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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans an always-on lock screen for iPhone 14 Pro, major windowing and multitasking changes for iPadOS, and iOS-like System Preferences for macOS — Apple's upcoming iOS 16 is likely to upgrade the lock screen, messaging and health features. Also: Another Apple car manager leaves …
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| Washington Post: |
Some teenagers say French social networking app Yubo, which has 18M downloads in the US, ignored reports that the Uvalde shooter threatened violence on the app — Young people who met the alleged gunman online said he had threatened to kidnap, rape or kill.
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| Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese government data shows domestic smartphone shipments fell 30% YoY to ~86M units in the first four months of 2022 amid the resurgence of COVID-19 in China — From Apple to chip makers, companies warn of fewer shipments and weaker consumer spending in the world's biggest smartphone market
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
YipitData: average Uber and Lyft fares in the US hit a record high in April, as they drew ~20% fewer riders and 35% fewer trips in Q1 2022 compared to Q1 2019 — The companies are cutting costs, bringing back cheaper rides and looking for new ways to woo drivers
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| Leonid Ragozin / Rest of World: |
A profile of inDriver, a ride-hailing app developed in Siberia in 2012, which lets riders and drivers haggle over prices and is now available in 42 countries — InDriver's unique haggling feature has seen it expand from its roots in Yakutia to markets around the world. — • YAKUTSK, RUSSIA
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the Broadcom-VMware deal happened within two weeks; Broadcom CEO had switched his focus to software amid regulatory headwinds for semiconductor deals — Hock Tan and Michael Dell agreed industry-defining deal, codenamed ‘Project Atlas,’ within two weeks
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TechCircle, Reuters, TechRepublic, and OnMSFT.com
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| Maureen Dowd / New York Times: |
Interview with Ted Sarandos about Netflix's recent share price plunge, backing Dave Chappelle's latest comedy special, Hollywood schadenfreude, and more — The Netflix executive says he — and the company he helped build — will survive a bout of bad earnings numbers.
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Variety. Tweets: @variety, @kimmasters, @lucas_shaw, @sarthakgh, @tomfitton, @nytimes, @nreviewed, @timkiladze, @akstanwyck, @janicemin, @susanlitv, and @brooksbarnesnyt
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft researchers find high severity vulnerabilities in mce Systems' framework used by Android apps from carriers including AT&T, Telus, Rogers, and Bell — Microsoft security researchers have found high severity vulnerabilities in a framework used by Android apps from multiple large international mobile service providers.
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Microsoft Security Blog, The Hacker News, Security Affairs, PCMag, iPhone in Canada Blog, and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @dennisf
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Proctoring companies like Honorlock that track students' keystrokes and cursor movements during exams to prevent cheating allegedly punish normal behavior — An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education. — A Florida teenager taking a biology class at a community college got an upsetting note this year.
Tweets: @zeynep, @random_walker, @pt, @_aloisi, @hypervisible, @autumm, @dealbook, @nytimesbusiness, @nytimestech, @nytimestech, and @evanselinger
| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
The CWA withdraws its bid for a union election next week for staff at an Atlanta Apple store, citing Apple's “sophisticated campaign to intimidate” and COVID-19 — The labor group trying to organize Apple Inc. employees at an Atlanta store is withdrawing its request for an election …
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
In an April 4 letter, the SEC told Elon Musk it is probing his March purchases and disclosures of Twitter stock, and whether he was truly a “passive” investor — The regulator questioned whether the Tesla chief executive had disclosed his stake at the right time.
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Protocol, The Guardian, Axios, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Washington Post
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| Nivedita Balu / Reuters: |
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Bloomberg, PCMag, Financial Times, Social Media Today, Gizmodo, CNBC, New York Post, Protocol, and Benzinga. Tweets: @quinnypig
| Reuters: |
A growing number of Chinese tech startups are going public in China at valuations lower than in their private rounds; STAR Market is down nearly 30% in 2022 — A growing number of Chinese tech start-ups, once the darlings of equity markets, are willing to list shares publicly in China … | Michelle Ma / Protocol: |
Layoffs.fyi data: 60 tech companies cut 16,000+ jobs in May 2022; Microsoft, Nvidia, Lyft, Snap, Uber, Coinbase, Salesforce, Meta, and Twitter slowed hiring — What goes up must come down. — High-flying startups with record valuations, huge hiring goals and ambitious expansion plans …
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