Sources: Sony has cut PS5 production for this fiscal year by 4M units to ~11M, following production issues with its custom-designed SOC for the new console (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Sony has cut PS5 production for this fiscal year by 4M units to ~11M, following production issues with its custom-designed SOC for the new console  —  - Low yields of company's custom-designed silicon a bottleneck  — Sony facing aggressive pricing from Microsoft's Xbox team

Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan is the new voice of Amazon's Alexa

Amazon first used a celebrity voice when Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson made a debut on Alexa. https://ift.tt/33oL2dE https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Poco M2 to Go on First Sale Today at 12 Noon via Flipkart

Poco M2 will go on its first sale today from 12pm (noon) onwards, via Flipkart. The phone was launched in India last week and is available in three colour options and two storage configurations. https://ift.tt/3mkRNpu

Courier, which offers an API that helps developers add multichannel user notifications to their apps, raises $10.1M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Courier, which offers an API that helps developers add multichannel user notifications to their apps, raises $10.1M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners  —  Courier is an API platform with a no-code twist that helps developers add multichannel user notifications to their applications.

Swedish online payments startup Klarna raises $650M led by Silver Lake Partners, valuing the company at $10.6B (Riley de León/CNBC)

Riley de León / CNBC:
Swedish online payments startup Klarna raises $650M led by Silver Lake Partners, valuing the company at $10.6B  —  - Klarna nearly doubled its prior valuation in the new $650 million round, led by Silver Lake Partners, from $5.5 billion to $10.6 billion.  — Known for its “buy now …

Groceries to kick off Diwali online battle

To take on Reliance JioMart, Flipkart, Amazon and others starting big sales early https://ift.tt/35zeh04 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

The Trump administration, in a filing, says that Trump's EO on a TikTok ban will not hinder the company from paying salaries to its employees in the country (Steven Musil/CNET)

Steven Musil / CNET:
The Trump administration, in a filing, says that Trump's EO on a TikTok ban will not hinder the company from paying salaries to its employees in the country  —  Employee sued the Trump administration over worries the workforce would be affected by the ban on the app.

Sources: Gojek and Grab have resumed talks for a merger at the behest of shareholders including SoftBank, after Masayoshi Son threw his weight behind a deal (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: Gojek and Grab have resumed talks for a merger at the behest of shareholders including SoftBank, after Masayoshi Son threw his weight behind a deal  —  South-east Asia's biggest start-ups consider merger as coronavirus lockdowns hit business  —  Gojek and Grab, south-east Asia's …

ByteDance drops TikTok's US sale, to partner with Oracle: Report

ByteDance abandoned the sale of TikTok in the United States in pursuit of a partnership with Oracle Corp it hopes will spare it a U.S. ban. ByteDance had been in talks to divest TikTok's U.S. business to either Oracle or Microsoft Corp after U.S. President ordered the sale last month. https://ift.tt/3hsv5bw

South Korea government, Samsung team up for self-sufficiency after Japan export curbs on chip material

When the South Korea government unveiled an expanded semiconductor material testing facility last month, the centrepiece was a towering white machine given by Samsung Electronics at a fraction of its market price. https://ift.tt/33lBH6m

Singapore watchdog fines Grab S$10,000 for 4th user data privacy violation

The regulator also directed Grab to put in place data protection by design policy, where data protection measures are considered and built into tech systems as they are being developed. https://ift.tt/3mkW6kA

Google Sabrina may retail as "Google Chromecast with Google TV"

Google's upcoming "Sabrina" streaming device has thoroughly leaked in recent months and now a new report suggests that it could be called the "Google Chromecast with Google TV." https://ift.tt/3bU0VMU

Google using language AI model to match stories with fact checks

Google is now leveraging BERT, one of its language AI models, in full coverage news stories to better match stories with fact checks and better understand what results are most relevant to the queries posted on Search. https://ift.tt/33p9k7s

Ecom Express to create 30,000 temporary jobs ahead of festive sales to address rise in online orders

The company, which had a workforce of about 23,000 in the pre-COVID-19 times, has hired 7,500 people in the last few months to address the increase in online orders during and after the lockdown as people turned to e-commerce to order grocery, medicines and other items. https://ift.tt/3kfNjyu

Redmi 9 Prime, Redmi 9 on Sale at 12 Noon Today via Amazon, Mi.com

Redmi 9 price in India starts at Rs. 8,999, whereas the Redmi 9 Prime price in India starts from Rs. 9,999. The phone will go on sale at 12pm (noon) on Amazon India and Mi.com. The Redmi 9 Prime is... https://ift.tt/3c7dkxr