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July 14, 2020, 8:10 AM

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Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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 …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
UK says it will bar telecom companies from purchasing new equipment from Huawei and gives them until 2027 to remove its technology from their 5G networks  —  British government gives telecom companies until 2027 to remove Chinese firm's technology from their 5G networks
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.
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Pricefx, which develops automated product and service pricing optimization software, raises $65M Series C led by Apax Partners' Apax Digital  —  Take the latest VB Survey to share how your company is implementing AI today.  —  Pricefx, a company developing automated product …
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A look at Amazon Handmade, an Etsy competitor that Amazon launched in 2015, which sellers say operates like the rest of Amazon with little differentiation  —  D  —  ave Stencil was puzzled when he noticed his Amazon sales spiking in mid-May.  —  The San Diego-based carpenter had been selling …
Moira Weigel / boundary 2:
An analysis of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's dissertation at a German university in 2002 and how it presaged the work he would go on to do at Palantir  —  Since the election of Donald Trump, a growing body of research has examined the role of digital technologies in new right wing movements …

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