What to expect from Apple's April 20 event: refreshed iPads, including Pro model with mini-LED display, 3rd-gen Pencil, AirTags, iMacs in different colors, more
Apple is planning to hold its first event of 2021 on Tuesday, April 20, and it's looking like it will be an iPad-centric event.
Sources: Facebook will announce a suite of audio products on Monday, including a Clubhouse-like app, a podcast discovery product connected to Spotify, and more
Announcements are coming on Monday, but some products won't show up for a while. — Facebook wants you to start talking, and listening, on Facebook.
The Bank of England and the UK Treasury jointly create a taskforce to explore a potential central bank digital currency
Quick Take — The Bank of England and HM Treasury have jointly created a CBDC taskforce. — They will explore a potential digital currency in the U.K.
Microsoft says xCloud game streaming service will launch on iOS and PC tomorrow as an invite-only beta via browsers, available to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers
An invite-only beta begins for xCloud via the web — Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) will officially arrive on iOS and PC tomorrow, April 20th.
WordPress announces that it will treat Google's FLoC as a “security concern”, and will automatically disable the technology in its upcoming July release
WordPress announced today that they plan on treating Google's new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and plans to block it by default on WordPress sites.
UK says it will intervene in SoftBank's sale of ARM to Nvidia on national security grounds
Britain said on Monday it would intervene in SoftBank's (9984.T) sale of chip designer ARM Holdings to U.S. group Nvidia (NVDA.O) on national security grounds, and had requested a report on the implic...
Source: Clubhouse's latest round values the startup at $4B
Audio-chat app Clubhouse closed a new Series C round of financing, the company said during its weekly town hall on Sunday, without disclosing the amount raised. — A source familiar with the matter c...
In a letter to Congress, Apple says it has approved Parler's return to the App Store, following moderation improvements by Parler
Washington (CNN Business)Apple has approved Parler's return to the iOS app store following improvements the social media company made to better detect …
Facebook expands a tool to let users export posts and notes to Blogger, Google Docs, and Wordpress and calls for new guidelines on data flows between services
- Facebook announced Monday it's expanding a tool that allows users to transfer their data to other services.
Facebook details moderation steps around the trial of Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering George Floyd, including designating Minneapolis a “high-risk location”
It's designated Minneapolis a ‘high-risk location’ — Facebook says it's taking extra moderation measures around …
Facebook says employees can continue permanently working from home, even after July 2021, subject to approval from managers
Facebook says its employees can continue working from home, even as other tech giants appear to be going off the idea. — The social media company told the BBC it thinks remote work is “the future”.
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with John Warnock and helped develop PDF technology, has died at 81
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Mastercard says it will buy digital identity verification company Ekata for $850M
The move will bolster Mastercard's digital identity and security platform and framework. — Mastercard said it will acquire Ekata for $850 million in a deal that will bolster its identity verificatio...
Zoom announces a $100M investment fund, which will invest $250K to $2.5M each in promising startups that use Zoom's toolkits
When Zoom launched Zoom Apps and the Marketplace as a place to sell them last year, it was a big signal that the company wanted to be more than just a popular video conferencing application.
Union that lost its bid to represent Amazon workers in AL files objections with NLRB, claiming the company improperly pressured workers to oppose unionization
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A look back at the netbook explosion of the late 2000s and how iPads, Chromebooks, and appliance-like computers took the netbook's place
Clubhouse has raised a Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz, with DST Global, Tiger Global, and Elad Gil participating
led by @AndrewChen at @a16z, w/ support from DST Global, Tiger Global, & Elad Gil 🙏 #CHTownhall https://www.joinclubhouse.com/ ... Nikitha Rai / @rotiandrye : I didn't see this until now. Apparently t...
Alan, a health insurance company with 155K members using its “healthcare super app” in France, Belgium, Spain, raises €185M led by Coatue at a €1.4B valuation
Other big healthtech players in Europe, notably the UK's Babylon Health and Sweden's Kry …
Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019, the last year Google used the “double Irish” tax scheme
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Druva, which provides SaaS tools for data protection and management, raises $145M at a $2B+ post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $475M
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Researchers say Google Translate and other tools could be contributing to misunderstandings of legal terms with conflicting meanings such as “enjoin”
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Bangalore-based Razorpay, which helps SMBs manage digital payments, raises $160M Series E led by GIC and Sequoia Capital India at a valuation of $3B
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
How Apple supply chain is evolving, gradually reducing its dependence on China, and expanding in countries like Vietnam, India, and Malaysia
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US investigators probing a breach at Codecov, a software auditing company, that affected some of its 29K customers; the breach was in Jan. but detected in April
Volvo will provide hundreds of SUVs with driverless tech for Didi Chuxing's fleet of robo-taxis and will integrate with Didi's self-driving hardware platform
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A former alt-right YouTuber details how he tailored videos for the “echo chamber”, including focusing squarely on confrontations to drive views on YouTube
Q&A with a former vendor manager at Amazon on what her job was like and how vendor managers moved into different roles after their jobs were automated by ML
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A look at lobbying efforts by Facebook, Apple, Google and others in Connecticut, Texas, and other US states crafting consumer privacy bills
UK-based Zilch, a buy now pay later service, raises $80M Series B at a $500M+ valuation from Gauss Ventures, M&F Fund, and others
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
How popular brokerage services like Robinhood, Webull, SoFi, and Uphold can make tax-minimizing strategies difficult or impossible to implement
until it comes to minimizing taxes that eat into returns. https://www.wsj.com/... Stuart Rohatiner / @cpa4gpr : Dan Herron, a CPA in San Luis Obispo, Calif., who just prepared a return for a client wh...
Virta, a telehealth startup that helps people manage diabetes with frequent monitoring and dietary counseling, raises $133M Series E, valuing the startup at $2B
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Interview with Intel's VP of Xeon, Lisa Spelman, on the new features in its 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Scalable chips, its data center processor roadmap, and more
many super intelligent women rocking things up inside Intel. Nevine Nassif, an Intel Fellow, is Sapphire Rapids' CPU Lead Architect and worked on DEC's Alpha chip. #SiliconGang https://twitter.com/......
Roblox is working on content ratings for games and on ways to make parental controls easier to find and use, to address sexual content issues on its platform
Leaked terms: Meituan seeks to raise $10B via share placement, $400M from Tencent, about $3B from convertible bonds for R&D of autonomous vehicles, and more
Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg :
As antitrust scrutiny grows, Tencent founder Pony Ma pledges $7.7B for tackling societal ills and lifting China's countryside out of poverty
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Company officials, victims, experts, and intel officials discuss the SolarWinds hack, which successfully compromised ~100 companies and a dozen govt. agencies
Sources: Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake and give up control to appease Chinese regulators
How US banks are using AI to analyze customer preferences, monitor workers, identify people sleeping near ATMs, and more, despite civil liberties concerns
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.