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Meta opens up its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties and says Asus and Lenovo will release Horizon OS-compatible devices; Xbox plans a branded Quest — Meta's Horizon OS, as it's now called, will bring Quest-alikes: Asus, Lenovo, and even an Xbox variant are coming. Here's what to expect.
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| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare was compromised on February 12, nine days before the ransomware attack; the company paid a ransom to the hackers — UnitedHealth Group paid ransom to hackers, person familiar with the cyber investigation said — 's Change Healthcare unit …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Newsletter service Ghost says it plans to add ActivityPub support in 2024; rival service Buttondown also plans ActivityPub support — Interoperable social media is having a real moment — Open platforms keep gaining support out there — newsletter platform Ghost just published what amounts …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon ends drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, which began in 2022, and plans to expand them to Tolleson, Arizona, in 2024 and other US regions in 2025 — An Amazon delivery drone is on display at Amazon's BOS27 Robotics Innovation Hub in Westborough, Massachusetts, on Nov. 10, 2022.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU opens another TikTok investigation to assess whether TikTok Lite's design, which financially rewards users for watching or liking videos, is “addictive” — The European Union has opened a second formal investigation into TikTok, announcing Monday that it suspects …
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Mastodon: @AAKL@noc.social. X: @lisaocarroll, @fbermingham, @rita_wezenbeek, @lisaocarroll, @carnage4life, @brianroemmele, @luizajarovsky, @eu_commission, @stevepeers, and @zsk. Forums: Hacker News
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
HR software company Rippling raised a $200M Series F led by Coatue at a $13.5B valuation, up from $11.25B in March 2023, and a separate $590M tender offer — Last week, TechCrunch broke the news that the workforce management software outfit Rippling was on the cusp of closing a new …
More: Silicon Republic, Rippling, Rippling, FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, and Reuters
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Cloud data management company Informatica says it is not currently in acquisition talks, after Salesforce's reported interest in a ~$10B deal; INFA falls 8%+ — Amit Walia, CEO, Informatica at the New York Stock Exchange, October 27, 2021. — Enterprise data management company Informatica … | Reuters: |
Russia sentences Meta spokesperson Andy Stone in absentia to six years for “publicly defending terrorism”; Russia designates Meta as an extremist organization — A military court in Moscow on Monday sentenced Meta Platforms (META.O) spokesperson Andy Stone to six years in prison for … | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Nominal, which offers tools for data analysis, testing, and more to startups building advanced hardware like drones, emerges from stealth with $27.5M in funding — - Lux Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund among investors — Software platform aims to assist new manufacturing companies
More: FinSMEs and Semil Shah Blog
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| Financial Times: |
A look at Jeff Yass' Susquehanna International Group, which has a ~15% ByteDance stake worth ~$40B and has invested $3.5B+ across 350+ deals in China since 2005 — Investor's Susquehanna International Group owns estimated $40bn stake in parent company ByteDance as app faces potential ban| TechCrunch: |
TabaPay, which offers instant payment services, agrees to acquire assets of banking-as-a-service startup Synapse, after Synapse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy — After a tumultuous year, banking-as-a-service (BaaS) startup Synapse has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and its assets …
More: Synapse, TabaPay, Inc., Fintech Business Weekly, Crowdfund Insider, FinTech Futures, FinTech Global, Finextra, and PYMNTS.com
X: @rohitdotmittal, @pitdesi, @mikulaja, and @sytaylor
| Financial Times: |
Q&A with BCG CEO Christoph Schweizer, who says the consulting firm expects 20% of its 2024 revenue and 40% of its 2026 revenue to come via helping integrate AI — CEO projects share of sales will double as companies integrate technology into operations
X: @tanarrowz and @sundeep
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