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Chinese court issues preliminary injunction against Apple, blocking sale and import of iPhone models from 6S to X in China, for infringing two Qualcomm patents — A Chinese court has banned the sale of a number of recent iPhone models citing infringement of two Qualcomm patents, the San Diego chipmaker said on Monday.
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How smartphone apps are sharing precise location data with 75+ companies, including advertisers, retailers, and hedge funds, up to 14K times a day — Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it's anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.| Mugdha Variyar / The Economic Times: |
Google acquires popular Indian train tracking app “Where is my Train”, which works offline and without GPS, sources say for $30M-$40M — Google has acquired Sigmoid Labs, which runs the platform ‘Where is My Train.’ — ET had reported the development in August.
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GoPro says it will move production of US-bound cameras out of China by summer 2019 due to fear of future tariffs, as US-China trade war escalates — - GoPro says it will move production of U.S.-bound cameras out of China to avoid being caught up in tariffs.
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Sources: Amazon restricted sellers' access to customer data and fired some workers in US and India for allegedly accessing internal data that was then misused — Merchants find new ways to sabotage rivals during the all-important holiday shopping season — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .42% … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Bird plans to raise at its current $2B valuation and Lime at $2B-3B, below their initial asks, amid tougher-than-expected business conditions — Shared electric-scooter companies Bird and Lime temper their valuation goals as they deal with vandalism and other growing pains
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| Connie Chan / Andreessen Horowitz: |
How Chinese entertainment apps for books, podcasts, video, and music diversify their revenue beyond ads and subscriptions via tips, micropayments, coupons, more — Stop and think for a moment about how many ads you saw in the last 24 hours, on Instagram or Facebook or anywhere else.
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Uber confirms it's testing “Uber Eats Pool” in some markets, which would batch orders of a specific restaurant from multiple nearby customers for a discount — Here come sponsored restaurant recommendations — Where there is discovery in an app, there is paid discovery.| Roy Katsiri / Globes Online: |
Sources: cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain is closing down its Israel-based R&D center and laying off its 23 employees, amid the cryptocurrency bear market — Bitmaintech Israel, headed by Gadi Glikberg, is a victim of the steep decline in the cryptocurrency market.
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Google says its For You tab for Google Maps, which gives personalized recommendations, is now rolling out in 40+ countries on iOS and 130+ countries on Android — It's officially the holiday season, which means lots of time spent with friends and family. But all of that together …
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Google says it will shut down the consumer version of Google+ in April 2019 instead of August and retire Google+ APIs within 90 days, after new API bug found — After discovering another security issue potentially impacting 52.5 million users, Google today announced that the consumer version … | Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Sleep apnea equipment and software maker ResMed to acquire Propeller Health, which helps track medication inhaler usage through sensors and an app, for $225M — Jeff Engel — [Updated 12/3/18, 3:30 pm, with CEO comments.] ResMed has inked a $225 million deal to acquire Propeller Health …
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Playtika, developer of social casino games, acquires Berlin-based casual mobile games maker Wooga, source says for more than $100M — Social casino game giant Playtika announced it has completed its acquisition of Wooga, the Berlin-based maker of casual games. We heard the price was more than $100 million.Sponsor Posts
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