Source: Apple's India revenue rose 33% YoY to almost $8B between March 2023 and March 2024, and up from $4.1B in March 2022; pricey iPhones were 50%+ of sales — - Sales jump shows Apple is succeeding in winning users in India — Apple wants to challenge Android's dominance in the country
IDC and Counterpoint say the global smartphone market grew 6.5% and 6%, respectively, in Q2 2024, helped by China's 618 event discounts; iPhone sales stabilized — - Apple's iPhone sales stabilized after a tough first quarter — Key China market accelerated its growth in the summer
AT&T appears to have paid a member of ShinyHunters $370K+ to delete call records stolen from AT&T's Snowflake account that exposed “nearly all” of its customers — A security researcher who assisted with the deal says he believes the only copy of the complete dataset …
Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23B, which would be its largest acquisition ever — Deal would be tech giant's largest acquisition ever.
Tech leaders, including Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, and Mark Zuckerberg condemn the shooting at a Trump rally on July 13 — - Shots were fired at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, killing at least two people. — Tech CEOs and billionaires are condemning the shooting …
In their first-ever interview, Shiba Inu leaders Shytoshi Kusama and Kaal Dhairya discuss remaining anonymous, Elon Musk, SHIB's origins, future plans, and more — The meme coin leaders have created the world's largest decentralised community but, somehow, they have remained completely anonymous.
Threads needs to foster community builders rather than get celebrity creators from platforms like Instagram, who tend not to do well on a microblogging platform — It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation.
A look at MetaFilter, which turns 25 on July 14; owner Jessamyn West, who helped stabilize it after near death, doesn't plan to license its archives to AI — After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn't changed much. And don't ask it to license its archive to AI.
Ahead of a key UK Amazon workers' union vote, a look at Amazon's efforts to prevent employees from organizing, after fending off most of the similar US attempts — Campaign is part of tech giant's long-running global battle to prevent employees from organising
Apple launches Vision Pro in the UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia after launching in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore on June 28 — Apple's Vision Pro spatial computing headset today arrived at Apple Store locations in the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia.
AT&T says it will begin notifying consumers about a data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal phone records of “nearly all” of its customers — Stolen data includes millions of AT&T customer phone numbers, calling and text records, and location-related data.
Preliminary findings: the EU says X's paid blue checkmark deceives users and breaches the DSA; X faces a fine of up to 6% of its global revenue if found guilty — Brussels regulators use new digital powers to threaten social media company with huge fines over transparency issues
Hanover, Germany-based HERO Software, whose SaaS acts as an operating system for trade SMEs like plumbing, raised a €40M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures — HERO acts as an operating system for SMEs across various trades, including plumbing, carpentry, photovoltaic installation, and electrical services.
SpaceX releases its $599 Starlink Mini portable dish to anyone in the US, available with its $150/month Regional and $50/month Mini Roam services — SpaceX's Starlink Mini dish — which Elon Musk says “will change the world” — is now available to anyone in the US.
Google now lets Advanced Protection Program users set up with a single passkey, using Android or iOS biometric authentication, instead of two physical keys — Google has made it a little easier for those at more risk of targeted online attacks to enroll in its Advanced Protection Program for Google accounts.
Bloomberg : A Google threat analyst says the hacker behind the Snowflake breach recently broke into a “handful” of new orgs and is likely...
