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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at the internal divisions at Apple over its plans for an AR/VR headset, which may be released in 2022; AR glasses to be released by 2023 at the earliest — In late 2018, Apple Inc. was a few years into its plan to build a powerful headset with both virtual- and augmented-reality capabilities when things shifted dramatically.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Google removes 106 malicious Chrome extensions with 32M downloads that collected browsing history and sensitive credentials, after being alerted by researchers — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple is temporarily closing 11 stores across Florida, Arizona, North Carolina and South Carolina amid COVID-19 spikes — Apple Inc. is temporarily shutting some of its U.S. retail stores again after cases of Covid-19 spiked in some areas across the country, Bloomberg News reports.
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| M.G. Siegler / 500ish: |
App Store guidelines and policies were created for the world as it was a decade ago, and Apple should rewrite them for a very different world today — It's time for Apple to re-write and re-think the App Store rules. Because it's 2020, not 2010. … Given Apple's recent statements … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones — For the first time, the social media company is opening up about its most mysterious feature.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Oracle owned BlueKai had an unprotected server leaking identifiable user data and sensitive browsing info, exposing billions of records for anyone to find — Billions of records exposed. — Have you ever wondered why online ads appear for things that you were just thinking about?| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Snapchat apologizes and disables its Juneteenth filter that allowed users to “smile and break the chains”, saying it didn't go through its usual review process — It's the latest example of a controversial Snapchat filter — Snapchat is apologizing for a controversial Juneteenth filter … | Financial Times: |
Wirecard's CEO Markus Braun resigns over the missing €1.9B in cash; James Freis, chief compliance officer who joined company on Thursday, named as interim CEO — Markus Braun resigns as payment group's shares continue to collapse and investors threaten legal action
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Profile of Neeva, founded by former head of Google's advertising arm, which has raised $37.5M for a search engine to be funded via subscriptions instead of ads — Sridhar Ramaswamy once ran Google's $115 billion advertising arm. But he grew disillusioned and worried that growth was too much of a priority.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
BMW and Mercedes-Benz end their partnership, which was announced in July 2019, for the development of autonomous driving technology — BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz AG have punted on what was meant to be a long term collaboration to develop next-generation automated driving technology together … | Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Staff at mental health startup Crisis Text Line turned to Twitter after calls about company's pattern of racial insensitivity were ignored, prompting CEO firing — To Jo*, the question of whether Crisis Text Line should issue a public response to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery was a no-brainer.
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| Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: |
Palantir raises $500M from Japanese insurance holding company Sompo; sources: Palantir's shares have been trading on the private market at a $10B-$14B valuation — (Reuters) - Palantir Technologies Inc on Thursday said that Japanese insurance holding company Sompo Holdings Inc (8630.T) …
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| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Facebook commits $200M to support US Black-owned businesses, plans to double Black and Latinx staff by 2023, and add “Lift Black Voices” section to app — Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on Thursday announced a series of new steps the social media giant is taking …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Boston-based Botkeeper, which automates bookkeeping workflows using AI, raises $25M Series B led by Point72 Ventures, bringing its total raised to $47.5M — Botkeeper, a startup developing automated data entry, classification, and reporting solutions for accounting, today announced it has raised $25 million.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
France's top administrative court dismisses Google's appeal against a $57M GDPR fine over insufficient disclosures about Android's processing of user info — France's top court for administrative law has dismissed Google's appeal against a $57M fine issued by the data watchdog last year …
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