Apple confirms it'll discontinue iMac Pro after supplies end, says 27" iMac introduced in August is the preferred choice for the vast majority of pro iMac users
Apple on late Friday evening added a “while supplies last” notice to its iMac Pro product page worldwide …
Sources: at least 30K US organizations have been hacked by an aggressive Chinese espionage group exploiting unpatched flaws in Microsoft's Exchange Server
At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns …
After Jack Dorsey promoted an auction on the site Valuables for an NFT of his very first tweet, the bids for “just setting up my twttr” reach $2.5M
Apparently you can actually sell your tweets as NFT — Jack Dorsey, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Twitter …
Kuo: Apple plans to release a mixed reality headset in mid-2022 for around $1K, followed by AR glasses by 2025, and “contact lens type” devices by 2030-2040
Apple plans to release its long-rumored mixed reality headset “in mid-2022,” followed by augmented reality glasses by 2025 …
Report: in 2020, China overtook the US in the number of AI research citations, fewer AI startups got funded, and the US Congress talked about AI more than ever
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — China has overtaken the United States … Source: Stanford HAI and Stanford HAI .
Postscript, which helps Shopify merchants stay in touch with customers via SMS, announces $35M Series B led by Greylock, with participation from YC and others
Postscript helps Shopify stores stay in touch with customers via SMS, with a focus on keeping everything opt-in, legally compliant, and spam free.
States are increasingly granting small delivery robots generous access to city sidewalks; in PA, they are classified as “pedestrians” and can drive up to 12 mph
As small robots proliferate on sidewalks and city streets, so does legislation that grants them generous access rights … Tweets: @robertburns73 , @cooperlund , @mtsw , @nicolarossi , @parismarx , @ste...
Online learning provider Coursera files its S-1, reports 2020 net losses widened to $66.8M, up 46% YoY, on revenue growth of $293.5M, up 59% YoY
This is the initial public offering of shares of common stock of Coursera … TechCrunch : A first look at Coursera's S-1 filing Tony Wan / EdSurge : Coursera's IPO Filing Shows Growing Revenue and Loss...
Interviews with more than a dozen designers, many of whom worked with Jeff Bezos, about his failed attempt to make Amazon a “cool” brand like Apple and Nike
Amazon can squeeze a lot into a box. — Jared Ficklin was part of a secret team at a prominent design firm tapped … Tweets: @harrymccracken , @fastcodesign , @fastcodesign , @fastcodesign , @fastcode...
Report: Russian and Chinese hackers were behind hacks of European Medicines Agency in 2020; Russian hackers had access to EMA's systems for more than a month
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Russian intelligence agency and Chinese spies were behind cyberattacks on the European Medicines Agency …
Interview with Qualcomm's incoming CEO Cristiano Amon on the global chip shortage, why it won't build its own fabs, and opposition to the Nvidia-Arm deal
Cristiano Amon, incoming CEO of chipmaker Qualcomm, warns in an interview with CNET that the shortage may not end until late 2021.
Sources: four consortia, comprised of companies like Reliance, Paytm, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Visa, are preparing bids to operate India's digital payments
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Profile of Salesforce Ventures, the company's investment arm that helped it post a $2.17B gain from stakes in tech companies like nCino and Snowflake in 2020
- Salesforce racked up a $2.17 billion gain on investments in 2020, mostly from its stakes in Snowflake and nCino, which both went public. Tweets: @abhishekxsingh , @benioff , and @jasoncwarner Tweets...
Q&A: WhatsApp's Will Cathcart on the Facebook-Apple feud, WhatsApp's new privacy policy, competing apps, and the debate over message “traceability” in India
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Profile of Tencent, China's most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and overseas startup investments worth ~$259B
The tech giant has investments worth an estimated $259 billion in Chinese and overseas startups Tweets: @ruima , @bluff_capital , @jodixu , @jchengwsj , @jingyanghk , and @jchengwsj Tweets: @ruima : N...
Screenshots of a beta version of Fireside, Mark Cuban's podcasting app, suggest it will be a hybrid between Spotify's Anchor and Clubhouse
how it's different Tweets: Jeff Stockwell / @stockwell : @mcuban and his startup are infringing on an existing podcast hosting platform called @firesidefm . This is an outstanding service created by p...
Q&A with Twitter's senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more
Will Oremus / OneZero : Tweets: @ozm , @thedextriarchy , @mediasmarts , @michellemanafy , @risj_oxford , @willoremus , and @willoremus Tweets: OneZero / @ozm : Notice how Twitter is toeing the line t...
Internal email: Google has told customers in France and Spain that it will raise ad rates 2% from May, to help offset costs of digital taxes in those countries
Agence France-Presse : Tweets: @sarthakgh and @martinsfp Tweets: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : Politicians helping the little guys! SMBs, emerging brands and small publishers will now have to pay mor...
Report: 96.9% of Bay Area tech startups remained in the region in 2020; of those that moved, 21% moved to New York, 21% to other parts of CA, and 12% to TX
Annabelle Williams / Insider : Tweets: @lenny_mendonca , @jaycuthrell , @producercities , and @abrams Tweets: Lenny Mendonca / @lenny_mendonca : “A new survey throws cold water on a popular storyline...
A look at Tim Wu's work on tech policy issues, from coining the term “net neutrality” to stints at NY AG's office, the FTC and Obama's NEC, and more
so long! Adam Kovacevich / @adamkovac : Incoming White House tech policy advisor @superwuster's truth bomb on Section 230: Repeal would hurt small platforms more than big ones: https://superwuster.med...
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
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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.