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August 4, 2018, 7:55 PM

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Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
TSMC says a virus infected its fabrication tools on Friday night and shut down several factories, some of which won't restart at least until Sunday  —  - Some factories back to normal, rest in another day, TSMC says  — Virus that struck Friday night ‘was not caused by hacker’
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook says it is testing its dating product internally; sign-up screenshots show the feature calls for a separate profile as described at F8 in May  —  Let the poking begin  —  Two months after announcing the product at its F8 developer conference, Facebook is testing its dating app internally with employees.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney about why the Android version of Fortnite will be available exclusively on fortnite.com, bypassing the Google Play Store  —  Tim Sweeney is quiet as CEOs go.  But the head of Epic Games isn't shy when it comes to expressing his opinions about the state of games …
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Yawen Chen / Reuters:
A look at DingTalk, Alibaba's chat app for companies, used by over 100M users in 7M companies in China that many say fuels an unhealthy work culture  —  Their installation in the hallowed flat where Ma got his start in the eastern city of Hangzhou reflects DingTalk's place in the pecking order …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Google is in talks with Tencent, Inspur, and other local companies to offer Google cloud services in mainland China  —  - Local partnerships would give Google political cover to return  — Talks began early this year but U.S.-China trade tensions loom
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
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