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Filing: Apple asks to participate in the remedial phase of Google's US antitrust case, saying it can't rely on Google to defend their revenue-sharing agreements — Apple (AAPL.O) has asked to participate in Google's upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, saying it cannot rely …
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Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace approves lifting its ban on “certain widely used foreign platforms”, naming WhatsApp and Google Play as the first two apps — - Allowing WhatsApp and Google Play may placate opponents — Major social networking sites have been blocked for years| Bloomberg: |
Taiwan's FTC blocks Uber's $950M acquisition of Delivery Hero's Foodpanda, arguing it would decrease competition as their combined market share would be 90%+ — - Fair Trade Commission concerned deal would limit competition — Uber had sought Delivery Hero's Foodpanda unit in Taiwan
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A look at OpenAI's interest in robotics, from investing in startups like Figure and Physical Intelligence to, sources say, considering making a humanoid robot — Over the past year, OpenAI has dropped not-so-subtle hints about its revived interest in robotics: investing in startups developing hardware …
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Benchmarking AMD's MI300X and Nvidia's H100 and H200; in theory, AMD's GPU has advantages in specs and Total Cost of Ownership, but software bugs hold it back — Intro — SemiAnalysis has been on a five-month long quest to settle the reality of MI300X. In theory, the MI300X … | The Information: |
Two major China-based Amazon merchants say Amazon reps have recently been offering incentives like free ads and lower commissions if they stop selling on Temu — For popular China-based Amazon merchants, bargain site Temu has been an attractive new place to sell their wares.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Founders Fund seeks ~$3B for its third growth equity fund; it raised $3.4B for its second growth fund and $1.8B for its eighth early-stage fund in 2022 — - It also will have access to the incoming White House, thanks to Thiel's longtime support of President-elect Trump and the firm's numerous investments with Elon Musk.| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Kaiko: the share of BTC-USD trades in US market hours has now climbed to ~53% from 40% in 2021, with crypto liquidity back at levels seen before FTX's collapse — - Bitcoin trading versus dollar is more concentrated in US hours — Open interest in CME futures for Bitcoin, Ether scaled records| Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: |
Opensignal ranks Japan #1 in G7 mobile reliability experience between July 1 and September 28, followed by France, Germany, the US, Canada, Italy, and the UK — Research highlights impact of poor network performance on consumers — Mobile users in the UK had the least reliable experience … | Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Singapore issued 13 crypto licenses in 2024, pulling ahead of Hong Kong, where authorities have been more cautious, in the race to become a regional crypto hub — - Both cities have tried to attract crypto firms to their shores — Hong Kong authorities have been cautious handing out permits
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| Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: |
Ant splits Alipay into the Digital Payment Business Group focused on new payment products, and the Alipay Business Group focused on user growth and monetization — The company will adopt a ‘rotating presidential system’ for the two new businesses, with each unit president serving a six-month term
More: Tech in Asia and Pandaily
| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
Fiserv to acquire Toronto-based Payfare, which lets gig workers on platforms like Uber access their wages early, for $140M, expected to close in H1 2025 — U.S. fintech firm Fiserv (FI.N) will buy Canada's Payfare (PAY.TO) in a C$201.5 million ($140 million) deal as it looks …
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