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Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M — Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic
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| Amanda Meade / The Guardian: |
In response to Australian regulator, Facebook says it will not pay for shared news links and that not having them at all would not significantly impact business — Social media giant rejects ACCC proposal, saying it could cut out news completely without any significant impact on its business
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| Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg: |
Walmart partners with Shopify to expand its third-party marketplace, with plans to add 1,200 Shopify sellers this year — - Move is retailer's latest attempt to grow online sales, profit — Walmart will bring 1,200 Shopify sellers to its site this year
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WhatsApp says it is rolling out a payments service for its users in Brazil to send and receive money and make purchases from local businesses — WhatsApp said on Monday it has started to roll out a payments service to its users in Brazil in a move that it described was aimed at helping businesses accept digital money.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
A lawyer for Amazon says Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before a House antitrust investigation, after resisting earlier requests — Lawmakers had requested that he testify as part of their antitrust investigation into the big tech companies. — WASHINGTON — Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive … | Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank has invested $500M+ into Credit Suisse supply-chain finance funds that then made big bets on the debt of struggling SoftBank-backed startups — Japanese conglomerate engages in circular flow of financing to Vision Fund start-ups — SoftBank has quietly poured more than $500m …
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PayPal, Square, others make some businesses wait for weeks to access funds, to protect themselves against the rise of disputed transactions during the pandemic — More people are demanding refunds for things bought before the pandemic. PayPal, Square and others are trying to protect themselves … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches zero-interest financing with Apple Card for iPad, Mac, AirPods, and its other products for six or 12 months — Apple today has officially launched support for financing additional products with Apple Card and 0% interest. The new financing options are available for the Mac lineup …
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| Sirin Kale / The Guardian: |
A look at Shop, Shopify's new app for consumers, which saves stores from having to build their own shopping app and offers personalized product recommendations — It is the second-largest e-commerce platform in the US, yet remains anonymous. Will its new app change all that?
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Intel says its upcoming Tiger Lake mobile CPUs will be the first to use its anti-malware Control-flow Enforcement Technology — Intel says CET can protect against ROP/JOP/COP malware. — Intel has announced today that its experimental CET security feature will be first made available … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
ByteDance says it's shutting down two of its apps in India, Vigo Lite and Vigo Video, the latter of which reportedly had 4M MAUs, urging users to move to TikTok — Chinese internet giant ByteDance has announced plans to discontinue two of its apps in India, its biggest overseas market, and urged users to move to TikTok.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
US auto safety regulators will unveil a voluntary effort to collect and publish centralized nationwide data on autonomous vehicle testing — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety regulators will unveil on Monday a voluntary effort to collect and make available nationwide data on existing autonomous vehicle testing.
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