Sources: UK chip designer Graphcore explores a sale to foreign owners in a deal that could be worth $500M+; rumored buyers include OpenAI, SoftBank, and Arm
Report Andrew Davis / Bloomberg : UK's Graphcore Mulls Sale to Foreign Buyer, Telegraph Says Nausheen Thusoo / CoinGape : AI Pioneer Graphcore Mulls a Potential Foreign Sale After ...
How SoftBank's costly bet on IoT at Arm backfired and distracted the company from the much bigger data center market
UK chip designer changes strategy ahead of planned float with renewed focus on lucrative server market — As Masayoshi Son tried to persuade investors of the wisdom …
A senior Apple engineer compared App Store's defenses against malicious actors to “bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight”, according to legal documents
Revelation part of legal documents released by Epic Games ahead of antitrust trial
Epic filing reveals that in a 2016 email Phil Schiller said “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us”, which Epic argues is proof of lock-in
Epic and Apple are preparing to battle it out in court over the App Store (remember that whole Fortnite debacle?) …
Maryland approves the Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax, the first tax in US on digital ads revenue, creating a 10% tax on firms with $15B+ global revenues
Analysts estimate that the tax will generate up to $250 million for schools in the state in the first year.
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs scales back Toronto smart city project prompted by local privacy critics, who argue it exploits people's data from the physical world
Faced with an array of opponents for its sensor-laden city of tomorrow in Toronto, a Google sibling has dramatically dialed back plans. Tweets: @rafael_a_calvo , @mikethebbop , @bh...