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Initial benchmarks show iPhone 13's A15 chip offers a roughly 15% improvement for GPU performance and 10%-18% improvement for CPU performance over A14 — Earlier today, we reported on a Geekbench Metal result for the iPhone 13 Pro showing an approximately 55% graphics performance improvement compared to the iPhone 12 Pro.
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| Maggie Miller / The Hill: |
FTC asks health apps, such as those tracking fitness or menstrual cycles, to notify consumers of data breaches as per the 2009 Health Breach Notification Rule — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 Wednesday that a decade-old rule on health data breaches applies to apps …
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| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
FTC says Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft made 819 unreported acquisition deals of $1M+, including for patents and acquihires, from 2010 to 2019 — - Report shows hundreds of deals by tech giants went unchecked — Antitrust enforcers must close loopholes, FTC Chair Khan says
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Discord raises $500M led by Dragoneer, Fidelity, and others, source says at a ~$15B post-money valuation, more than double its valuation from last year — - Discord raised $500 million, led by Dragoneer Investment Group — Startup turned down $12 billion offer from Microsoft
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
After being sued by the state of California, Activision Blizzard is sued by a group representing employees, alleging it tried to prevent them from organizing — Organized by CODE-CWA, the suit claims Activision Blizzard engaged in coercive and intimidating behavior
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Alphabet's Project Taara, which uses light beams to deliver internet, says it transmitted nearly 700TB of data across the Congo River over 20 days — The 20Gbps Free Space Optical Communications tech for Project Taara was originally part of Project Loon — In January, Google's parent company … | Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Brooklyn-based Genius, a music-annotating startup that provides context for lyrics, sells its assets for $80M, less than the total funding it raised — The sale price is less than the total funding raised. — Music-annotating startup Genius Media Group Inc., a site that drew attention …
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Goldman Sachs is acquiring buy now, pay later fintech GreenSky for about $2.24B, in an all-stock deal — - Goldman Sachs is acquiring fintech lender GreenSky for $2.24 billion as the investment bank pushes further into consumer finance. — The all-stock deal for GreenSky …
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| Wenxin Fan / Wall Street Journal: |
China's biggest movie star, Zhao Wei, who had 86M Weibo followers, was erased from China's internet on August 26, amid a clampdown on its entertainment industry — Zhao Wei was the Reese Witherspoon of China, then she was censored by the Communist Party amid a clampdown of the country's entertainment industry
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French startup Skello, which develops a SaaS tool that lets companies manage their work schedules, raises €40M led by Partech — French startup Skello has raised a $47.3 million funding round (€40 million). The company has been working on a software-as-a-service tool that lets you manage the work schedule of your company.
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Sources: US firm Accuvant, now part of Optiv, sold iPhone hacking tool Karma to the UAE for $1.3M in 2016; the tool has been used against hundreds of targets — An American cybersecurity company was behind a 2016 iPhone hack sold to a group of mercenaries and used by the United Arab Emirates.
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| Ishika Mookerjee / Bloomberg: |
As China expands its crackdown, Tencent loses its place among the world's 10 largest companies by market value, leaving no Chinese companies on the list — - Firm's value has shrunk $388 billion amid tech crackdown — Chinese stocks drop off league table for first time since 2017| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Avalanche Foundation, whose AVAX token is up 65% over the past week, raises $230M led by Polychain and Three Arrows Capital — - Cryptocurrency AVAX jumps 65% in past week to top 20 rankings — Polychain, Three Arrows Capital led the investment purchase
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| Bloomberg: |
Oppo is cutting around 20% of its staff in key software and device teams after it merged operations with affiliate OnePlus — - Oppo has merged operations with OnePlus and cut key divisions — The scale-back is China industry's first major consolidation| Andrew Fedorov / Input: |
A look at CouchSurfing.com, which is now headed by Palantir alum Patrick Dugan, as it abandoned its always-free ethos at the start of the pandemic — Back in spring 2011 — the end of black truffle season, before the climbing roses bloomed — the Couchsurfers gathered at the Palazzo Massarucci …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China's crypto mining crackdown has expanded to focus on colleges, research institutions, and data centers, as fears over its winter power supply grow — - Governments are checking for illegal mining in labs, colleges — Power-shortage concerns among reasons behind inspections
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| Bloomberg: |
Engineering and consultancy firm Thoughtworks close up nearly 40% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at ~$9B, after raising roughly $773M in its IPO — - Tech consulting firm's CEO ‘constant change’ for two decades — On, Dutch Bros, Definitive Healthcare all climb in debuts
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Apna, whose networking app lets blue collar workers upskill and find jobs, raises $100M Series C led by Tiger Global, becoming India's youngest unicorn — A 22-month old startup that is helping millions of blue- and gray-collar workers in India learn new skills and find jobs has become …
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| Politico: |
Joe Biden announces a new Indo-Pacific security partnership with Australia and the UK to share tech in areas like AI, cybersecurity, and quantum technologies — President Joe Biden just announced a new working group with Britain and Australia to share advanced technologies …
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| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
London-based Form3, which provides cloud-based payments tools to banks and fintechs, raises $160M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, bringing total funding to $220M — London's payments infrastructure provider Form3 has raised $160 million in a Series C funding round.Sponsor Posts
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