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Facebook to buy Giphy, keep its branding, integrate with Instagram; sources say the deal is worth ~$400M, while Giphy was valued at ~$600M in its latest round — Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
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Sources: Clubhouse raised a Series A round from a16z, which includes $10M in primary capital and at least $2M in secondary shares, at a $100M valuation — Clubhouse is a voice-based social media app with about 5,000 beta test users. Prospective listeners have to sign up for a waitlist via Google form …
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| Reuters: |
US bans sales to Huawei of semiconductors and semiconductor designs made abroad using certain US software and technology — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies from global chipmakers, in an action that could ramp up tensions with China.
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| Global Times: |
China signals it is ready to retaliate for US' Huawei ban by launching investigations or imposing restrictions on companies like Qualcomm, Cisco, and Apple — China is ready to take a series of countermeasures against a US plan to block shipments of semiconductors to Chinese telecom firm Huawei …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Members of the anti-vaccine community are experienced at exploiting weaknesses of social media platforms and are primed to sow doubts about a COVID-19 vaccine — Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Kuo: Apple planning a 10.8 inch iPad in H2 2020 and a new iPad mini in H1 2021, predicts AR glasses with laminated lens in 2022 at the earliest — - Apple could launch new iPads in the coming year, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a new note on Thursday.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Netflix begins restoring full quality streaming in Europe; Apple TV+ restored 4K streaming in late April — Netflix is gradually lifting coronavirus-related streaming quality limits in Europe. Netflix, Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video has all complied with a European Commission request …
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Singapore state investor Temasek joins Libra, along with cryptocurrency investor Paradigm and private equity firm Slow Ventures — - Singapore state investor Temasek is one of the latest organizations to join the Facebook-backed digital currency project libra.
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn reports profit decline of 89% YoY to $70M in Q1 with revenue down 12% YoY, as the coronavirus froze much of its China production and demand slumped — - Hon Hai's net income dived 89% in virus-hit first quarter — Apple's main partner drives home extent of global malaise
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| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
Microsoft opens up its threat intelligence data, including file hash indicators used in email scams, to wider security community via GitHub during the pandemic — Microsoft is making the threat intelligence it's collected on coronavirus-related hacking campaigns public, the company announced Thursday.
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TSMC says it plans to spend $12B to build a 5nm chip factory in Arizona as the White House seeks to increase domestic chip production — Plans for TSMC's Arizona Plant Come As Trump Seeks To Cut Dependence on Asia — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., TSM 2.32% the world's largest …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla launches “Fix-The-Internet” incubator offering $75K for early-stage startups, $16K for pre-startup teams, and $10K for the best ten community projects — After testing the waters this spring with its incubator-esque MVP Lab, Mozilla is doubling down on the effort …
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| Reuters: |
Indonesia to impose a 10% VAT on digital products and services sold by internet companies with a significant presence in the country, beginning July 1 — JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will require big internet companies to pay value-added tax on sales of digital products and services from July …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Spotify restores web player support for the Safari browser after previously removing it in 2017 — Spotify users can once again use Safari to access the streaming service's web player, following the restoration of support for Apple's browser this week after over two-and-a-half years of incompatibility.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia launches Clara Guardian, an edge AI system that uses sensors for contactless patient monitoring to limit infectious disease spread, in 50 hospitals — Nvidia today announced the launch of Clara Guardian, a smart hospital edge AI system that uses sensors to limit the spread … Sponsor Posts
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