Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Oppo Find N2 key specs leaked online: What to expect

The upcoming Oppo Find N Flip device will be the company’s first foldable display flip phone while the Oppo Find N2 smartphone will succeed the Oppo Find N foldable phone that was launched last year. The Oppo Find N device was restricted to the company’s domestic market but the successor to this phone is expected to arrive in other regions, including India. https://ift.tt/vRGNJfS

Indonesia-based PT Global Digital Niaga, which owns e-commerce group Blibli, raised ~$509M in Jakarta's second-largest IPO in 2022, after GoTo's $1.1B April IPO (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Indonesia-based PT Global Digital Niaga, which owns e-commerce group Blibli, raised ~$509M in Jakarta's second-largest IPO in 2022, after GoTo's $1.1B April IPO  —  PT Global Digital Niaga, the owner of Indonesia's e-commerce group Blibli, ended its first day of trade unchanged …



Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis plans to ban selling spyware after his government was accused of surveillance, resulting in a judicial investigation (New York Times)

New York Times:
Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis plans to ban selling spyware after his government was accused of surveillance, resulting in a judicial investigation  —  Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the ban after a news report claimed that he had directed the use of spyware …



FTX's FTT drops 19%+ to ~$18 as investors fear possible contagion from the collapse of FTX-linked Alameda; Nansen shows FTX outflows reached $450M+ (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
FTX's FTT drops 19%+ to ~$18 as investors fear possible contagion from the collapse of FTX-linked Alameda; Nansen shows FTX outflows reached $450M+  —  FTT has declined nearly 20% over the course of an hour, with Solana's SOL down 17% and Serum's SRM off 10%.



Take-Two reports Q2 bookings up 53% YoY to $1.5B, below $1.55B estimates, and revises FY 2023 bookings down to $5.5B; stock drops 17%+ (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Take-Two reports Q2 bookings up 53% YoY to $1.5B, below $1.55B estimates, and revises FY 2023 bookings down to $5.5B; stock drops 17%+  —  Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. reduced its annual forecast for net bookings in the wake of an industrywide spending slowdown, particularly in mobile gaming.



Monday, November 7, 2022

Realme 10 Pro+ set to launch in China on November 17

The teaser posted by the company online confirms that the smartphone will have a curved screen with a centre punch-hole. The upcoming Realme 10 Pro+ smartphone is rumoured to come in two RAM and storage variants, i.e., 8GB+128GB and 128GB+256GB. https://ift.tt/7aHIQme

Unity, which makes the eponymous game engine, merges with adtech company ironSource in a $4.4B all-stock deal; Unity stock is down ~75% YTD and ironSource ~50% (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Unity, which makes the eponymous game engine, merges with adtech company ironSource in a $4.4B all-stock deal; Unity stock is down ~75% YTD and ironSource ~50%  —  Unity's proposed merger with IronSource has formally concluded, with the two companies coming together to create an end …



Research: Russia reactivates its troll and bot networks on Gab, Parler, and other platforms, seeking to influence the US midterms and erode support for Ukraine (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Research: Russia reactivates its troll and bot networks on Gab, Parler, and other platforms, seeking to influence the US midterms and erode support for Ukraine  —  Researchers have identified a series of Russian information operations to influence American elections and, perhaps, erode support for Ukraine.



Amazon app quiz today, November 7: Get answers to these questions and win Rs 15,000 in Amazon Pay balance

There is usually one winner of the quiz, who is chosen via a lucky draw. The results of today’s quiz will be announced on November 8. Here are five questions from today’s (November 7) quiz along with their respective answers that can help you win Rs 15,000 in Amazon Pay balance. https://ift.tt/xoYn4Bk

Sources: Apple expects to produce at least 3M fewer iPhone 14 handsets than anticipated in 2022, aiming to make 87M or fewer, primarily due to softer demand (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple expects to produce at least 3M fewer iPhone 14 handsets than anticipated in 2022, aiming to make 87M or fewer, primarily due to softer demand  —  Apple Inc. expects to produce at least 3 million fewer iPhone 14 handsets than originally anticipated this year, according to people familiar with its plans.



Sunday, November 6, 2022

Internal post and sources: Twitter is delaying rolling out verification checkmarks to Blue subscribers until November 9, the day after the US midterm elections (New York Times)

New York Times:
Internal post and sources: Twitter is delaying rolling out verification checkmarks to Blue subscribers until November 9, the day after the US midterm elections  —  Users and employees had raised concerns that Elon Musk's plan to give check marks to those who paid a monthly fee could be misused to sow discord.



An investigation details India's "hack-for-hire" industry that helps global corporate intelligence clients target businesses, journalists, and politicians (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism:
An investigation details India's “hack-for-hire” industry that helps global corporate intelligence clients target businesses, journalists, and politicians  —  In a quiet alcove of the opulent Leela Palace hotel in Delhi, two British corporate investigators were listening intently …



Review of misinformation labels: Twitter and Facebook have done little to refute inaccurate election claims by at least 26 US midterms candidates since April (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
Review of misinformation labels: Twitter and Facebook have done little to refute inaccurate election claims by at least 26 US midterms candidates since April  —  A Post review of hundreds of posts found many with misinformation but none with social media labels



Source: Apple is working on simplifying the "Hey Siri" trigger phrase to just "Siri" and plans to integrate Siri deeper into third-party apps and services (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Source: Apple is working on simplifying the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase to just “Siri” and plans to integrate Siri deeper into third-party apps and services  —  Apple is working on a project to simplify the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase to just “Siri.”



Amazon, BurgerFi, Chili's, and other companies are ending or rethinking delivery and restaurant robot trials, unable to balance their costs against usefulness (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)

Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon, BurgerFi, Chili's, and other companies are ending or rethinking delivery and restaurant robot trials, unable to balance their costs against usefulness  —  In retail, fast food and delivery, robots with names like Roxo, Rita and Scout have delivered mixed, sometimes quirky results, at costs some companies find too high.



Microsoft says it is on track to invest $5.5B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Singapore through 2029, after announcing plans to invest $1B+ in Thailand (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)

Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal : Microsoft says it is on track to invest $5.5B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Singapore through 2...