Sources: Apple is preparing new Apple Silicon-powered MacBook Pros, iMacs, and Mac Pros for as early as spring 2021; full Mac transition will finish in 2022
- Company tests faster performing processors than Intel's best — Major graphics boost in the works for upcoming desktop Macs
Sources: Airbnb plans to boost the proposed price range of its IPO to between $56 and $60 a share, which equates to a valuation of $39B to $42B, fully diluted
New price range for home-rental company's public debut equates to $39 billion to $42 billion, fully diluted
LG says it has reorganized its mobile phone division, which has reported a loss for 22 consecutive quarters, to outsource low- and mid-range smartphones
SEOUL (Reuters) - LG Electronics said on Monday it had reorganised its mobile phone division to increase outsourcing of its low to mid-end smartphones …
Inside Disney's costly online push while its lucrative legacy businesses decline, as sources say the success of Disney+ diminished Disney's interest in Hulu
Media empire must sustain its costly online push while its lucrative legacy businesses decline — The Walt Disney Company …
NortonLifeLock says it has acquired Germany-based antivirus vendor Avira for $360M in cash, eight months after Avira was acquired for $180M by a PE firm
Only eight months after getting acquired for $180 million, Avira is changing hands again, for double the value: NortonLifeLock today announced …
Source: investors in at least two mature Sequoia funds will see 11X returns on paper, after fees, and another fund is showing 8X returns
About a week before the coronavirus was declared a pandemic, one of the world's leading venture capital firms issued a dire prophecy.
This year, disinformation about the pandemic, BLM protests, and the election divided the US, with “Plandemic” as a case study of social networks' failures
Disinformation and its fallout have defined 2020, the year of the infodemic. Month after month, self-serving social media companies … Tweets: @janelytv , @newslitproject , @rasmus_kleis , @brucewilso...
Facing a nationalist backlash in India, Xiaomi has rebranded itself as a local manufacturer, unlike other Chinese brands that retreated from the limelight
Facing a nationalist backlash in India, Xiaomi has rebranded itself as a local manufacturer. — • BANGALORE, INDIA Tweets: @anupkaphle , @nilchristopher , @nilchristopher , and @restofworld Tweets: A...
A summary of the draft paper co-authored by Timnit Gebru, which outlined the main risks of large language AI models and provided suggestions for future research
Exclaimer, which helps businesses manage and disseminate email signatures with consistent footers across devices, raises £100M led by Insight Partners
Email signature management platform Exclaimer has raised £100 million ($133 million) in a round of funding led by Insight Partners.
Google says it pulled some Chrome extensions of IAC, the holding company behind services like Vimeo, for policy violations and is reviewing enforcement options
Kanishka Singh / Reuters :
How Biden's digital campaign, largely focused on positive, authentic messaging and “Facebook moms”, defeated Trump's “Death Star” digital operation
slick-looking 30-second spots—were far less effective than ads that featured regular voters talking directly into their smartphones about why they were voting for Mr. Biden.” https://www.nytimes.com/....
Wonder, which enables smaller, more organic video-based interactions within a larger virtual conference, raises $11M led by EQT Ventures
A plethora of virtual event platforms have gained significant traction in a year marked by social distancing. And Germany's Wonder is another …
London-based online payments company Paysafe says it will go public via SPAC at a ~$9B valuation; Blackstone and CVC acquired Paysafe for ~$4B in 2017
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By July, Chinese banks and trust companies had ~$230B in outstanding loans to users who borrowed via Alipay, a factor in new regulatory scrutiny of Ant Group
Partnering with the fintech giant has higher risks for smaller lenders, which are already on shaky ground
Cisco says it will buy UK-based IMImobile, which helps companies keep track of and interact with users, for ~$721M
Linus Chua / Bloomberg :
TikTok videos offering dubious financial advice are drawing millions of views, as young people increasingly turn to the app as a source of financial literacy
JD.com says it will launch a pilot program this month to test digital yuan, the cryptocurrency backed by China's central bank
Tecton.ai raises $35M Series B co-led by a16z and Sequoia Capital as it releases its ML feature store, just a week after AWS debuted its Sagemaker Feature store
Tecton.ai, the startup founded by three former Uber engineers who wanted to bring the machine learning feature store idea to the masses …
Filing: e-commerce marketplace Wish aims to raise $1.1B in its IPO at a $14.1B valuation, pricing shares at $22-$24; Wish was last valued at $11.2B in Aug. 2019
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Deirdre O'Brien, Apple's SVP of Retail + People, talks about the company's response to COVID-19 and how its retail staff and stores evolved amid the pandemic
London-based Highland Europe raises €700M to invest in growth-stage European startups and says it has invested nearly €200M this year
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
A growing number of civil lawyers in the US are developing litigation strategies to push back against automated systems that deny the poor basic services
How drone deliveries may impact the design of homes, apartment complexes, and neighborhoods, with possibilities like drone landing pads on mailboxes or rooftops
Beth DeCarbo / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @chupchap , @wsakaren , @producercities , and @chrismattmann Tweets: NTB / @chupchap : Reality: People do not want to modify their homes or spend money on...
Luko, which is developing its own hardware and AI to offer smart home management tools, raises €50M Series B led by EQT Ventures
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
Some Black startup founders are finding it easier to attract investors in 2020, as investors are accessible on Zoom and creating diversity-focused funds
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @mims , @mims , @mims , @ebekiel , @mims , @mims , @stevecase , and @mims Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : While the Ubers and the Postmates and (in...
Amazon's proactive engagement with EU regulators, addressing their concerns, may help it avoid the fate of Google, which was fined ~$9B for antitrust violations
Aoife White / Bloomberg :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.