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Violent unrest erupts at Wistron's iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru in India, sources say over the company's failure to pay promised wages — A screenshot of the video showing employees damaging properties at the iPhone manufacturing plant. — BENGALURU: The iPhone manufacturing plant …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: point-of-sale lender Affirm is postponing its IPO until next year — The point-of-sale lender is the second company in as many days to pull back from the IPO market — Affirm Holdings Inc. is postponing its initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Kuo: iPhone 13 mass production will return to Apple's usual timeframe and will not face the delays that the iPhone 12 lineup faced — While the iPhone 12 lineup launched later than usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today forecasted that mass production … | Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Indie game developers say Twitch's light touch with nudity in big games like Cyberpunk 2077, despite Twitch's rules against explicit content, is hypocritical — You can't show dicks or nipples on Twitch unless you're playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077.’ — Cyberpunk 2077 is full of dicks.| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal memo: Roblox, citing soaring market debuts of Airbnb and DoorDash, says it is too difficult to price its shares and will delay its IPO until next year — Videogame company, citing Airbnb and DoorDash market debuts, says it is too difficult to price its shares
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| Stephen Babcock / Technical.ly Baltimore: |
Baltimore-based digital lending software company eOriginal to be acquired by Dutch information services company Wolters Kluwer for $280M in cash — eOriginal agreed to be acquired by a division of Dutch information services company Wolters Kluwer. The 24-year-old company's employees and local presence are staying in place.
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| Steven Burke / crn.com: |
Thoma Bravo says it is acquiring a majority stake in Venafi, a provider of machine identity management software, at a $1.15B valuation — “Thoma Bravo invests in category creators and leaders,” said Venafi CEO Jeff Hudson. “That ($1.15 billion) valuation is a good valuation.
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| Hamilton Nolan / In These Times: |
A look at The Drivers Cooperative, a worker-owned NYC ride sharing app debuting early 2021, which aims to maximize drivers' pay, lower cost of gas and insurance — The city's first worker-owned ridesharing app gets ready to take on the big boys. — Ken Lewis grew up on the island of Grenada …
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| Joshua Swingle / Phone Arena: |
Unreleased Samsung Galaxy S21+ 5G gets compared to iPhone 12 Pro Max in a YouTube video — It has been less than 24 hours since the Galaxy S21+ was spotted on video for the first time, but the same source has now returned with another video that compares the Galaxy S21+ to its closest rival — the iPhone 12 Pro Max.| Liz O'Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Salesforce's acquisition of Slack is emblematic of a long-standing trend of defensive acquisitions by Big Tech and speaks to the impact of weak antitrust laws — Slack wanted to stay independent. But in a landscape dominated by tech giants, that proved impossible.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Sweden-based MTG acquires Hutch Games, a London-based game studio behind popular mobile racing games such as Rebel Racing and F1 Manager, for up to $375M — Sweden's MTG is making a significant acquisition in the mobile gaming industry. The company is acquiring Hutch Games …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Filing: California is seeking to join the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Google, making it the first Democratic state to request to join 11 GOP AGs in the suit — - California is seeking to join the Justice Department in its antitrust lawsuit against Google, according to a court filing the state submitted on Friday.
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