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Apple Watch Series 9 sales to be halted over patent dispute

December 18, 2023

Apple will be halting sales of its Series 9 smartwatch, TechCrunch has confirmed. The news, shared by 9to5Mac, follows an October ruling by the International Trade Commission (ITC), owing to a patent dispute with California-based med tech firm, Masimo. The dispute stems from the blood sensor monitor on the latest flagship smart Watch. The move […]

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ServiceNow dives deeper into task mining with latest acquisition

December 18, 2023

ServiceNow announced this morning that it was acquiring Czech Republic task mining company UltimateSuite, giving the company a new way to capture and understand how work flows through a business. The companies did not reveal the price, but it was a 3-year old startup that had raised €768,000 (approximately $839,000), so likely not a huge […]

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MongoDB investigating security incident that exposed data about customer accounts

December 18, 2023

Database management giant MongoDB says it’s investigating a security incident that has resulted in the exposure of some information about customers. The New York-based MongoDB helps more than 46,000 companies, including Adobe, eBay, Verizon, and the U.K.’s Department for Work and Pensions, manage their databases and vast stores of data, according to its website. The […]

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Adobe and Figma end $20B acquisition plans after regulatory headwinds in Europe

December 18, 2023

Adobe’s $20 billion mega-bid to buy rival Figma is now officially dead, after the companies said today that regulatory pushback in Europe had caused them to put an end to the acquisition plans. First announced in September last year, the deal was always going to attract regulatory scrutiny due to the size of the transaction […]

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