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How Tim Cook is cultivating a relationship with Donald Trump and advocates for Apple's interests, while avoiding public backlash from employees and customers — Apple CEO advocates for his company's interests while avoiding a backlash from either employees or the president
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Apple admits some iPhone 6S/6S Plus phones sold from Oct. 2018 to Aug. 2019 may not turn on due to a faulty component, offers free repairs and repair refunds — The problem affects phones made between October 2018 and August 2019. — Apple has posted notice of a new repair program …
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PayPal says it is withdrawing from Facebook's Libra Association, becoming the first of its founding members to do so — PayPal is withdrawing from Facebook's Libra Association, the company announced Friday. — “PayPal has made the decision to forgo further participation in the Libra Association …
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| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
How China is using social media and films to stir patriotism and get communist party propaganda enthusiastically embraced by young people — Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth.
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A look at the history of open source as the big VC raises and multi-billion dollar exits for open source software startups become the norm — Editor's Note: The open source software (OSS) movement has created some of our most important and widely used technologies, including operating systems, web browsers, and databases.
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| Edward Robinson / Bloomberg: |
European tech companies struggle to compensate employees with profit-sharing in a system where stock options have big restrictions and high tax rates — Lawmakers across the Continent haven't given startups the compensation tools they need to share profits with employees. That's changing.| Adam Mansfield / CIO.com: |
How Microsoft and Google Cloud are battling for enterprise customers with partnerships, hardball licensing tactics, and tailored offerings for deskless workers — The competitive landscape is heating up. As Google Cloud aggressively approaches enterprises to get a foot in the door …
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| Stephen Armstrong / WIRED UK: |
Google's Stadia execs talk about plans for the service, including tackling latency issues, building an exclusive content library, and an internal game studio — Google Stadia promises console-free gaming where you can hop from watching to playing to streaming with just one click - but can it convince both developers and gamers?| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Geospatial tech startup SenSat, which uses AI to create digital representations of real-world locations, raises $10M Series A led by Tencent — SenSat, a geospatial technology startup that digitizes real-world places for infrastructure projects, has raised $10 million in a series A round …
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cybersecurity startup Kenna Security raises $48M Series D led by Sorenson Capital and Citi Ventures, bringing total raised to ~$98M — Risk-based vulnerability cybersecurity startup Kenna Security Inc. today said it has raised $48 million in new funding to accelerate its international expansion and drive product development.
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Spain-based payments startup Bnext raises $25M Series A, plans to expand to Mexico later this year — Fintech startup Bnext has raised a $25 million funding round. The Spanish company is building a banking product and has managed to attract 300,000 active users.
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France-based AnotherBrain, developer of AI software that costs less and uses less energy by not relying on big data sets, raises €19M Series A — Deep learning company AnotherBrain has announced the first closing of their Series A, to the tune of €19 million.| New York Times: |
Sources: Trump's re-election campaign is the presidential campaign that Microsoft said was targeted by Iranian hackers — SAN FRANCISCO — Iranian hackers targeted President Trump's re-election campaign, two people with knowledge of the attacks said on Friday, in a sign of how cyberattacks … | Tom Burt / Microsoft on the Issues: |
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