Global smartphone shipments fell 7% YoY to 291M units in Q2 2022; Samsung had a 21.5% market share, followed by Apple's 16.3%, its best Q2 in the past 10 years
BOSTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)— According to new research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments fell -7% YoY to 291 million units in Q2 2022.
Crypto network Helium claimed for years that Lime is a client, which Lime calls “a false claim”; source: Lime is preparing to send a cease and desist to Helium
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Some streamers on Twitch, a more intimate platform than others, endure threats and stalkers and say Twitch gives limited support when dangerous situations arise
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Uber unveils new features for US drivers, like showing what they will earn and the destination before accepting a trip, seeing multiple trip requests, and more
- Uber announced a series of new features Friday aimed at enhancing drivers' experiences on the ridesharing app.
Samsung announces a feature that keeps users' data secure during a phone repair, starting with the Galaxy S21 series in South Korea
You'll obviously have some anxiety about the security of your data if you leave your smartphone at a repair center for a couple of days.
Apple reports record Q3 revenue of $83B, up 2% YoY, vs $82.8B est., net income down 11% to $19.4B, iPhone revenue up 3% to $40.7B, Mac revenue down 10% to $7.4B
people coming from Android - saw double-digit growth) Joanna Stern / @joannastern : “We didn't have enough product to test the demand,” Cook says of impact of inflation and other macroeconomic trends ...
Apple expands App Store ads from the Search tab and Search results to the App Store's Today homepage and individual app pages
ads on individual app pages—shows lawmakers and regulators must press ahead Mike Peterson / AppleInsider : Apple testing new App Store ad placements very soon Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Apple Adding Ads...
Human rights groups say Facebook approved English and Swahili ads instigating ethnic violence in Kenya, after claiming to foster “safe and secure” elections
Kenya's national cohesion watchdog has threatened to suspend the social network from the country in a week if it doesn't mitigate hate speech.
In an email to Twitter Blue subscribers, Twitter says it is increasing the price of the service; in the US, the price will jump from $2.99 to $4.99 per month
something no other app charges for. The one exception is paying publications for ad-free articles, but I don't even think that should be a feature. https://twitter.com/... M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : ...
Elon Musk countersues Twitter over the merger agreement in a confidential filing in a Delaware court
- Elon Musk counter sued Twitter on Friday, intensifying the conflict between the social networking company and centi-billionaire but keeping details hidden from the public.
As Congress debated the $280B CHIPS Act for 13 months, China's semiconductor industry surged ahead, making a 7nm chip that may be based on, or stolen from, TSMC
Salesforce, whose logo appeared on Helium's website, also says it is not a Helium partner; Helium has removed both Lime and Salesforce logos from its website
Helium listed the two companies as users on its homepage — On Friday, Mashable reported that Helium, a crypto project praised …
A July 2022 proposal deck shows that Babel Finance lost 8K BTC and 56K ETH, worth $280M+, in proprietary trading of customer funds, as it seeks to raise money
- Babel Finance lost 8,000 BTC and 56,000 ETH in proprietary trading with customer funds, according to a restructuring proposal deck obtained by The Block.
Amazon plans to shut down Drive, its cloud storage service launched in March 2011, at the end of 2023 to focus “on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos”
Important dates to know Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware : Amazon Drive Cloud Storage Service Being Discontinued Next Year Tweets: Bryan William Jones / @bwjones : I had to push back on IT insistence tha...
Indonesia says it has blocked PayPal, Yahoo, Steam, Epic Games, and other websites for failure to comply with licensing rules introduced in November 2020
Indonesia has blocked search engine website Yahoo, payments firm Paypal and several gaming websites due to failure to comply with licensing rules …
How Modi's government is increasingly skirting India's own internet rules to crack down on free speech and dissent on social media, under a “fake news” pretext
Sandeep Ravindranath, an Indian filmmaker, posted his latest work to YouTube in May. The video … Tweets: @marklittlenews , @david_msullivan , and @mhbergen Tweets: Mark Little / @marklittlenews : “We ...
Instagram's Dual copies BeReal's front and back camera capture feature, but misses the point: people like BeReal because it's non-addictive by design
PriceLabs, which uses AI to help owners and managers of vacation homes and short-term rentals automate dynamic pricing, has raised $30M from Summit Partners
The Economic Times :
Sources: Ola and Uber are discussing a merger, four years after a deal didn't materialize, when common investor Softbank pushed for it; Uber denies merger talks
Manu P Toms / The Economic Times :
US banking regulators order Voyager Digital to cease and desist from making “false and misleading” claims that its customers' funds were insured by the FDIC
Sources: the Commerce Department has told all US chipmaking equipment manufacturers to not supply gear to China for fabs for making 14nm chips or below
The US is tightening restrictions on China's access to chipmaking gear, according to two major equipment suppliers … Tweets: @byron_wan Tweets: Byron Wan / @byron_wan : In the past two weeks or so, al...
The SEC adds Alibaba to a list of Chinese companies facing delisting in three years if they don't comply with US auditing standards; Alibaba's stock is down 9%+
Bloomberg :
An interview with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on the company's post-IPO stock plunge, catering to its most active users, job cuts, reining in expenses, and more
Annie Massa / Bloomberg :
Brazilian prosecutors ask WhatsApp to delay its Communities feature launch in Brazil until January to avoid spreading misinformation around the October election
Anthony Boadle / Reuters :
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons proposes offering customers a free hot drink and baked good as a settlement for collecting their location data for over a year
Joseph Cox / VICE : Tweets: @journeydan , @loopemma , @counternotions , @drewfitzgerald , @taylor_owen , @kantrowitz , @robaeprice , @rahulmehrotraa , @thekenyeung , @martinsfp , @jason_koebler , @ke...
Twitter says it fielded nearly 60K legal demands globally in H2 2021 and complied fully with ~40%; the US accounted for 20% of account information requests
Amanda Seitz / Associated Press :
RPA Supervisor, which lets companies integrate and manage their robotic process automation tools, has raised a $20M Series A led by Dawn Capital
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
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