheim settles with the US SEC for alleged insider trading on Cisco's $2.6B offer to buy Acacia in 2019 — - Early Google investor barred from executive, board roles — Bechtolsheim agrees to settlement with SEC including fine| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Kevin Systrom says AI news app Artifact will stay online for now due to taking “a lot less to run it than we had imagined”, reversing a February shut down date — Artifact, the well-received AI-powered news app from Instagram's co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, may not be shutting down as planned.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Dell cut 13,000 employees over the last fiscal year, a steeper reduction than initially announced, and had 120K staffers globally as of February 2, 2024 — Dell had 120,000 employees globally as of Feb. 2, the technology hardware maker said Monday in a filing. That's down nearly 10% from the previous year.
More: CRN, The Indian Express, and Reuters
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta confirms rolling out a political content setting on Instagram and Threads last week that limits “political content from people you don't follow” by default — Meta's executives have been saying for a while that they don't want to boost posts about politics in their apps.
More: The Markup, 9to5Mac, TIME, Engadget, Fortune, Engineering at Meta, Salon, The Guardian, ABC, Rappler, Mashable, and CBC News
| Bloomberg: |
Chinese government data: iPhone shipments in China fell ~33% YoY to ~2.4M units in February 2024, after dropping 39% YoY to ~5.5M units in January 2024 — - Foreign-brands shipped only about 2.4 million smartphones — Apple is the only major foreign player in China market
More: Neowin, Yahoo Finance, Supercharged, Investing.com, CNBC, and New York Times
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$4B to build an advanced chip packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana; a source says operations could begin in 2028 — The South Korean memory chip maker is expected to build an advanced-packaging facility in West Lafayette, creating up to 1,000 jobs.
More: The Register, Reuters, Quartz, Daily Mail, Livemint, and Channel NewsAsia
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