Sources: Samsung plans to unveil a fully functional foldable screen phone and the 10th anniversary Galaxy S10 phone lineup on February 20
Tech giant to also unveil its 10th anniversary flagship phones at events in San Francisco and London — SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. plans …
Samsung announces Unpacked event on February 20 at 11AM PT at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, hinting at launch of Galaxy S10 series
‘Fully functional’ foldable phone also expected to break cover — Samsung has announced the date of its next Unpacked event …
AWS launches Amazon DocumentDB, a new document database offering that is compatible with MongoDB version 3.6
The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between the cloud giant and the company behind that open-source project.
UK-based Improbable says a recent change in Unity Engine's ToS on “streaming and cloud gaming restrictions” makes Improbable's cloud-based SpatialOS illegal
Update: Spilt Milk Studios has taken its upcoming title Lazarus offline until the dispute is solved, but Bossa's Worlds Adrift is “operating as normal”
Adviser to EU court backs Google, says search engines shouldn't be forced to apply “right to be forgotten” beyond the bloc's borders
Recommendation largely backs Google, which appealed a French order to apply the EU right to searches globally
NYU and Princeton study of 3,500 US adults: 11% of those over 65 have shared a hoax article on Facebook, while just 3% of those 18 to 29 have done so
And the finding holds true across party lines — Older Americans are disproportionately more likely to share fake news on Facebook …
Google announces a new search feature that lets logged-in users access past searches on specific topics, available now in the US
Google is now rolling out a new feature in search named “your related activity.” This feature lets signed in Google users pick up on previous searches they've done related to the query they just adde...
IKEA's battery-powered smart blinds that support HomeKit, Alexa, Google Assistant, and IKEA's Trådfri will arrive in Europe on Feb. 2 and in the US on April 1
Ikea is finally introducing low-cost, motorized smart blinds. Called Fyrtur, the blinds will be available …
Mobile retail banking startup N26 is raising $300M Series D at a $2.7B valuation led by Insight Venture Partners, says it is live in 24 European markets
Fintech startup N26 is raising a Series D round of $300 million. Following this new funding round, the company is now valued at $2.7 billion.
Overview of the high-end monitors announced at CES so far, including 49-inch ultrawide offerings from Samsung, Dell, and others
Giant, wide, and sometimes even portable — It's barely the second week of the year, and we've already been treated to an arrangement of weird and wonderful monitors …
Xiaomi's stock has declined 17% over the past three days, erasing $6.2B in value, as analysts cut price targets and post-IPO stock sales are unlocked
- Shares tumble 17 percent as IPO lock-up period expires — Cost of unlocked shares is as low as 2 Hong Kong cents
US-Indian online education startup Emeritus, which partners with universities to offer digital courses, raises $40M Series C led by Sequoia India
The funding streak for educational startups in Asia continues into 2019 after Emeritus, a U.S-Indian company that partners with universities …
Hulu to start testing a new home screen to replace the “confusing” Lineup feature with two different options called “Hulu Picks” and “Unwatched in My Stuff”
Hulu is preparing to update its streaming app in order to make its simpler to navigate to and discover content you want to watch.
For many adolescents, TikTok videos they consume are primarily repurposed content on curated YouTube channels and Instagram meme accounts
If you're looking for a window into contemporary youth culture, there is nothing better than TikTok. The social short-video app's primary feature …
French-founded Talentsoft, which develops a cloud-based HR platform, raises $50M led by Francisco Partners and says it now has 2,000 customers
French-founded HR tech company Talentsoft has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Francisco Partners, with participation from Bpifrance and Goldman Sachs.
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announce they are divorcing after 25 years of marriage; MacKenzie worked at Amazon from the beginning
How Podcasts Are Filling a Real Need Kif Leswing / Business Insider : Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announce they are divorcing Levi Pulkkinen / The Guardian : MacKenzie Bezos: divorc...
AMD announces the 7-nanometer AMD Radeon VII GPU, which it says will be 27% to 62% faster, coming in Feb. for $700; CEO Su says 400M+ gamers use Radeon graphics
driving exceptional performance, amazing experiences for the latest AAA, esports and VR titles and meeting extreme demands for content creators and next-generation computing. #CES2019 https://www.yout...
Sources: Bitmain co-founders Wu Jihan and Zhan Ketuan to step down as co-CEOs, will be succeeded by product engineering director Wang Haichao
Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post :
AT&T says its mobile 5G network will be available nationwide in 2020 on its sub-6GHz spectrum amid competitor criticism of its 5G E branding on non-5G devices
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat :
Sources say Coinbase plans to shift its institutional efforts away from Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs to crypto funds and crypto-native firms
For many crypto enthusiasts, mid-2018 feels like a lifetime ago. — In those heady days, crypto's market capitalization stood at $300 billion … Tweets: @ncweaver , @fintechfrank , and @daveweisberger...
Wikimedia announces the integration of Google Translate into Wikipedia's content translation tool used by editors, which now supports 121 total languages
Manish Singh / VentureBeat :
OneLogin, which provides cloud-based identity and access management solutions for enterprises, raises $100M Series D led by Greenspring Associates
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Google's “knowledge panel” search results can be manipulated for users visiting via specially-crafted URL; researcher says he told Google of the issue last year
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Instagram will now let users post to multiple accounts at once on iOS and begins testing easier Google Photos imports on Android
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Former ConsenSys employees and investors say ConsenSys' investment structure and CEO Joseph Lubin's insistence on control made enticing outside investors tough
Google makes over a dozen announcements for Google Assistant at CES, including Google Assistant Connect for third-party developers and flight check-ins
Dieter Bohn / The Verge :
Amazon says its Fire TV products have “well over” 30M active users, up from 25M in October and surpassing Roku's 27M+ announced earlier this week
Joan E. Solsman / CNET :
Source: e-scooter startup Bird is raising $300M, led by Fidelity, as an extension of its prior round at its current $2B pre-money valuation
which cut Lime a check earlier is 2018— is expected to lead $300M round in Bird. Accel is in Bird & Skip. Sequoia in Bird, Mobike, Ninebot. Coatue in Lime & Ofo. GGV in HelloBike and Lime. @alex : ann...
Google says Chrome's ad blocker, which adheres to Coalition for Better Ads' guidelines, is rolling out globally on July 9
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Microsoft updates group chat app Teams with location sharing, secure audio messaging, and a camera feature to securely save photos to Teams and not locally
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet :
Some VCs say they are rooting for a market dip to counterbalance an overheated startup market, with a VC at IVP predicting valuations will drop 10%-40% in 2019
Erin Griffith / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @nytimes Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : Anticipating a downturn, venture capitalists make wish lists and wait http://www.nytimes.com/... @nyt...
Square launches an in-app payments SDK for iOS, Android, and Google's Flutter cross-platform mobile development SDK
Tom Krazit / GeekWire :
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