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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Amazon updates its iOS Kindle app to add a prominent orange “Get book” button, enabling purchases via the mobile browser, after the recent Epic v. Apple ruling — Amazon has updated its Kindle iOS app to take advantage of recent changes to Apple's App Store rules.
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| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Q&A with Tim Sweeney on the recent Epic v. Apple ruling, bringing Fortnite back to iOS via Epic's Swedish developer account, and spending $100M+ on legal fees — - Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney — the guy behind Fortnite — has been fighting Apple over its App Store rules for five years.
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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft announces new features for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, including an AI agent in Settings and updates to Start menu, Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool — Copilot+ PCs and Windows 11 are about to get a ton of new features. … While the brand-new Surface hardware headlined today's announcements …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts the $899+ Surface Laptop 13, with a smaller 13" screen, an 8-core Snapdragon X Plus, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB/512GB options, shipping from May 20 — The new Surface Laptop 13-inch ditches the Surface Connect port and Windows Hello camera for a smaller footprint.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the $799+ Surface Pro 12, a fan-less, ARM tablet with a 90Hz display, two USB-C 3.2 ports, and a revamped $150 keyboard, shipping from May 20 — The smaller Surface Pro has lots of design changes on the inside and out. … Microsoft is launching a new Surface Pro tablet today …
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| Financial Times: |
DoorDash agrees to acquire UK food delivery company Deliveroo for £2.9B in cash; Deliveroo has struggled since its London IPO at a £7.6B valuation in March 2021 — Takeover comes after UK company has struggled since going public four years ago — DoorDash has agreed …
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| Bloomberg: |
DoorDash plans to acquire NYC-based hospitality tech company SevenRooms for $1.2B in cash, set to close in H2 2025; SevenRooms works with 13K+ restaurant groups — In a matter of five hours, the US delivery firm DoorDash Inc. announced two multibillion-dollar acquisitions that stand to turn … | Logan Kilpatrick / Google Developers Blog: |
Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview I/O Edition with “significantly” improved capabilities for coding and building interactive web apps, before I/O on May 20 — We've seen developers doing amazing things with Gemini 2.5 Pro, so we decided to release an updated version a couple …
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| Ariel Wittenberg / Politico: |
Environmental groups: xAI's Memphis plant now has ~35 gas turbines, and xAI has no Clean Air Act permits; Elon Musk said turbines were necessary to train Grok 3 — The company's turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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| Kendra Barnett / Adweek: |
Google unveils AI Max for Search ad campaigns, a suite of AI-powered targeting and creative enhancements, rolling out to advertisers in beta later this month — AI Max for Search has led to an average lift of 14% in conversions without raising cost-per-acquisition
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk's attorney says OpenAI's nonprofit reversal is “a transparent dodge that fails to address the core issues” and “the founding mission remains betrayed” — Elon Musk's attorney said OpenAI's decision to partly walk back its plan to restructure as a for-profit business …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Spotify debuts a “plays” metric for podcasts that shows users and creators how many times people have actively listened to or watched an audio or video episode — YouTube continues to dominate the podcasting space, but Spotify is actively working to close the gap.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung updates Samsung Wallet to add a “Tap to Transfer” feature that lets US users quickly exchange money between themselves, rolling out “later this month” — Samsung Wallet is adding a clever new “Tap to Transfer” feature that lets you quickly exchange money between friends … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon's Zoox says it temporarily paused all driverless vehicle operations after a crash in Las Vegas on April 8 and issued a software recall for 270 robotaxis — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Microsoft officially removes VR and MR support for Minecraft, after announcing its plans to sunset it in October of last year — If you ever thought about virtually wandering through Minecraft's Overworld in a VR headset, think again. Those days are over, at least from Microsoft's perspective.| Wall Street Journal: |
US v. Google: the DOJ says in a May 5 filing that Google should sell its AdX business and DFP ad platform; Google says divestiture isn't warranted or feasible — A federal judge ruled last month that the tech giant had created a monopoly in advertising — Google should sell … | Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
ServiceNow launches ServiceNow CRM to take on Salesforce and automate many common workflow steps and “human middleware” with AI — ServiceNow unveiled ServiceNow CRM in a move that aims to expand its total addressable market, leverage its ability to automate workflows with AI and couple selling …
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| Sam Becker / Fast Company: |
Cisco says it's made a prototype entanglement source chip that may cut the timeline for practical quantum computing by up to a decade and opens a quantum lab — The networking company is the latest to announce a breakthrough as the race heats up to bring the transformative technology to the masses.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD reports Q1 revenue up 36% YoY to $7.4B, vs. $7.12B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $3.7B, vs. $3.66B est., and forecasts Q2 sales above estimates — Second-quarter sales are forecast to be about $7.4 billion, the company said in a statement Tuesday. That compares with an average analyst estimate of $7.23 billion.
More: CNBC, Reuters, Benzinga, Finance News Network, Mercury News, Yahoo Finance, and Constellation Research
| Matt Simons / Courthouse News Service: |
A US jury awards Meta nearly $168M in damages from NSO Group in connection with the 2019 spyware attack on more than 1,400 WhatsApp users' phones — Although NSO Group will likely appeal, the jury's award represents a significant win for privacy advocates and critics of the notorious spyware vendor.
More: CyberScoop, Reuters, TechCrunch, Washington Post, and Meta
X: @wcathcart, @wcathcart, @wcathcart, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @mikeisaac, @jsrailton, and @swiftstories
| Bloomberg: |
An internal Meta report from 2019 found that minors made up 27% of the follow recommendations that Instagram surfaced to “groomers”, vs. 7% to all adults — Instagram's automated software systems recommended that child “groomers” connect with minors on the app …
Bluesky: @emilprotalinski and @kurtwagner
| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to $4.6B, vs. $5.01B est., and lowers its FY 2025 sales forecast below est. due to economic uncertainty and tariffs — The server maker cites short-term impacts of heightened economic uncertainty and tariffs that prompted some customers to delay orders
More: Reuters, ir.supermicro.com, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Benzinga
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The power of asynchronous communication: Striking the right balance in the workplace — Asynchronous communication may have surged during the transition to remote work, but as the years passed and teams returned to the office or adapted to hybrid work, this kind of collaboration hasn't gone away.
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| CNBC: |
The CFTC has moved to drop its appeal of a federal judge's ruling that had allowed Kalshi to take bets on the outcome of US political elections — WATCH NOW — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday moved to drop its appeal of a federal judge's ruling that had allowed commodities … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
News reader Particle launches on the web, featuring news headlines and AI summaries, key quotes, links to sources, and reader questions answered by AI — Particle, the startup behind an AI-powered newsreader that aims to help publishers, not just steal their work, is bringing its product to the web.| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
EA reports Q4 net bookings up 8% YoY to $1.8B, vs. $1.56B est., and forecasts FY 2026 bookings above estimates; EA jumps 5%+ after hours — Electronic Arts shares rose more than 5% after the company topped fiscal fourth-quarter bookings estimates and issued upbeat guidance.Sponsor Posts
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The power of asynchronous communication: Striking the right balance in the workplace — Asynchronous communication may have surged during the transition to remote work, but as the years passed and teams returned …
The power of asynchronous communication: Striking the right balance in the workplace — Asynchronous communication may have surged during the transition to remote work, but as the years passed and teams returned …
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