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Thursday, January 31, 2019
Vikendi scavenger-hunt announced for PUBG Xbox, new update released with multiple hotfixes
Specs comparison: Honor View 20 vs Huawei P20 Pro
WhatsApp may bring simplified media menu and tracking feature for Android
Asus launches ZenBook 13, ZenBook 14 and ZenBook 15 in India
Firefox gives users more control over their privacy settings with Strict mode
Ban PUBG, 11-year old appeals to Maharashtra Govt as it promotes gaming addiction, violence and cyber bullying
Googlecom gets voice Assistant support on Android
Facebook is paying teens and adults to sell their personal data by installing a VPN app
Redmi Note 7 Pro could come with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage
Asus Zenfone 5Z now receiving Android 9 Pie update in India
Apple reports lower Q4 2018 due to decline in iPhone sales
Department for Transport revamps police road traffic accident reporting system
Research: in 2018, startups in the SF Bay Area raised $22.4B across 87 $100M+ funding rounds; startups in the rest of US raised $24.9B across 103 $100M+ rounds (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News:
Research: in 2018, startups in the SF Bay Area raised $22.4B across 87 $100M+ funding rounds; startups in the rest of US raised $24.9B across 103 $100M+ rounds — The San Francisco Bay Area 1 may be best understood as one giant reality distortion field. People live on top of earthquake faults.
Apple shutting down Facebook's internal iOS apps should serve as a reminder of the power Apple holds over the rest of us (Casey Newton/The Interface)
Casey Newton / The Interface:
Apple shutting down Facebook's internal iOS apps should serve as a reminder of the power Apple holds over the rest of us — At around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Facebook sent me an update about the controversial market research program revealed on Tuesday by TechCrunch.
Grab raises $200M from Thai retail conglomerate Central Group, says the deal is not part of ongoing Series H but an investment into its Thailand-based business (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Grab raises $200M from Thai retail conglomerate Central Group, says the deal is not part of ongoing Series H but an investment into its Thailand-based business — Grab's fundraising push continues unabated after the Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm announced that it has raised $200 million …
"Wrapped Bitcoin" (WBTC), a joint initiative between BitGo and other partners, has launched its ERC-20 token that is backed one-to-one by a regular bitcoin (Christine Kim/CoinDesk)
Christine Kim / CoinDesk:
“Wrapped Bitcoin” (WBTC), a joint initiative between BitGo and other partners, has launched its ERC-20 token that is backed one-to-one by a regular bitcoin — A new token backed one-to-one with bitcoin is now live on the ethereum blockchain. — “Wrapped BTC” (WBTC) officially launched its ERC-20 token Wednesday evening.
Ironclad, a startup focused on automating the creation and management of legal contracts and other paperwork, announces $23M funding round led by Sequoia (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Ironclad, a startup focused on automating the creation and management of legal contracts and other paperwork, announces $23M funding round led by Sequoia — When Jason Boehmig was in law school at Notre Dame in 2012, he decided he really wanted to be in technology.
Electric scooter startup Grin, which merged with São Paulo-based Ride in October, merges with Brazil-based Yellow as it expands further across Latin America (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:
Electric scooter startup Grin, which merged with São Paulo-based Ride in October, merges with Brazil-based Yellow as it expands further across Latin America — Consolidation in the micromobility space has arrived — in Brazil, at least. A few months after Y Combinator-backed Grin merged …
New York AG, in precedent-setting settlement, finds selling fake followers and likes or using stolen IDs on social media is illegal in its case against Devumi (Athena Jones/CNN)
Athena Jones / CNN:
New York AG, in precedent-setting settlement, finds selling fake followers and likes or using stolen IDs on social media is illegal in its case against Devumi — New York (CNN Business)A company that brought in millions of dollars in revenue by creating fake social media posts and comments …
Samsung reports Q4 revenue of $53.3B, down 10% YoY, operating profit of $9.7B, down 29% YoY, says earnings primarily affected by falling demand for memory chips (Sam Byford/The Verge)
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Samsung reports Q4 revenue of $53.3B, down 10% YoY, operating profit of $9.7B, down 29% YoY, says earnings primarily affected by falling demand for memory chips — Samsung Electronics has turned in an earnings report in line with its guidance, as happens every quarter.
DHS announces rule changes to H-1B visa lottery favoring workers with US advanced degrees starting Apr. 1, making it harder for outsourcers to hire from abroad (Melia Russell/San Francisco Chronicle)
Melia Russell / San Francisco Chronicle:
DHS announces rule changes to H-1B visa lottery favoring workers with US advanced degrees starting Apr. 1, making it harder for outsourcers to hire from abroad — A subtle change with major implications is coming to the H-1B visa program that could give large tech companies an edge …
Zuckerberg says combining Facebook's messaging apps into a unified platform is a "2020 thing or beyond" (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Zuckerberg says combining Facebook's messaging apps into a unified platform is a “2020 thing or beyond” — 'There's a lot more we need to figure out.' — Facebook is reportedly working to combine Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram messaging into a single, unified platform …
Tim Baxter, Samsung North America's president and CEO, says he will retire on June 1, will be replaced by YH Eom, deputy head of Samsung North America (C. Scott Brown/Android Authority)
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority:
Tim Baxter, Samsung North America's president and CEO, says he will retire on June 1, will be replaced by YH Eom, deputy head of Samsung North America — Tim Baxter is currently President and CEO of Samsung Electronics North America in New York City. However, come this June …
Within days of Intel announcing it is expanding its chip plant in Israel, sources say it has bid $5.5B to acquire Israeli big data chipmaker Mellanox (Mike Robuck/FierceTelecom)
Mike Robuck / FierceTelecom:
Within days of Intel announcing it is expanding its chip plant in Israel, sources say it has bid $5.5B to acquire Israeli big data chipmaker Mellanox — U.S. chipmaker Intel has reportedly bid $5.5 billion to $6 billion in cash and stock to buy Israel-based Mellanox.
Zuckerberg shares Facebook's 2019 priorities: progress on the social issues facing it, building new experiences, supporting businesses, and more transparency (Mark Zuckerberg)
Mark Zuckerberg:
Zuckerberg shares Facebook's 2019 priorities: progress on the social issues facing it, building new experiences, supporting businesses, and more transparency — We just released our community update and quarterly results. — We've fundamentally changed how we run our company to focus …
Microsoft says chip supply issues hurt its Q2 Office and Windows revenues and that negative effects "will take through the June quarter to normalize" (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft says chip supply issues hurt its Q2 Office and Windows revenues and that negative effects “will take through the June quarter to normalize” — Microsoft's cloud businesses and Surface grew solidly during its Q2 FY19, while Windows OEM and Office Consumer products slowed, in part, due to chip supply issues.
Facebook says Instagram Stories has 500M daily users, will phase out Facebook-only metrics, focusing on "family" metrics like 2.7B monthly users across apps (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook says Instagram Stories has 500M daily users, will phase out Facebook-only metrics, focusing on “family” metrics like 2.7B monthly users across apps — Roughly half of Instagram's users 1 billion users now use Instagram Stories every day.
Department for Transport revamps police road traffic accident reporting system
Alibaba Q3 revenue growth slowest in 3 yrs amid Chinese economic slowdown
Facebook registers record Q4 profit despite a series of privacy scandals
Less choice, pay more on Amazon & Flipkart as new e-comm rules kick in
Bengaluru is India's cybercrime capital
Key UX design trends for 2019
Restaurants seek clarity on E-commerce FDI rule tweak
Oyo launches in Philippines with over $50 million commitment
Juul plans India e-cigarette entry with new hires & subsidiary
Google, Facebook, Twitter must do more against fake news: European Commission
Email rival Slack says it has 10 million daily active users
Pinterest taps Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan to lead IPO: Sources
Soft skills, pay transparency vital: Study
It's sale as usual: Amazon, Flipkart tell online-only companies
Paytm enters hotel booking business, buys NightStay
Walmart's Flipkart warns of major 'customer disruption' if new India rules not delayed
Facebook plans content oversight board, tightens paid ad rules
For bruised Apple, a need to go beyond the iPhone
Election Commission seeks ban on online political ads 48 hrs before elections
5 steps to a new IoT support strategy
Samsung posts fourth-quarter profit drop, warns of weak demand until the second half of 2019
Samsung Electronics reported its largest quarterly profit decline in two years during its earnings report today. As the Galaxy maker warned in its earnings guidance earlier this month, its results were hurt by slower-than-expected demand for semiconductors, which had bolstered its earnings in previous quarters even when smartphone sales were slow.
Samsung’s forecast was also dour, at least for the first half of the year. It said annual earnings will decline thanks to continuing weak demand for chips, but expects demand for memory products and OLED panels to improve during the second half.
The company’s fourth-quarter operating profit was 10.8 trillion won (about $9.7 billion), a 28.7 percent decrease from the 15.15 trillion won it recorded in the same period one year ago. Revenue was 59.27 trillion won, a 10.2 percent drop year over year.
Broken out by business, Samsung’s semiconductor unit recorded quarterly operating profit of 7.8 trillion won, down from 10.8 trillion won a year ago. Its mobile unit’s operating profit was 1.5 trillion won, compared to 2.4 trillion won a year ago.
Smartphone makers, including Samsung rival Apple, have been hit hard by slowing smartphone sales around the world, especially in China. Upgrade cycles are also becoming longer as customers wait to buy newer models.
This hurt both Samsung’s smartphone and chip sales, as “overall market demand for NAND and DRAM drop[ped] due to macroeconomic uncertainties and adjustments in inventory levels by customers including datacenter companies and smartphone makers,” said the company’s earnings report.
Samsung expects chip sales to be sluggish during the first quarter because of weak seasonality and inventory adjustments by its biggest customers. The company was optimistic about the last two quarters of 2019, when it expects demand for chips and OLED panels to pick up thanks seasonal demand and customers finishing their inventory adjustments.
Google says it plans to counter Japan's FTC over claims that it hobbles rivals in search; a source says Japan's FTC sent a cease-and-desist order to Google (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Google says it plans to counter Japan's FTC over claims that it hobbles rivals in search; a source says Japan's FTC s...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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