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Sources: SoftBank is exploring a full/partial sale or public offering of Arm; SoftBank bought Arm for $32B four years ago — Japanese conglomerate bought British tech company four years ago for $32 billion — SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 4.23% is exploring alternatives including a full …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple pushes retail workers to begin working from home, says full return to offices won't happen in 2020 and it's shipping employees COVID-19 test kits — - Full return to U.S. offices won't happen before end of 2020 — Apple Inc. is readjusting operations as Covid-19 cases continue …
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Gizmodo, iMore, Digital Trends, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, CNET, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @markgurman
| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, others back Harvard and MIT's suit against ICE directive that will send international students home if classes are online — A number of top tech companies say the Trump administration's new directive to strip foreign students of their visas could crush the tech industry's workforce.
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Axios, South China Morning Post, Associated Press, and Politico
Tweets: @protocol, @protocol, @bigblackjacobin, @histoftech, @mayer_brown, @kent_walker, and @issielapowsky
| Pradeep / MSPoweruser: |
Microsoft and Samsung announce partnership to build tech for real estate development and property management using Azure IoT and Samsung's SmartThings platforms — Microsoft and Samsung today announced a global partnership to transform the real estate development and property management industries.
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Huawei posts revenue of $64.88B in H1 2020, up 13.1% YoY despite sanctions and the pandemic, with its consumer businesses accounting for 56% of total revenue — Huawei reported a 13.1% year-over-year revenue growth in the first half of 2020, even if countries around the world continued …
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Tweets: @byrneingman, @he_koh, and @huaweiusa
| Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Crypto app Abra and partner company Plutus settle charges from SEC and CFTC for $300K after allegedly facilitating unregistered security-based swap transactions — Crypto financial app Abra has settled charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission …
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| Sundar Pichai / The Keyword: |
Google unveils the Google for India Digitization Fund, pledging ~$10B over seven years toward a mix of equity investments, ecosystem investments, and more — Editor's note: Today at Google for India, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a $10 billion Google for India Digitization Fund to help accelerate India's digital economy.
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @cnn, @c_p_gurnani, @caesars, @rsprasad, @rockstarjaddu, @malikashok, @anshuman1tiwari, @sunil_deodhar, and @chandrarsrikant
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
MGM's 2019 data breach may have affected 142M+ guests, not 10.6M as first reported, according to dark web marketplace; data includes contact details and DoB — EXCLUSIVE: The MGM Resorts 2019 data breach is much larger than initially reported. — The MGM Resorts 2019 data breach … | Bloomberg: |
Facebook-provided data shows Trump's campaign micro-targets its ads more than Biden's; 68% of Trump's ads are seen fewer than 1,000 times vs 34% for Biden's — - Trump's campaign has run almost half a million ads on platform — Two-thirds of Trump ads seen by small groups of voters
Tweets: @kimmaicutler, @bpolitics, @misyrlena, @misyrlena, and @californiapanda
| Sarah Ponczek / Bloomberg: |
According to Robintrack.net, during a four-hour span today almost 40,000 Robinhood accounts added Tesla stock, which hit $1,794.99 before closing at $1,497.06 — - Almost 40,000 Robinhood users bought the stock in four hours — Tesla shares surged 16% Monday before giving up gains
Tweets: @patrickmcgee_, @malwaretechblog, @charliebilello, @dissensual, @carnage4life, and @rationalwalk
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitch restores President Trump's account after a two-week suspension for “hateful conduct” — Can the president last on Twitch? — Twitch has unbanned President Donald Trump, two weeks after suspending his account for “hateful conduct.” — Trump's account … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
An Israeli court rules that NSO Group can keep exporting its tools as plaintiff Amnesty International failed to prove staff spying by a NSO customer — NSO Group will be allowed to keep exporting its powerful hacking and surveillance tech after what Amnesty Internatioal calls a “disgraceful ruling.”
Tweets: @vice and @lorenzofb
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