Sources: SoftBank is nearing a deal to sell Arm to Nvidia for more than $40B; SoftBank paid $32B for the UK chip designer in 2016
Union of Arm, Nvidia would create a powerhouse in the chip industry — SoftBank Group Corp. is nearing a deal to sell British chip designer Arm Holdings …
Facebook says it is removing misleading posts about how Oregon wildfires were started after initially saying it was reducing the distribution of such posts
As emergency responders in Oregon struggle to contain a record 900,000 acres of wildfires across the state, local police have been fighting …
Microsoft says Apple's App Store changes still create a bad experience for gamers, who want a catalog app and not to “be forced to download over 100 apps”
Apple is changing its App Store rules to allow game streaming services, which let people play video games over the internet …
Several H-1B employees hired at TikTok's Silicon Valley campus are facing visa approval delays that, legal experts say, are unusual
The hits to California's TikTok workers just keep coming: First, the Trump administration threatened to shutter the company's U.S. operations; then its CEO quit after just three months on the job.
Amazon's Voice Interoperability Initiative, which lets multiple assistants work on a single device, adds 38 new members including Facebook, Dolby, and Xiaomi
Last September, Amazon unveiled the Voice Interoperability Initiative, a program aimed at ensuring voice-enabled products …
Sources: about a dozen states, mostly led by GOP, are considering joining DOJ's upcoming antitrust lawsuit against Google, while readying their own complaints
- Democratic states have sought more time for broader probe — States are scrutinizing Google search, advertising, Android
The public's phobia of touching cash amid COVID-19 could help SoftBank popularize mobile payments in cash-addicted Japan; SoftBank has invested $1B+ in PayPay
Masayoshi Son zeros in on Japan, where he is ready to lose billions in a battle to conquer cash Tweets: @nar , @_manish_sharma_ , @rishigautam2011 , @nar , @appurv_gupta , @nar , @haranikkei , @nar , ...
Franchised esports leagues have allowed players to become full-time employees but critics say game publishers like Activision have too much power over players
Franchised leagues are a modern experiment in what happens when a marketing initiative becomes a billion-dollar industry. Tweets: @gadgetlab , @grady_booch , @cecianasta , @fairplayesports , @stephenj...
Ubicquia, which helps cities provide services such as public WiFi through connected streetlights, raises $30M Series C, claims its tools are used in 100+ cities
Ubicquia is helping keep the streetlights on in cities across the country, and its smart cell and smart grid technologies have investors taking notice.
How book publishers are trying to turn the age-old library system into a “reading as a service” operation through their lawsuit against the Internet Archive
In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book. Tweets: @transgamerthink , @mariabustillos , @hkesvani , @es_taa , @shujax...
GitLab, which has an all remote workforce of 1,300+ employees from 67 countries, is advising companies like Twitter on its “radically transparent” working model
As 2020's experiment with working from home turns into something more permanent, GitLab—the world's largest all-remote company … Tweets: @martinsfp , @janowenam , @fastcompany , @darrenmurph , and @gi...
IT service company Virtusa to be acquired by Baring Private Equity Asia in an all-cash deal worth about $2B
Sept 7-12 Joe Panettieri / ChannelE2E : Private Equity Acquiring Virtusa IT Service Provider for $2B Rob Lenihan / TheStreet : Virtusa Jumps on $2B Accord to Be Bought by Baring PE Asia Shilpa Phadnis...
Vancouver-based Klue, which develops AI-powered software aimed at giving enterprises better insights into their competitors, raises $15M Series A
Vancouver-based artificial intelligence startup Klue, which has developed software aimed to give enterprises a better view of their competitors …
PE firm EQT to buy Madrid-based property classifieds site Idealista for €1.3B from Apax Partners; Idealista was valued at €235M during its acquisition in 2015
Kaye Wiggins / Financial Times :
Paris-based insurance tech startup Descartes Underwriting, specializing in climate risk modeling and transfer, raises $18.5M Series A to expand in US and Asia
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Canalys: companies in China spent a record $4.3B on cloud services in H1 2020, up 70% YoY; Alibaba accounted for around 40% of total Q2 cloud spending in China
Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal :
Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph
Sarah Manavis / New Statesman :
Study: ~180 online-only, open-access science, social sciences, and humanities journals have disappeared in the last 20 years and their content wasn't preserved
Jeffrey Brainard / Science :
Q&A: FCC's Rosenworcel on why current Section 230 review at FCC is corrupt, FTC's role under its Section 5, and Pai's excuses for not closing the “homework gap”
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol :
Q&A with M. G. Siegler on Apple's identity and future direction, its rivalry with Facebook and battle with Epic, the 30% cut policy, and on life as a VC
Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero :
How TechCrunch moved Disrupt online, expanding to 5 days to mitigate screen fatigue and creating a 3D rendering of Moscone Center using green screens and sets
Max Willens / Digiday : Tweets: @mikebutcher , @travisbernard , @anthonyha , and @techcrunch Tweets: Mike Butcher / @mikebutcher : This is an interesting and detailed article about how TechCrunch too...
How Sundar Pichai is leading Google at a time when many of the company's strengths become the focus of intense public criticism and antitrust scrutiny
and now one has landed at his door. Our #longread, weekend profile of Silicon Valley's mystery man, here: https://www.wsj.com/... @wsjtech : Sundar Pichai's compassionate, conflict-averse style helped...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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