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Violent unrest erupts at Wistron's iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru in India, sources say over the company's failure to pay promised wages — A screenshot of the video showing employees damaging properties at the iPhone manufacturing plant. — BENGALURU: The iPhone manufacturing plant …
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Sources: point-of-sale lender Affirm is postponing its IPO until next year — The point-of-sale lender is the second company in as many days to pull back from the IPO market — Affirm Holdings Inc. is postponing its initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Kuo: iPhone 13 mass production will return to Apple's usual timeframe and will not face the delays that the iPhone 12 lineup faced — While the iPhone 12 lineup launched later than usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today forecasted that mass production … | Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Indie game developers say Twitch's light touch with nudity in big games like Cyberpunk 2077, despite Twitch's rules against explicit content, is hypocritical — You can't show dicks or nipples on Twitch unless you're playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077.’ — Cyberpunk 2077 is full of dicks.| Seeking Alpha: |
Pico, a provider of tech services from infrastructure to analytics for global financial markets, closes $135M Series C from investors including Intel Capital — Includes: BDNCE, INTC, NVS, PYPL, SFTBF, SFTBY … Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Capital became a strategic investor in Pico …
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| Hamilton Nolan / In These Times: |
A look at The Drivers Cooperative, a worker-owned NYC ride sharing app debuting early 2021, which aims to maximize drivers' pay, lower cost of gas and insurance — The city's first worker-owned ridesharing app gets ready to take on the big boys. — Ken Lewis grew up on the island of Grenada …
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| Steven Burke / CRN: |
Thoma Bravo says it is acquiring a majority stake in Venafi, a provider of machine identity management software, at a $1.15B valuation — “Thoma Bravo invests in category creators and leaders,” said Venafi CEO Jeff Hudson. “That ($1.15 billion) valuation is a good valuation.
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| Joshua Swingle / Phone Arena: |
Unreleased Samsung Galaxy S21+ 5G gets compared to iPhone 12 Pro Max in a YouTube video — It has been less than 24 hours since the Galaxy S21+ was spotted on video for the first time, but the same source has now returned with another video that compares the Galaxy S21+ to its closest rival — the iPhone 12 Pro Max.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cisco is acquiring Slovakia-based Slido, which lets people moderate Q&A sessions and set up polls in virtual conferences and live events; Slido has 7M users — While Zoom continues to hold a lot of mindshare (and market share) in the world of videoconferencing, Cisco's WebEx division today announced …
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| Liz O'Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Salesforce's acquisition of Slack is emblematic of a long-standing trend of defensive acquisitions by Big Tech and speaks to the impact of weak antitrust laws — Slack wanted to stay independent. But in a landscape dominated by tech giants, that proved impossible.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Arthur.ai, which develops a monitoring tool to ensure the accuracy of machine learning models doesn't slip over time, raises $15M Series A led by Index Ventures — At a time when more companies are building machine learning models, Arthur.ai wants to help by ensuring the model accuracy …
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| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal memo: Roblox, citing soaring market debuts of Airbnb and DoorDash, says it is too difficult to price its shares and will delay its IPO until next year — Videogame company, citing Airbnb and DoorDash market debuts, says it is too difficult to price its shares
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