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Palantir opens at $10 per share following its direct listing on the NYSE, after having a reference price of $7.25
Baidu's Smart Living Group division, which focuses on voice assistants and smart devices, raises an undisclosed sum at a $2.9B valuation
DivvyDose, an online pharmacy competing with Amazon's PillPack and Walmart's CareZone, is acquired by UnitedHealth; source says deal was worth $300M+
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Washington emergency responders first to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet in the field: ‘It’s amazing’
Amazon says its Prime Day annual sale will take place on October 13 and 14 after the original summer date was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic
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Judge plans to decide on TikTok U.S. app store ban by end of day
Hydrogen-powered passenger plane completes maiden flight in ‘world first’
Alphabet settles shareholder lawsuit over its handling of sexual harassment claims, agrees to eliminate mandatory arbitration and limit Google's use of NDAs
Facebook outlines new rules for its internal Workplace, including banning profile pictures that promote specific political candidates or causes
Amazon announces redesigned spherical Echo devices, including $99 Echo, $60 Echo Dot with Clock, and $50 Echo Dot, with on-board speech analysis
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Amazon announces updated $40 Fire TV and $30 Fire TV Stick Lite with new home screen for easier content discoverability, arriving on September 30
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Sundar Pichai says Google is planning "hybrid" models for future work, to allow partial work from home as 62% of employees want to have that flexibility
Barry Diller on TikTok deal: ‘The whole thing is a crock’
Morgan Beller, one of the founders of Facebook's Libra digital currency, has left the company to become a partner at VC firm NFX
Payments giant Paytm says Google’s Android monopoly is of grave concern to Indian start-ups
Airbus announces concept designs for zero-emission, hydrogen-powered airplanes
Nikola founder Trevor Milton to voluntarily step down as executive chairman
ByteDance says it will own 80% of TikTok U.S. firm, contradicts Trump’s claims deal has ‘nothing to do with China’
ByteDance says it will not transfer algorithm and technology to Oracle as part of TikTok deal
US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday
Unity raises $1.3B in its IPO, closing up 31.44% in first day of trading, giving the company a market cap of around $17B
Commerce Department announces that it will ban US downloads of and business transactions with TikTok and WeChat on Sunday
Neobank Chime raises $485M Series F at a $14.5B valuation; CEO says the startup will be IPO-ready within the next 12 months
DOJ charges six people who allegedly bribed Amazon employees and contractors since at least 2017 in a scheme to benefit some third-party sellers
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Bill Gates on the difference between Elon Musk and Steve Jobs
TikTok deal still has a chance but WeChat ‘dead’ in the U.S., says senior administration official
Unity has priced its IPO at $52 per share, above the expected range, that would initially value the company at $13.7B
Sources: ByteDance plans US IPO for new global TikTok business if Trump approves deal including Walmart and Oracle, which will take less than a 20% global stake
Facebook says it will limit the spread of private groups focused on health advice and those with ties to violence, and will archive groups without admins
Facebook says it will specify which parts of its internal Workplace are for discussing political issues so staffers don't have to confront such issues at work
Internal documents show Google is expanding moderation of internal forums, as the company has seen a recent rise in forum posts flagged for racism or abuse
Apple will finally sell Apple Watches to people without iPhones, offering a new hook into its ecosystem
Snowflake opens at $245, after pricing its shares at $120, far above the original range of $75-$85 from last week
Backup driver in fatal Arizona Uber self-driving car crash charged with negligent homicide
Swedish online payments startup Klarna raises $650M led by Silver Lake Partners, valuing the company at $10.6B
In an updated S-1 filing, Snowflake raises its expected IPO price by around 30% which would value the company between $27.7B-$30.5B compared to $20.9B-$23.7B
Sources: Oracle and Walmart are still pursuing a stake in TikTok US, as ByteDance banks on Trump backing off requiring a full sale of TikTok US to avoid a ban
Oracle confirms it is part of a proposal submitted by ByteDance to the US Treasury to become TikTok's "trusted technology provider"
JPMorgan to trade shares of pre-IPO giants including SpaceX, Robinhood, Airbnb
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: People think ‘success means I work 20 hours a day’ like Elon Musk — ‘which is BS’
Microsoft wants to take on Amazon in connecting satellites to the cloud
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Apple issues new rules for App Store that will impact streaming game services from Google and Microsoft
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri says the company needs to "make our case as strongly as we can" against Apple's planned changes to IDFA tracking in iOS 14
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Oracle reports Q1 revenue of $9.37B, rising 2% YoY and beating analyst estimates of $9.19B, with cloud services division revenue of $6.95B
Amazon hires Peter Marquez, an ex-director of space policy at WH's National Security Council in Bush and Obama administrations, as head of space policy at AWS
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