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Disney's top streaming exec, Kevin Mayer, resigns to become CEO of TikTok and COO of parent company ByteDance; Disney names Rebecca Campbell as his successor — Kevin Mayer will lead the Chinese-owned app for making and sharing short videos, which has exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
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AG Barr says that, “no thanks to Apple”, the FBI succeeded in unlocking the “phones” of the Pensacola gunman, who they found had significant links to Al Qaeda — It looks like the most recent contention between the FBI and Apple over device encryption has come to an end …
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
In email to staff, Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber will cut 3,000 more jobs, in addition to the 3,700 that were let go earlier this month, and will close 45 offices — The ride-hailing giant also is exploring the sale of noncore businesses — Uber Technologies Inc. is cutting several thousand …
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| Richard Speed / The Register: |
At an MIT event, Microsoft president Brad Smith says the company was “on the wrong side of history” with open source — Tell-all with president Brad Smith reveals Obama warned tech giants that a privacy reckoning was coming — Microsoft president Brad Smith (pictured) …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Minecraft has now topped 200M sales, up from 100M in 2016, with 126M monthly players; Minecraft saw a 25% increase in new players last month — Minecraft continues to grow despite being 11 years old — Minecraft sales have officially topped 200 million, with 126 million people playing the game monthly.
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Oculus says it will start accepting Quest titles that support hand tracking this month and details two new collaboration and productivity apps coming this year — We're about to celebrate an exciting milestone: the one-year anniversary of Oculus Quest and Rift S!
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asian Review: |
Sources: TSMC, the biggest contract chipmaker, has halted new orders from Huawei in response to new US export controls; orders placed before are not impacted — Taiwan chipmaker's relationship with its second biggest customer under fire — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. …
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Jack Dorsey has told Square employees they can work from home even after the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders end, following a similar move at Twitter — Employees can work remotely even after the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders end — Square employees will be able to work from home …
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| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
Alibaba's Jack Ma resigns from SoftBank board, as he pulls back from formal business roles to focus on philanthropy; SoftBank to propose three new appointments — TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp said on Monday that Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma will resign from its board … | Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: Nasdaq to unveil new rules requiring companies from some countries, including China, to raise $25M+ or 25%+ of post-listing market cap in their IPOs — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ.O) is set to unveil new restrictions on initial public offerings (IPOs) … | Bloomberg: |
A Facebook conducted survey of 86K small business owners and employees shows 31% of SMBs have stopped operating and 11% more expect to fail in next 3 months — - April survey shows another 11% expect to fail within 3 months — Half don't have plans to rehire employees they had to cut| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Intercontinental Exchange's Bakkt says its institutional custody business has now more than 70 clients as it eyes the launch of a much-anticipated consumer app — Bakkt, the digital asset venture owned by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has expanded its institutional custody business … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Google suspended a popular Android podcast app, Podcast Addict, from the Play Store and removed ads from existing installs, because it lists COVID-19 content — Part of a new Google policy — Podcast Addict, an Android podcast app with millions of users, was suspended over the weekend because it lists COVID-19 content.
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| Ranjan Roy / Margins: |
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