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Sources: Microsoft is working on in-house designs for chips to run its cloud servers and Surface PCs — Microsoft Corp. is working on in-house processor designs for use in server computers that run the company's cloud services, adding to an industrywide effort to reduce reliance …
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DOJ charges a China-based executive at Zoom with disrupting video meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre; Zoom says it terminated the employee — - Worker accused of disrupting Tiananmen Square commemorations — Zoom says it fired Xinjiang Jin after internal investigation
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An analysis of publicly available web records shows SolarWinds hackers accessed the networks at Cox Communications and the local government in Pima County, AZ — LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected Russian hackers accessed the systems of a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona …
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Cisco says some internal machines used by its researchers were targeted by SolarWinds hackers and that there's no known impact to Cisco's products at this time — - Corrupted software found in a few labs, worker devices — No known impact to Cisco offers or products, company says| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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| Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
The only explanation for its ad campaign against Apple is that Facebook has decided shamelessness works, after years of cozying up to the Trump administration — The company declared in newspaper ads that it was “standing up to Apple.” It's a desperate ploy that's unlikely to work.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says its multi-service outage on Monday was caused by updates to its account authentication system which resulted in a system usage reporting error — Google started the week with a big outage that took down Gmail, Drive, and all other Workspace apps.
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China-based drone maker DJI is among the companies the US Commerce Department has added to its blacklist — An updated “Entity List” is bad news for the world's largest drone manufacturer. DJI has been put in the company of Huawei and others, a move that will have negative consequences for the firm.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have banned a root certificate being used by the Kazakhstan government to intercept and decrypt HTTPS traffic — This marks the second time browsers makers had to intervene and block a certificate used by the Kazakhstan government to spy on its citizens.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the AGs of Utah, North Carolina, and NY among others are preparing a lawsuit against Google over the cut it takes from app developers in its Play Store — - States probing Google Play's 30% in-app-purchase fees — Case would mark new front in antitrust assault against Google
Tweets: @business, @bloombergasia, and @markgurman
| Sriram Krishnan / The Observer Effect: |
Q&A with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke on his typical day, time management, culture, product creation, organizational design, meetings, and working from home — Welcome to the third interview on ‘The Observer Effect’. We are lucky to have one of the most interesting founders in technology and commerce …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Judge says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Google likely won't go to trial until late 2023 — - The Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Google likely won't go to trial until late 2023, Judge Amit Mehta said at a status hearing on Friday. — The judge set September 12, 2023 as a tentative date to start the trial.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Israel-based social casino game developer Playtika files for an IPO, reporting $1.8B in revenue for first 9 months of 2020 vs. $1.4B for all of 2019, 35M MAUs — Israel-based mobile gaming giant Playtika has filed for its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO).
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