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Due to the pandemic, trends that normally may have taken years to unfold, like remote work or the shift from physical to virtual commerce, happened in months (Greg Ip/Wall Street Journal)

Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal: Due to the pandemic, trends that normally may have taken years to unfold, like remote work or the shift from physical to virtual commerce, happened in months  —  Spurred by the pandemic, business changes that normally might have taken years unfolded in months. Due to the pandemic, trends that

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Citing environmental concerns Xiaomi CEO says its flagship Mi 11 phone will not come with a charger in the box; Xiaomi mocked Apple earlier over the same issue (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

Kim Lyons / The Verge: Citing environmental concerns Xiaomi CEO says its flagship Mi 11 phone will not come with a charger in the box; Xiaomi mocked Apple earlier over the same issue  —  Xiaomi’s CEO confirmed the decision on social media site Weibo  —  Lei Jun, the CEO of Chinese phone maker Xiaomi …

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China's central bank tells Ant it must overhaul its lending, insurance, and wealth management businesses and come up with a timetable as soon as possible (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: China’s central bank tells Ant it must overhaul its lending, insurance, and wealth management businesses and come up with a timetable as soon as possible  —  – Authorities require Ant to overhaul business, set up timetable  — Ant was blasted over governance, disdain toward compliance China's central bank tells Ant it must overhaul its

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Kuo: Apple Car's unclear development schedule means it may launch in 2025-2027, while changes in EV/self-driving market may push the launch to 2028 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Kuo: Apple Car’s unclear development schedule means it may launch in 2025-2027, while changes in EV/self-driving market may push the launch to 2028  —  Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Apple is targeting 2024 for production of its long-rumored electric vehicle with “next level” … Kuo: Apple Car's unclear development schedule

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Study: the median valuation for SaaS companies raising their Series C rose by 40% to $210M this year, while their median revenue grew 20% (Miles Kruppa/Financial Times)

Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: Study: the median valuation for SaaS companies raising their Series C rose by 40% to $210M this year, while their median revenue grew 20%  —  Valuations soar in Silicon Valley with venture capitalists racing to find next big thing  —  The surging value of cloud software companies … Study: the

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Beijing's frenzied drive to free itself from a reliance on imported chips could prove to be one of the enduring legacies of Trump's trade policies toward China (New York Times)

New York Times: Beijing’s frenzied drive to free itself from a reliance on imported chips could prove to be one of the enduring legacies of Trump’s trade policies toward China  —  Beijing’s drive to free itself from reliance on imported semiconductors has lifted start-ups and big firms alike.  Some have flamed out. Beijing's frenzied drive

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Analysis of the top 1M pages on the web finds that HTTP/2 is now more common than HTTP/1.1; jQuery, Google Analytics were the top JavaScript libraries by usage (Lars Eidnes/ITNEXT)

Lars Eidnes / ITNEXT: Analysis of the top 1M pages on the web finds that HTTP/2 is now more common than HTTP/1.1; jQuery, Google Analytics were the top JavaScript libraries by usage  —  We rendered the top 1 million pages on the web, tracking every conceivable performance metric, logging every error, noting every requested URL.

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