Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is delaying the theatrical release planned for December 6, according to Reuters sources.
The January launch on Apple TV+ will also likely be pushed back.
Apple cancelled the film’s world premier on November 21, citing unspecified “concerns surrounding the film.”
SoftBank (OTCPK:SFTBF,OTCPK:SFTBY) leads the $138M investing round for VTEX.
Brazilian funds Gavea Investimentos and Constellation Asset Management joined the round.
VTEX provides e-commerce support to brands that include Motorola, cosmetics company Boticario, and Electrolux.
The startup will use the funds to expand its R&D efforts, which include new AI software.
SoftBank participated through its $5B Latin America fund.
Years ago, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) built an internal app that allowed employees to identify people by pointing their phone cameras at the subject, Business Insider reports.
That app relied on Facebook’s own sea of data on user identities to perform the recognition, according to the report.
It was developed between 2015 and 2016 (and shown off at an internal all-hands meeting in 2015) and was never released.
Facebook says the app worked only on company employees and any friends who opted in to the system. A source said that in 2016 a beta version of the app was available to employees that could identify anyone on whom the social network had enough data, but then restricted to friends of the app user.
This fall, Facebook said it would make a change to make facial recognition in its photos interface an opt-in feature overall.
Google (GOOG -0.5%)(GOOGL -0.5%) will end its cloud-based printing solution on December 31, 2020.
Introduced in 2010, Cloud Print lets users print things from Google Chrome on desktop or mobile even if the printer doesn’t have an internet connection.
Google recommends using the native printing function in Chrome OS once Print is gone.
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) receives a license from the U.S. government to export software to Huawei.
Microsoft statement: “On November 20, the U.S. Department of Commerce granted Microsoft’s request for a license to export mass-market software to Huawei. We appreciate the Department’s action in response to our request.”
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives says the license was most likely for MSFT’s Windows OS.
The Commerce Department confirms it has started issuing licenses for some companies to resume sales to the Chinese company, which was blacklisted six months ago over national security concerns.
