Andy Rubin's Essential debuts phone with 5.71" edge-to-edge display, Snapdragon 835, dual camera, 3,040mAh battery, no 3.5mm jack; preorders open today for $699
Another stab at making phones modular — The Essential Phone, brought to us by the person who created Android, is finally ready for the spotlight.
Intel unveils Core X-series of high-end processors, with up to 18 cores and 36 threads, available “in the coming weeks” for $242 to $2,000
The new X299 platform replaces X99, and scales both lower and higher. — AMD announced its new high-end desktop (HEDT) platform …
Essential Home announced as a privacy-focused Amazon Echo competitor, to have a round “auto-display” and be less cloud dependent, reportedly coming late summer
‘An entirely new type of product’ — Essential Home is the new intelligent assistant with round “auto-display” just announced by Andy Rubin's new venture.
ASUS debuts the 13.3-inch Zenbook Flip S convertible, with 4K display and 11.5 hours of battery life starting at $1,099, the Zenbook Pro, and Zenbook 3 Deluxe
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ASUS' Tango-powered ZenFone AR, which will also support Daydream, to hit US as soon as end of June; about 50 Tango AR apps currently run stably on the device
We already knew from Google I/O that ASUS' ZenFone AR, the second-ever Tango phone (and the first to also support Daydream) …
FOIA documents show how Sheryl Sandberg personally lobbied Irish PM Enda Kenny on two issues of interest to Facebook, taxation and data protection
Facebook chief, Sheryl Sandberg, personally lobbied the Taoiseach at one-to-one meetings and in correspondence, on who would be appointed as Ireland's next Data Protection Commissioner.
Study: after switching exclusively to HTTPS, Wikipedia saw fewer instances of government censorship
Harvard researchers found fewer instances of Wikipedia censorship after the site started encrypting all of its traffic. — “Knowledge is power,” as the old saying goes …
NYSE seeks SEC approval to change rules regarding direct listings that will allow unicorns like Spotify to go public without raising money
The New York Stock Exchange is seeking to change its listing standards as it vies for Spotify AB and other hot startups that are considering an unusual tactic called a direct listing.
ARM announces next-generation CPUs and GPUs focused on efficient machine learning; ARM Cortex-A75 is new flagship mobile chip, now with 22% better performance
ML plus AI, AR, and VR — ARM is taking on the full set of trendy initialisms — On the eve of Computex …
Mobile payments in China reached $5.5T last year, over half the nation's GDP and 50x greater than the $112B in US, as the country sees an uptick in QR code use
It's being used to encourage tipping at restaurants, receive cash gifts at weddings...even beggars are using it to collect handouts.
Indian food delivery startup Swiggy raises $80M Series E led by Naspers
Swiggy plans to make significant investments in technology, including automation, data sciences, machine learning and personalisation — Bengaluru: Online food delivery start-up Swiggy (Bundl Technol...
Sony announces its 13.3" E Ink tablet, with 1,650x2,200 resolution and NFC unlocking, will be available in the US in June for $700
Did you see Sony's second-generation Digital Paper and realize you found your dream e-reader? If so, you'll get to do something about it very soon.
14 people who say their names were used as part of 450K anti-net neutrality comments without permission ask FCC for public disclosure, removal of fake comments
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Giphy, which has raised $150M and has 150M+ users watching 4M+ hours of GIFs every day, weighs various revenue models
Plenty of tech startups dream of building a new consumer brand that's used and recognized by hundreds of millions of people every day. — Few of them get as close as Giphy … Tweets: @pinboard , @pcpe...
Major hotel chains launch marketing campaigns to woo customers away from travel-booking sites, which take commissions of up to 30% for each reservation
eMarketer's scan …
Alfa, a UK-based financial software provider, closed up 30% on its first day of trading Friday, after raising £254M in what was UK's biggest tech IPO since 2015
Nicholas Megaw / Financial Times :
Demandbase raises $65M Series H to boost AI capabilities of its targeted B2B marketing cloud service
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger :
Berlin-based Frontier Car Group, which builds and runs marketplaces for used cars in emerging markets, raises $22M
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
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