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Jeff Bezos says he and his brother Mark will fly on Blue Origin's first human spaceflight on July 20 alongside an auction winner — Jeff Bezos is going to be one of the passengers on his spaceflight company Blue Origin's first ever human space launch on July 20.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
What to expect from WWDC 2021: iOS 15 with updated notifications and iMessage, revamp of iPadOS home screen, new Apple Silicon chips and MacBook Pro, and more — The keynote kicks off June 7th at 1PM ET — Apple's annual developer extravaganza, the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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Apple paid millions to settle a woman's claims that, after sending her iPhone to Apple for repair, technicians uploaded her nude photos to her Facebook account — Technicians posted the private photos and video from her iPhone after she sent it to Apple for repair, according to legal documents
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Researcher: Twitter Super Follow to be limited to users over 18, with 25+ tweets posted in the last 30 days and 10K+ followers; categories include adult content — The company teased the Patreon-like subscription service earlier this year — Twitter announced earlier this year it was working …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
France's competition authority says Google agreed to pay a fine of nearly $270M and promised to make it easier for competitors to use its ad tools — Deal with competition authority resolves complaint over the firm's digital advertising tactics — PARIS— Alphabet Inc.'s Google agreed …
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Analysis: eighteen, or nearly 2%, of the 1,000 highest grossing apps on the App Store are scams; according to Appfigures data, the apps may have cost users $48M — Nearly 2 percent of Apple's top-grossing apps on one day were scams — and they have cost people $48 million| Shishir Mehrotra / Coda: |
An insider's look at how YouTube tackled its 2008 to 2014 hypergrowth years with a set of rituals for everything from strategic planning to effective meetings — A peek inside how YouTube tackled the 2008 to 2014 hypergrowth years with a unique set of rituals for everything from strategic planning to effective meetings.
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| Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic: |
A look at the rise of the meditation app Calm, downloaded by 100M+ users and valued at $2B, which aims to make meditation easy, friendly, and accessible — cathedral-like mountain towers above me; a lake laps at my feet; sunshine distilled through pine needles warms my skin. Close your eyes, a voice intones.
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| Harry Dempsey / Financial Times: |
The chief supply chain officer at Flex, the world's 3rd-largest electronics manufacturer, says the global chip shortage will likely last until mid- to late-2022 — Forecast from Singapore-based Flex comes as scarcity forces carmakers to scale back production| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Flipkart is in talks to raise $3B from SoftBank and several sovereign wealth funds, targeting a valuation of ~$40B — - E-commerce giant to raise funds as IPO pushed back to 2022 — SoftBank to back Flipkart again after selling stake to Walmart
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OpenSooq, a Jordan-based online classifieds service, raises $24M led by the Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund — A unit of Saudi Arabia's $400 billion Public Investment Fund has led a new financing round for OpenSooq.com, a Jordan-based online classifieds business that's looking to triple its headcount across the Middle East.| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
A look at the plight of “pickers”, in-store shoppers fulfilling online grocery orders, and the cottage industry around tech tools that make them more efficient — The technology needed to fulfill orders is costly for stores, and the workers who pick items off the shelves often feel the pressure of being tracked.
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