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Ready your wallets if you’ve been thinking about upgrading your Apple products. According to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, Apple will announce “at least five products,” starting on Monday, March 2, and extending to its scheduled “experience” on Wednesday, March 4. There’s a long list of potential options that Apple could announce next month, but Gurman is…

Social network UpScrolled, which gained prominence after TikTok’s ownership change in the U.S. in January, has zoomed past 2.5 million users, the company’s founder Issam Hijazi said during Web Summit Qatar. “We launched about six months ago, and we grew to about 150,000 up until early January.And as of the last few days, we reached…

Millions of households in England will have to pay even higher water bills than had previously been announced, after five water companies appealed to the UK’s competition regulator. The companies – Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East – had appeals to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) accepted, giving them permission to raise bills…

In a sign of the demand, or hype, for AI startups, Emergent, an Indian startup building an AI “vibe-coding” platform, has raised $70 million less than four months after it raised a $23 million Series A. The Series B round was jointly led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 and Khosla Ventures, and values the startup…

When is Presidents’ Day? Presidents’ Day is celebrated on the third Monday of February to honor past US presidents. This year, it falls on Monday, Feb. 16. How did we choose these Presidents’ Day deals? ZDNET only writes about deals that capture our own interest — devices and products we want, need, or would recommend…