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 …
Ola says it has received a private hire vehicle license from Transport for London and plans to launch its ride-hailing service in the city in September
London's transport agency has given India's Ola the green light to launch its ride-hailing service in the UK capital …
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 …
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 …
Google Play app called “Updates for Samsung”, with 10M+ installs and no affiliation with Samsung, tricks users into paying $35/year to download firmware updates
“Updates for Samsung” app promises firmware updates but only shows ads and wants money for (working) downloads.
How researchers combined AI and manual counting techniques to estimate the size of the crowd at Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest on July 1
Crowd estimates for Hong Kong's large pro-democracy protests have been a point of contention for years. The organizers and the police often release vastly divergent estimates.
Japan-based Tier IV raises $100M+ Series A for its Autoware open-source self-driving software which, it says, is used by 200 organizations around the world
Tier IV, an open-source self-driving startup based in Japan, has raised “over $100 million” in a massive Series A funding round led by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance.
Application performance monitoring company Dynatrace files for IPO, posts $431M revenue for the fiscal year ending March 31, up 8% YoY, and a net loss of $116M
- Dynatrace filed papers for an IPO on Friday. The company aims to raise $300 million with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Citigroup as lead underwriters.
Privacy advocates warn that innovation in satellite imagery is outpacing the ability to regulate the technology to prevent 24-hour real-time surveillance
Can privacy survive? — In 2013, police in Grants Pass, Oregon, got a tip that a man named Curtis W. Croft had been illegally growing marijuana in his backyard.
Inside Facebook's elite “info ops” team, created in 2017 to respond to co-ordinated disinformation campaigns, often from state actors like Russia's IRA
Among the thousands of staff at Facebook, there is one group that talks about the company not as a social network, but as a battlefield. Tweets: @hughmason Tweets: Hugh Mason / @hughmason : If I'm rea...
B2B ecommerce marketplace IndiaMART closed up 34% on its first day of trading in India on Thursday, after raising ~$70M at a valuation of ~$400M in its IPO
Shares of ecommerce company IndiaMART rose 25 per cent from their issue price on their Thursday debut in what marked the end …
PwC: global podcast ad revenue to pass $1B by the end of 2019 and hit $1.4B by 2023, in part due to the advent of programmatic ads in podcasts
Podcast advertising revenue is expected to pass $1 billion by the end of 2019, according to figures from PwC's Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2019-2023. Tweets: @mediapodawards Tweets: @mediapod...
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
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Antwerp-based Unifly raises €17 million Series B for its software that enables drone tracking and management alongside commercial aviation traffic
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Google suspends its Trends email alerts in New Zealand following criticism by the government for publishing suppressed details of a murder case
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New Hampshire-based Appcast, which makes programmatic job advertising tech, has sold an 85% stake of itself to Axel Springer's StepStone job portal for ~$79M
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Baidu says its DuerOS AI assistant install base has passed 400M devices and voice queries topped 3.6B; DuerOS was installed on 150M devices last November
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TrapX, which makes tools to thwart cyberattacks in real time via decoy databases and workstations, raises $18M Series C, bringing its total raised to ~$50M
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A look at Iran's efforts to tighten internet controls and curtail digital freedoms, as US sanctions and cyberattacks against the country escalate
Mahsa Alimardani / VICE : Tweets: @nargesbajoghli , @yarbatman , and @jabdi Tweets: Narges Bajoghli / @nargesbajoghli : It's hard to overstate degree to which Stuxnet cyberattacks by US+Israel on Ira...
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
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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
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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
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