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Sources: Verizon is nearing a deal to sell its media division, including AOL and Yahoo!, to Apollo; deal could be worth ~$5B and be announced as soon as Monday — - Deal for Verizon Media could be announced as soon as Monday — Division includes online brands Yahoo!, AOL and TechCrunch
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple is planning to launch a foldable iPhone with an 8" QHD+ flexible OLED display in 2023; Kuo says Apple will ship 15M to 20M foldable iPhones in 2023 — Apple is working to launch a foldable iPhone with an 8-inch QHD+ flexible OLED display in 2023, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Neuralink's President and co-founder Max Hodak tweets that he has left the brain-computer interface startup — - Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak announced Saturday that he is no longer working with the brain tech company he started with Elon Musk. — Musk - who is also the CEO of auto …
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| David Phelan / Forbes: |
SEC filing: Rockley Photonics, developer of sensors that can be used for blood pressure and glucose monitoring, says Apple is currently its biggest customer — A new report says that a future Apple Watch could have a new raft of health sensors, including blood pressure and …
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| Pete Rizzo / Bitcoin Magazine: |
A look back at Satoshi Nakamoto's role in the Bitcoin project and exchanges with its community, 10 years after the disappearance of the mysterious figure — 10 years ago today, Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto's disappeared. Pete Rizzo tells the story. — 10 years ago today, Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto's disappeared.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft planned to reduce its cut from 30% to 12% for Xbox games too, a document filed as part of Epic vs Apple lawsuit in January shows — Confidential Microsoft documents reveal some big plans — Microsoft had been planning to cut its Xbox store cut to just 12 percent …
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| Doug Kramer / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare, which was sued by “patent troll” Sable Networks, is offering a $100K bounty to those who can find evidence of prior art on Sable Networks' patents — Here we go again. — On March 15, Cloudflare was sued by a patent troll called Sable Networks …
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| Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: |
After an investigation found 800+ Etsy listings for weapons, porn, other items violating its policies, Etsy says it'll invest ~$40M in policy enforcement in '21 — The online marketplace Etsy has been flooded with activity since the pandemic's onset as millions flocked to online shopping to stave off lockdown blues.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
At least 15 Basecamp employees announced on Twitter that they are leaving the company, with some specifically citing new policy banning political talk at work — Multiple employees say they are leaving specifically because of recent policy changes. — On Friday, numerous employees …
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| New York Times: |
SensorTower data shows Clubhouse has been downloaded 1.1M times in the Middle East, where its users see it as an open forum to discuss politics and taboo issues — The social networking app is booming in authoritarian countries, where users are speaking freely about otherwise taboo topics.
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israeli startup Locusview raises $64M Series A for its digital construction management suite that helps companies manage infrastructure capital projects — The Israeli startup has managed within two years of the launch of its first product to integrate it in over 20 of the biggest energy infrastructure companies in the U.S.
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| Reuters: |
Intel says it will invest another $600M in Israel, primarily to expand its Mobileye R&D, and confirms it is spending $10B on a new chip plant there — Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Sunday it will invest another $600 million in Israel to expand its research and development (R&D) …
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