Kuo: iPhone shipments could decline by 25-30% if Apple is forced to remove WeChat from its App Stores around the world under Trump's EO
In a worst-case scenario, Apple's annual global iPhone shipments could decline by 25-30% if it is forced to remove WeChat from its App Stores around the world …
Sources: TikTok's separation from ByteDance could take over a year, well beyond Trump and Microsoft's Sept. 15 timeline, as Microsoft negotiates the transition
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) bid to carve out parts of TikTok from its Chinese owner ByteDance will be a technically complex endeavor …
Sources: Sequoia, which first invested in ByteDance in 2014 and holds a 10%+ stake, has been pressing its White House contacts to help land a deal for TikTok
TikTok's parent has been looking for a way to keep the video-sharing service alive in U.S. after Trump administration declared the app a national security threat
Sources: Simon Property, the biggest US mall owner, and Amazon explored turning stores formerly occupied by J.C. Penney and Sears into fulfillment centers
Hookup between Simon Property Group, Amazon would show how retail and logistics are converging more rapidly
Uber CEO defends treating gig workers as contractors, suggesting gig economy companies should be required to establish funds that give workers cash for benefits
Gig workers want both flexibility and benefits — we support laws that could make that possible. — Mr. Khosrowshahi is the chief executive officer of Uber.
Frances Allen, who conducted groundbreaking work on software compilers in the 1960s and won the Turing Award in 2006, has died at 88
One of the few women in the computer industry in its early days, she paved the way for the efficient, lightning-fast apps of today.
Facebook, Google, and Twitter are making the same mistakes big news outlets made decades ago, trying to placate hyperpartisan critics who are “working the refs”
The new referees in American politics are Facebook, Google and Twitter, and they would be wise to pay attention to lessons the old media tried to learn. Tweets: @rottenindenmark , @ryanlcooper , @mark...
Apple responds to AirPods patent infringement suit by countersuing Koss Corporation for breach of contract and breaking a confidentiality agreement
On July 23, Patently Apple posted a legal report titled “Koss, an American Pioneer in Headphones, has filed a Five-Count Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Apple.”
Google expands developer tools for Android TV, including instant apps and speech-to-text support, and says monthly active devices have grown more than 80% YoY
Even before the pandemic, the battle to own your living room was reaching a boiling point. Now the big screen is bigger than ever …
Apple Advertising seems to be on by default in iOS 14, while other advertisers and ad networks will have to ask for permission to track users
Is Apple playing fair? — Apple looks to be giving its own ad network a leg up on competitors with customer data that other ad networks can't access. Tweets: @eric_seufert , @eric_seufert , @eric_seu...
A look at the tight links between employees at big tech companies and Joe Biden's campaign, despite his criticism of the Silicon Valley giants
While Joe Biden has criticized the largest tech companies, his campaign and transition teams have welcomed allies of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple onto its staff and policy groups. Tweets: @awins...
Skillshare, a subscription marketplace for online courses, raises $66M led by OMERS Growth Equity and says it has 12M registered members
Skillshare CEO Matt Cooper said 2020 has been a year of rapid growth — even before the pandemic forced large swaths of the population to stay home … Tweets: @ldrogen and @mikekarnj Tweets: Leigh Droge...
Buckle, an insurer for ridesharing platforms with coverage in 47 US states, raises $31M Series A led by HSCM Bermuda and Eos
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McAfee report: NetWalker ransomware operators have made ~$25M from ransom payments since March, putting them in the same league as Ryuk, Dharma, REvil groups
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @philippederyck and @brianhonan Tweets: Philippe De Ryck / @philippederyck : This article shines a light on the nightmares of ransomware. Data is copied and then enc...
Charleston, SC-based startup Palmetto, which helps consumers calculate potential energy costs and savings by using green tech like solar, raises $29M Series B
While Facebook claims its size helps it defend the US against Chinese companies like TikTok, history shows TikTok succeeded partly due to FB's corporate goals
more than a billion dollars—that between 15 percent and 22 percent of all ads shown through Facebook on iOS during [the spring and summer of 2018] were TikTok ads.” https://promarket.org/... Matt Stol...
Israel-based Silverfort raises $30M Series B for its multi-factor authentication tech that can help enterprises secure their data on premises and in the cloud
Meir Orbach / CTech :
Amid an explosion in demand for home-delivered goods, shippers like FedEx are increasingly adopting industrial robot arms equipped with computer vision and AI
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @mfordfuture , @sub8u , @mileskimball , @mims , @2peterharris , and @farshchi Tweets: Martin Ford / @mfordfuture : Short on workers during the pandemi...
With 2,500 claims of improper use of unlicensed music on Twitch in June, the Artists Rights Alliance, a trade body, criticizes Jeff Bezos' “wilful blindness”
Alex Barker / Financial Times : Tweets: @financialtimes and @daveleeft See also Mediagazer Tweets: @financialtimes : Music rights holders have stepped up a campaign for royalty payments by confrontin...
Expert System, an enterprise NLP vendor founded in 1989, raises $29.4M in post-IPO financing for its AI-powered text extraction and analysis tools
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @mkaplanpmp Tweets: Michael A. Kaplan / @mkaplanpmp : Auto identifies people, places, organizations, URLs, emails, phone numbers, dates, & values, & other domain-...
A look at China's AI telemarketing software market, which touts “voice bots” that dial ~3,000 numbers/day, even blocked ones, and flexibly respond to questions
Maria Siow / South China Morning Post : Tweets: @sub8u and @brianroemmele Tweets: Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : AI is taking over the telemarketers' role, and it is a nightmare all-round for consumers!...
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