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Apple submitted a software workaround that could let the company sell non-infringing Apple Watch versions as soon as January 12, while appealing the US ITC ban — The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant won a temporary reprieve from a federal appeals court Wednesday, two months …
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Apple resumed Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 sales in its online store and in some physical US stores after a week of unavailability due to the ITC ban — You can once again buy the latest Apple Watches straight from Apple. The Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 will be available again … | Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
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| Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times: |
Seattle-based online retailer Zulily, which had a ~$7B market cap in 2014, winds down; in a December 11 lawsuit, Zulily accused Amazon of stifling its business — Once an e-commerce star, online retailer Zulily will liquidate its inventory to pay its creditors as it winds down.
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| Financial Times: |
Disney, WBD, Comcast, and Paramount face a reckoning in 2024 after losing $5B+ in 2023 from the streaming services the US conglomerates built to take on Netflix — Tie-ups and cuts on menu as Disney, Warner, Comcast and Paramount seek new ways to keep up — The world's largest traditional …
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| Raymond Wong / Inverse: |
A look at Apple's renewed interest in Mac gaming, powered by Apple silicon, and an interview with Apple executives about Dynamic Caching, Game Mode, and more — On July 21, 1999, Steve Jobs stood on stage in front of a packed Macworld Expo New York audience and announced a video game …
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| The Indian Express: |
India seeks to block the URLs of nine offshore crypto exchanges, including Binance, Kraken, KuCoin, and Huobi, for not complying with anti-money laundering laws — Apart from Binance and Kucoin, the other virtual digital assets service providers (VDA SP) who have been issued notice …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: India pressed Apple to come up with alternative explanations for warning Indian journalists and opposition politicians of state-sponsored iPhone hacks — NEW DELHI — A day after Apple warned independent Indian journalists and opposition party politicians in October that government hackers …
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| Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi unveils the SU7, its first EV, saying its aim is to become a top global carmaker in 15 to 20 years, which CEO Lei Jun calls his final entrepreneurial bet — - Tech company's first electric car is joining a crowded market — SU7 made in partnership with state-owned Beijing Automotive
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| Financial Times: |
Insider Intelligence: LinkedIn's ad revenue, which rose 10.1% YoY to nearly $4B in 2023, could grow 14.1% YoY in 2024, as brands seek to reallocate X ad spend — Microsoft-owned professional networking site has increased revenues as big brands boycott rival platform| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Affirm's stock grew 430% in 2023, outperforming all $5B+ US tech companies and rebounding from its 90% fall in 2022, due to partnerships with Amazon and others — - Affirm shares have skyrocketed more than 400% this year, outperforming all U.S. tech companies worth $5 billion or more.
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Apple supplier Luxshare plans to acquire a 62.5% stake in Pegatron's Kunshan unit in China for ~$300M, as Luxshare seeks to better compete with Foxconn — - Pegatron to sell majority stake of Kunshan campus to Luxshare — Apple's fostering Chinese suppliers to boost ties with Beijing
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| Reuters: |
Baidu CTO Wang Haifeng says the company's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot now has 100M+ users, after launching the chatbot to the public in August 2023 — Baidu's (9888.HK) ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has garnered more than 100 million users, chief technology officer of the Chinese internet company Wang Haifeng said on Thursday.
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