Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Oppo Find X2 Teased Sporting 3K Display With 120Hz Refresh Rate, HDR10 Support
Apple, J&J to study if Apple Watch app leads to lower stroke risk
Skagen Launches Its Falster 3 Wear OS Smartwatch in India
PayPal is investigating unauthorized transactions affecting numerous German users; a researcher says hackers could be exploiting PayPal's Google Pay integration (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
PayPal is investigating unauthorized transactions affecting numerous German users; a researcher says hackers could be exploiting PayPal's Google Pay integration — All signs point to an attack exploiting PayPal's Google Pay integration. … Hackers have found a bug in PayPal's Google Pay integration …
WhatsApp Dark Mode for Desktop Shown Off in Leaked Screenshots
$8 to Share Bank Balance: Study Puts Monetary Values to Online Data, Privacy
Facebook says it will now ban ads that promise to cure or prevent COVID-19, or attempt to "create a sense of urgency" about it (Rob Price/Business Insider)
Facebook says it will now ban ads that promise to cure or prevent COVID-19, or attempt to “create a sense of urgency” about it — - It is banning ads that mentioned it if they attempt to “create a sense of urgency” around the virus or promise to cure it.
Sources: autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai has raised around $500M in its latest funding round led by Toyota at a valuation of around $3B (Reuters)
Sources: autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai has raised around $500M in its latest funding round led by Toyota at a valuation of around $3B — HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Autonomous driving firm Pony.ai has raised around $500 million in its latest funding round, led by an investment …
Checkout, a digital payments processing startup, acquires ProcessOut, a startup which helps match e-commerce companies with payment providers (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
Checkout, a digital payments processing startup, acquires ProcessOut, a startup which helps match e-commerce companies with payment providers — Checkout.com, the quiet London-based payment platform, has acquired its first startup, ProcessOut. Checkout.com surprised everyone last year …
Redmi K30 Pro to be launched in March, Snapdragon 865, pop-up camera confirmed
Redmi K20 Pro was a very popular device in the country. The company is looking forward to launching the successor soon. Redmi has confirmed that the Redmi K30 Pro will be launched in March. However, the date hasn’t been revealed. Further, it has been confirmed to sport a notch-less display and feature a full-screen design. That means, it will have a pop-up selfie camera module. The latest information also confirms the presence of the latest silicon from Qualcomm. The device will support 5G as well.
The latest development comes from Weibo. Redmi’s Lu Weibing has posted two teasers on the social media platform confirming some of the specifications of the device. In the first teaser, we can see the front of the handset, which is notch-less. Hence, the pop-up selfie camera module will be present in Redmi K20’s successor. Moreover, it is tipped to sport a dual selfie camera setup. Hence, the pop-up module could house two camera sensors. Further, in the second teaser, Lu mentions that the Redmi K30 Pro will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC and will support 5G. He also says that the handset is coming soon in March. However, the launch date hasn’t been revealed.
The Redmi K30 Pro is expected to feature a FHD+ AMOLED screen with a 90Hz refresh rate. It is likely to come with an in-display fingerprint scanner. Further, the handset is expected to sport LPDDR5 RAM. It may come with UFS 3.1 storage as well. The handset is rumoured to pack 4700mAh battery that is said to support 40W fast charging. It is also tipped to come equipped with a 64MP Sony IMX686 sensor.
We expect more information regarding the device to emerge as we close in on the launch date.
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Walmart to turn some stores into Flipkart warehouses
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia reports 2019 revenues of €160.4M, up 24% YoY, operating loss of €227.9M, up 34% YoY; active customers reached 6.1M in Q4 (Jake Bright/TechCrunch)
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia reports 2019 revenues of €160.4M, up 24% YoY, operating loss of €227.9M, up 34% YoY; active customers reached 6.1M in Q4 — Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia got into the black (by a small amount) on its gross profit vs. fulfillment expenses …
McAfee to acquire Light Point Security, a provider of browser isolation tech used to protect against malicious websites, will integrate tech into its toolkit (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
McAfee to acquire Light Point Security, a provider of browser isolation tech used to protect against malicious websites, will integrate tech into its toolkit — McAfee LLC has acquired Light Point Security LLC, a provider of browser isolation technology founded by former National Security Agency cybersecurity experts.
The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
Greg Bensinger / Reuters : The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its ...
