Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Modern Health, whose app helps employers provide digital mental health care to their employees, raises $51M Series C, bringing its total raised to over $95M (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

Christine Hall / Crunchbase News:
Modern Health, whose app helps employers provide digital mental health care to their employees, raises $51M Series C, bringing its total raised to over $95M  —  Modern Health is providing a “fourth pillar” of health care, what Alyson Watson, founder and CEO, likes to call …



Facebook 'hopes' Europe may set Apple 'right'

Facebook Inc on Tuesday said it hopes new draft rules by the European Union aimed at curbing powers of big US companies could set boundaries for Apple Inc, its latest volley in an ongoing feud. https://ift.tt/34hcV8K

Cyberpunk 2077 Debacle Costs Founders $1 Billion of Wealth

The technical glitches plaguing CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077 game have cut more than $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,300 crores) off the wealth of the company's founders. Perhaps more seriously, the... https://ift.tt/3qWHLgN

Facebook Takes Swipe at Apple While Supporting Draft EU Rules

Facebook said it hopes new draft rules by the European Union aimed at curbing powers of big US companies could set boundaries for Apple, its latest volley in an ongoing feud. https://ift.tt/3r3oDOb

Apple Plans to Make 30 Percent More iPhone Units in First Half of 2021: Report

Apple plans to raise iPhone manufacturing by nearly 30 percent to up to 96 million units in the first half of 2021, Japanese financial daily Nikkei reported, prompting another jump in the shares of... https://ift.tt/3alWX17

nference, whose search tool makes it easy for researchers and doctors to find biomedical information in the public domain, raises $60M Series C (Laura Lovett/MobiHealthNews)

Laura Lovett / MobiHealthNews:
nference, whose search tool makes it easy for researchers and doctors to find biomedical information in the public domain, raises $60M Series C  —  The tool was designed to make it easier for scientists, researchers and doctors to look up biomedical information.



Twitter to Shut Down Periscope Streaming App by March 2021

Twitter said it would shut down live-streaming app Periscope due to declining usage over the past couple of years and high supporting costs. https://ift.tt/2IRYPmI

Facebook is working on an AI tool called TLDR, which would summarize articles in bullet points and which was announced in an end-of-year, company-wide meeting (Ryan Mac/BuzzFeed News)

Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook is working on an AI tool called TLDR, which would summarize articles in bullet points and which was announced in an end-of-year, company-wide meeting  —  Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them …



Mozilla releases Firefox 84 with native support for Apple M1 Macs, saying the browser launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Mozilla releases Firefox 84 with native support for Apple M1 Macs, saying the browser launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive  —  Mozilla today released Firefox version 84 with native support for Apple Silicon Macs with the M1 chip, touting …



A look at Walmart's Spotlight program which recruits employees to showcase the positive sides of Walmart on the individuals' social media accounts (Michael Waters/Modern Retail)

Michael Waters / Modern Retail:
A look at Walmart's Spotlight program which recruits employees to showcase the positive sides of Walmart on the individuals' social media accounts  —  When Lauren Castle started interning at Walmart in 2011, she didn't think she'd last more than a few months.



SolarWinds' top investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sold a combined $286M worth of stock in the company on Dec. 7, six days before the hack was made public (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
SolarWinds' top investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sold a combined $286M worth of stock in the company on Dec. 7, six days before the hack was made public  —  The timing of the trades raises questions about whether major shareholders used inside information to avoid stark losses after the attack.



How OnePlus, Xiaomi, IBM, Microsoft and others describe the year 2020 in one word

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Xiaomi Mi QLED 4K TV Launch in India Today: How to Watch Livestream

Xiaomi is hosting the Mi QLED 4K TV launch in India today. The new Mi TV model is likely to be the Mi TV 5 Pro that debuted in China in late 2019. https://ift.tt/3qXDqtA

Amazon's cloud gaming service Luna is now available on Android for US users, with initial support on some Pixel, Samsung, and OnePlus devices running Chrome 86+ (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Amazon's cloud gaming service Luna is now available on Android for US users, with initial support on some Pixel, Samsung, and OnePlus devices running Chrome 86+  —  It works on some Pixel, Samsung, and OnePlus devices  —  Amazon's cloud gaming service, Luna, is now available on Android, Amazon announced on Tuesday.



Sources: a coalition of US states are expected to file antitrust lawsuit against Google as soon as Thursday, alleging it altered design of search to hurt rivals (Leah Nylen/Politico)

Leah Nylen / Politico:
Sources: a coalition of US states are expected to file antitrust lawsuit against Google as soon as Thursday, alleging it altered design of search to hurt rivals  —  A coalition of states is finishing an antitrust lawsuit against Google focused on its power in the online search market …



MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia : MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's...