Samsung forecasts ~$13.2B operating profit in Q2, up 5% YoY but breaking streak of quarterly records, amid reports of weak Galaxy S9 sales
Company expects operating profit of 14.8 trillion South Korean won; end of record-earnings streak — SEOUL—Samsung Electronics estimates …
Sonos files for an IPO; filing reports 19M+ products sold globally and a net loss of $14.2M on revenue of $992.5M in the year ending September 30, 2017
The popular speaker company has announced plans for an IPO — Sonos officially filed for an initial public offering today …
Source: Twitter has been suspending 1M+ accounts per day in recent months, more than double its rate from October, in its fight against disinformation
SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter has sharply escalated its battle against fake and suspicious accounts, suspending more than one million accounts …
Netflix to end users' ability to post new reviews July 30 and remove existing written reviews mid-August, will keep thumbs up and down system
Soon, it'll be a little harder for you to tell everyone what you thought of Marvel's The Avengers. — Netflix is removing a desktop-only feature …
Chrome and Firefox pull an extension called Stylish that sold to SimilarWeb in 2017, had roughly 2M users, and was found collecting users' web usage histories
The ‘Stylish’ extension has been removed after collecting users web-usage histories for over a year.
Switzerland's principal stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, says it's developing a blockchain-based platform to tokenize traditional securities
Switzerland's principal stock exchange has announced that it is developing a blockchain-based platform to tokenize traditional securities.
US Court of Appeals for DC Circuit upholds FAA's ability to police hobbyist drone use, overturning a decision from last year that said FAA's system was illegal
- Craft operator had argued U.S. agency exceeded its authority — Ruling sets stage for government to expand drone commerce
Israeli publication CTech retracts claim of Apple notifying Intel about not using its 5G chips, and Intel says the “5G modem part of the story is inaccurate”
Following yesterday's report from Israeli publication CTech that Apple has decided not to use an Intel 5G modem called …
Microsoft will now deliver two major Dynamics 365 feature updates a year; IT pros can validate updates in sandbox environment starting with April 2019 update
Microsoft is bringing Dynamics 365 Online in line with Windows 10 and Office 365 by releasing feature updates twice annually in April and October.
Winklevoss' Gemini crypto exchange adds Robert Cornish, ex-NYSE CIO, as its first CTO, the latest in a wave of Wall Street executives joining crypto startups
- At NYSE, he was chief information officer, leading the Big Board's technology team as it overhauled electronic trading.
Hands-on with the iOS 12 Shortcuts beta: the ability to hook into system events is a big upgrade, but it is otherwise similar to the original Workflow app
One of the more exciting things that users are looking forward to in iOS 12 is the new Shortcuts app. Tweets: @viticci , @viticci , @stroughtonsmith , @stroughtonsmith , @lorenzolade , @livbem , @viti...
CipherTrace: the amount of cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges tripled to $761M in the first half of 2018 compared to all of 2017, may reach $1.5B this year
Bloomberg Tweets: @agoracom : Sounds scary ... But how much bigger is the problem in fiat, especially when you add in forgery, stolen credit cards, etc? http://twitter.com/...
Netgear's Arlo security camera spinoff files for IPO; S-1: 1.9M users, 40% of US consumer connected camera systems market, ~$101M in previous quarter revenue
Arlo Technologies Inc., the security-camera making unit of Netgear Inc. NTGR, +1.70% has filed for a initial public offering, seeking to sell up to $100 million in shares.
China Merchants Group, a state-owned conglomerate based in Hong Kong, backs $15B China-focused technology fund that aims to compete with SoftBank's Vision Fund
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Uganda pressures ISPs to ban VPNs in an effort to force users to pay a social media tax meant to combat what the president calls “gossip”
Karl Bode / Techdirt :
Twitterrific says it's removing notifications and live streaming for new customers of iOS and macOS apps ahead of Twitter API changes starting around August 16
Today we're rolling out an update … Eric Carter / ProgrammableWeb.com : Twitter API Updates Eliminate Key Features to Twitterrific App Firstpost : Twitterrific confirms push notifications and livestre...
Q&A with Chris Cox, Facebook's product chief across all its platforms, on free speech, working with fact checkers, Instagram's toxic comments filter, regulation
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The Malaysian government, now led by a new prime minister, says it plans to repeal the Anti-Fake News Act 2018
Tim Cushing / Techdirt :
Sources: Uber and Lyft each held talks to acquire Skedaddle, a startup that creates group bus rides by matching customers headed in the same direction
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios :
Sources: Reddit will top $100M in revenue this year and has been pitching agencies with ad units including a “top post takeover”
one of the world's most popular websites — is trying to cash in through advertising Tweets: Michelle Castillo / @mishcastillo : Reddit is trying to grow up and become a big ad biz. But the freedoms th...
How firms like GMobi and MoMagic are using pre-loaded apps on cheap smartphones in developing countries to harvest user data by offering free firmware updates
and a preinstalled app that quietly ships your personal data to a little-known company in Taiwan. Good stuff on the emerging privacy divide from @newley http://www.wsj.com/...
Zebra Technologies is buying Xplore, which makes rugged tablets and other hard-wearing hardware, for around $90M in cash
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has reportedly backed 300+ companies via his VC firm Shunwei Capital and as an angel investor, while Xiaomi invested in 157 firms
Josh Horwitz / Quartz :
Interview with Mathilde Collin of Front, which makes tools for sharing inboxes with teammates, on company's vision to build an asynchronous version of Slack
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