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Amazon says it expects some employees to start coming back to the office as early as this summer and most of its staff will be back at the office this fall — - Amazon said it expects some employees to begin transitioning away from remote work this summer, with most of its staff back at the office by the fall.
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TSMC says it plans to spend $100B over the next three years to expand its chip fabrication capacity — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to spend $100 billion over the next three years to expand its chip fabrication capacity, the company said Thursday.
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Casio launches its first G-Shock smartwatch with Wear OS, available in May for $700 — Big focus on sports tracking and 200m water resistance — Casio has launched its first G-Shock smartwatch with Wear OS - the G-Squad Pro GSW-H1000 - aimed at sports and outdoors fanatics.
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The Pentagon says Microsoft will build 120K custom HoloLens headsets for the US Army; Microsoft says the contract could be worth up to $21.88B over 10 years — - Microsoft will deliver to the U.S. Army more than 120,000 devices based on its HoloLens augmented reality headset.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Thrasio, which says it has acquired and consolidated around 6,000 third party sellers on Amazon to date, adds $100M extension to its $750M Series C — Thrasio, an early mover and leading player in the wave of startups emerging to consolidate and scale companies that sell … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google will limit most apps on the Play Store from seeing which apps are installed on devices running Android 11 and newer beginning May 5, 2021 — Google today announced a series of policy updates for apps distributed through the Play Store. The most impactful sees Google limit most developers … | Mandy Zuo / South China Morning Post: |
Report: Chinese hackers have stolen videos from thousands of home security cameras in the country and are selling them as “home video packages” via social media — Videos can cost as little as US$3 and the perpetrators offer ‘set meal’ packages with multiple live streams …
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SCOTUS sides with Facebook, ruling that its text alerts on suspicious logins do not qualify as robocalls, in what experts say is a major win for telemarketers — - The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Facebook in a case about robocalls on Thursday. — The court ruled that Facebook's text alerts …
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Sources: before the pandemic, Amazon explored opening discount stores selling home goods and electronics to clear unsold inventory sitting in its warehouses — Amazon.com Inc. has explored opening discount retail stores selling a mix of home goods and electronics, a potentially significant expansion … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spanish startup Glovo, which delivers restaurant take-out, groceries, and other items, raises €450M Series F led by Lugard Road Capital and Luxor Capital Group — On the heels of Deliveroo raising more than $2 billion ahead of its debut on the London Stock Exchange this week …
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Facebook says a now-removed interview with Trump posted by daughter-in-law Lara Trump falls under its ban as it spoke “in the voice of President Trump” — Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump promoted a new interview with the former president on Facebook and Instagram Tuesday …
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| Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg: |
UK's CMA says Facebook will face an in-depth review of its $400M purchase of GIPHY after the company failed to address antitrust concerns — - CMA says second-phase investigation will run to Sept. 15 — Authority has cited concerns the deal may hurt rival platforms
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Biden announces $2T American Jobs Plan focused on improving US infrastructure, with $100B allocated for high-speed broadband access over eight years — It sets aside $100 billion for the effort — President Biden plans to announce a sweeping infrastructure plan Wednesday that includes $100 billion …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Microsoft has officially discontinued its Cortana mobile app for both iOS and Android — As expected, Microsoft today discontinued its Cortana mobile app. As a result, the company has ended all support for third-party Cortana skills and eliminated the Cortana app for iOS and Android devices.
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Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to continually push users toward more extreme content — In — a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”
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