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| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
Interview with Apple's marketing head Greg Joswiak and hardware chief John Ternus on why the company has no plans to merge iPad and Mac product lines — In an exclusive interview, the company's marketing and hardware chiefs explain the creation of the tablet - and why they don't want you to call it that
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Tweets: @gruber, @film_girl, @detroitborg, @techninjaspeaks, @jioriku, @viticci, @lukemiani, @zcichy, @stroughtonsmith, and @reneritchie. Thanks:@_andrew_griffin
| Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech: |
Apple's M1 chip, used in computers ranging from $699 to $1699, and tablets, upends decades of x86 OEM marketing and segmentation centered around CPU performance — On Tuesday, Apple updated the iMac with new SKUs, display panels, and various color options.
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Forbes, HotHardware.com News, and Macworld
Tweets: @hallstephenj, @whatthebit, @jeffseibert, @epro, @dylanljmartin, @smashdawg, @folletto, and @counternotions
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Click Studios, maker of the enterprise password manager Passwordstate, notified its 29K customers about a supply chain attack deployed via an update of the app — A mysterious threat actor has compromised the update mechanism of enterprise password manager application Passwordstate …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Sources: the new 12.9" iPad Pro, which is 0.5mm thicker than its predecessor, is incompatible with the original $349 Magic Keyboard folio case for older models — Looking to upgrade? You'll have to shell out an extra $349 for a new keyboard — Apple's new 12.9-inch iPad Pro has a big catch …
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Spotify to announce an Apple Podcasts Subscriptions competitor next week that will let podcasters set prices without charging them or taking a cut — Podcasts exploded in popularity during the lockdown and are on track to bring in more than $1 billion in U.S. ad revenue this year
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| Bloomberg: |
Turkish crypto exchange Thodex halts operations amid local media reports that its CEO has fled the country and its losses may be as high as ~$2B — - Government blocks bank accounts of crypto exchange Thodex — Whereabouts of 27-year-old CEO Faruk Fatih Ozer unknown
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Tweets: @psychedelicbart and @iamsandali
| BBC: |
After decades of legal battles, 39 former UK postmasters who were convicted of fraud due to faulty accounting software from Fujitsu have their names cleared — Judges have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
A digital coins sell-off, including bitcoin's plunge below $50K, wipes $200B+ in value from crypto markets, on reports Biden will seek a capital gains tax hike — - Bitcoin and other digital coins plunged on Friday wiping over $260 billion of the value of the cryptocurrency market.
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Federal judge rejects motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Apple that alleges the “Buy” option in iTunes is deceptive as Apple can still terminate access — Rejecting a motion to dismiss, a federal judge says it is plausible that consumers don't know that access to purchased content can be revoked.
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| Technical University of Darmstadt: |
Researchers: an AirDrop user's phone number and email address can be learned via nearby Wi-Fi-capable devices when the user opens an iOS or macOS sharing pane — TU-Researchers discover significant privacy leak in Apple's file-sharing service — Apple users can share files with each other using AirDrop.
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MacRumors, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Candid.Technology, Digital Trends, Trusted Reviews, iPhone Hacks, Laptop Mag, Mashable, HotHardware.com News, AppleInsider, Naked Security, CyberScoop, BGR, iThinkDifferent, Macworld, CNET, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, and WeLiveSecurity. Tweets: @pjothi404
| Will Sattelberg / Android Police: |
Latest Google app beta on Android suggests that Google is working on Assistant features like answering calls and stopping alarms without a “Hey Google” prompt — Unlike most other developers, unfinished features constantly appear in Google's updates, hinting at plenty of new content in the works.
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9to5Google, TNW, CNET, The Verge, and Android Central
| Bloomberg: |
China's move to rein in its tech behemoths is part of its national refocusing on data as an economic driver, as evidenced partly by new data usage laws — - China forecast to hold about a third of world's data by 2025 — ‘A complete national refocusing on data as an economic driver’
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google is rolling out an “App install optimization” Play Store feature, enabled by default, which makes apps faster to install and run using crowdsourced data — Over the past several years, Google has been working to make Android apps smaller in size by optimizing what code and resources are downloaded to devices.
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Android Police, XDA Developers, and Android Central
| Michael Hytha / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: online jobs marketplace ZipRecruiter plans to go public via a direct listing; in 2020, ZipRecruiter had a net income of $86M on revenue of $418.1M — - Job search and recruiting company turned profitable in 2020 — Squarespace filed last week for direct listing instead of IPO
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| Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal: |
SmartRent, which provides smart home automation to building owners and developers, to go public through a merger with a SPAC that values the startup at $2.2B — Seller of smart home technology also books a $155 million investment from a group including Blackstone and Lennar
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Tweets: @reits_nareit, @dmlevitt, @julianklymochko, @danprimack, and @merritthummer
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Unsupervised, which offers an analytics service that automates tasks like data aggregation, feature engineering, and insight discovery, raises $35M Series B — Self-described automated analytics startup Unsupervised Inc. said today it has raised $35 million in a new round of funding led by Cathay Innovation and SignalFire.
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| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Sources: Mapbox is in talks to go public through merger with a SPAC backed by SoftBank, in a deal that could value the mapping company at between $1.5B and $2B — A New York-listed blank cheque company set up by SoftBank is in merger talks with Washington-based Mapbox, Sky News learns.Sponsor Posts
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