Paypal purchases deal-finding Chrome extension Honey
Paypal just announced its acquisition of the company behind the development of Honey, a Chrome-based web extension that helps users save money by specializing in finding coupon codes for more than 30,000 online shopping websites. The sale was made for approximately 4 billion USD. Honey's Los Angeles headquarters and co-founders will remain unchanged, while reporting to Paypal SVP John Kunze.
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You can now attend Zoom meetings in VR
You can now attend Zoom meetings in VR
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Hacker steals source code for the Xbox Series X GPU, demands ransom
Chip manufacturing giant AMD has announced that a hacker has managed to steal the source code for some of their latest graphics products, including what is rumored to be the GPU for the next-generation Xbox. The hacker is now demanding a ransom of $100 million for the code. An investigation has been launched into the incident.
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Google to abandon Chrome updates amid coronavirus outbreak
The search and online advertising giant Google, owned by parent company Alphabet, has stated that amid the crisis precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is abandoning all current branches, infra support, testing and merging of branches of its next Chrome browser update, named M82, a move unprecedented in the browser's 11-year history that came as a shock to Chrome's 2 billion users worldwide.
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