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Kuo: Apple is planning to launch a foldable iPhone with an 8" QHD+ flexible OLED display in 2023; Kuo says Apple will ship 15M to 20M foldable iPhones in 2023 — Apple is working to launch a foldable iPhone with an 8-inch QHD+ flexible OLED display in 2023, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo …
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| David Phelan / Forbes: |
SEC filing: Rockley Photonics, developer of sensors that can be used for blood pressure and glucose monitoring, says Apple is currently its biggest customer — A new report says that a future Apple Watch could have a new raft of health sensors, including blood pressure and …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Neuralink's President and co-founder Max Hodak tweets that he has left the brain-computer interface startup — - Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak announced Saturday that he is no longer working with the brain tech company he started with Elon Musk. — Musk - who is also the CEO of auto …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft planned to reduce its cut from 30% to 12% for Xbox games too, a document filed as part of Epic vs Apple lawsuit in January shows — Confidential Microsoft documents reveal some big plans — Microsoft had been planning to cut its Xbox store cut to just 12 percent … | Pete Rizzo / Bitcoin Magazine: |
A look back at Satoshi Nakamoto's role in the Bitcoin project and exchanges with its community, 10 years after the disappearance of the mysterious figure — 10 years ago today, Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto's disappeared. Pete Rizzo tells the story. — 10 years ago today, Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto's disappeared.| Doug Kramer / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare, which was sued by “patent troll” Sable Networks, is offering a $100K bounty to those who can find evidence of prior art on Sable Networks' patents — Here we go again. — On March 15, Cloudflare was sued by a patent troll called Sable Networks …
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| Shiyin Chen / Bloomberg: |
Dell has agreed to sell Boomi, which specializes in integrating cloud platforms for companies, to Francisco Partners and TPG in a cash deal valued at $4B — Dell Technologies Inc. has agreed to selling its Boomi cloud business to private-equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG in a cash deal valued …
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| Alex Russell / Infrequently Noted: |
Apple's ban on alt iOS browser engines and years of delays in adding features to WebKit can explain why web apps are not a viable alternative to App Store apps — Do App Store policies harm developers? Is the web a credible alternative? A look at the data. — Three facts...
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| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
Verizon says it will sell Yahoo and AOL to PE firm Apollo Global Management for $5B, keeping a 10% stake in the company, which will be rebranded as just “Yahoo” — - Verizon will sell its media group, which includes brands from AOL and Yahoo, to private equity firm Apollo Global Management.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based Wealthsimple, an online investment management service, raises ~$610M at a post-money valuation of $4B, led by Meritech and Greylock — Canadian fintech giant Wealthsimple has raised a new round of $750 million CAD (~$610 million) at a post-money valuation of $5 billion CAD (~$4 billion).
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| Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times: |
More than 30 of Europe's largest banks and credit card processors form the European Payment Initiative, aiming to compete with a US-dominated “oligopoly” — More than 30 lenders designing rival to take on PayPal, Mastercard, Visa and Apple — More than 30 of Europe's largest banks …
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| Kristin Stoller / Forbes: |
Connecteam, whose app helps employers remotely manage deskless workers in industries such as retail and construction, raises $37M at a valuation of $100M+ — As an officer in the Israeli Navy, Amir Nehemia found few things more frustrating than trying to communicate essential information to soldiers in the field.Sponsor Posts
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