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Apple becomes the world's only company with a $1T market cap — Apple has officially become the world's only trillion dollar publicly traded company, in terms of market capitalization, which is simply the company's number of outstanding shares multiplied by its stock price.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
In memo to employees, CEO Tim Cook calls Apple's $1T market cap a significant milestone, but not the most important measure of success — Following Apple's milestone crossing of $1 trillion in market value earlier today, Tim Cook has sent a full memo to employees, calling the value a “milestone” but nothing the company focuses on...| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Cisco is buying Duo Security, a vendor of cloud-based two-factor authentication services, for $2.35B in cash — Cisco today announced its intent to buy Ann Arbor, MI-based security firm, Duo Security. Under the terms of agreement, Cisco is paying $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity awards for Duo.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Comcast and Amazon reach a deal to integrate Prime Video into Comcast's Xfinity X1 service; Comcast expects to launch Prime Video on X1 later this year — Comcast and Amazon reached a deal to bring Prime Video to the cable company's Xfinity X1 service — the first time Amazon's premium …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft Surface Go review: thin and light with a gorgeous display, but its performance is wanting and there's a lack of great Windows tablet apps — The Surface Go is Microsoft's smallest and cheapest tablet yet, with specs that would make hardware nerds laugh.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @daniel_rubino, @maryjofoley, and @backlon
| Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
Now that Facebook and other platforms have become “digital arms dealers”, Zuckerberg takes a crash course in free speech and propaganda, at a cost to the public — They have weaponized social media, and we are all paying the price. — Let me first state that I actually …
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Motorola unveils modular 6-inch Moto Z3 with Snapdragon 835, 4GB RAM, dual cameras, and a 5G Moto Mod for upgrading to 5G, available on August 16 for $480 — We've already got a handful of new Moto phones this year, including some Amazon exclusives, and today Motorola is adding yet another device to the list: the Moto Z3.
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Tweets: @julianchokkattu, @rdrv3, @saschasegan, and @starfire2258
| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Sonos closes its first day of trading at $19.91, up 32% from its initial price of $15, giving the company a valuation of about $1.95B after today's IPO — - Sonos markets its high-end, web-connected speakers to audiophiles and music fans as the speaker industry moves toward smart assistants made by Amazon and Google.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Arm buys US-based data analytics company Treasure Data to strengthen its IoT offerings; no price given, but an earlier report said Arm might pay $600M — Arm, the semiconductor firm you probably still remember as ARM, today announced that it has acquired Treasure Data, a data management platform for large enterprise customers.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
IDC: in Q2, global tablet shipments were 33M, down 13.5% YoY; Huawei and Apple are the only companies that saw growth at 7.7% YoY and 0.9% YoY respectively — Other tablet makers like Amazon and Samsung, however? Ouch — The worldwide tablet market has been declining year after year for what feels like... forever.
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| Monica Mercuri / Billboard: |
Bytedance merges lip sync app Musical.ly, which it bought in November 2017, into its Tik Tok app, which has a new interface for easier video capture and editing — Musical.ly's new owner decides to nix the name and migrate the app's 100 million monthly active users to TikTok.
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Tweets: @jank0, @joshconstine, @kerrymflynn, and @cheriehu42
| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Patreon says it is experiencing a “high number” of July payment declines for some creators due to banking issues and changes to internal company operations — 'It's absolutely terrifying.' — Patreon is declining significant numbers of subscriber payments to some creators on the platform … | Ry Crist / CNET: |
Charlie Kindel, who helped found Amazon's Alexa Smart Home division before leaving in April, has joined luxury home automation company Control4 as an SVP — Four months after leaving his position as Amazon's director of Alexa Smart Home, Charlie Kindel is back to work … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Political campaigns are now using peer-to-peer texting apps, allowing them to have thousands of text conversations with voters, unregulated by anti-spam laws — Marla Hohner was at home in Dallas when a text message arrived from an unfamiliar number. — “Hi Marla,” it read.
Tweets: @nytimestech, @nytimes, and @anniekarni
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
After a nearly year-long ban, Google will now allow ads to run on addiction-related keywords and phrases, starting with ads from close to 100 vetted providers — Google will soon allow ads to run on addiction-related keywords and phrases after a nearly year-long ban instituted to crack … | Leticia Miranda / BuzzFeed News: |
Amazon says it removed products promoting racist propaganda, including a baby's onesie with a burning cross image, in response to letter from Rep. Keith Ellison — After scrutiny from a Congress member in July, Amazon has removed a number of products promoting racist propaganda from its site … | Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
CIRP: Amazon has 70% of smart speaker market in US and Google has 24% as installed base hits 50M; Apple doubled its share in Q2 to 6% — Apple was late to bring out its own smart speaker, and it shows. — Only 6 percent of smart speaker users in the US had one of the tech titan's HomePod devices …
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