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Sources: more Chinese government agencies and state-backed firms have ordered staff to stop bringing iPhones, Samsung phones, and other foreign devices to work (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: more Chinese government agencies and state-backed firms have ordered staff to stop bringing iPhones, Samsung phones, and other…
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Sources: X brought in just over $600M in ad revenue in each of the first three quarters of 2023, down from $1B+ per quarter in 2022 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Sources: X brought in just over $600M in ad revenue in each of the first three…
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Sources: the EU leans toward excluding iMessage from DMA rules due to not being popular enough among business users, part of an investigation ending in February (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Sources: the EU leans toward excluding iMessage from DMA rules due to not being popular enough…
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Sources: DOJ cleared its antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter to oversee probes involving Google; Google had sought his recusal, citing his work with Yelp and others (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Sources: DOJ cleared its antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter to oversee probes involving Google; Google had sought his…
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Sources: Goldman Sachs' Platform Solutions lost ~$2B in 2022, mostly due to the Apple Card and Goldman's installment-lending platform GreenSky (Sridhar Natarajan/Bloomberg)
Sridhar Natarajan / Bloomberg: Sources: Goldman Sachs’ Platform Solutions lost ~$2B in 2022, mostly due to the Apple Card and…
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Sources: an entity under China's CAC acquired a 1% stake, or "golden shares", in an Alibaba subsidiary, and plans on taking a similar stake in a Tencent unit (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Sources: an entity under China’s CAC acquired a 1% stake, or “golden shares”, in an Alibaba subsidiary, and…
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Sources: Tokyo-headquartered aggregator SmartNews, valued at $2B as of 2021, lays off ~120 people, or 40% of US and China staff, with more cuts to come in Japan (TechCrunch)
TechCrunch: Sources: Tokyo-headquartered aggregator SmartNews, valued at $2B as of 2021, lays off ~120 people, or 40% of US and…
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Sources: the UK's Royal Mail postal service was hit by a Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang causing severe disruption to overseas deliveries since January 11 (Gareth Corfield/Telegraph)
Gareth Corfield / Telegraph: Sources: the UK’s Royal Mail postal service was hit by a Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang causing…
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Sources: Google and Nvidia told the FTC that the Activision Blizzard deal could give Microsoft an unfair advantage in cloud, subscription, and mobile gaming (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: Google and Nvidia told the FTC that the Activision Blizzard deal could give Microsoft an unfair advantage in…
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