Kuo: Apple is planning to launch a foldable iPhone with an 8" QHD+ flexible OLED display in 2023; Kuo says Apple will ship 15M to 20M foldable iPhones in 2023
Apple is working to launch a foldable iPhone with an 8-inch QHD+ flexible OLED display in 2023, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo …
Verizon says it will sell Yahoo and AOL to PE firm Apollo Global Management for $5B, keeping a 10% stake in the company, which will be rebranded as just “Yahoo”
- Verizon will sell its media group, which includes brands from AOL and Yahoo, to private equity firm Apollo Global Management.
After Apple's iOS 14 privacy updates, Facebook and Instagram show notices in iOS apps that tell users to enable tracking to help keep them “free of charge”
iOS 14 has new privacy settings that let users opt out of tracking — Facebook is continuing its campaign …
Facebook Oversight Board says it will announce its decision on banning Trump at 9AM ET on Wednesday, after receiving 9,000+ responses
(CNN Business)The Facebook Oversight Board will announce its long-anticipated decision on the fate of former President Trump's Facebook account at 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday, it announced Monday morning.
Apple's ban on alt iOS browser engines and years of delays in adding features to WebKit can explain why web apps are not a viable alternative to App Store apps
Do App Store policies harm developers? Is the web a credible alternative? A look at the data. — Three facts...
SEC filing: Rockley Photonics, developer of sensors that can be used for blood pressure and glucose monitoring, says Apple is currently its biggest customer
A new report says that a future Apple Watch could have a new raft of health sensors, including blood pressure and … Source: Telegraph .
A new cryptocurrency called Chia is debuting on May 3, and its dependence on storage instead of computing power may be behind a rise in hard drive and SSD sales
- A new green cryptocurrency called Chia (XCH) is set to start trading on Monday, May 3. — Chia uses “proof of space” …
Dell has agreed to sell Boomi, which specializes in integrating cloud platforms for companies, to Francisco Partners and TPG in a cash deal valued at $4B
Dell Technologies Inc. has agreed to selling its Boomi cloud business to private-equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG in a cash deal valued …
Microsoft planned to reduce its cut from 30% to 12% for Xbox games too, a document filed as part of Epic vs Apple lawsuit in January shows
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Toronto-based Wealthsimple, an online investment management service, raises ~$610M at a post-money valuation of $4B, led by Meritech and Greylock
Canadian fintech giant Wealthsimple has raised a new round of $750 million CAD (~$610 million) at a post-money valuation of $5 billion CAD (~$4 billion).
More than 30 of Europe's largest banks and credit card processors form the European Payment Initiative, aiming to compete with a US-dominated “oligopoly”
More than 30 lenders designing rival to take on PayPal, Mastercard, Visa and Apple — More than 30 of Europe's largest banks …
Teardown of Apple's AirTag: it has a magnet to turn its body into a speaker driver, but still has a more compact design than the Tile Mate or Galaxy SmartTag
to which attaching an AirTag is not practical. @techaltar : I swear Apple does a couple of these ridiculously expensive things just so people can screenshot and get outraged about them: - free PR - fi...
Path Robotics, which uses scanning, computer vision, and AI for robotic welding, raises $56M Series B led by Addition, bringing its total raised to $71M
Columbus, Ohio-based firm Path Robotics today announced the completion of a $56 million Series B. The round, led by Addition …
Report: Bitcoin accounts for ~46% of total crypto market value of $2.3T, down from ~70% at the start of the year; Ether, which rose to $3K on Monday is at ~15%
Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg :
A look back at Satoshi Nakamoto's role in the Bitcoin project and exchanges with its community, 10 years after the disappearance of the mysterious figure
Pete Rizzo / Bitcoin Magazine :
Study shows hiring for tech positions surpassed all other occupations, even healthcare jobs, in New York City between April and November 2020
There were more openings for tech positions during the pandemic than for any other job in the city, a new study says
Internal audit at Amazon warned execs in 2015 that 4,700 of its own sales staff had unauthorized access to third-party seller data and some had misused it
Internal report flagged lack of controls over access to seller data. — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told U.S. lawmakers last year … Tweets: @nicholasvinocur and @jason_kint Tweets: Nicholas Vinocur / @nich...
Cloudflare, which was sued by “patent troll” Sable Networks, is offering a $100K bounty to those who can find evidence of prior art on Sable Networks' patents
SensorTower data shows Clubhouse has been downloaded 1.1M times in the Middle East, where its users see it as an open forum to discuss politics and taboo issues
New York Times : Tweets: @abdu , @curdistani , @nytimes , @asadabukhalil , @shahselbe , @rickgladstone , @naderalihashemi , @freddydeknatel , @mairavz , @farnazfassihi , and @evelyndouek Tweets: @abd...
Genies, which develops avatars for virtual identity and digital goods, raises $65M Series B led by Bond and plans a marketplace on Dapper Labs' Flow service
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Neuralink's President and co-founder Max Hodak tweets that he has left the brain-computer interface startup
Lora Kolodny / CNBC :
Moscow's facial recognition network, hailed by officials as an aid for catching criminals and enforcing COVID-19 restrictions, is now used to catch protesters
Bloomberg : Tweets: @biannagolodryga and @evanselinger Tweets: Bianna Golodryga / @biannagolodryga : More than 50 people who participated in last month's protests were detained via facial recognition...
Australia-based SafetyCulture, which helps businesses perform and automate safety checks and audits, raises $73M at a $1.6B valuation led by Insight Partners
Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News :
Connecteam, whose app helps employers remotely manage deskless workers in industries such as retail and construction, raises $37M at a valuation of $100M+
Kristin Stoller / Forbes : Source: PR Newswire Source: Connecteam / PR Newswire : Connecteam Raises $37 Million to Accelerate Growth & Expansion of its all-in-one App for Deskless Employees USA - Eng...
Q&A with Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Microsoft's chief accessibility officer, on holding every department accountable, validating ROI, and hiring staff with disabilities
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal :
Intel says it will invest another $600M in Israel, primarily to expand its Mobileye R&D, and confirms it is spending $10B on a new chip plant there
Critics say the EU should focus on producing older generations of chips instead of making big plans to invest billions of euros into cutting-edge chip-making
Bibit, which runs robo-advisor services for mutual funds and invests users' money based on their risk profiles, raises $65M led by Sequoia Capital India
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
PitchBook: digital healthcare startups raised $7B in Q1, the highest in a decade; potential corporate customers say some services are overpriced and redundant
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsj Tweets: @wsj : An explosion of digital-health startups has executives in corporate benefits excited about lowering costs, but has also spawned a glu...
Israeli startup Locusview raises $64M Series A for its digital construction management suite that helps companies manage infrastructure capital projects
Meir Orbach / CTech :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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