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Meta confirms it will divest itself of Giphy globally after UK's CMA gives a final order to sell the company, following a court-ordered reassessment in July — Bye-bye: Meta has again been ordered by the UK's competition watchdog to sell animated GIF platform, Giphy. And this time it's final.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft announced layoffs across multiple divisions on October 17; source: less than 1,000 jobs were cut across various levels, teams, and parts of the world — Microsoft announced layoffs across multiple divisions on Monday, Axios has confirmed. — Why it matters: The move …
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Netflix rolls out a feature globally to let users transfer all their personalized viewing data to a new account, ahead of a crackdown on account sharing in 2023 — Netflix is making it easier for people to disentangle their personal viewing data: The streaming service is rolling …
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Apple announces a new 11" and 12.9" iPad Pro with M2 chip, Wi-Fi 6E, and a new Apple Pencil hover feature, in stores October 26 and starting at $799 and $1,099 — Apple today unveiled the new generation of 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro, powered by the latest M2 Apple Silicon chips.
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Apple unveils a redesigned 10th-gen iPad with the A14 Bionic chip, flat sides, 10.9" display, Touch ID side button, USB-C, and Wi-Fi 6E, coming Oct. 26 for $449 — Apple today announced the 10th-generation iPad, featuring the A14 Bionic chip and a complete redesign with a range of color options.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Carl Pei's Nothing will hike the price of its Ear (1) wireless earbuds from $99 to $149 on October 26, citing “an increase in costs” — Nothing is hiking the price of its debut Ear 1 earbuds from $99 to $149, the company's CEO Carl Pei has announced.
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Salesforce stock is up 5%+ after activist investor Starboard reveals a “significant” stake; shares of Salesforce have fallen more than 40% in 2022 — Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT — Jeffrey Smith, CEO of Starboard Value LP and Chairman of Papa John's International Inc.
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Sources: worried about Apple stealing customers from Android's ecosystem, Google refocuses on its hardware, moving more staff to work on Google-branded devices — It may be Google's worst nightmare. Apple's iPhone is stealing share from Samsung phones powered by Google's Android software.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google adds new kids-focused features to Google TV, including parent-controlled watchlists and AI-powered suggestions — Google is bringing a set of new kids-focused features such as parent-controlled watchlists and AI-powered suggestions to Google TV, the latest in a series of efforts … | Avery Menegus / Engadget: |
Internal doc: Amazon has a high attrition rate across all levels, costing $8B annually, and workers choose to leave twice as often as layoffs and firings occur — Amazon churns through workers at an astonishing rate, well above industry averages. According to a tranche of documents marked …
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Jasper, a service that leverages AI to generate marketing art and copy, raised $125M led by Insight Partners at a $1.7B valuation — As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper, a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 billion valuation.
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Apple restores Russia's largest social network VKontakte, Mail.ru, and other apps from VK, three weeks after removing them citing UK sanctions — Apple has restored Russian apps for social network VKontakte and webmail provider Mail.ru to the App Store, three weeks after removing … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple will release macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16 on October 24 with the new Stage Manager window management feature — Updates drop support for several generations of older hardware, too. — The next versions of macOS and iPadOS will be released to the general public on October 24, Apple announced today.
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Sources: Intel is eyeing a significantly lower sub-$20B valuation for the IPO of its Mobileye self-driving car unit, down from the originally expected $50B+ — A target valuation of under $20 billion is expected, down from $50 billion — Intel Corp. INTC 1.97%▲ …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
May 2022 survey of non-professional creators in nine regions: 48% monetize content, including 53% in the US; 77% of those who monetize started in the past year — A study funded by Adobe sheds new light on the creator economy, indicating that not only are a large number of people earning money … | Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple freezes its plans to use YMTC memory chips in its products, including iPhones, following the latest US export controls on China's tech sector — Company previously planned to put Chinese-made memory in some iPhones
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