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Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20 million-a-year bill for Apollo
Reddit is an enormously popular website, but the official design has always needed some reworking. This is even more true of the mobile experience, which didn't have a mobile app until 2016, and even then, not everyone's a fan of it. The site's popularity rose partly thanks to third-party developers filling in the gaps with pre-existing and better mobile apps.
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Trying to Boost Retail Sales? Here's How Geofencing Can Help.
In this article, we'll take an in-depth look at geofencing marketing and discuss how it's helping retailers increase foot traffic and boost sales.
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iPhone maker Wistron calls it quits, saying Apple didn't allow it to make a profit
iPhone maker Wistron – which was the first company to produce iPhones in India – has exited the business, saying that Apple’s tough negotiations on price meant the company was unable to make a profit. The news comes at a time when the Cupertino company is moving more and more of its iPhone production from China to India …
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Apple Announces Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Broadcom to Make Components in the USA
Apple today announced a multibillion-dollar deal with American technology company Broadcom to make several key components for its devices in the United States.
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The Great Rebundling: Who Will Figure Out How to Rebuild Pay TV First?
At this point in the streaming wars, bundling, rather than M&A, is back in the spotlight. During a May 18 investor conference, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was asked whether he would be interested in exploring a sports- and news-led “skinnier bundle” with content from the streamers.
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Ryanair aims for 10% full year profit growth on strong summer
Ryanair aims to boost profit by 10% this year after almost record earnings for its last financial year, CEO Michael O'Leary said on Monday, and it may do better if rival airlines' "irrationally exuberant" summer fare forecasts are right.
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Vice and BuzzFeed were meant to be the future of news. What happened?
After Rupert Murdoch invested tens of millions of pounds in his digital publishing company in 2013, Shane Smith, boss of Vice Media, laughed at how much old media companies wanted his sexy young business. Acknowledging that they were being left behind, they would offer billions: “And we keep saying ‘no, no, no’”.
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Cloudburst: Why good clouds go down
Today, business lives and dies by hyperscale cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. | These are the five most common causes of hyperscale cloud downtime.
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BT to cut 55,000 jobs with up to a fifth replaced by AI
Telecoms giant BT is to shed up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade, mostly in the UK, as it cuts costs. Up to a fifth of those cuts will come in customer services as staff are replaced by technologies including artificial intelligence. The headcount reduction from the current workforce of 130,000 includes staff and contractors.
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‘We are losing money’: companies in Apple’s repair program say they can’t compete with tech giant
Companies in Apple’s third-party repair program say delays in the process and high pricing for parts make it almost impossible to compete with the juggernaut. In 2021 Apple, under pressure from a Productivity Commission review on the “right to repair”, launched its independent repair provider program in Australia. It was trumpeted as a way for small companies to compete with Apple to repair their products – such as the iPhone – using Apple tools and spare parts.
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Foxconn commits $500 million to set up new manufacturing unit in India
Apple’s largest contract manufacturer Foxconn, or Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, has committed to investing $500 million in setting up a new manufacturing unit in the Indian state of Telangana. “Demonstrating the ‘Telangana Speed’, I am happy to announce the groundbreaking of first of Foxconn’s plants in Telangana at Kongar Kalaan today. With an investment of over $500M it shall create 25,000 direct jobs in first Phase,” Telangana’s IT minister KT Rama Rao said in a tweet.
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Amazon may prioritize items in search results depending on how close it is to you and how quickly it can be delivered
Amazon doubled its warehouse footprint over the last several years, allowing the company to prioritize faster regional shipping across the US.
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37 Desk Organization Ideas: The Well-Kept Guide
If you’re tired of your cluttered desk getting in the way of focused work, this article will give you everything you need to create the perfect desk setup for your needs.
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Why the video game industry is making a big mistake by ignoring older adults
In April, AARP held its first Games Summit at its headquarters in Washington D.C., and for many people outside the video game industry, the event might seem like a head-scratcher. An organization focused on advocating for people in the 50-plus demographic talking about video games, a medium typically thought to be for younger people?
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Open source and Linux skills are still in demand in a dark economy
Despite the doom-and-gloom headlines about tech jobs, the Linux Foundation's latest survey says companies are still hiring savvy Linux and open source staffers.
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Helion announces world’s first fusion energy purchase agreement with Microsoft
Helion Energy (Helion) today announced an agreement to provide Microsoft electricity from its first fusion power plant. Constellation will serve as the power marketer and will manage transmission for the project. The plant is expected to be online by 2028 and will target power generation of 50 MW or greater after a 1-year ramp up period.
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Big Tech Is Taking Cues From Big Tobacco’s Playbook
Alongside tireless political lobbying, Big Tech has infiltrated the academic institutions studying and often promoting AI — with little regard for the potentially catastrophic downsides.
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Don't replace your people with ChatGPT or other AI services
I cannot believe how stupid companies can be regarding generative AI ChatGPT and the like are not ready to replace workers.
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''I Get Worried'': Warren Buffett Compares AI To The Creation Of Atom Bomb
Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such as ChatGPT capturing the public's fancy. While AI chatbots are being employed for a variety of tasks, there are also fears of them being misused. There are also strong concerns that AI will take away millions of jobs and many tech entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk, have raised voices against its spread. Now, billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett also shared his thoughts on the rapidly evolving technology.
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Judd Apatow Says Studios May Not Want to Quickly Resolve Writers Strike: ‘They’ve Probably Been Planning This for Years’
Judd Apatow thinks the studios and streamers already have an idea of when the writers strike may end. “I think they probably already know what they’re going to bend on,” Apatow told Variety S…
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