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Qualcomm unveils first mmWave 5G and sub-6GHz antenna modules for 5G smartphones and mobile hotspots in 2019 — Qualcomm has solved a big problem for a certain variation of 5G: getting the chips small enough to fit in handheld devices. — On Monday, Qualcomm unveiled its new QTM052 millimeter wave …
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| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Susan Fowler Rigetti, the Uber engineer who blew the whistle on sexual harassment at the company, has joined the NYT as technology opinion editor in SF — - Susan Fowler Rigetti, the woman who blew the whistle on Uber's sexist culture, has been hired by The New York Times.| Erin Heffernan / St. Louis Post-Dispatch: |
Uber, Lyft suspend driver who secretly live-streamed hundreds of rides on Twitch, after initially keeping him on and saying he did not violate Missouri law — EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published Friday night. It was updated 9:30 p.m. Saturday with a statement from Uber saying …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat to discontinue Snapcash, its peer-to-peer payment feature, on August 30; the feature was created in partnership with Square in 2014 — Snapcash ended up a way to pay adult performers for private content over Snapchat, not just a way to pay your friends.
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| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of China's BOE, which supplies LCD screens for MacBooks and iPads and, sources say, wants to supply OLED displays for Apple from 2020 — If BOE succeeds, it would not only prove its manufacturing prowess but also score a win for China in its tech race against South Korea and Japan
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| Eric Feng: |
Overview of the iPhone-fueled “golden age” of tech startups from 2009-2012, how FAANG firms succeeded in its aftermath, and why B2C startups still have a chance — Ten years ago this month on July 10, 2008, Apple first unveiled the App Store and kicked off one of the greatest periods …
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| James Ball / Columbia Journalism Review: |
It is time for newsrooms to cover technology extensively, across desks, acting as watchdogs rather than cheerleaders — A lowly tech employee was trying to do some simple task online and found out it was really hard. Inspired by that difficulty, he—and it was almost always a he …
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Pinterest is aiming for IPO by mid-2019, is close to ~$1B in ad sales in 2018 after hitting $500M in 2017, and now has a valuation between $13B-$15B — - Pinterest is poised to almost double revenue this year, getting close to $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.| Greg Sandoval / Business Insider: |
Google Cloud to prevent its automated fraud-detection systems from suspending accounts with “established payment history” after a customer complaint went viral — - Google's cloud platform drew a lot of criticism after one of its customers, an admin of an account … | Chao Deng / Wall Street Journal: |
More than 200 online lenders in China have either shut down or scaled back operations in recent weeks amid a slowing economy and stringent fintech regulations — Slowing economy and tighter controls curtail operations of hundreds of firms — BEIJING—A string of Chinese internet lenders … | NASDAQ.com: |
Netgear's Arlo security camera spinoff hopes to raise $194M through IPO, with shares priced between $18 and $20, at a valuation of $1.4B — Arlo Technologies, a smart security camera maker being spun out of Netgear, announced terms for its IPO on Monday. — The San Jose, CA-based company plans … | Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: |
Facebook could recognize Holocaust denialism as hate speech and ban it on those grounds, but trying to censor every falsehood should be noted as a bad idea — To follow Mark Zuckerberg's utterances is to constantly cringe. — Last week was no different.
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