Nintendo's Q2 earnings beat estimates with revenue of $1.9B, Switch sales of 2.9M units; company raises annual forecast for Switch sales from 10M to 14M units
Nintendo reported better-than-expected revenues and operating profit for the September quarter on Monday, while raising …
iPhone X first look: nice big screen in compact form factor and improved battery life, but Face ID didn't always work
How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild …
Samsung Gear Sport review: sharp, vibrant display with a fun and intuitive interface, but has few third-party apps, and S Voice digital assistant is useless
Samsung's latest smartwatch is good at the basics, but lacks excitement — The latest is the new Gear Sport …
Canalys report: Apple's phone sales in China grew 40% YoY to 11M in Q3 after six consecutive quarters of decline, amid a 5% YoY decline in overall China market
Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Monday, 30 October 2017 — Chinese smartphone shipments registered another quarter …
How Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled's endorsements helped $30M ICO for Centra debit card, which had shady founders, made-up CEO, false Visa approval claims
Celebrity endorsements are helping start-ups raise big money in so-called initial coin offerings. But it is not always clear what they are selling.
US drug giant Merck says NotPetya cyberattack cost ~$310M in Q3, affecting its global manufacturing, research, and sales operations, may cost ~$300M more in Q4
The NotPetya cyberattack has cost the American pharmaceutical giant Merck more than $135 million in sales and $175 million …
Sogou, a Chinese search engine backed by Tencent, sets its US IPO price range to $11 to $13 per share, plans to raise up to $585M
Sogou Inc., the Chinese search engine backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., aims to raise as much as $585 million in a U.S. initial public offering.
How streaming boxes running open source Kodi media player software have made video piracy easy with third-party add-ons
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Patreon's recent crackdown on adult content worries sex workers and creators of erotic art
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Convargo, a French marketplace connecting shippers and truckers, raises $19M Series A
French startup Convargo is a marketplace for shippers and carriers so that you can find a truck and send goods across France more efficiently. The startup just raised a $19 million Series A round led...
India's startups have raised almost $10B in 2017 compared to $4.4B in 2016 and $7.9B in 2015
The megabucks are back for Indian tech start-ups. Last year, the funding environment darkened after two years of exuberant investment followed by warnings that growth forecasts had been far too optim...
Amazon Echo Plus review: falls short as a Zigbee smart home hub, and Alexa app's smart home controls need more refinement and features
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A look back at Google Goggles, an early precursor to modern mobile AR-infused camera apps like Snapchat
GOOGLE'S FIRST PUBLIC foray into augmented reality began with an argument in a bar. It was 2008, and David Petrou, a longtime Google engineer, was sitting in a Brooklyn watering hole explaining … Twe...
Unofficial “@RepublicanParty” Instagram account, which is not in violation of community guidelines, has four times more followers than the official GOP account
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How European regulators are weighing control of misinformation and free speech, hampered by a lack of consensus, research, public data from Facebook and Google
This month, a new law against hate speech will go into effect in Germany, fining Facebook, Twitter, YouTube …
Human rights groups say false information spread on Facebook, which is dominant in Myanmar, is stoking violence against the Rohingya ethnic group
New York Times : Tweets: @craigmod , @pernillet , @juliacarriew , @lvandenassum , @kenroth , and @malachybrowne Tweets: @craigmod : (from no electricity to solar; from no connectivity to wireless; fr...
Augmented reality poses difficult legal and ethical questions about virtual graffiti, private and public property rights, and data verification
Matt Ranen / NewCo Shift : Tweets: @leolaporte Tweets: Leo Laporte / @leolaporte : Should you protect property rights in augmented reality?: http://shift.newco.co/...
AI-based customer profiling startup Amperity raises $28M Series B from Tiger Global and Madrona, one month after exiting stealth mode
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Amid talk of potential federal regulation, Facebook invests more in lobbying and tests messaging strategies regarding Russian interference with focus groups
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsjpolitics , @raju , and @jboogie Tweets: Capital / @wsjpolitics : Facebook steps up efforts to boost its influence in Washington http://www.wsj.com/....
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