Daily Crunch - Apple Stores begin to reopen

Monday, May 18, 2020 Posted by bloggerdaddy
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Monday, May 18, 2020 By Anthony Ha

Apple outlines new safety measures as it reopens stores, Huawei responds to new U.S. chip curbs and Jack Ma departs SoftBank’s board of directors.

Here’s your Daily Crunch for May 18, 2020.

Apple begins reopening some stores with temperature checks and other safeguards in place

In mid-March, Apple closed all of its stores outside of China "until further notice." In a statement issued today under the title, "To our Customers," Retail SVP Deirdre O'Brien offered insight into the company's plans to reopen locations.

Nearly 100 stores have already resumed services, according to O'Brien. Face covers will be required for both employees and customers alike. In addition, temperature checks are now conducted at the store's entrance, coupled with posted health questions. Apple has also instituted deeper cleaning on all surfaces, including display products.

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Huawei admits uncertainty following new US chip curbs

Following the U.S. government's announcement that it would further thwart Huawei's chip-making capability, the Chinese telecoms equipment giant condemned the new ruling for being "arbitrary and pernicious.” Adding to its woes, the Nikkei Asian Review reported that Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has stopped taking new orders from the company. (Huawei declined to comment, while TSMC said the report was "purely market rumor.”)

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Jack Ma to resign from SoftBank Group's board of directors

The company did not give a reason for the resignation, but over the past year, Ma has been pulling back from business roles to focus on philanthropy. Last September, he resigned as Alibaba's chairman, and is also expected to step down from its board at its annual general shareholder's meeting this year.

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Oculus surpasses $100 million in Quest content sales

Facebook-owned Oculus released a new sales figure as the company reaches the one-year anniversary of the release of the Quest headset. We didn't get unit sales, but the company did share that it has sold $100 million worth of Quest content in the device's first year — a number that indicates that although the platform is still nascent, a handful of developers are definitely making it work for them.

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3 views on the future of work, coffee shops and neighborhoods in a post-pandemic world

Devin Coldewey talks about what's going to change with coffee shops and co-working spaces, Alex Wilhelm discusses the future of the home office setup and Danny Crichton talks about the revitalization of urban and semi-urban neighborhoods. (Extra Crunch membership required.)

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India's Swiggy to cut 1,100 jobs, scale down cloud kitchen operations

In an internal email, which the Bangalore-headquartered food delivery startup published on its blog, Swiggy co-founder and chief executive Sriharsha Majety said the company’s core food business had been “severely impacted.”

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This week's TechCrunch podcasts

The latest full episode of Equity looks at a funding round for pizza delivery company Slice and the possibility of Uber acquiring Grubhub, while the Monday news roundup takes a deeper look at the financials of the food delivery business. Meanwhile, Original Content is back on a weekly schedule, and we review the new Netflix series “Never Have I Ever.”

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