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Sources: Apple to debut its 16-inch MacBook Pro with a redesigned keyboard as soon as Wednesday; expected to go on sale this week, starting at ~$2,400 — Apple Inc. plans to debut a new MacBook Pro laptop with a larger screen and revamped keyboard as soon as Wednesday, according to people familiar with the situation.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: Google is planning to offer checking accounts to users, in partnership with banks and credit unions, starting as early as next year — Google is the latest big tech company to make a move into banking and personal financial services: The company is gearing up to offer checking accounts to consumers …
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| ACLU: |
A district court rules the government's “suspicionless” searches of international travelers' phones and laptops at airports and US border violate 4th Amendment — In a major victory for privacy rights, a federal court in Boston today ruled that the government's suspicionless searches …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Facebook unveils Facebook Pay, which will work on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, to let users shop, donate to causes, send money to friends, more — Facebook Pay arrives just weeks after payment companies dropped out of Libra — Facebook is launching a new payments system today, appropriately named Facebook Pay.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Facebook's iOS app accesses the camera as users scroll their feeds; a workaround is to revoke the app's camera permissions; a patch is “already rolling out” — When you're scrolling through Facebook's app, the social network could be using your camera, concerned users have found.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Intel has been slow to address information-leaking chip bugs, issuing an incomplete fix for “ZombieLoad” in May and another series of microcode patches today — Speculative execution attacks still haunt Intel, long after researchers told the company what to fix.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla, Intel, Red Hat, and Fastly announce the launch of Bytecode Alliance, which aims to take WebAssembly and other related open standards beyond the browser — Mozilla, Intel, Red Hat and Fast today announced the launch of the Bytecode Alliance, a new open-source group that focuses on …
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| Enoch Yiu / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba's IPO application approved by the Hong Kong stock exchange; sources say shares to be priced on Nov. 20 with expected trading in the week of Nov. 25 — The nod clears the way for Hangzhou-based Alibaba to start a weeklong roadshow this week to garner interest from global investors Shares …
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Amid labor tensions Google says it fired a staffer for leaking employee info to media, put two on leave for sharing internal docs and tracking staffer calendars — - Employee terminated for leaking names, details to media — Rifts with management roiling company known for openness| Frank Pallotta / CNN: |
Disney+ spokesperson acknowledges service issues on launch day, saying consumer demand exceeded “high expectations”, as users complain that they can't connect — New York (CNN Business)Disney+ launched to much fanfare on Tuesday, and then immediately hit some bumps.
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| Jennifer Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
Convoy, a digital freight marketplace that matches truckers with cargo shippers, raises $400M Series D at a $2.75B valuation — Series D funding round values the company at $2.75 billion in a competitive field that includes Uber Freight — Digital freight broker Convoy raised $400 million …
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| Bloomberg: |
Nike will stop selling its sneakers and apparel directly on Amazon, ending a pilot program that began in 2017 — - Move follows naming of ex-EBay CEO as Nike's next chief — Nike Inc. is breaking up with Amazon.com Inc. — The athletic brand will stop selling its sneakers …
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| Technology Startups News: |
GuRu raises $15M Series A for developing products that can safely deliver electric power through the air for powering devices using millimeter-wave technology — GuRu, a wireless power startup formerly known as Auspion, Inc., has raised $15 million in Series A funding to deliver electric power through … | Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
A look at Facebook's past views on China and how they changed as TikTok became popular; sources: Facebook held serious acquisition talks with Musical.ly in 2016 — Three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy the Chinese company that became the basis of TikTok.
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| Candy Cheng / Bloomberg: |
Source: DoorDash is raising $100M at a ~$13B valuation from T. Rowe Price Group and others — DoorDash Inc.'s $2 billion war chest is getting even bigger. The food delivery startup, backed by the likes of SoftBank Group Corp. and Sequoia Capital, is receiving a new cash infusion of $100 million … Sponsor Posts
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