Trump says that at a recent dinner Tim Cook made a “very compelling argument” that Apple might lose its edge to Samsung due to tariffs on goods from China
- Many made-in-China Apple products to be hit soon with tariffs — Apple CEO made ‘good case’ about tariffs at dinner: Trump
Binance says it plans to launch Venus, an “independent regional version of Libra”, which will develop “localized” stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance is planning to launch “Venus,” calling it an …
Disney+ to launch in Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand along with the US in November, will stream on all major platforms except Fire TV
Disney today confirmed its first global launches for the company's upcoming Disney+ subscription service, and it outlined which devices …
Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo are working on an AirDrop-style wireless file transfer protocol that will work between their devices with speeds of up to 20MB/s
Three of China's biggest smartphone makers are working together on a new wireless file transfer protocol that will work between their respective devices.
Spotify's Premium Family Plan is getting parental controls with an explicit content filter and a Family Mix personalized playlist for the whole family
Spotify is rolling out a new Premium Family Plan with a much-awaited setting. Parents will now have the ability to filter out songs with swearing …
23 Texas local governments hit in what appears to be a coordinated ransomware attack
Infection blamed on a strain of ransomware known only as the “.JSE ransomware.” — Twenty-three local Texas governments have been infected with ransomware last week in what Texas officials have descr...
How terrorist organizations, locked out of traditional financing options, have used cryptocurrency for donations in increasingly sophisticated ways
SAN FRANCISCO — Hamas, the militant Palestinian group, has been designated a terrorist organization by Western governments and some others …
Google shuts down its free service to show carriers weak spots in their coverage, sources say to avoid potential scrutiny over sharing data from its users
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google has shut down a service it provided to wireless carriers globally that showed …
Cerebras Systems unveils the world's biggest semiconductor chip with 400K cores, 1.2T transistors, and 18GB of SRAM memory, fit in the size of a silicon wafer
Tucked in the Los Altos hills near the Stanford University campus, in a low-slung bunker of offices across from a coffee shop …
Report: 650K+ tests in the US from early 2018 to early 2019 show that carrier throttling on mobile for Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video, is pervasive
- New research finds location, time of day play no role — Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video targeted for slowdowns
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten launches crypto exchange for trading in bitcoin, ether, and bitcoin cash, via an Android app, with no fees for making trades
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has launched its own exchange for crypto spot trading. — Announced Monday …
Ming-Chi Kuo expects a new Apple Watch Series 5 this year, as watchOS 6 beta code indicates that ceramic and titanium casings may be coming
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[Thread] Twitter has been running ads from Chinese state news agency Xinhua that aim to discredit protesters in Hong-Kong
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Roku Channel adds an ad-supported kids section with 7K free TV episodes and movies from 20 partners
Roku's home entertainment hub, The Roku Channel, is expanding into kids' programming. The company this morning announced plans to aggregate kids and family movies and TV alongside …
Sources: the US Department of Commerce to extend Huawei's license to buy US goods, which expires on August 19, by another 90 days
Simon Data, a platform to leverage customer data for marketing, used by companies like Venmo, raises $30M Series C led by Polaris, bringing total raised to $59M
As businesses use an increasing variety of marketing software solutions, the goal around collecting all of that data is to improve customer experience.
IRS sends out letters warning taxpayers that data it received from crypto exchanges shows they owe taxes related to trades over the past several years
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After launching Chats in Facebook Groups in October of last year, Facebook says it is removing the feature and will archive existing chats on August 22
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Sources: Root Insurance, an auto insurance startup that leverages telematics data from its mobile app to gauge driving style, raises ~$350M at a $3.5B valuation
Root Insurance, a tech-enabled auto insurance upstart that lives among the legacy giants in Columbus, Ohio …
Two Chairs, which operates mental health clinics using a personalized therapist-client matching system, raises $21M Series B, six months after a $7M Series A
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UK property finance marketplace LendInvest raises €216M in additional funding from the National Australia Bank, has raised €1.94B+ in debt and equity since 2008
Thomas Ohr / EU-Startups :
Online mortgage service Better.com raises $160M Series C led by Activant Capital, bringing total raised to $254M
Elisabeth Brier / Forbes :
Cloud-based file transfer company WeTransfer raises €35M in a secondary funding round led by European growth equity firm HPE Growth
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Direct-to-consumer birth control app Nurx, available in 26 states, raises $32M Series C and $20M in debt funding; Pitchbook: Nurx is now valued at around $300M
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Singapore-based hotel startup RedDoorz raises $70M Series C from Japanese e-commerce leader Rakuten and others, just weeks after it confirmed its $45M Series B
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Report: top 5 short-term rental firms like Airbnb, which accounted for only 4% of bookings in 2010, are estimated to account for 73% of gross bookings in 2019
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Accenture: global investment in fintech firms in H1 2019 was $22B, down 29% YoY, as investments in China dropped 79% to $820M, from $17.7B in H1 2018
Chad Bray / South China Morning Post : Tweets: @ursbolt Tweets: @ursbolt : Global #FinTech investments nosedive as #Chinese fundraising falls sharply: - US stays world's biggest fintech market with U...
Q&A with Debjani Ghosh, the first woman president of Indian IT industry body Nasscom, on the gender gap and why India is not worried about changes to H-1B visas
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California Supreme Court rules that online businesses like Square can be sued for discrimination in their TOS, even if a user never signed up for the service
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