Samsung misses Q2 estimates with an operating profit of ~$13.4B, up 5.7% YoY, on revenue of ~$52.19B, down 4% YoY, amid weak sales of Galaxy S9
Samsung Electronics Co.'s net income fell short of analysts' estimates as slowing growth in the global smartphone market hits demand for its Galaxy devices …
WhatsApp group calling for voice and video, announced at F8, now live globally on iOS and Android, with end-to-end encryption and support for up to four users
Up to four people can chat simultaneously — Back at Facebook's F8 developer conference in May, WhatsApp announced …
Nintendo sells 19.7M Switch consoles to date, with net sales of $1.513B in the quarter ending June 30, up 9% YoY, and profit of $394.6M, up 42% YoY
Nintendo reported net sales of $1.513 billion for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30, up 9 percent from $1.386 billion for the same period a year ago.
Review of ~1,500 VCs shows about 40% attended either Stanford or Harvard, and the group is 82% male, 70% white, 26% asian, 3% black, and 1% hispanic
The lack of diversity within venture capital is something I have been hard at work to try and remedy and I write about frequently.
Sony reports Q1 revenue of $17.9B with ~$1.8B in profit and 3.2M PS4 sales but lost ~$97M from its smartphone division and predicts those sales will worsen
Sony's new CEO Kenichiro Yoshida has been at the company's helm for just a few short months now, but fortunately …
A look at how robotic hands are evolving to perform more complex tasks on their own, thanks to advances in AI and machine learning
Robotic hands could only do what vast teams of engineers programmed them to do. Now they can learn more complex tasks on their own. — A robotic hand?
Uber says it will stop development of self-driving trucks and instead focus on self-driving cars; Uber Freight is unaffected by this decision
Uber is shuttering its self-driving trucks unit, a beleaguered program borne out of the company's controversial multi-million acquisition of Otto nearly two years ago.
Google officially launches the Chrome browser on its Daydream VR platform, with voice search, incognito mode, and a cinema mode that optimizes web video for VR
If you're excited by the prospect of browsing the web from the comfort of your VR headset, good news: Google is bringing …
Despite Facebook's disappointing Q2 earnings, its moats are deeper than ever and its money-making potential is not only huge but growing
While I was mostly unplugged on my vacation last week, with the news of Facebook's disappointing earnings report and subsequent stock decline …
Freshworks, which offers a range of customer support and sales software, has raised $100M Series G co-led by Sequoia and Accel Partners, at a $1.5B valuation
Freshworks, which offers a range of customer support and sales software, has raised $100 million in a series G round of funding co-led …
Skyline AI, which uses data science and machine learning algorithms to help real estate investments, raises $18M Series A led by Sequoia Capital
A mere four months after coming out of stealth mode with $3 million in seed funding, real estate investment startup Skyline AI announced …
Social media has shifted from a distraction where comedians found success to a political conversation where old jokes can lead to the end of careers
How jokes became ammo during the social media platform's shift from distraction to political warzone — How do you make a dead baby float? You take your foot off its head.
Following its mobile apps, YouTube now supports different aspect ratios, including vertical video, on its web player
so why are users complaining? Gabriel Stephens / MSPoweruser : YouTube on the desktop now plays vertical video without borders Eric Abent / SlashGear : YouTube's new desktop video player ditches black...
How small countries like Bermuda, Malta, and Liechtenstein are racing to become the go-to destination for cryptocurrency firms by passing friendly legislation
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Sources: DHS to announce the creation of a new center aimed at guarding the nation's banks, energy companies, and other industries from major cyberattacks
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Yahoo Finance is launching a full-day live video streaming network by the end of the year that will include market and global financial news updates
Yahoo Finance is launching a full-day live video streaming network by the end of the year, three sources familiar with the plans tell Axios. Tweets: @ldrogen See also Mediagazer Tweets: Leigh Drogen /...
Several states, including NY, PA, NJ, and MA, say they'll sue Trump administration over case settlement allowing public to download plans for 3D printable guns
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Some civil rights groups join Uber's fight against NYC's proposed one-year freeze on for-hire vehicle licenses, say it will adversely impact blacks and Latinos
Jeffery C. Mays / New York Times :
Seattle passes legislation that includes a $250K annual fee for dockless bike-share companies and allows for up to four companies to operate in the city
David Gutman / The Seattle Times :
Sources: GE is seeking a buyer for parts of its digital business, a key initiative of ex-CEO Immelt, and has hired an investment bank to auction the operations
Wall Street Journal :
Policy paper from Sen. Warner lays out 20 ways to address issues posed by big tech platforms, from putting a price on users' data to mimicking GDPR rules
NYT Jeff Pundyk / Techonomy : Senator Warner: 20 Ways to Tame Social Media Thomas Claburn / The Register : Make Facebook, Twitter, Google et al liable for daft garbage netizens post online - US Senato...
T-Mobile US picks Nokia to supply it with $3.5B in next-generation 5G network gear, marking the world's largest 5G deal so far
Eric Auchard / Reuters :
Walmart has ended last year's pilot program that paid employees who delivered packages on their way home and is testing a more modest approach in a single store
Nandita Bose / Reuters :
Payroll and benefit services startup Gusto raises $140M led by T. Rowe Price Associates, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, and General Catalyst at a ~$2B valuation
Julie Verhage / Bloomberg :
Simon Data, an NYC-based startup with a cloud-based marketing platform that tracks ad performance for clients such as Airbnb and OpenTable, raises $20M Series B
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE :
Google promotes SVP and general counsel Kent Walker to SVP of global affairs to oversee its policy, legal, trust and safety, and corporate philanthropy teams
Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC :
Tencent's stock has dropped 25% from its January peak, erasing $143B in value, as global investors become warier of big tech's potential growth
Bloomberg :
Court docs: CA police have arrested a college student who allegedly was a member of OGUSERS and stole $5M+ worth of cryptocurrency by SIM swapping ~40 people
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard :
Swift, parent company of esports organization Team SoloMid, raises $37M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners with Stephen Curry and others participating
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
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