Citing environmental concerns, Xiaomi CEO says its flagship Mi 11 phone will not come with a charger in the box; Xiaomi mocked Apple earlier over the same issue
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China's central bank tells Ant it must overhaul its lending, insurance, and wealth management businesses and come up with a timetable as soon as possible
- Authorities require Ant to overhaul business, set up timetable — Ant was blasted over governance, disdain toward compliance
Kuo: Apple Car's unclear development schedule means it may launch in 2025-2027, while changes in EV and self-driving markets may push the launch to 2028
Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Apple is targeting 2024 for production of its long-rumored electric vehicle with “next level” …
Nashville mayor says the Christmas day explosion in the city appears to have targeted an AT&T building, amid reports the suspect was paranoid about 5G
Nashville's mayor said Sunday that the city's Christmas blast appeared to be an “infrastructure attack” on the AT&T building there …
Xiaomi announces Mi 11, its new flagship, with 6.81" 120Hz display, Snapdragon 888, Android 11, and up to 256GB storage, available in China for ~$611 on Jan. 1
Today Xiaomi held the Chinese launch announcement of the new Mi 11 - the company's new mainstream flagship phone for 2021.
Zuoyebang, which offers live-streamed classes and other remote study services and has 170 MAUs, raises $1.6B from Alibaba, Tiger Global, and others
- Zuoyebang's fundraising follows a $750 million round in June — Online learning has turned red-hot this year since pandemic
Report: Facebook closed Irish subsidiary and moved billions in profits back to US following IRS suit; Irish subsidiary paid $101M in tax on $15B profit in 2018
Facebook Inc. has moved to wind down several Irish holding companies that had allowed it to shift billions of dollars in profit to the country …Source:The Times.
Alibaba raises proposed stock repurchase program by $4B to $10B, but shares slide 8%+, shedding $270B of value since its October peak amid antitrust fears
- Investors flee biggest names from Tencent to Meituan and JD — Probe coincides with a clampdown on part-owned Ant Group
Chinese online education startup Yuanfudao raises $300M from Jack Ma's Yunfeng Capital, bringing its total raised during 2020 to $3.5B
The high-flying company this year already snagged USD 3.5 billion from investors. — The high-flying online education company Yuanfudao …
8 themes for the near future of tech: from decentralized workplaces and the rise of community-as-a-service to quirky social apps for kids under 16
As we pull ourselves out of the ditch that was 2020, there are a few major themes of the future I'm particularly excited about.
Documents detail CellHawk, a little-known surveillance tool used widely by law enforcement, which can visualize large amounts of data collected by cell towers
Until now, the Bartonville, Texas, company Hawk Analytics and its product CellHawk have largely escaped public scrutiny. Tweets: @profferguson , @carlark3 , @theintercept , and @theintercept Tweets: A...
A look at challenger search engines like UK-based Mojeek, You.com, and Neeva, founded by former Google execs, all targeting Google as it fights antitrust suits
Challengers such as Neeva bet on alternative approaches as tech giant faces regulatory scrutiny Tweets: @psb_dc , @martinsfp , @paulnemitz , @francesca_bria , and @aghose Tweets: Theo / @psb_dc : With...
A look at the worst hacks of 2020: SolarWinds, Twitter, Blueleaks, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Vastaamo, and Garmin
From ransomware schemes to supply chain attacks, this year melded classic hacks with extraordinary circumstances. — WHAT A WAY to kick off a new decade.
South Korean antitrust regulators have asked Delivery Hero to sell its existing business before its $4B takeover of Woowa Brothers can go ahead
Seoul antitrust watchdog argues merger with Woowa Brothers would hurt competition — Delivery Hero's hopes of rapid expansion in Asia have hit …
From working remotely to benefiting from the new normal, tech companies led the way in pandemic response but fell behind in stopping COVID-19 misinformation
Data shows Japan's venture deal volume last year was less than a tenth of China's and 3% of the US'; in H1 2020, Japan's startup funding fell slightly YoY
Phred Dvorak / Wall Street Journal :
Due to the pandemic, trends that normally may have taken years to unfold, like remote work or the shift from physical to virtual commerce, happened in months
Joel Mokyr We may not be digital creatures now. But someday maybe we will be. https://www.wsj.com/... Miles Kimball / @mileskimball : “Through Shopify, a business can quickly set up a web site with ma...
Apple's system status webpage indicates that the company has resolved an outage affecting iCloud Account and Sign In services
With traffic to Chatroulette booming amid COVID, the team is testing AI tools to moderate content; it now offers a filtered channel designed to exclude nudity
Kevin Randall / Wired : Tweets: @sub8u , @taylorlorenz , and @evelyndouek Tweets: Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : Chatroulette is apparently back with AI. So you can now blame all the unwanted visual exp...
Facebook critics say a general animosity toward Facebook in Washington may push the Biden administration into taking more proactive measures against the company
Uruguay's first unicorn, the payment processor dLocal, and GeneXus, a sophisticated COVID-19 advice app, have put the country's tech scene on the global map
Benedict Mander / Financial Times :
Report: Indian startups raised ~$9.3B from 1,088 deals in 2020, lower than $14.5B from 1,185 deals in 2019; rounds of $100M+ fell from 26 in 2019 to 20 in 2020
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Study: the median valuation for SaaS companies raising their Series C rose by 40% to $210M this year, while their median revenue grew 20%
Miles Kruppa / Financial Times : Tweets: @outsidadgitator , @julianklymochko , @trengriffin , and @caffeinatedinv1 Tweets: @outsidadgitator : 2)the shift to work-from-home has added real value to clo...
With $87M in political contributions, $200M spent on Prop 22, and record spending on federal lobbying, tech industry spent record amounts on politics in 2020
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Beijing's frenzied drive to free itself from a reliance on imported chips could prove to be one of the enduring legacies of Trump's trade policies toward China
Mastercard SpendingPulse: US online holiday sales from Oct. 11 to Dec. 24 grew 49% YoY, for a 19.7% share of overall retail sales, up from about 13.4% in 2019
Analysis of the top 1M pages on the web finds that HTTP/2 is now more common than HTTP/1.1; jQuery, Google Analytics were the top JavaScript libraries by usage
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.