Facebook to buy Giphy, keep its branding, integrate with Instagram; sources say the deal is worth ~$400M, while Giphy was valued at ~$600M in its latest round
Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
Kuo: Apple planning a 10.8 inch iPad in H2 2020 and a new iPad mini in H1 2021, predicts AR glasses with laminated lens in 2022 at the earliest
- Apple could launch new iPads in the coming year, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a new note on Thursday.
TSMC says it plans to spend $12B to build a 5nm chip factory in Arizona as the White House seeks to increase domestic chip production
Plans for TSMC's Arizona Plant Come As Trump Seeks To Cut Dependence on Asia — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., TSM 2.32% the world's largest …
US bans sales to Huawei of semiconductors and semiconductor designs made abroad using certain US software and technology
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies from global chipmakers, in an action that could ramp up tensions with China.
Netflix begins restoring full quality streaming in Europe; Apple TV+ restored 4K streaming in late April
Netflix is gradually lifting coronavirus-related streaming quality limits in Europe. Netflix, Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video has all complied with a European Commission request …
Singapore state investor Temasek joins Libra, along with cryptocurrency investor Paradigm and private equity firm Slow Ventures
- Singapore state investor Temasek is one of the latest organizations to join the Facebook-backed digital currency project libra.
Members of the anti-vaccine community are experienced at exploiting weaknesses of social media platforms and are primed to sow doubts about a COVID-19 vaccine
Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
Apple acquires California-based VR startup NextVR; a report in April said the deal is valued at around $100M
- NextVR provides virtual-reality sports content to headsets — Apple developing virtual reality, augmented reality headsets — Apple Inc. confirmed it acquired NextVR …
Spotify restores web player support for the Safari browser after previously removing it in 2017
Spotify users can once again use Safari to access the streaming service's web player, following the restoration of support for Apple's browser this week after over two-and-a-half years of incompatibil...
JD.com beats expectations with Q1 revenue of $20.59B, up 20.7% YoY and net income of $200M; active customers increased 24.8% YoY to 387.4M
JD.com Announces First Quarter 2020 Results Email Print Friendly Share May 15, 2020 05:50 ET | Source: JD.com BEIJING, May 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) …
Microsoft opens up its threat intelligence data, including file hash indicators used in email scams, to wider security community via GitHub during the pandemic
Microsoft is making the threat intelligence it's collected on coronavirus-related hacking campaigns public, the company announced Thursday.
Foxconn reports profit decline of 89% YoY to $70M in Q1 with revenue down 12% YoY, as the coronavirus froze much of its China production and demand slumped
- Hon Hai's net income dived 89% in virus-hit first quarter — Apple's main partner drives home extent of global malaise
Nvidia launches Clara Guardian, an edge AI system that uses sensors for contactless patient monitoring to limit infectious disease spread, in 50 hospitals
Nvidia today announced the launch of Clara Guardian, a smart hospital edge AI system that uses sensors to limit the spread …
Nvidia unveils its A100 AI chip with 54B transistors and 5 petaflops of performance, about 20 times more than the previous-generation Volta
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
From August, Chrome will start blocking ads that consume 4MB of network data, 15 seconds of CPU usage in any 30 second period, or 60 seconds of total CPU usage
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Mozilla launches “Fix-The-Internet” incubator offering $75K for early-stage startups, $16K for pre-startup teams, and $10K for the best ten community projects
After testing the waters this spring with its incubator-esque MVP Lab, Mozilla is doubling down on the effort … Tweets: @stshank Tweets: Stephen Shankland / @stshank : Mozilla's fix-the-internet effor...
Amazon partners with Vogue and the Council of Fashion Designers of America to launch a new online store featuring independent luxury designers
get people on the platform to get their business data for its own purposes. Now its doing that for luxury fashion https://www.nytimes.com/... Shelby Ivey Christie / @bronze_bombshel : I love the idea ...
Sources say the USPS has launched a review of its package delivery contracts with companies like Amazon, amid Trump's growing power over the service
the agency's point-man on vote-by-mail initiatives — is resigning. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Inside AT&T's $4B bet to stand out in the streaming wars with HBO Max, which is to launch on May 27 despite 30 projects shuttering due to the pandemic
HBO but more — from @Variety_Cynthiaand @gdanielholloway https://variety.com/...
Microsoft says it will acquire Metaswitch Networks, a provider of virtualized network software whose customers include telecom companies like BT and Sprint
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Huawei is releasing “New Editions” of its old phones, using a loophole that phones released before 2019 US restrictions can still have Google apps
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica :
Apple publishes its 2020 Supplier Responsibility report, offering a glimpse into how the company has changed its supply chain in the wake of COVID-19
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch :
As pandemic-related budget cuts come to call centers, organizations turn to chatbots like IBM's Watson to filter calls, reducing the need for human operators
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @_karenhao , @digi_ad , and @cortnie_cdo Tweets: Karen Hao / @_karenhao : Call centers have long been a frontier of workplace automation, but the pandemic ...
As tech giants introduce new work from home guidelines, employees are considering moving away from Silicon Valley and companies contemplate adjusting salaries
wait for it — actually enjoy living in the Bay Area, which, spoiler, is a nice place to live! https://twitter.com/... Josh / @joshuaogundu : The funny thing is people assuming that their employer won'...
Twitch announces an eight-person Safety Advisory Council, with both online experts and Twitch creators guiding decision making around new policies and products
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Sony says it has developed the world's first image sensors with built-in AI, which would give “intelligent vision” to cameras for retail and industrial uses
not storing the data in the first place sounds like one good approach to gain back trust and improve privacy (not risking leaks). But still, we need a lot of data to train these things ;) https://www....
Critics of the FCC's Lifeline telecommunication subsidy program say the government doesn't promote the service enough and has restrictive mobile data caps
Emmanuel Martinez / The Markup :
Dara Khosrowshahi, who completed 41 transactions with a total value of $12.7B as Expedia's CEO, is following the same playbook at Uber of buying competitors
Bloomberg : Tweets: @gerritd , @ewarren , and @tsgiles Tweets: Gerrit De Vynck / @gerritd : Uber is trying to acquire its way to dominance in the food delivery industry. That's no surprise for people...
UK-based ANNA, a mobile-first banking, tax accounting, and financial service assistant aimed at SMBs, raises $21M from ABHH Group to expand into Europe
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
France plans to go ahead with its digital services tax this year regardless of an international deal, after offering in January to suspend it until end of 2020
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