Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances bringing the Intel-based Mac mini to its cloud for $1.083 per hour billed by the second (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

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Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances bringing the Intel-based Mac mini to its cloud for $1.083 per hour billed by the second  —  AWS today opened its re:Invent conference with a surprise announcement: the company is bringing the Mac mini to its cloud.  These new EC2 Mac instances, as AWS calls them, are now available in preview.

7 ways your smartphone's camera changed in 2020

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How to share photos and videos from iPhone to any Android smartphone

Google recently added a similar feature called Nearby Sharing that allows Android smartphone users to do that same task without any hassle. However, things get much more complicated when it comes to sharing photos and videos from an iPhone to Android or vice-versa. https://ift.tt/2Vp7aAQ

Amazon, Apple Stay Away From New French Big Tech Initiative

Amazon and Apple have not signed up to a new French initiative to get global tech companies to publicly commit to principles including paying their fair share of taxes. https://ift.tt/3fURrmx

Facebook Buys Online Customer Service Startup Kustomer

Facebook announced it is buying Kustomer, a startup specialising in helping businesses interact with customers online. https://ift.tt/2HTSTsU

Bitcoin Jumps to All-Time High of Over $19,800 Amid Increased Demand

Bitcoin soared to a record high against the dollar on Monday, boosted by increased demand from both institutional and retail investors that saw the virtual currency as a safe-haven and a hedge against... https://ift.tt/33yDiXv

Donald Trump to add China's SMIC and CNOOC to defense blacklist: Sources

The Trump administration is poised to add China's top chipmaker SMIC and national offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, according to a document and sources, curbing their access to U.S. investors and escalating tensions with Beijing weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. https://ift.tt/3fRmOOU

Britain bans new Huawei 5G kit installation from September 2021

British telecommunications firms must not install new Huawei 5G kit after September 2021, the government said, as part of a plan to purge the Chinese firm's equipment from high speed mobile networks. https://ift.tt/3lwuDLq

Facebook to buy customer service startup Kustomer

Facebook Inc said it would buy customer service startup Kustomer, as the world's largest social network adds tools to attract more sellers to its platforms. https://ift.tt/3fTZ64F

Bitcoin surges to all-time record as 2020 rally powers on

Bitcoin soared to a record high against the dollar, as its 2020 rally steamed ahead, boosted by increased demand from both institutional and retail investors that saw the virtual currency as a safe-haven and a hedge against inflation. https://ift.tt/3qj0rXo

Totum Labs, which is developing low earth orbit nanosatellites for global IoT connectivity, raises $13M Series A led by Heroic Ventures and Space Capital (Nickie Louise/TechStartups.com)

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Totum Labs, which is developing low earth orbit nanosatellites for global IoT connectivity, raises $13M Series A led by Heroic Ventures and Space Capital  —  Totum Labs, a San Diego, CA-based tech startup that is revolutionalizing wireless technology by enabling low-cost, global …

Google names 21 Best Android apps of 2020

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Mursion, which offers VR training to practice human skills, such as emotional intelligence, in the workplace, announces $20M Series B led by Leeds Illuminate (Lee Clifford/Fortune)

Lee Clifford / Fortune:
Mursion, which offers VR training to practice human skills, such as emotional intelligence, in the workplace, announces $20M Series B led by Leeds Illuminate  —  Hugo is furious.  —  He's sitting across from me, arms crossed, face scowling, exuding bad energy.  Sitting next to him is Maia.

S&P Global has agreed to acquire IHS Markit for about $44B in an all-stock deal, which would merge two of the largest providers of financial data and analysis (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
S&P Global has agreed to acquire IHS Markit for about $44B in an all-stock deal, which would merge two of the largest providers of financial data and analysis  —  Landmark deal would combine two of the largest providers of data to Wall Street  —  S&P Global Inc. agreed to acquire IHS Markit Ltd …

Sources: Gitlab is letting employees sell equity in a secondary share sale that values the company over $6B, up from a valuation of $2.7B in September 2019 (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Ari Levy / CNBC:
Sources: Gitlab is letting employees sell equity in a secondary share sale that values the company over $6B, up from a valuation of $2.7B in September 2019  —  - GitLab competes with GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018 for $7.5 billion.  — The company had originally aimed to go public …