Month: March 2021
Proptech startup States Title, now Doma, going public via SPAC in $3B deal
Real estate tech startup Doma, formerly known as States Title, announced Tuesday it will go public through a merger with SPAC Capitol Investment Corp. V in a deal valued at $3 billion, including debt. SPACs, often called blank-check companies, are increasingly common. They exist as publicly traded entities in search…
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A jury says Intel owes $2.18 billion for infringing a zombie chip company’s patents
Intel may owe quite a bit of cash to a semiconductor company that hasn’t existed for 20 years. A Texas jury has asked Intel to pay $2.18 billion for infringing two patents owned by VLSI Technology, according to Bloomberg. VLSI seemingly rose from the dead in 2019 specifically to sue.…
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Panos Panay teases, is pumped about the next generation of Windows Surface Book 3
Whether or not Microsoft is attempting to quell talks about its beloved platform is starting to stagnate, it has certainly piqued people’s interest at Ignite 2021. In a fireside chat with Microsoft Corporate VP & Product Manager, Roanne Sones, Chief Product Officer Panos Panay made a couple of interesting, if…
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Amazon’s GameOn screen recording app comes to iOS
In November, Amazon announced GameOn, an app for recording short, shareable clips from your favorite mobile games. Initially, it was only available on Android. But as spotted by TechCrunch, if you own an iPhone or iPad and live in the US, you can now… Source
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Twitter Spaces arrives on Android ahead of Clubhouse
Twitter announced today it’s opening up its live audio chat rooms, known as Twitter Spaces, to users on Android. Previously, the experience was only open to select users on iOS following the product’s private beta launch in late December 2020. The company says that Android users will only be able…
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Yubico and Microsoft want to finally kill off passwords for good passwords
Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) users can now login without having to enter a password as Yubico has announced that YubiKey passwordless authentication is now available on the platform. Nearly three years ago, Yubico first embarked on this journey with Microsoft when the company brought the first FIDO2-enabled security…
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