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Trump adviser Jason Miller says Trump is having meetings with “numerous companies” to return to social media with his own platform in two to three months — Jason Miller tells Fox News' ‘#MediaBuzz’ the platform will ‘completely redefine the game’
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Teardown: Apple's HomePod mini has a sensor that measures temperature and humidity, which is currently disabled — Apple Inc.'s HomePod mini speaker launched last November with new features such as a home intercom system. But one part of the device has remained secret: a sensor that measures temperature and humidity.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Spark Capital decides to “sever all ties” with Dispo after claims of sexual assault against a former Vlog Squad member; David Dobrik departs from Dispo — Dobrik departs from Dispo board and leaves company — Venture capital firm Spark Capital has decided to ‘sever all ties’ with Dispo …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Long time Google VP Caesar Sengupta, who was in charge of Next Billion Users, Google Pay, and oversaw Chrome OS, is leaving the company after 15 years — One big focus for Google today is making products for what it dubs the Next Billion Users in countries just coming online.
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| Andy Day / Fstoppers: |
Instead of convincing people to buy things that they don't need, NFTs are convincing them to buy imaginary optimism based on a mass enchantment and FOMO — Photographers, filmmakers, and digital artists are falling over themselves to mint NFTs in a get-rich-quick scheme …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Deliveroo prices shares at £3.90 to £4.60 ahead of its London IPO, implying a market cap of £7.6B to £8.8B — - Deliveroo set a price range of between £3.90 and £4.60 per share for its upcoming IPO. — That implies an estimated market cap …
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| Axios: |
Rep. Cicilline says he's crafting around 10 smaller antitrust bills, to be ready in May, instead of a one huge bill that would be easier for Big Tech to defeat — The powerful Democrat overseeing antitrust legislation wants to hit Big Tech with the legislative equivalent of a swarm …
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| Bloomberg: |
Texas jury finds Apple infringed a DRM patent held by Personalized Media, and orders Apple to pay $308.5M to the company — Apple must pay $308.5 million to closely held Personalized Media Communications after a federal jury in Marshall, Texas, decided on Friday that the tech giant infringed …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Flowspace, an on-demand logistics and fulfillment startup that offers integrations for Shopify, Amazon, Walmart to power 2-day shipping, raises $31M Series B — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — On-demand warehousing fulfillment …
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| Reuters: |
ByteDance says its Nuverse video game unit has acquired Shanghai-based gaming studio Moonton Technology, sources say for around $4B — (Reuters) - ByteDance said on Monday its video games unit Nuverse has agreed to acquire Shanghai-based gaming studio Moonton Technology, as it seeks to further expand into the video games business.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will begin a limited reopening of its Seattle HQ on March 29 and plans a future focus on hybrid workplaces — Microsoft is letting some employees back into the office — Microsoft is planning to start reopening its Redmond, Seattle headquarters later this month.| Benedict Evans: |
Software has eaten the world, fading into the background like electricity or cars before, and is now secondary to conventional industry differentiation concerns — Ten years ago Marc Andreessen wrote an article in the WSJ called ‘Software is eating the world’, arguing that there was a fundamental shift …
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| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Source: Epic Games is finalizing a $1B round at a ~$28B valuation, following a $1.78B round at a $17.3B valuation in July 2020 — Epic Games, which also owns the video chat app Houseparty, is close to concluding another $1bn fundraising, Sky News can reveal. — City editor @MarkKleinmanSkySponsor Posts
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