Sources: Samsung to launch the flagship Galaxy S10 in February, while Galaxy S10 with 5G support and its foldable phone called Galaxy F will launch in March
Samsung Electronics Co. plans to launch its first foldable smartphone in March, along with a fifth-generation (5G) network-powered Galaxy S10, industry sources said Monday.
SAP announces it will buy user experience management platform Qualtrics, which had planned to go public later this month, for $8B
SAP on Sunday night announced that it will purchase Qualtrics, a U.S.-based maker of survey software that had been expected to go public this week, for $8 billion in cash,
Alibaba sold $30.8B worth of goods during the 24-hour Singles' Day shopping event, topping the 2017 Singles Day sales of $25.3B
- Singles Day got off to a strong start with sales hitting $1 billion in one minute and 25 seconds. — Alibaba on Sunday tore through last year's Singles Day sales record …
Netflix execs talk about plans to boost international growth, want to experiment with lower-priced subscriptions in countries with lower per-capita income
- Streaming service wants to experiment with prices, CEO says — Service has announced 17 new shows from five Asian countries
A look at the heated debate raging in the Bitcoin Cash community ahead of the contentious hard fork that may split the cryptocurrency's blockchain on Nov. 15
“Do not come crying when you are bankrupt.” — Lobbed at those bitcoin cash enthusiasts supporting Bitcoin ABC …
Qualtrics had 2017 revenue of $289.9M; with the $8B acquisition, Accel and IVP's stakes are each worth $1B+, and the Smith family's stake is ~$2.6B after taxes
Alex Konrad / Forbes :
Smart speakers changed audio consumption habits and boosted sales of smart home devices, but hopes for adoption in areas like shopping have not panned out yet
Until we invent something that wouldn't be possible without voice, we're just repurposing online content for our ears.
Sources: Imran Khan, formerly second-in-command at Snap, is working on a new e-commerce startup due to launch next year
Khan plans to launch a new shopping platform in 2019. — Imran Khan, who spent the past four years as the top business executive at Snapchat's parent company, Snap …
Regulatory filing shows SoftBank Group seeks to raise ~$21B in an IPO for its Japanese mobile telecom unit on December 19 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp's domestic telecoms unit on Monday received approval to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange …
Profile of Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith, who resisted taking VC money for over a decade before finally agreeing to deals with Accel and Sequoia Capital
- SAP is paying $8 billion in cash for Ryan Smith's Qualtrics — Utah-based software company had been planning to go public
Kofax to acquire Nuance's imaging division for $400M as it continues building up its AI-based tools for automating repetitive or mundane back-office tasks
Some consolidation and subsequent divestment are in play in the worlds of imaging and voice recognition.
Infineon to acquire Dresden-based Siltectra for €124M, will use startup's Cold Split technology to split wafers, thus doubling the number of chips on them
Infineon has bought Siltectra of Dresden, a start-up with an innovative technology (Cold Split) to process crystal material efficiently and with minimal loss of material.
A look at the tug of war between the data driven tech team and the relationship-oriented Hollywood team at Netflix
As the company plunges deeper into originals, its L.A. wing is doing the once-unthinkable: overriding the metrics — Netflix Inc.'s executives were torn. Tweets: @ledgerstatus , @memles , @wsj , @ash...
Clearbanc, which provides $5K to $10M loans to startups for online marketing in exchange for revenue share, says it has raised $70M in seed and Series A rounds
Selling equity to buy Facebook and Google ads is a bad deal for startups. Clearbanc offers a fundraising alternative.
Framer, an Amsterdam-based UI prototyping platform, raises $24M Series B led by Atomico, with Accel and AngelList participating
Dutch design prototyping startup Framer has raised $24 million in a series B round of funding led by Atomico, with participation from Accel and AngelList.
How Alibaba turned Singles' Day into a multi-billion dollar sales event bigger than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined
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Apple's main supplier for Face ID tech, Lumentum, has slashed its revenue forecasts by about 17%; Apple's stock drops ~5% amid concerns of weak iPhone sales
(Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) shares fell to their lowest in more than three months on Monday as the main supplier for its Face ID technology …
A look at nascent efforts to stream video games, as latency seems set to drop even lower with the proliferation of data centers and 5G rolling out
By making game consoles unnecessary, streaming could dramatically broaden the videogame market — Technology giants are trying to bring … Tweets: @saraheneedleman Tweets: Sarah E. Needleman / @sarahe...
Report: 1,594 US startups received initial VC funding in the first 9 months of 2018, down 40% from 2015, while median seed round was $2M, ~4X the 2013 average
The result is a big increase in the size of some early-stage investments and valuations — It has been a fast ride …
Facebook agrees to cooperate with France in an informal examination of its content moderation practices and give the government access to its internal processes
Facebook and the French government are going to cooperate to look at Facebook's efforts when it comes to moderation. Tweets: @mikeelgan and @romaindillet Tweets: Mike Elgan / @mikeelgan : This feels l...
UK's Privacy International files complaints against Oracle, Acxiom, Criteo, Quantcast, Tapad, Equifax, and Experian over potential GDPR violations
Rebecca Hill / The Register :
Cloudflare launches Android and iOS apps for its privacy-focused DNS service 1.1.1.1
for free. That is sexy! http://blog.cloudflare.com/... http://twitter.com/... @cloudflare : Now introducing: The 1.1.1.1 mobile app. The world's fastest and safest DNS resolver, now available on Andro...
Cloud-based IT management startup Apptio says it has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners for about $1.94B in cash
Ismail Shakil / Reuters :
Overwolf, a platform to help devs create extensions and services for video games, from analytics to coaching, raises $16M Series B led by Intel Capital
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
ResMed, best known for its sleep apnea equipment and software, to acquire cloud-based electronic health records manager MatrixCare for $750M
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Sources: Facebook pressured Palmer Luckey to say he supported libertarian Gary Johnson despite his years-long support of Trump; Luckey's exit package was $100M+
the untold story of a Facebook firing http://www.wsj.com/... Molly McKew / @mollymckew : Read this whole thread, and the linked pieces, from @oneunderscore__ http://twitter.com/... Justin Hendrix / @j...
Researchers warn so-called “perceptual” ad blockers, which aim to visually recognize ads on a page to block them, are ineffective and create new attack vectors
Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard :
A ruling against a shareholder of Tencent's WeBank put 12.6M shares up for auction on Taobao, which, as of Nov. 2017, had processed ~610K such judicial auctions
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post :
Microsoft XO18 roundup: Microsoft acquires game studios inXile and Obsidian, announces 91M+ MAUs for Minecraft, and says Minecraft Marketplace has 77 partners
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Sue Gordon, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, explains the need for a new partnership between the intelligence agencies and Silicon Valley
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired : Tweets: @john_sipher Tweets: John Sipher / @john_sipher : “I think there's a lot of misconception about those of us who work in national security and intelligence. We swear t...
Waitlisting apps like Yelp's Nowait are increasingly popular with customers and businesses but critics wonder if the convenience is worth the privacy trade-offs
Alfred Ng / CNET :
Don MacAskill, CEO of Flickr-owner SmugMug, on why the service will end Flickr's free 1TB storage and delete all but the last 1,000 photos from free accounts
Stephen Shankland / CNET : Tweets: @techledes and @stshank Tweets: Connie Guglielmo / @techledes : Less than 3% of Flickr's free users have 1,000+ photos, but that's still millions of people since 10...
Bitcoin evangelist and educator Andreas Antonopoulos reflects on the first 10 years of blockchain
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Andrew Moore, Google Cloud's new head of AI, on mistakes companies make in adopting AI, working with US military, and China's importance to Google's AI plans
Why SAP Is Buying Qualtrics for $8 Billion Tweets: Catherine Breslin / @catherinebuk : “AI is about using math to make machines make really good decisions. At the moment it has nothing to do with simu...
Nested, a UK-based online real estate agent that provides a cash advance to new home buyers before they sell their old home, raises £120M in equity and debt
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Expanded CFIUS powers to review financing deals in vaguely defined “emerging technologies” prompt fears that it may slow down tech investments from China
Gabrielle Canon / The Guardian :
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