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July 31, 2020, 1:30 PM

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Financial Times:
Sources: Nvidia in talks to buy Arm in a cash-and-stock deal that would value it at more than the $32B SoftBank paid to buy the UK chip designer in 2016  —  US chipmaker seeks cash-and-stock purchase of UK chip designer from its Japanese owner  —  US chip company Nvidia is in talks to buy …
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A look at the “hustle economy”, where unemployed teachers, cooks, and dancers are turning to Patreon, Twitch, and OnlyFans to monetize their digital offerings  —  Unemployed teachers, cooks, dancers are turning to Patreon, Twitch, and OnlyFans  —  e have nothing to sell besides physical touch.
Apple:
Apple reports Q3 revenue of $59.7B, up 11% YoY, of which $46.5B came from products, $13.1B from services, and net income of $11.2B; stock up 6%+  —  Revenue up 11 percent and EPS up 18 percent to new June quarter records  —  Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 third quarter ended June 27, 2020.
Bloomberg:
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
In an update to the July 15 hack, Twitter says a few employees were targeted in a phone spear phishing attack, and it had since limited access to internal tools  —  ‘This attack relied on a significant and concerted attempt to mislead certain employees’  —  Twitter provided an update …
Politico:
North Face and Heineken are among the companies who say they will resume Facebook ads from August, Levi Strauss and Smucker Co. will continue the boycott  —  More than 1,000 organizations stopped ads for the month of July, without getting many concessions.  Can they keep it going and build global pressure?
Facebook:
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Amazon.com:
Amazon reports Q2 revenue of $88.91B, up 40% YoY, net income of $5.2B, up from $2.5B in Q1 2019, and AWS revenue of $10.81B, up 29%; stock up 4%+  —  SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2020.
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Steven Musil / CNET:
Twitter permanently bans the account of white supremacist David Duke  —  Duke's Twitter account was “permanently suspended” for violating the company's policy against hateful conduct, a spokesperson for the social network says.  —  White supremacist David Duke has been permanently banned …
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
The hearing at times felt like gaslighting, with the CEOs trying to convince lawmakers that the evidence the House collected wasn't really evidence of anything  —  It is less clear that tech executives' strategy of evasive answers will continue to work now that lawmakers have begun doing their homework.
South China Morning Post:
Chinese importers are ramping up chip imports through Hong Kong before US sanctions shut the route; chip imports to China through HK in H1 2020 are up 11% YoY  —  Re-exports of semiconductors through Hong Kong to the mainland jumped by 11 per cent in the first half of the year from the same period …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Porch, which connects homebuyers to movers, insurance providers, TV/internet companies, and others, to go public at a $523M valuation via merger with a SPAC  —  Porch, a real estate technology venture and home improvement marketplace that has spent four years quietly renovating its own business …

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