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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US starting this week, to “preemptively” comply with an ITC patent ruling now under US review — In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple has announced that it will soon halt sales of its flagship Apple Watch models in the United States.
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| Reuters: |
Adobe and Figma terminate their $20B merger, announced in September 2022, after seeing “no clear path” to UK and EU regulatory approval; Adobe will pay $1B — Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday shelved its $20 billion cash-and-stock deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma, pointing to …
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
UK and EU regulators blocking Adobe's Figma deal changes the liquidity environment for startup founders and VCs, and focuses dollars on IPO-capable winners — The writing has been on the wall for sometime — the regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have been hemming and hawing …
More: Silicon Valley Business … and Fortune
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The EU Commission opens an official DSA investigation into X, focusing on illegal content, disinformation, ad transparency, “deceptive design”, and data access — X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, may have broken the European Union's tough new Digital Service Act rules …
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Threads: @mistakenotmy. Mastodon: @padraig@mastodon.ie, @jonathanreed@techhub.social, and @carnage4life@mas.to
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Mortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper says hackers stole personal data on 14M customers, including dates of birth, phone numbers, SSNs, and bank account numbers — Hackers stole the sensitive personal information of more than 14.6 million Mr. Cooper customers, the mortgage and loan giant has confirmed.
More: The Record, BleepingComputer, and Cybernews.com
| Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese chip design companies are increasingly using Malaysian firms to assemble a portion of their high-end GPUs; the move does not break US rules — A growing number of Chinese semiconductor design companies are tapping Malaysian firms to assemble a portion of their high-end chips …
More: Huawei Central, Tech in Asia, and DigiTimes
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Flipboard says it plans to replace its entire social back end with ActivityPub, and by April 2024 will let any Flipboard user follow any fediverse account — Flipboard is taking its biggest step yet into the fediverse. The company announced on Monday that it is beginning to switch …
More: TechCrunch and Mike McCue
Mastodon: @MylesRyden@social.vivaldi.net, @mike@flipboard.social, and @garry@mstdn.social
| Andrew Solender / Axios: |
Coinbase, a16z, the Winklevoss twins, and others put $78M in crypto super PACs, an immense figure raised in just three months, ahead of the 2024 US elections — Cryptocurrency industry leaders have poured $78 million into super PACs aimed at bolstering and growing the ranks of crypto-friendly lawmakers …
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @andrewkjennings.com. X: @brian_armstrong, @coinbase, @iampaulgrewal, @leomschwartz, @wublockchain, @ddisparte, @teddyschleifer, @bgarlinghouse, and @cdixon
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Streaming TV appears to have entered its franchise era; Netflix plans spinoffs of the Addams Family, Peaky Blinders, and action movie Extraction, among others — Sequels and prequels have already taken over the movie business. Now they're coming for TV. — Good afternoon from Los Angeles …
More: Gizmodo, ComingSoon.net, TVLine, Forbes, Dexerto, IGN, and Gamereactor UK
Threads: @carnage4life, @letmebe_e, and @dantley. Mastodon: @film_girl@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @epro.social
| Bloomberg: |
London-based luxury clothing marketplace Farfetch borrows $500M from Coupang, which will buy its assets and delist the company; FTCH dropped 90%+ in five years — - Deal scraps planned tie-up between Farfetch and Richemont — JP Morgan Chase to run marketing process for Farfetch assets
More: The Information, Forbes, WWD, FashionNetwork.com, Business of Fashion, Coupang, and Financial Times
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Inside Amazon's Mission Operations Center during Project Kuiper's launch, part of an ambitious $10B effort to launch 3,000+ satellites and challenge Starlink — Project Kuiper could transform Amazon into a telecommunications giant, but first the company needs to loft more than 3,000 satellites into orbit.| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
The UK NHS partners with Zipline on plans to deliver medical and surgical supplies by drone to 30+ hospitals in northern England in H2 2024, to help cut costs — Silicon Valley group Zipline allies with trust in northern England to drop essential medical supplies| Bloomberg: |
IBM plans to acquire data integration platforms StreamSets and WebMethods from Germany-based Software AG for €2.13B in cash, a deal expected to close in Q2 2024 — - Deal will strengthen IBM's AI and cloud capabilities — Software AG backer Silver Lake also made deslisting offer
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