Author: Tech Support

    • Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to neighboring Bellevue by 2023, with several thousand employees making the move (Monica Nickelsburg/GeekWire)

    Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to neighboring Bellevue by 2023, with several thousand employees making the move  —  Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to Bellevue, Wash., by 2023, adding thousands of employees … Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide

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    • Some Chinese companies, including Tencent and Xiaomi, are restricting access via their own browsers to a GitHub page where developers protest "996" work culture (Xinmei Shen/Abacus)

    Xinmei Shen / Abacus: Some Chinese companies, including Tencent and Xiaomi, are restricting access via their own browsers to a GitHub page where developers protest “996” work culture  —  Tencent, Xiaomi and others are censoring the GitHub page over “illegal information” Some Chinese companies, including Tencent and Xiaomi, are restricting access via their own browsers

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    • Source: Intel has missed deadlines for the development of a 5G modem for the 2020 iPhones; Apple has 1,000-1,200 engineers working on modems for future iPhones (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)

    Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: Source: Intel has missed deadlines for the development of a 5G modem for the 2020 iPhones; Apple has 1,000-1,200 engineers working on modems for future iPhones  —  As of now Apple plans to release a 5G iPhone in 2020.  But an increasingly stormy relationship with its 5G modem supplier Intel

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    • Current and former TiVo insiders on how the first DVR came to be, going up against cable companies, how IP licensing has kept the company relevant, and more (Tom Roston/OneZero)

    Tom Roston / OneZero: Current and former TiVo insiders on how the first DVR came to be, going up against cable companies, how IP licensing has kept the company relevant, and more  —  ‘They Thought It Was Black Magic’: An Oral History of TiVo  —  How the original DVR paved the way for Netflix and

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    • UN investigator: Facebook's efforts "not nearly sufficient" in genocide-torn Myanmar; while violence-inciting posts seem to be down, racist posts are common (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Gizmodo)

    Patrick Howell O’Neill / Gizmodo: UN investigator: Facebook’s efforts “not nearly sufficient” in genocide-torn Myanmar; while violence-inciting posts seem to be down, racist posts are common  —  It’s been nearly two years since the bloody peak of a social media-fueled genocide in Southeast Asia … UN investigator: Facebook's efforts "not nearly sufficient" in genocide-torn Myanmar;

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    • Sources: SoftBank is in talks with investors to add as much as $15B to its Vision Fund, which has invested more than $70B in tech companies in about two years (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank is in talks with investors to add as much as $15B to its Vision Fund, which has invested more than $70B in tech companies in about two years  —  – Vision Fund is considering a variety of ways to raise capital  — It’s also in preliminary talks for a second Vision Fund

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    • Vestwell, which manages employer-sponsored retirement plans for SMBs, raises $30M Series B from Goldman Sachs and others (Elizabeth Dilts/Reuters)

    Elizabeth Dilts / Reuters: Vestwell, which manages employer-sponsored retirement plans for SMBs, raises $30M Series B from Goldman Sachs and others  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) – Vestwell Holdings Inc, a tech platform for retirement plans, said on Tuesday it raised $30 million from Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Point72 Ventures and the Bank of New York

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