Samsung says it projects Q2 operating profit of ~$5.5B, beating analyst estimates but down ~56% YoY following weakness in the price and demand of memory chips
KEY POINTS — Samsung Electronics said on Friday that profits for the three months that ended June more than halved …
Hacker sentenced to 27 months in prison for launching DDoS attacks on many gaming services from December 2013 to January 2014
Six years later, DerpTrolling, the hacker who started all the Christmas DDoS attacks, gets prison time. — A 23-year-old man from Utah was sentenced this week …
Kuo: Apple to introduce a new scissor switch keyboard which aims to offer durability and longer key travel, in the 2019 MacBook Air and the 2020 MacBook Pro
Apple is apparently set to ditch the butterfly mechanism used in MacBooks since 2015, which has been the root of reliability issues …
UK's competition regulator orders Amazon to pause integration efforts with Deliveroo pending investigation into potential breaches of competition rules
Enforcement order issued after online retailer bought stake in food courier service — The UK's competition regulator has ordered Amazon …
Microsoft announces that a new version of Outlook for the web will be rolled out in late July with dark mode, categories, a snooze option, and more
Microsoft Outlook on the web plays catch-up with Gmail with a new look and new features rolling out soon.
Google suspends its Trends email alerts in New Zealand following criticism by the government for publishing suppressed details of a murder case
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Google has suspended an email alerting system in New Zealand following criticism by the government for publishing suppressed details …
Australian consumer watchdog sues Samsung for allegedly misleading consumers by promoting water-resistant Galaxy phones as suitable for use in non-fresh water
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Waresix, which aims to digitize logistics in Indonesia, raises $14.5M Series A led by EV Growth; Indonesia, with 17K+ islands, has unique logistical challenges
Waresix, one of a handful of startups aiming to modernize logistics in Indonesia — the world's fourth most populous country …
Microsoft's SwiftKey starts rolling out Puppets, Animoji-like 3D animals that use AI to replicate a user's detailed facial expressions, for Android in beta
SwiftKey is embedding a new animated emoji feature directly into its mobile keyboard app, with the Microsoft-owned company leveraging …
Given Apple's less hardware-centric strategy, this was the right time for Jony Ive to depart; Jeff Williams is being positioned as Apple's new “product guy”
Between the lines of Jony Ive's exit from Apple — To me, all information is about triangulation.
Naspers-owned payments company PayU to enter Southeast Asia with the acquisition of Red Dot in a deal that values the Singapore-based e-commerce startup at $65M
PayU, the Naspers owned fintech firm that specializes in emerging markets, is broadening its global reach into Southeast Asia …
A California law went into effect July 1 banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure while selling products or influencing votes
When you ask experts how bots influence politics—that is, what specifically these bits of computer code that purport to be human … Tweets: @sub8u , @carnage4life , and @fabiochiusi See also Mediagazer...
UK competition agency launches investigation into how Google and Facebook collect and use user data and if they've abused their power to dominate the ad market
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Federal appeals court rules Amazon can be held liable for defective third-party seller products, says it enables vendors to conceal themselves from the customer
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Superhuman says it is removing location tracking, deleting location data, turning read statuses off by default, and building an option to disable remote images
or even an easy opt-out. Anil Dash / @anildash : Notably, this response is far more measured and reasonable than many responses from investors — including investors who have not (apparently) invested ...
A long Q&A with three Google engineers on Android Q and Project Mainline, which aims to let Google and OEMs only update certain parts of the OS at a time
Ars interviews Android Engineers Dave Burke, Iliyan Malchev, and Anwar Ghuloum. — As has become tradition for Ars at Google I/O … Tweets: @topjohnwu , @ronamadeo , and @arstechnica Tweets: John Wu /...
Sources: HQ Trivia laid off about 20% of its staff this week; the company says it will launch a $9.99/month subscription service later this month
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Tweets: @edzitron , @jetscott , @joshconstine , and @joshconstine Tweets: Ed Zitron / @edzitron : What a surprise that the company that existed entirely based on people w...
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