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Judge denies Epic's motion to restore Fortnite to the App Store but orders Apple to not block Unreal Engine; full hearing scheduled for September 28 — Epic Games won a temporary restraining order against Apple, at least in part — Epic Games just won a temporary restraining order against Apple — at least in part.
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| New York Times: |
TikTok sues the Trump administration in federal court, arguing Trump's EO deprived it of due process — The suit escalates a bitter back-and-forth between the popular video app and American officials. — SAN FRANCISCO — TikTok sued the U.S. government on Monday, accusing the Trump administration …
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Sources: General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital, two top investors in ByteDance, are key drivers in Oracle's bid for TikTok; Twitter's bid has made little headway — Investment firms with large existing stakes in ByteDance pursue deal for app's U.S. operations, as potential alternative to Microsoft
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo plans to debut an upgraded model of its Switch console in 2021, possibly with 4K graphics, more computing power, and a lineup of new games — - Strong lineup of Nintendo games set to accompany new hardware — Update would make the Switch Nintendo's most enduring console
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Apple acquires Spaces, a location-based VR startup that recently pivoted to videoconferencing — Spaces, a VR startup that got its start as a DreamWorks Animation project, has been acquired by Apple, Protocol has learned. — Apple confirmed the acquisition after this story was first published.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to open an online store in India next month and is planning two retail stores in India next year, first in Mumbai and then in Bangalore — - Online store comes a year after India eases rules on retail — IPhone maker also plans a second physical outlet in India| Bill Gurley / Above the Crowd: |
The rise in SPACs is leading to improved terms for targeted companies and an overall lower cost of capital, as company underpricing in traditional IPOs worsens — If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs.
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| Rishi Iyengar / CNN: |
Facebook says it is planning legal action to challenge a recent Thai government request to block a 1M+ member Facebook group critical of the Thai monarchy — (CNN Business)Facebook said it is planning legal action against Thailand's demand that forced the company to block a group deemed critical of the country's monarchy.
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Samsung adds ability, off by default, to find offline devices with its Find My Mobile feature, using other people's nearby Galaxy devices to help locate them — Samsung's Find My Mobile app is designed to help you remotely locate your device, back up data to Samsung Cloud, delete local data …
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| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Security research firm Snyk alleges that Chinese ad network Mintegral committed ad click fraud via its SDK across billions of installs of 1,200+ iOS apps — A Chinese ad network named Mintegral is accused of spying on user activity and committing ad fraud in more than 1,200 apps with 300 million installs per month since July 2019.
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| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Asana files to go public via direct listing on the NYSE; source says Asana has recently been trading on the secondary market at a value of about $5B — Asana Inc., a corporate software maker started by a Facebook Inc. co-founder, filed to go public via a direct listing, revealing a net loss that has more than doubled year over year.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google is testing TikTok style videos in Discover, the section found to the left of most Android home screens and in the Google iOS app, fed by Trell and Tangi — TikTok has been or is in the process of being banned in some countries. This has resulted in new or existing services trying …
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iRobot is updating its Roomba vacuum cleaners with AI-based software that will add specific spot-cleaning, event-based automation, and more — To help Roombas know when and where to clean — iRobot is announcing what it's calling the biggest software upgrade to its robot vacuum cleaners since …
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Mozilla rolls out Firefox 79 for Android with Enhanced Tracking Protection, a new UI, its own mobile browser engine GeckoView, improved privacy mode, and more — After more than a year of development, Mozilla today launched Firefox 79 for Android, branded Firefox Daylight.| CNBC: |
Ant Group files for IPO in Hong Kong and Shanghai, reporting $3.2B profit in H1 2020, up 1,000% YoY, and revenue of $10.48B, up 38% YoY — - Ant Group, which is still controlled by Alibaba founder Jack Ma, reported a more than 1,000% jump in profits in the first half of 2020 from the same period last year.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based MelodyVR, which creates immersive live music for VR headsets and phones, acquires Rhapsody International, owner of Napster, from RealNetworks for $70M — Napster, the pioneering digital music brand from way back when, is changing hands once more. Today, a UK startup called MelodyVR …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Cloud database company Snowflake files for IPO, says in the first half of 2020 its revenue jumped to $242M from $104M YoY, while its gross profit almost tripled — - Snowflake said that revenue in the first half of 2020 more than doubled to $242 million, while its net loss narrowed slightly to $171.3 million.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Supermetrics, a data management and analysis tool for marketers, raises €40M led by Highland Europe — Supermetrics, the data management and analysis tool for marketers, has raised €40 million in new funding. — Leading the round is Highland Europe, with participation from IVP …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Palo Alto Networks says it plans to acquire The Crypsis Group, an incident response, risk management, and digital forensics consulting firm, for $265M in cash — Meanwhile, the cybersecurity firm posted better-than-expected Q4 results, thanks in part to work-from-home tailwinds.
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TSMC says its 3nm process will hit volume production in 2022, and 5nm N5 chips, which should ship in products to customers this year, use 30% less power than N7 — At TSMC's annual Technology Symposium, the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer detailed characteristics of its future 3nm process node …
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