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Sources: Apple is preparing new Apple Silicon-powered MacBook Pros, iMacs, and Mac Pros for as early as spring 2021; full Mac transition will finish in 2022 — - Company tests faster performing processors than Intel's best — Major graphics boost in the works for upcoming desktop Macs
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How Biden's digital campaign, largely focused on positive, authentic messaging and “Facebook moms”, defeated Trump's “Death Star” digital operation — The campaign's empathetic digital strategy held up surprisingly well against President Trump's passionate digital following.
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| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Airbnb plans to boost the proposed price range of its IPO to between $56 and $60 a share, which equates to a valuation of $39B to $42B, fully diluted — New price range for home-rental company's public debut equates to $39 billion to $42 billion, fully diluted
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| Financial Times: |
Inside Disney's costly online push while its lucrative legacy businesses decline, as sources say the success of Disney+ diminished Disney's interest in Hulu — Media empire must sustain its costly online push while its lucrative legacy businesses decline — The Walt Disney Company …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: investors in at least two mature Sequoia funds will see 11X returns on paper, after fees, and another fund is showing 8X returns — About a week before the coronavirus was declared a pandemic, one of the world's leading venture capital firms issued a dire prophecy.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Exclaimer, which helps businesses manage and disseminate email signatures with consistent footers across devices, raises £100M led by Insight Partners — Email signature management platform Exclaimer has raised £100 million ($133 million) in a round of funding led by Insight Partners.| Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News: |
This year, disinformation about the pandemic, BLM protests, and the election divided the US, with “Plandemic” as a case study of social networks' failures — Disinformation and its fallout have defined 2020, the year of the infodemic. Month after month, self-serving social media companies …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Black startup founders are finding it easier to attract investors in 2020, as investors are accessible on Zoom and creating diversity-focused funds — An unexpected side-effect of lockdowns: It can be easier to get a meeting with a venture capitalist.| Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
Facing a nationalist backlash in India, Xiaomi has rebranded itself as a local manufacturer, unlike other Chinese brands that retreated from the limelight — Facing a nationalist backlash in India, Xiaomi has rebranded itself as a local manufacturer. — • BANGALORE, INDIA| Beth DeCarbo / Wall Street Journal: |
How drone deliveries may impact the design of homes, apartment complexes, and neighborhoods, with possibilities like drone landing pads on mailboxes or rooftops — Landing pads, special mailboxes and more: A future where delivery drones buzz through neighborhoods could prompt architects and builders to rethink
Tweets: @wsakaren, @chupchap, @producercities, and @chrismattmann
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
London-based Highland Europe raises €700M to invest in growth-stage European startups and says it has invested nearly €200M this year — Highland Europe — the tech growth fund best known for backing high profile late-stage startups like GetYourGuide, Huel, WeTransfer, Wolt and Zwift …
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| Linus Chua / Bloomberg: |
Cisco says it will buy UK-based IMImobile, which helps companies keep track of and interact with users, for ~$721M — - The U.S. maker of networking gear will pay 595 pence a share — U.K. firm a provider of cloud communications software — Cisco Systems Inc. agreed …
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