A look at Amazon's revamped drone delivery program near Phoenix, Arizona, where the company's new MK-30 drones deliver dozens of packages a day to customers — A recent visit to the company's overhauled drone delivery program in Arizona left me impressed by the drones, but skeptical that the public will welcome them.
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks — Also: Company ramps up work on turning AirPods into a health device.
Preqin data: Southeast Asia's AI startups raised just $1.7B across 122 deals so far in 2024, out of ~$20B across 1,845 deals for the whole Asia-Pacific region — - While global tech expands in the region, its startups languish — Its homegrown tech industry risks falling behind in AI
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November — Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month …
As part of its remedies proposal, Google says it won't require device makers and other partners to distribute Gemini to US users for three years — Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI.
The US awards a $4.75B CHIPS Act grant to Samsung and $1.6B to Texas Instruments for new factories in Texas and Utah, rounding out the program's largest grants — - Incentives will go toward new factories in Texas and Utah — Biden administration is racing to complete federal grants
A profile of AWS CEO Matt Garman, including his first few months on the job, what his stewardship means for the business, and his opportunities and challenges — Matt Garman joined Amazon Web Services as an intern nearly two decades ago. But his appearance earlier this month …
The UK CMA says its phase one probe finds that chip designer Synopsys' $35B acquisition of 3D software maker Ansys could reduce innovation and increase prices — UK's competition watchdog said on Friday it could approve chip design software maker Synopsys' $35 billion acquisition of Ansys if the regulator's concerns are resolved.
Bluesky updates its app to include a separate mentions tab in notifications, protections against username squatting, and new controls for replies sorting — Social network Bluesky has released a new update to its app that includes a separate mentions tab in notifications …
Malaysia says it has identified WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Telegram, WeChat, and TikTok as platforms that need to obtain a license by next year — The platforms include Meta Platforms Inc.'s WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram; Elon Musk's X; Google's YouTube; Pavel Durov's Telegram …
A look at the quickly disappearing web, as digital decay and link rot erase all kinds of media; a Pew study says 38% of webpages accessible in 2013 are now gone — The internet is forever. But also, it isn't. What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random?
Arm v. Qualcomm: Qualcomm CEO Christian Amon described Arm's Nuvia license cancellation and demand for Qualcomm to destroy IP after buying Nuvia as “outrageous” — - Tech firms are sparring in weeklong jury trial in Delaware — Closing arguments are expected Thursday in federal court
Tracxn: Indian startup funding rounds fell 32% YoY to 1,448 in 2024, but overall funding rose 6% YoY to $11.3B; 40+ startups completed IPOs, up 80% YoY — Indian startups raised 32% fewer funding rounds in 2024 compared to last year, per new numbers from data intelligence platform Tracxn …
A profile of 114-year-old Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, whose market cap recently hit $100B after becoming an industrial software and hardware provider — New chief executive takes over streamlined conglomerate with most of its revenues and employees overseas
Turkish startup Agave Games, developer of Find the Cat, which has 10M+ downloads since its August 2024 release, raised an $18M Series A at a $100M valuation — A startup out of Turkey that has built a hit casual mobile game where you have to find cats in Where's Wally-style drawings …
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...
