Huawei delays launch of its foldable Mate X phone from June to September, says it is doing extra tests after Samsung's troubles with the Galaxy Fold
KEY POINTS — The company had initially targeted a June launch, but a spokesperson told CNBC, that it was doing extra tests …
Sources: Facebook has signed up 12+ companies, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber, to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week
Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber are among firms that will invest around $10 million each in consortium that will govern digital coin
Sources: Comcast and Charter agree to sell iPads and other Apple devices at a discount in iPhone deal; Comcast to pay for the cost of the discount
KEY POINTS — Comcast and Charter agreed to sell thousands of Apple devices as part of a deal to offer the iPhone to customers for its mobile service.
Binance announces that it will stop serving trading customers in the US from September; Binance gets ~15% of its traffic from US customers
Binance, the largest crypto-to-crypto exchange by volume, has announced that it will stop serving U.S. individual and corporate customers on its main platform, Binance.com.
Binance says it is setting up a US trading platform in partnership with FinCEN-registered BAM Trading Services, but offers no timeline for its launch
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is launching a U.S. division. — The Malta-based company said Thursday …
Telegram says it faced a massive DDoS attack originating from China coinciding with protests in Hong Kong, where organizers used the app to evade surveillance
The popular encrypted messaging service Telegram is once again being hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) …
Initial impressions of iPadOS: new multitasking features are powerful but will take time to get used to, and Safari's desktop-class browsing is impressive
When I published my Beyond the Tablet story a few weeks ago, I was optimistic we'd get a handful of iPad-related features and optimizations at WWDC.
Google rolls out a new search bar with icons beside the text for search categories including news, video, maps, and images on desktop
After a few months of testing it now appears Google has started rolling out the new search bar with icons. Instead of just using text to show …
Google details how developers could use Chainlink to enable Ethereum smart contracts to communicate with BigQuery
Try GCP — Get $300 free credit to spend over 12 months. — Free Trial — Blockchains focus on mathematical effort to create a shared consensus.
Researchers: an infusion pump widely used in hospitals and medical facilities has critical security flaws that allow it to be remotely hijacked and controlled
A hospital infusion pump widely used in hospitals and medical facilities has critical security flaws that allow it to be remotely hijacked …
Chewy, an online pet product retailer owned by PetSmart, opens up ~64% on its first day of trading after raising $1B in its IPO, and is now valued at ~$14.3B
KEY POINTS — PetSmart acquired Chewy.com in 2017 for roughly $3 billion to add an online business to complement its store base, as trends shifted online.
At E3, console makers and game publishers, including Ubisoft, Microsoft, and Google, touted subscription services as they race to become the “Netflix for games”
The race to become “Netflix for Games” is on — With the first details coming out around the next Xbox and PlayStation …
Google's Area 120 incubator launches Game Builder, a sandbox for people without programming skills to create 3D games, available free on Steam for Mac and PC
Area 120 is “Google's workshop for experimental projects,” and its latest prototype is Game Builder.
Research: of the 58 most popular open source projects on funding platform Open Collective, 80%+ receive income below industry standards or the poverty threshold
Most people believe that open source sustainability is a difficult problem to solve. As an open source developer myself … Tweets: @ablwr , @fransbouma , @piamancini , @maintainerati , @josh412 , @fak...
Sources: in Karan Bhatia's first year as Google's policy lead, he's encouraged relationship building with governments, cut some contract lobbyists, and more
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is trying to plug a surge of public scrutiny around the world by overhauling …
Skupos, a data platform for convenience retail used by over 7,000 locations in the US, raises $26M Series B, bringing the total raised to $37M
Skupos works with more than 7,000 retail locations and has raised $37 million in venture capital to date. — Skupos announced it has raised $26 million …
Huawei seems to be showing lock screen ads on the P30 Pro, P20, Honor 10, P20 Pro, and others when the built-in magazine background images are used
Corbin Davenport / Android Police :
Hands-on with Microsoft's xCloud and Google Stadia: they both work and they're both impressive, but they have different aims, so they are hard to compare
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Exporo, a Hamburg-based crowdfunding platform that allows anyone to invest in real estate projects, starting with as little as €500, raises €43M Series C
Exporo is Hamburg-based real estate crowdfunding platform that allows anyone to invest in real estate projects that were previously …
Yubico says it will replace some security keys used by US government and others due to a bug that reduces the randomness of cryptographic keys generated
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Parler, a right-wing social site, had ~200K signups this week, reportedly Saudi Arabians frustrated at Twitter's policies; CEO says it doubled its total users
UK-based digital bank Monzo launches in the US, says it doesn't have its own US banking license and won't be lending US customers money
Tom Warren / The Verge :
VMware says it is buying Avi Networks, a startup that helps companies with application delivery in the cloud, which has raised $115M, per Crunchbase
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
After leaked images were published, Google tweets a teaser picture of the Pixel 4, expected in October, confirming at least two rear cameras
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Kickstarter announces new recommendations and rules to discourage creators from using exaggerated claims about a product, launches a tool to flag exaggerations
Ashley Carman / The Verge :
Sources: in a letter to Verizon in March, Huawei accused Verizon of violating 238 of its patents; the claims would exceed $1B in licensing fees
New York Times :
Freelance services marketplace Fiverr closes up 89% on its first day of trading after raising $111M in its IPO
Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance :
Verizon launches $99.99 Smart Locator, a tracking device with Bluetooth, GPS, WPS, and LTE, with one year of free service and $3/month thereafter
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Spring Labs, which uses blockchain to offer data sharing, fraud prevention, and other services to help financial institutions fight fraud, raises $23M Series A
Gordon Gottsegen / Built In Chicago :
Several ad agencies tell a federal court Facebook agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit claiming Facebook misstated video metrics by 150-900%
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter : Tweets: @eriqgardner See also Mediagazer Tweets: Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner : Facebook has many problems at the moment, but it has potentially resolved one: A set...
Mythic, an AI inference processor startup developing analog compute-in-memory tech, raises $30M Series B1, bringing the total raised to $86M
Nicole Hemsoth / The Next Platform :
Sources: GE Ventures has been shopping itself for several months, looking for a buyer for its portfolio of more than 100 startups
Christina Farr / CNBC :
VidMob, which makes video advertising tools, raises $25M Series B led by Austin-based BuildGroup, bringing its total raised to $45M+
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
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