Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Satellite services provider Globalstar says Apple took a 20% ownership stake worth ~$400M, and has committed another $1.1B to expand satellite service capacity — Satellite services provider GlobalStar today disclosed an expansion of its deal with Apple. Apple will commit an additional $1.1 billion …
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Friday, November 1, 2024
Satellite services provider Globalstar says Apple took a 20% ownership stake worth ~$400M, and has committed another $1.1B to expand satellite service capacity (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
The capital expenditures of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft are set to total over $200B in 2024 as companies accelerate spending chasing AI (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
The capital expenditures of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft are set to total over $200B in 2024 as companies accelerate spending chasing AI — - Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft all accelerated spending — Mixed results from the big tech won't slow 2025 investment
Canalys: global smartphone shipments grew 5% YoY in Q3 to reach 309.9M units, the strongest Q3 performance since 2021; Samsung led with 57.5M units, Apple 54.5M (Canalys)
Canalys:
Canalys: global smartphone shipments grew 5% YoY in Q3 to reach 309.9M units, the strongest Q3 performance since 2021; Samsung led with 57.5M units, Apple 54.5M — According to Canalys research, global smartphone shipments grew 5% year on year in Q3 2024, reaching 309.9 million units, the strongest Q3 performance since 2021.
Crypto firm Immutable says it received a Wells notice from the SEC related to the sale of its IMX tokens in 2021, accuses the SEC of "regulation by enforcement" (Callan Quinn/CoinDesk)
Callan Quinn / CoinDesk:
Crypto firm Immutable says it received a Wells notice from the SEC related to the sale of its IMX tokens in 2021, accuses the SEC of “regulation by enforcement” — The firm's IMX token is down over 13% at $1.16 following the announcement. — Immutable said that it received …
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Ubisoft reports Q2 net bookings down 36% YoY to €352.3M, vs. €368M est., and expects Q3 net bookings of €380M, down from €626M in Q3 2023, as its big games flop (Daniel Zuidijk/Bloomberg)
Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg:
Ubisoft reports Q2 net bookings down 36% YoY to €352.3M, vs. €368M est., and expects Q3 net bookings of €380M, down from €626M in Q3 2023, as its big games flop — - Expects net bookings over lucrative holiday season to be down — Success of Assassin's Creed Shadows in February is critical
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
PlayStation shutters Firewalk, which released shooter game Concord earlier in 2024 before taking it offline, and mobile studio Neon Koi, impacting ~210 jobs (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
PlayStation shutters Firewalk, which released shooter game Concord earlier in 2024 before taking it offline, and mobile studio Neon Koi, impacting ~210 jobs — The company will also close the mobile game studio Neon Koi, which hasn't released a game, according to a blog post from Sony on Tuesday.
Sources: SoftBank plans to put Arm's tech at the center of a new network of data centres to build and train AI, setting Arm on a collision course with Nvidia (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: SoftBank plans to put Arm's tech at the center of a new network of data centres to build and train AI, setting Arm on a collision course with Nvidia — Almost 20 years ago, Intel made a decision that changed the course of computing history. — Soon after Apple started putting Intel inside …
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Sources: TSMC has suspended shipments of 7nm chips to at least two chip developers over suspicions they were trying to circumvent US export controls on Huawei (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: TSMC has suspended shipments of 7nm chips to at least two chip developers over suspicions they were trying to circumvent US export controls on Huawei — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has suspended shipments to at least two chip developers over suspicions …
Nigeria-based Moniepoint, which offers bank accounts, loans, and POS terminals, raised $110M led by DPI, sources say at a $1B+ valuation, after raising $55M (Aanu Adeoye/Financial Times)
Aanu Adeoye / Financial Times:
Nigeria-based Moniepoint, which offers bank accounts, loans, and POS terminals, raised $110M led by DPI, sources say at a $1B+ valuation, after raising $55M — Company raises $110mn from investors including Google despite slowdown in fundraising for African start-ups
Monday, October 28, 2024
How Jeff Bezos, who bought The Washington Post in 2013 and a DC mansion in 2016, never made a splash in the capital, visiting only on occasion for glitzy events (New York Times)
New York Times:
How Jeff Bezos, who bought The Washington Post in 2013 and a DC mansion in 2016, never made a splash in the capital, visiting only on occasion for glitzy events — The billionaire made splashy purchases of The Washington Post and a mansion in Washington. But his status as a power player in the nation's capital was never realized.
Hong Kong outlines an AI policy for finance and proposes an extension of a tax break on owning digital assets, as it seeks to become Asia's go-to financial hub (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Hong Kong outlines an AI policy for finance and proposes an extension of a tax break on owning digital assets, as it seeks to become Asia's go-to financial hub — - Tax break law to be tabled by year-end: treasury secretary Hui — City was denied access by major AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Online influencers are earning thousands for a single post on behalf of groups backing Harris or Trump, with scant regulatory oversight or public transparency (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Online influencers are earning thousands for a single post on behalf of groups backing Harris or Trump, with scant regulatory oversight or public transparency — On TikTok, Instagram and X, freelance creators profit from the murky practice of persuading their large followings to back Trump or Harris.
FTX agrees to drop its litigation against Bybit in a deal worth about $228M that will allow FTX to withdraw assets from Bybit's cryptocurrency exchange (Alex Wolf/Bloomberg Law)
Alex Wolf / Bloomberg Law:
FTX agrees to drop its litigation against Bybit in a deal worth about $228M that will allow FTX to withdraw assets from Bybit's cryptocurrency exchange — Search by Law Firm Search by Topic — FTX Trading Ltd. agreed to drop sprawling litigation against Bybit Fintech Ltd. and related entities …
A closer look at M4 Macs coming this week; sources: Apple's home smart display will have an iMac G3-like base and a square screen the size of about two iPhones (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A closer look at M4 Macs coming this week; sources: Apple's home smart display will have an iMac G3-like base and a square screen the size of about two iPhones — Also: fresh details on the company's upcoming smart home device. — Apple kicks off a Mac overhaul this week that centers on new M4 chips.
How militaries around the world are using warfare simulation video games like Slitherine Software's Command: Professional Edition to run battle scenarios (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
How militaries around the world are using warfare simulation video games like Slitherine Software's Command: Professional Edition to run battle scenarios — Militaries worldwide run battle scenarios using one family-run British company's software, rooted in Tom Clancy novels. Watch a video simulation to see how.
Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions (Gleb Bryanski/Reuters)
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...
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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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