Friday, July 23, 2021

Apple updates Apple Music for Android with Spatial Audio and lossless quality streaming (Mike Peterson/AppleInsider)

Mike Peterson / AppleInsider:
Apple updates Apple Music for Android with Spatial Audio and lossless quality streaming  —  The latest update to the Apple Music app on Android officially introduces support for Apple's lossless and spatial audio features.  —  Version 3.6 of the Apple Music for Android app …



Taboola says it is buying retail- and e-commerce-focused ad network Connexity for $800M in cash and stock (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Taboola says it is buying retail- and e-commerce-focused ad network Connexity for $800M in cash and stock  —  Taboola, the company that operates a popular grid-based advertising and content recommendation network across media properties, today announced an acquisition to expand its reach further …



Apple MagSafe Battery Pack review: well integrated with iOS and can charge Qi devices, like AirPods, but doesn't provide full iPhone 12 charge and is expensive (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Apple MagSafe Battery Pack review: well integrated with iOS and can charge Qi devices, like AirPods, but doesn't provide full iPhone 12 charge and is expensive  —  Apple's new MagSafe Battery Pack is a white rectangle you can stick to the back of an iPhone 12 to charge it.



Amazon says it has opened an investigation into AWS' culture after a popular internal petition criticized it for discrimination against women and others (Jay Greene/Washington Post)

Jay Greene / Washington Post:
Amazon says it has opened an investigation into AWS' culture after a popular internal petition criticized it for discrimination against women and others  —  The probe comes as more than 550 workers in a cloud-computing unit supported a petition, citing “an underlying culture of systemic discrimination, harassment, bullying and bias.”



Digital mapping startup Matterport will begin trading after a SPAC merger that raised $640M and valued the company at $2.9B; Matterport had $86M in 2020 revenue (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Digital mapping startup Matterport will begin trading after a SPAC merger that raised $640M and valued the company at $2.9B; Matterport had $86M in 2020 revenue  —  Matterport Inc. is set to begin trading Friday on the Nasdaq under the symbol MTTR, after seeing a surge in demand for its 3D mapping products during the pandemic.



In the Heights Skips Indian Cinemas for On-Demand Premiere Due to COVID-19

In the Heights is out July 29 in India on Apple TV, BookMyShow Stream, Google Play Movies. In the Heights is the second Warner Bros. movie to skip cinemas in India during the ongoing coronavirus... https://ift.tt/3rybPjw

Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in data center financing decisions (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in ...