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In an update to a previous report, Ming-Chi Kuo now says that all three new iPhones coming in 2020 will support 5G — The three iPhones expected to launch in 2020 will feature support for 5G, according to a new note to investors shared today by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and obtained by MacRumors.
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9to5Mac, Business Insider, The Verge, Inquirer, Pricebaba.com Daily, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, CNET, Firstpost Tech, Mashable, Engadget, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, and MACお宝 …. Tweets: @bengeskin
| Julia Kollewe / The Guardian: |
UK's Just Eat is merging with its Dutch rival Takeaway.com in a £9B deal that will create one of the world's biggest online food delivery companies — British firm joins Dutch rival to form one of the world's biggest online food delivery companies — Just Eat is merging …
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Reuters, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Silicon Republic, Sky News, BBC, and The Times & The Sunday Times
| Yessi Bello Perez / The Next Web: |
Report: Venezuela uses digital wallet app Jetman Pay to convert taxes from one of its airports into Bitcoin and sell it abroad for USD, bypassing US sanctions — Venezuela appears to be leveraging cryptocurrencies as part of a larger effort to bypass US sanctions.
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CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, InsideBitcoins.com, and Bitcoin News
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Tech companies, including Apple and Google, are petitioning the FCC to allow low-power devices for unlicensed use of the 6GHz Wi-Fi band without restrictions — Part of a spectrum battle pitting hardware makers against carriers and utilities — It's rare to see Apple, Google, Microsoft …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Europol says that free tools provided as part of its three-year-old “No More Ransom” project prevented ransomware gangs from making at least $108M in profits — No More Ransom project is celebrating its three-year birthday today. — On the three-year anniversary of the No More Ransom project …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US cybersecurity company Immunity is selling a working BlueKeep exploit that enables remote code execution over Windows RDP, as part of a pen testing suite — An exploit for a vulnerability that Microsoft feared it may trigger the next WannaCry is now being sold commercially.| Ronojoy Mazumdar / Bloomberg: |
Three-year-old Reliance Jio becomes the biggest telecom operator in India, as its subscribers grow to 331M in Q2 2019, surpassing Vodafone Idea's 320M subs — - Had overtaken Bharti Airtel in May, Vodafone Idea in June — Companies are preparing for the planned 5G rollout next year
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India Today, Business Standard, Firstpost, businesstoday.in, TelecomLead, and Livemint
Tweets: @yoolimleenews, @business, @jjchai, and @eastdakota
| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
How constant location sharing via apps like Find My Friends or Glympse may trigger anxiety in friends when a phone dies, or the app shows an unexpected detour — IT'S 1:30 IN the morning and I'm pretty sure my girlfriend is dead. — She went out with friends after work to celebrate somebody's birthday.
Tweets: @gadgetlab
| Phil Wahba / Fortune: |
A look at Etsy's turnaround since Josh Silverman became CEO in 2017, largely focused on improving basic parts of the user experience, like search and shipping — When you type the term “bike jersey” into the search field at Etsy.com, most of the results you get are, in fact, bike jerseys.| Alan Beattie / Financial Times: |
How China is trying to increase its influence in global tech standards organizations like ITU, IEEE, and 3GPP, and how the US and EU are pushing back — The first wave of Donald Trump's trade war on China, punitive tariffs on $250bn of its exports, rivals the brutal protectionism of the Depression.
Tweets: @evawxiao and @yuanfenyang
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Weimob, which helps merchants market and sell on WeChat and has seen its shares rise 60%+ since its Jan. Hong Kong IPO, raises $180M more from Tencent, others — - Weimob and shareholders are said to have raised $180 million — The firm helps companies with online commerce and marketing| Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik: |
BMW makes Apple CarPlay an $80/year subscription service for new car owners — From the 2019 model year onward any new BMW sold will require the owner to pay an $80 annual fee in order to connect their Apple iTelephone device to their premium luxury automobile.
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Engadget, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, BMW BLOG, MobileSyrup, LeftLaneNews, EFTM, Paul Tan's Automotive News, Yahoo News, Trusted Reviews, Network World, Fudzilla.com, The Drive, iClarified, SlashGear, and Tom's Guide
Tweets: @dsilverman, @newscaster, @gerryconway, @andrewjwatkins, and @areitu
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