Chinese court issues preliminary injunction against Apple, blocking sale and import of iPhone models from 6S to X in China, for infringing two Qualcomm patents
A Chinese court has banned the sale of a number of recent iPhone models citing infringement of two Qualcomm patents, the San Diego chipmaker said on Monday.
How smartphone apps are sharing precise location data with 75+ companies, including advertisers, retailers, and hedge funds, up to 14K times a day
Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it's anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
GoPro says it will move production of US-bound cameras out of China by summer 2019 due to fear of future tariffs, as US-China trade war escalates
- GoPro says it will move production of U.S.-bound cameras out of China to avoid being caught up in tariffs.
Google acquires popular Indian train tracking app “Where is my Train”, which works offline and without GPS, sources say for $30M-$40M
Google has acquired Sigmoid Labs, which runs the platform ‘Where is My Train.’ — ET had reported the development in August.
Sources: Bird plans to raise at its current $2B valuation and Lime at $2B-3B, below their initial asks, amid tougher-than-expected business conditions
Shared electric-scooter companies Bird and Lime temper their valuation goals as they deal with vandalism and other growing pains
Sources: cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain is closing down its Israel-based R&D center and laying off its 23 employees, amid the cryptocurrency bear market
Bitmaintech Israel, headed by Gadi Glikberg, is a victim of the steep decline in the cryptocurrency market.
Australian watchdog ACCC posts regulation recommendations regarding digital platforms, like Google: monitor handling of ads and news, ban default browsers, more
The hammer is coming down on Google and Facebook as Australia's top consumer watchdog warns they are becoming too powerful.
Sources: Amazon restricted sellers' access to customer data and fired some workers in US and India for allegedly accessing internal data that was then misused
Merchants find new ways to sabotage rivals during the all-important holiday shopping season — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .42% …
Uber confirms it's testing “Uber Eats Pool” in some markets, which would batch orders of a specific restaurant from multiple nearby customers for a discount
Here come sponsored restaurant recommendations — Where there is discovery in an app, there is paid discovery.
Kaspersky: networks of 8 Eastern European banks were hacked by people entering the premises and planting physical hardware like Raspberry Pi and USB devices
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Sleep apnea equipment and software maker ResMed to acquire Propeller Health, which helps track medication inhaler usage through sensors and an app, for $225M
Jeff Engel — [Updated 12/3/18, 3:30 pm, with CEO comments.] ResMed has inked a $225 million deal to acquire Propeller Health …
How Chinese entertainment apps for books, podcasts, video, and music diversify their revenue beyond ads and subscriptions via tips, micropayments, coupons, more
Stop and think for a moment about how many ads you saw in the last 24 hours, on Instagram or Facebook or anywhere else. Tweets: @tundro , @lexiro , and @triketora Tweets: Jake Finkelstein / @tundro : ...
Sources: Chinese AI company Megvii, whose Face++ facial recognition tech is popular among developers worldwide, is in talks to raise $500M at a $3.5B valuation
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese artificial intelligence provider Megvii Inc, commonly known as Face++, is targeting to raise $500 million …
Playtika, developer of social casino games, acquires Berlin-based casual mobile games maker Wooga, source says for more than $100M
Social casino game giant Playtika announced it has completed its acquisition of Wooga, the Berlin-based maker of casual games. We heard the price was more than $100 million.
Toronto-based SnapTravel, which allows users to book hotels through an AI-based assistant over SMS, voice, and messaging platforms, raises $21M Series A
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Enterprise software provider Tibco acquires French data management company Orchestra Networks, sources say valuing it in the low hundreds of millions of dollars
Huawei CFO's arrest at behest of US prompts fears of retaliatory arrests, amid a series of other worrisome US responses to strategic tech challenges from China
Kara Swisher / New York Times :
Berlin-based vacation rental price-comparison startup HomeToGo, which has raised $150M to date, acquires assets of failed vacation rental search engine Tripping
FortressIQ, which applies a new AI technique called imitation learning to process automation, raises $12M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
As Google rolls out Duplex, Alibaba demos a similar conversational AI that, it says, is already handling millions of customer package delivery queries per day
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review :
As US Army launches Army Esports, a new gamer recruitment initiative, a look at its long collaboration with the gaming industry using tools like Marine Doom
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku : Tweets: @gamingthemind , @gik_and_a_half , @athertonkd , and @cecianasta Tweets: @gamingthemind : Despite claiming concerns over video games & gun violence, one importa...
Facebook bans “implicit sexual solicitation”, “vague suggestive statements”, and sexualized slang, a disappointing sign of how FOSTA has changed the internet
Policy rationale As noted in Section 8 … Tweets: Kris Constable / @cqwww : You can no longer ask someone on @Facebook for “nude images”, or if they “want to have a good time tonight”. You can't ask so...
Beijing-based G7, which runs a fleet management platform for trucks, shippers, and drivers, raises $320M led by private equity firm HOPU Investments
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
South Korean payments app Toss, which also provides credit, loans, insurance, and investment products, raises $80M at a $1.2B valuation led by Kleiner Perkins
Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Tweets: @jonrussell Tweets: Jon Russell / @jonrussell : Tech's newest unicorn is Toss, a payment app from South Korea that has 10M registered users and processes $18B in an...
YouTube says over 200M people view gaming content each day globally, and 50B+ hours of gaming videos were viewed in the past year
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Tweets: @imfun and @vijayshekhar Tweets: Fun / @imfun : For anybody thinking their views are being “stolen” by others this is for you. 200M people view content daily. Y...
Most studies on the side effects of screen time have relied on self-reported data, an unreliable methodology that has been a major problem in nutrition research
Rachel Becker / The Verge : Tweets: @psybrief , @shuhbillskee , and @candice_odgers Tweets: PsychBrief / @psybrief : Short write-up of the recent paper showing the poor correlation between people's e...
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