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Apple says HomePod will become officially available in China and Hong Kong on January 18 for RMB 2,799, or ~$414 — Apple has announced today that HomePod will be available in China starting on Friday, January 18th. Apple teased last month that HomePod was coming to China in “early 2019,” but now we have an official release date.
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A deeper look at Twitter's upcoming beta app with conversational features like color-coded and algorithmically sorted responses, hidden engagement icons, more — Twitter has made a name for itself, at its most basic level, as a platform that gives everyone who uses it a voice.| Bloomberg: |
How PayPal's user growth and stock price have risen after teaming up with former foes like Visa; sources: Venmo still loses hundreds of millions annually — In late 1999 a young computer scientist named Max Levchin started receiving emails from strangers about a web demo he'd created to illustrate the workings of an app.| Lily Katz / Android Authority: |
USB-C headphones were virtually absent at CES 2019, failing to catch on because of continuing compatibility issues and a lack of quality hardware — 6.3K — In a sea of 3D audio products and true-wireless earbuds, USB Type-C headphones were nowhere in sight at CES 2019.| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
CES 2019 notes: high number of Chinese attendees, massive Google participation, and products that are close to reaching a tipping point of customer satisfaction — Help Wanted, Product Managers Apply — The Consumer Electronics Show is the annual gathering of over 180,000 people … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers: a hacking group made ~$3.7M in Bitcoin since Aug. with Ryuk ransomware, which only targets firms with huge resources and can lay dormant for a year — Ryuk lies in wait for as long as a year, then pounces on only the biggest prey. — A recently discovered ransomware group … | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
London-based Scape Technologies exits stealth, says it has raised $8M seed for its camera-based positioning tech that it says is far more accurate than GPS — Scape Technologies, a London-based computer vision startup, is de-cloaking today to announce that it has raised $8 million in seed fund … | Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Googlers for Ending Forced Arbitration, an activist group inside Google, to launch a public awareness campaign about mandatory arbitration agreements on Tuesday — TECH WORKERS MAY be new to labor organizing, but they're learning quickly. When a November walkout by 20,000 Google employees protesting …
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Indiegogo says Chinese entrepreneurs have raised $150M+ on its platform since 2016, with 35 products raising $1M+ — Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, turns 11 this month. In the intervening years, it's provided the seed capital … | Sarah Schmid Stevenson / Xconomy: |
Humatics raises $28M Series A1 for a spatial intelligence platform that lets industrial robots navigate factories and warehouses at a centimeter level precision — Humatics, the Waltham, MA-based startup working on microlocation technology for use in robots and autonomous vehicles … | Bloomberg: |
Interview with Arm CEO and CTO on its hiring spree at SoftBank's direction, plans for the future, and becoming a public company again in about five years — - Chip designer seeking to expand from dominance in phones — Company laying groundwork for return to public markets
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China's new guidelines for short video apps ban 100 types of inappropriate content, say that platforms should review every piece of content that goes online — China's wildly popular short-video apps, such as Tik Tok, will now be held responsible for all “harmful” content posted by users … Sponsor Posts
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