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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at the internal divisions at Apple over its plans for an AR/VR headset, which may be released in 2022; AR glasses to be released by 2023 at the earliest — In late 2018, Apple Inc. was a few years into its plan to build a powerful headset with both virtual- and augmented-reality capabilities when things shifted dramatically.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Google removes 106 malicious Chrome extensions with 32M downloads that collected browsing history and sensitive credentials, after being alerted by researchers — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple is temporarily closing 11 stores across Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, and South Carolina amid COVID-19 spikes — Apple Inc. is temporarily shutting some of its U.S. retail stores again after cases of Covid-19 spiked in some areas across the country, Bloomberg News reports.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Oracle owned BlueKai had an unprotected server leaking identifiable user data and sensitive browsing info, exposing billions of records for anyone to find — Billions of records exposed. — Have you ever wondered why online ads appear for things that you were just thinking about?
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones — For the first time, the social media company is opening up about its most mysterious feature.| M.G. Siegler / 500ish: |
App Store guidelines and policies were created for the world as it was a decade ago, and Apple should rewrite them for a very different world today — It's time for Apple to re-write and re-think the App Store rules. Because it's 2020, not 2010. … Given Apple's recent statements … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
BMW and Mercedes-Benz end their partnership, which was announced in July 2019, for the development of autonomous driving technology — BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz AG have punted on what was meant to be a long term collaboration to develop next-generation automated driving technology together … | Joe Miller / Financial Times: |
Volkswagen plans to develop 60% of its vehicles' software by 2025, up from 10% now, and grow its Car.Software unit from 3,000 staffers to 5,000 by end of 2020 — Carmaker rules out working with tech companies to develop operating system for its vehicles — Volkswagen has ruled out working … | Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Snapchat apologizes and disables its Juneteenth filter that allowed users to “smile and break the chains”, saying it didn't go through its usual review process — It's the latest example of a controversial Snapchat filter — Snapchat is apologizing for a controversial Juneteenth filter … | Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Profile of Neeva, founded by former head of Google's advertising arm, which has raised $37.5M for a search engine to be funded via subscriptions instead of ads — Sridhar Ramaswamy once ran Google's $115 billion advertising arm. But he grew disillusioned and worried that growth was too much of a priority.| Financial Times: |
Wirecard's CEO Markus Braun resigns over the missing €1.9B in cash; James Freis, chief compliance officer who joined company on Thursday, named as interim CEO — Markus Braun resigns as payment group's shares continue to collapse and investors threaten legal action
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Staff at mental health startup Crisis Text Line turned to Twitter after calls about company's pattern of racial insensitivity were ignored, prompting CEO firing — To Jo*, the question of whether Crisis Text Line should issue a public response to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery was a no-brainer.
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| Steve Brooks / Enterprise Times: |
Copado, which is developing a DevOps tool focused on the Salesforce ecosystem, raises $26M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $47M — Copado has announced a $26 million Series B funding round led by its existing investor Insight Partners.| Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: |
Palantir raises $500M from Japanese insurance holding company Sompo; sources: Palantir's shares have been trading on the private market at a $10B-$14B valuation — (Reuters) - Palantir Technologies Inc on Thursday said that Japanese insurance holding company Sompo Holdings Inc (8630.T) … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Boston-based Botkeeper, which automates bookkeeping workflows using AI, raises $25M Series B led by Point72 Ventures, bringing its total raised to $47.5M — Botkeeper, a startup developing automated data entry, classification, and reporting solutions for accounting, today announced it has raised $25 million.
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| Sophie Alexander / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood says it is changing its options offerings after a young customer killed himself when his account showed a negative balance of $700K+ — Robinhood is changing its options offerings, including increased education, in the wake of a young customer's suicide.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
France's top administrative court dismisses Google's appeal against a $57M GDPR fine over insufficient disclosures about Android's processing of user info — France's top court for administrative law has dismissed Google's appeal against a $57M fine issued by the data watchdog last year …
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