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| Ben Brody / Bloomberg: |
Sources: after Trump's ban, chipmakers including Intel, Qualcomm, Xilinx, and Broadcom have told employees they will not supply Huawei until further notice — Alphabet Inc.'s Google will end business relationships that involve the transfer of non-public hardware, software and technical services …
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Source: Google will stop collaborating and providing Huawei with technical support for Android and Google services, including Google Play — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
FCC Chairman recommends approval of the proposed T-Mobile and Sprint merger after New T-Mobile promises to cover 97% of the US population with 5G in three years — FCC chair backs merger after T-Mobile and Sprint pledge 97% U.S. 5G coverage in 3 years
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| Paul Tassi / Forbes: |
Report details how game publishers are paying top streamers, with 15K+ concurrent viewers, $25,000-$50,000 an hour to stream a new game and build buzz — The past few years have been full of impressive achievements in the realm of professional gaming, whether it's enormous prize pools …
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
TikTok owner ByteDance launches Feiliao on iOS and Android, a chat app that is a hybrid of interest-based forums and an instant messenger — In WeChat -dominated China, there's no shortage of challengers out there claiming to create an alternative social experience.| Eric Niiler / Wired: |
Meteorologists say interference from 5G phones could reduce the accuracy of weather forecasts by 30%, equivalent to the quality of predictions in the 1980s — IF YOU HAD a choice between a better, faster cell phone signal and an accurate weather forecast, which would you pick?
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Toshiba Memory plans to buy back the shares it sold to Apple, Dell, Kingston, and Seagate last year, as part of a refinancing plan — In June last year, Toshiba sold its memory division to a four-company consortium that included Apple. However, now, Toshiba is going to buy … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Identity and authentication platform Auth0 raises $103M Series E led by Sapphire Ventures at a valuation of $1B, says it has 7,000 enterprise clients — Auth0, a 2013-founded identity and authentication platform, has pushed into unicorn territory with a $1 billion valuation after raising $103 million in its latest Series E round.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Xbox chief outlines plans to fight toxicity in gaming through new moderation tools for Xbox Live communities and a new industry-wide initiative to share tech — Spencer says Microsoft is treating safety as a paramount issue for the industry — Microsoft's Xbox chief Phil Spencer … | Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Despite Musk's exaggerations, there's a chance Tesla's vertically integrated approach and love of software will win in auto, just like Apple succeeded in mobile — Elon Musk makes it easy to dismiss his grandiose — unhinged, even — descriptions of his product plans.| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Researchers say VidMate, a popular Chinese Android app with 500M installs, secretly subscribes users to paid services and exposes their personal information — More than half a billion people have installed VidMate, an Android app that enables them to download videos from YouTube, WhatsApp, and other platforms.
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| Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg: |
Prowler.io, which uses AI to help businesses make decisions in areas like asset management and logistics, raises $24M led by Tencent at a $100M valuation — - Companies are giving Prowler.io $24 million in new funding — Cambridge-based startup's AI used in finance, logistics
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook releases maps of population density, movement, and network coverage to help nonprofits and universities better map the spread of infectious diseases — Facebook this morning announced a new initiative focused on using its data and technologies to help nonprofit organizations …
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