Month: February 2023

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Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft commit to shipping Android 12L, featuring optimizations for tablets and foldables, for some of their devices later this year (Sam Byford/The Verge)

February 9, 2023 0

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Education publisher Pearson acquires Credly, which helps businesses issue digital credentials to certify workers’ skills, for $140M (Jonathan Greig/ZDNet)

February 9, 2023 0

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UK’s 5G spectrum auction raised only £1.36B, just above the £1.1B reserve price and a fraction of the £22.5B 3G auction in 2000 (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)

February 9, 2023 0

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US federal judge rules that Citibank isn’t entitled to be returned $500M it accidentally sent to creditors early via Flexcube software, which had a confusing UI (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)

February 9, 2023 0

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Bengaluru-based Jumbotail, a B2B e-commerce company that supplies groceries to mom-and-pop stores, raises an $85M Series C led by Artal Asia (The Economic Times)

February 9, 2023 0

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German startup Shopware, which offers open source e-commerce tools used by 100K brands, raises $100M from PayPal and Carlyle, its first outside investment (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

February 9, 2023 0

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Pentagon: Taliban ‘Have Not Met Their Commitments’ in Peace Deal

February 9, 2023 0

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SoftBank confirms COO Marcelo Claure is leaving the company after nine years and names Michel Combes as CEO of SoftBank Group International (Saheli Roy Choudhury/CNBC)

February 9, 2023 0

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Legendary music score composer Hans Zimmer takes his tour to Dubai

February 9, 2023 0

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Irish DTC e-commerce services company ESW to acquire Los Angeles-based Scalefast, which helps DTC brands launch online stores quickly, sources say for $300M+ (Ciara O’Brien/The Irish Times)

February 9, 2023 0

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Sources say Discord is exploring a sale that could value it at $10B+, with one source saying it is in the final stage of negotiations (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

February 9, 2023 0

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The Coalition for App Fairness loses its best advocate as Horacio Gutierrez, Spotify’s Chief Legal Officer, leaves for The Walt Disney Company (Florian Mueller/FOSS Patents)

February 9, 2023 0