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The UK CMA says Microsoft's revised offer to acquire Activision, which includes selling some gaming rights to Ubisoft, appears to address its concerns — - CMA says revised offer opens the door to deal approval — Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. looks set …
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to add limited ads in Prime Video in the US, the UK, Germany, and Canada in early 2024, with an ad-free tier costing $2.99/month extra in the US — - Prime Video will offer a more expensive ad-free option — Streamers want to increase revenue as production costs soar
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Apple releases emergency updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to patch three new zero-day vulnerabilities, for a total of 16 zero-days fixed in 2023 — Apple released emergency security updates to patch three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks targeting iPhone and Mac users …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
X plans to deprecate Circles on October 31, 2023; users will not be able to create new posts nor add people to their Circle but will be able to remove people — X is planning to shut down Circles, a feature that lets you share posts with a limited group of people instead of all of your followers.
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Google veteran Luiz André Barroso, who overturned many data center design conventions and conceived “the data center as a computer”, died on September 16 at 59 — Brazilian engineer Luiz André Barroso, who ripped up the rulebook at Google, has died.| Counterpoint Research: |
Number of active smartphone brands fell from 700+ in 2017 to ~250 in 2023, as local brands lose marketshare due to a maturing userbase, shift to 5G, and more — - The number of active brands is down to almost 250 in 2023 so far from over 700 in 2017. — The decline in the number … | Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Tether spent ~$420M on 10K Nvidia H100 GPUs in a deal that will see it get a stake in bitcoin miner Northern Data, who plans to rent the chips to AI startups — A $40,000 computer chip has become one of the hottest commodities in the tech industry. Startups are scrambling to buy up Nvidia's H100 … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK says it's moving forward with the US data bridge deal, allowing UK citizens' data to be exported to the US under protections in line with UK GDPR — The UK government has officially confirmed it will piggyback on a transatlantic data transfer deal between the European Union and the US …
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| New York Times: |
A look at Sullivan & Cromwell's tangled FTX relationship, as SBF argues that the law firm set him up; the firm has made $100M+ in fees from FTX's bankruptcy — Mr. Bankman-Fried and his allies have blasted Sullivan & Cromwell, the New York law firm managing FTX's bankruptcy, for its tangled relationship with the crypto exchange.
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
EU regulators fine Intel €376.36M over “a previously established abuse of dominant position”, after an EU court overturned a €1.06B fine in January 2022 — - Fine follows ruling by court upholding part of EU's case — EU initially fined Intel a then-record penalty in 2009
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| Sam Schube / GQ: |
How Apple SVP of Services Eddy Cue led the company's push into live sports streaming and is using its MLS deal to test reshaping how sports are consumed — Longtime Apple executive Eddy Cue happens to be an enormous sports fan. And with Apple entering the wild west of broadcasting live sports …
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| Financial Times: |
GGV, which invested in Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies, splits its Asia and US units; in July, the US sought details about its holdings in China — Move follows similar decision by rival Sequoia Capital and Biden order to limit American investment in Chinese tech
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The US issues final rules to stop Chips Act subsidies from going to countries of concern, like China, such as limiting foreign chip fab expansions for 10 years — The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday is issuing final rules to prevent semiconductor manufacturing subsidies from being used … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Vietnamese internet company VNG postpones its US IPO, planned for September 2023, after mixed performances by Arm, Instacart, and Klaviyo — Vietnam-based internet startup VNG Ltd. has decided to postpone its plans for a US initial public offering, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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| Pei Li / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alibaba's logistics arm Cainiao plans to file for its Hong Kong IPO as soon as next week, aiming to raise $1B+; Alibaba co-founded Cainiao in 2013 — - The logistics unit could be among the first to go public — Citic and JPMorgan earlier replaced CICC in arranging the IPO
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Surface Hub 3, offering 50" or 85" 4K PixelSense displays with anti-glare, smart rotation, and portrait mode, available later in 2023 — Microsoft has revealed the Surface Hub 3, the latest version of the company's all-in-one collaborative touchscreen device.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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| Nathan Edwards / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces a unified Copilot built into Windows 11, launching on September 26 across all its apps and services, including Microsoft 365, Edge, and Bing — Microsoft today announced a new, unified Copilot experience launching on September 26th. The new “AI companion,” …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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