Source: Oracle has won the bidding for the US operations of TikTok as a “trusted tech partner”; the deal will likely not be structured as an outright sale
Deal, which is likely not to be structured as an outright sale, will face White House review
Microsoft says ByteDance has rejected its offer to take over TikTok's US operations, leaving Oracle as the only other known bidder
The move leaves Oracle as the sole known remaining bidder, as the clock ticks down on President Trump's executive order to block the app.
Nvidia to buy Arm from SoftBank in a $40B deal, saying it will keep Arm's HQ in UK, expand R&D facilities there, and keep Arm's open licensing business model
- Acquirer pledges to keep Arm independent to retain customers — Nvidia to build AI research facility at Arm's U.K. location
US Customs seized a shipment of OnePlus Buds thinking they were counterfeit Apple AirPods
Well this is awkward — In a truly bizarre situation that I'm still trying to wrap my head around, US Customs and Border Protection tonight tweeted that its officers had “recently seized 2,000 …
Sources detail Apple's Tuesday event: Apple Watch Series 6 with faster CPU and blood oxygen meter, new mid-tier iPad Air, and no new iPhones
- Company to debut new Apple Watches and iPad Air on Tuesday — Smaller HomePod, headphones in the works; iPhones coming later
Oracle confirms it is part of a proposal submitted by ByteDance to the US Treasury to become TikTok's “trusted technology provider”
- Oracle and TikTok share an interest in marketing, but while Oracle pursues business from big companies, TikTok aims for a wide scale among consumers.
Google says its carbon footprint is now zero, after becoming carbon neutral in 2007, and aims to run all data centers and offices on carbon-free energy by 2030
Google says it has wiped out its entire carbon footprint by investing in “high-quality carbon offsets”.
Analysis of Nvidia's purchase of Arm, which will impact nearly every chip market segment, with statements from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Arm CEO Simon Segars
I talked today with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Arm CEO Simon Segars on the largest and what I consider the most important semiconductor acquisition- ever.
Source: ByteDance notified US authorities and potential bidders for TikTok US operations that it will not sell or transfer TikTok's recommendation algorithm
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Facebook introduces Watch Together for Messenger, letting up to eight people in a mobile chat or 50 people in a Room watch videos together
Facebook today is rolling out a new feature that will allow friends and family to watch videos together over Messenger.
YouTube says it is launching an early beta of YouTube Shorts, a 15-second video feature, in India
- By Chris Jaffe VP of Product Management Sep.14.2020 … YouTube has always been a place to be entertained — from your favorite dance trends, like Evolution of Dance, Roller Skate Dances …
Leaked promotional videos show Oculus Quest 2 powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2 with an “almost 4K display”, 6GB RAM, up to 256GB storage, and 3D audio
A full launch of the headset is rumored for later this week — The Oculus Quest 2 VR headset has leaked in full via …
Kuo: the 5.4" iPhone 12 will feature a narrower notch but none of the iPhone 12 models will have a 120hz display; iPad Air will feature Touch ID in side button
Ahead of tomorrow's Apple event, reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a new investor note highlighting his expectations for the remainder of 2020.
LG announces Wing, a smartphone with a 6.8-inch main “twisting” display and a 3.9-inch display underneath; release data and price TBA
Coming to Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, but there's no word on price — LG is no stranger to two-screen smartphones in recent years …
Red Ventures says it has agreed to buy CNET Media Group from ViacomCBS for $500M in a deal expected to close in Q4 2020
ViacomCBS is offloading CNET Media Group in a $500 million deal with digital-marketing company Red Ventures, which announced the deal Monday.
Low-code database service Airtable raises $185M Series D at $2.58B post-money valuation and launches Airtable Apps, a JavaScript-based no-code development tool
The spreadsheet-centric database and no-code platform Airtable today announced that it has raised a $185 million Series D funding round …
Verizon says it has agreed to buy prepaid wireless reseller TracFone for up to $7B in cash and stock
Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal :
Profile of Vanessa Pappas, an ex-YouTube exec and TikTok's N. America chief since 2018, who took over as interim global chief amid its geopolitical predicament
New York Times :
Walmart announces a trial run with Zipline to deliver medical, health, and wellness products by drone in Northwest Arkansas in early 2021
Sasha Lekach / Mashable :
Amazon says it's hiring 100,000 employees across the US and Canada with starting wages of $15+ per hour and opening 100 new operations buildings this month
Bloomberg :
Dream Sports, the parent company behind Indian fantasy sports app Dream11, raises $225M from Tiger Global and others, sources say at a $2.5B+ valuation
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Facebook says it is removing misleading posts about how Oregon wildfires were started after initially saying it was reducing the distribution of such posts
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo :
European Commission says Germany, Italy, Ireland, Denmark, and others are testing a platform to make individual contact tracing apps interoperate
Douglas Busvine / Reuters :
A look at SushiSwap's quick, turbulent, and successful “hostile takeover” of Uniswap, a decentralized protocol for automated liquidity provision on Ethereum
Adriana Hamacher / Decrypt :
Sources: Alibaba is in talks to invest $3B in Grab, with part of the funds potentially being used to buy some of the Grab stock held by Uber
Bloomberg :
TikTok says it has hit 100M MAUs in Europe, less than a month after it reached the same milestone in the US
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
FCC authorized Microsoft to perform proof-of-concept demonstrations of a service connecting satellites to Azure cloud; AWS launched a similar service in 2018
Michael Sheetz / CNBC :
SoftBank says it will raise ~$10.4B from selling about a third of its domestic wireless arm, rising to ~$11.6B in total including an over-allotment option
Bloomberg :
Sources: Gojek and Grab have resumed talks for a merger at the behest of shareholders including SoftBank, after Masayoshi Son threw his weight behind a deal
Financial Times :
How DeepMind worked with former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik to make its AI, AlphaZero, learn new variants, which could make AI chess more creative
Tom Simonite / Wired :
AI-based drug discovery company Recursion raises $239M Series D and partners with pharma giant Bayer to develop new treatments for fibrotic diseases
Leah Rosenbaum / Forbes :
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
Xometry, an online marketplace for companies to find manufacturers with excess capacity, raises $75M Series E, bringing its total raised to $193M
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
As Amazon reportedly considers a $20B investment in Reliance's retail business, a look at the outsized influence Reliance Industries' Mukesh Ambani has in India
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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