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September 7, 2020, 11:55 PM

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Windows Central:
Sources: Xbox Series X will be priced at $499 and will launch on November 10, 2020 alongside the Xbox Series S  —  Microsoft is set to hold a press event soon to showcase the next-gen console pricing, and it's pretty familiar. … It has long been rumored that Microsoft is working …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Reed Hastings calls working from home “a pure negative” for employees and that the Netflix workforce will return to its offices once a vaccine is approved  —  Co-CEO of streaming giant discusses company's culture of candor and how working from home is harder
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Report: Apple has hired Tim Connolly, a former executive at Hulu and Quibi, to work on Apple TV+, as the company explores bundling content  —  In addition to expanding the amount of content on the service, Apple has shown an interest in bundling Apple TV+ with other properties.
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
TikTok is trying to remove a graphic suicide video from its app and is banning accounts that re-upload the clip, says video was originally streamed on Facebook  —  Clips started circulating on Sunday night  —  TikTok is trying to remove graphic videos circulating the app that show …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Italy's antitrust authority says it has opened an inquiry into Google, Apple, and Dropbox over cloud computing services, including “unfair clauses in contracts”  —  Italy's competition authority has opened an investigation into cloud storage services operated by Apple …
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
Samsung Electronics says it has won a $6.6B order to provide 5G wireless solutions to Verizon in the US  —  - It's one of Samsung's largest so far in 5G networking  — Samsung is pushing hard to compete with Nokia and Ericsson  —  Samsung Electronics Co. won a 7.9 trillion won …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Four employees of SF-based sales document management startup PandaDoc arrested in Belarus on fraud charges after the founders joined protests against Lukashenko  —  Yesterday the four employees (pictured) of US-headquartered enterprise startup PandaDoc were arrested in Minsk by the Belarus police …
Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
How iOS app developers draw on behavioral psychology to design user ratings pop-ups that appear at opportune times, like after a high score or on payday  —  Rating an iPhone app takes just a second, maybe two.  “Enjoying Skype?” a prompt will ask, and you click on a star rating from 1 to 5.

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