Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23B; Wiz raised $1B at a $12B valuation in May 2024
Deal would be tech giant's largest acquisition ever.
Apple approves the first PC emulator for iOS, UTM SE, weeks after rejecting and barring the app from being notarized for third-party app stores in the EU
Apple has approved UTM SE, an app for emulating a computer to run classic software and games, weeks after the company rejected …
AT&T appears to have paid a ShinyHunters member $373K+ to delete call records stolen from AT&T's Snowflake account that exposed “nearly all” of AT&T's customers
A security researcher who assisted with the deal says he believes the only copy of the complete dataset …
A look at the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series, its AI PC chip family for laptops, and the Ryzen 9000 series for desktops, both built on the new Zen 5 CPU architecture
Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's opening keynote.
X's trending topics surfaced conspiracy theories around the assassination attempt on Donald Trump; YouTube and Facebook primarily directed users to news outlets
Conspiracy theories about the shooting at a Trump rally began surfacing on X shortly after the news broke this afternoon …
Tech leaders, including Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg, condemned the July 13 Trump assassination attempt
Lloyd Lee / Business Insider :
IDC and Counterpoint say the global smartphone market grew 6.5% and 6%, respectively, in Q2 2024, helped by China's 618 event discounts; iPhone sales stabilized
- Apple's iPhone sales stabilized after a tough first quarter — Key China market accelerated its growth in the summer
HP unveils the 14" OmniBook Ultra, with an AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPU, one of the first non-ARM powered Copilot+ PCs, for $1,450+, and the OmniStudio X 27 and X 31.5
Sean Endicott / Windows Central :
A profile of Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz, founded in 2020, and its four co-founders, as Alphabet prepares a $23B deal; a source says each owns ~9% of Wiz
Cloud cybersecurity company founded by a group of ex-Israeli military officers is close to landing the tech industry's biggest exit in years
Source: Apple's India revenue rose ~33% YoY to almost $8B from March 2023 to March 2024, and up from $4.1B the year before; pricey iPhones were 50%+ of sales
- Sales jump shows Apple is succeeding in winning users in India — Apple wants to challenge Android's dominance in the country
In their first-ever interview, Shiba Inu leaders Shytoshi Kusama and Kaal Dhairya discuss remaining anonymous, Elon Musk, SHIB's origins, future plans, and more
Intel has faced mounting pressure to fix Raptor Lake CPU stability issues since February 2024; a game studio accuses Intel of selling “defective” CPUs
A look at Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market with a focus on elections that has raised $70M+ and traded $350M+ in predictions on the US election
UK regulators are probing the competitiveness of digital wallets provided by Apple, Google, PayPal, and others, and what risks the wallets pose to consumers
- Consumer usage of digital wallets has soared in recent years — Two regulators probe fees, risks tied to that increased usage
Source: Sequoia emailed LPs in funds raised between 2009 and 2011, offering to buy up to $861M of Stripe shares at $27.51 per share, valuing Stripe at $70B
- The purchasers would be other, more recent Sequoia Capital funds — a process partially enabled by the firm's 2021 restructuring.
ASML-funded Eindhoven University faces questions from the US about admitting Chinese students, as the US increasingly seeks to stem China's chip-making efforts
- Eindhoven University of Technology is near ASML's hometown — US ambassador questioned why it has so many Chinese students
An interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, who presides over the company's $17B content budget, on catering to different tastes and more
She presides over a $17bn budget and is looking for local hits with global potential — Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief hitmaker …
Source: Google and Samsung's XR headset, codenamed Moohan and initially planned for Q1 2024, is now set for March 2025, with a developer version in October 2024
Verizon and T-Mobile US push back on AT&T asking regulators to give FirstNet more wireless frequencies for emergency responders, calling the idea a ~$14B gift
AT&T says a wireless spectrum boost could help local agencies do more; Verizon calls proposal a $14 billion giveaway Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : AT&T, Verizon Tangle Over 5G Service f...
An interview with Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington on their startup Thrive AI Health to build an AI health coach, and why AI has become a technology of faith
so he asked them about it. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the entrepreneur Arianna Huffington want to remake America's health-care system with generative AI....
Analysis: North Korea's Lazarus sent $150K+ in crypto to Cambodian company Huione Pay between June 2023 and February 2024, showing how the group launders funds
Tom Wilson / Reuters :
Yandex finalizes a deal to sell its Russian business and renames the new business as Nebius Group; sources say Yandex founder Arkady Volozh will become CEO
Liezel Hill / Bloomberg :
A look at Nexus, a Bank for International Settlements-backed project aiming to link domestic smartphone-based payment systems for instant cross-border payments
Andy Mukherjee / Bloomberg : X: @business . LinkedIn: Antonio X: @business : Your money will soon be gone in 60 seconds, and that's good, says @andymukherjee70. A breakthrough is underway in instant ...
Filing: HashiCorp says the company and IBM both received a request from the US FTC for more information on IBM's proposed $6.4B takeover of the software maker
Both companies received a so-called second request seeking additional information on the deal from the antitrust agency late last week … Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social . X: @quinnypig Bluesky: Mary B...
OneStream, which makes enterprise financial software, aims to raise up to $465.5M in a US IPO, selling 24.5M shares for $17 to $19 for an up to $4.4B valuation
Bloomberg :
IDC: ~350M people in India still use a feature phone, and 50% of them have a model that costs less than $18; the ASP of a smartphone is $255, up 54% from 2020
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Outspent by tech companies, universities are racing to stay relevant in AI research, as some academics turn their focus to less computing-intensive areas of AI
Q&A with Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, on Elon Musk's lawsuit, election disinformation, social media harms, AI, and more
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