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Interview with Jason Rubin, Facebook's VP of Play, on Facebook Gaming, the company's battles with Apple, technical challenges of delivering cloud games, more — Facebook on Monday revealed a broad new cloud gaming strategy aimed at upending the lucrative and fast-growing mobile games ecosystem.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says App Store prices for apps and IAPs in Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa will increase in the next few days — Apple announced today that the App Store prices in Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa will be increased in the next days.
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft, Adobe, and C3.ai launch C3 AI CRM powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365, a new customer relationship management software to compete with Salesforce — Microsoft Corp. is teaming with Adobe Inc. and C3.ai, the company of customer-software pioneer Tom Siebel, in another bid to better compete …
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Microsoft, WebProNews, cloudblogs.microsoft.com, ZDNet, Neowin, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
Twitter says it will place messages it calls “pre-bunks” at the top of users' feeds to pre-emptively debunk false info about voting by mail and election results — Twitter said Monday it would begin placing messages at the top of users' feeds to pre-emptively debunk false information …
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| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
Zoom adds support for end-to-end encryption, but when it's enabled several features like cloud recording, telephone dial-in, and 1:1 private chat will not work — Our mission to help you navigate the new normal is fueled by subscribers. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today.
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Study of ~200K US Internet users: Facebook users read more polarized news as they spend more time on the service, and the impact is 5X greater for conservatives — Steven L. Johnson, Brent Kitchens and Peter Gray are information technology professors at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce.
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Adweek. Tweets: @caseynewton, @mikeisaac, @nxthompson, @mims, @jr_foust, @misterglass, @alexisohanian, @mrsilva, and @elifitch
| Frederic Filloux / Monday Note: |
A look at VC firm a16z's media and podcast offerings, led by ex-Wired editor Sonal Chokshi, which feature an array of voices across 500+ episodes — Andreessen-Horowitz firm has developed a sophisticated podcast system. Its mission: becoming the go-to place to understand the future.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Twilio reports Q3 revenue of $448.8M, up 52% YoY, vs. $409.8M est., says it now has 208,000 active customer accounts, up from 172,000 in Q3 2019 — The cloud communications as a service provider says it now has 208,000 active customer accounts, up from 172,000 in Q3 2019.
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| Liana Baker / Bloomberg: |
Ansys, which makes software used by aerospace and manufacturing sectors, is acquiring Analytical Graphics, maker of software used in space missions, for $700M — - Cash-and-stock deal to boost Ansys's aerospace customer base — Deal expected to add up to $85 million in non-GAAP revenue
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| Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg: |
The US appeals court in San Francisco has rejected DOJ's request to allow the US government to immediately bar downloads of WeChat from US app stores — - Trump administration loses bid to pause judge's Sept. 19 order — Tencent rises to an intraday record after the court's decision| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
FreshToHome, a fresh fish, meat, and vegetables e-commerce service available in major Indian cities, raises $121M Series C, bringing its total raised to $154M — FreshToHome, an Indian e-commerce startup that sells fresh vegetables, fish, chicken and other kinds of meat …
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Sources: staff at Verkada, a facial recognition and security camera startup, abused the company's own surveillance cameras to monitor and harass women coworkers — Employees at Verkada accessed the company's facial recognition system to take photos of women colleagues and make sexually explicit jokes.
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The Verge. Tweets: @ekp, @jason_koebler, @ekp, @zenalbatross, @vice, @brianbrackeen, @akumar, @vice, and @fightfortheftr
| New York Times: |
Jack Ma's Ant Group set out to disrupt China's banks but now partners with many of them while counting huge Chinese institutions as shareholders — The tech giant, which is preparing for a mega I.P.O., has transformed personal finance in China. Regulators have taken notice.| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
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