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Canalys: Baidu crossed Google to capture 17.3% of the global smart speaker market, growing 3700% YoY with 4.5M shipments in Q2 2019; Amazon had 6.6M shipments — The global smart speaker market grew 55.4% in Q2 2019 to reach 26.1 million units. Amazon maintained the worldwide lead …
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The Verge, CNET, TechCrunch, Roughly Drafted, VentureBeat, Android Authority, BGR, Marketing Land, NDTV Gadgets 360, RAIN News, Engadget, MSPoweruser, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, GeekWire, Droid Life, Fortune, 9to5Google, Android Central, Gizchina, KnowTechie, Android Police, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Tweets: @canalys, @willoremus, and @engadget
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: Facebook is testing Threads, a messaging app for Instagram that lets users automatically share status, location, battery life, more with Close Friends — The app promotes sharing your status, location, and more with your closest friends — Facebook is developing …
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9to5Mac. Tweets: @caseynewton, @ealshafei, @theunread, @andreplaut, @manjusrii, @yoda, @_danielsinclair, @privacyproject, @jillseroka, @wongmjane, @martinsfp, and @pierce. Thanks:@varun_mathur
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Apple releases iOS 12.4.1 to patch a bug, inadvertently reintroduced in iOS 12.4, which allowed up-to-date iPhones to be jailbroken for the first time in years — The company released a patch to fix a dangerous bug on Monday, a week after hackers had released a jailbreak for fully patched iPhones.
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google and Dell team up to unveil Latitude enterprise-grade Chromebooks, with 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPUs, available to order from August 27, starting at $699 — The next time you get a laptop from your company's IT department, you might be getting a Chromebook.
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The Verge, ZDNet, CNET, Digital Trends, Tom's Hardware, VentureBeat, About Chromebooks, TechSpot, GeekWire, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @geekwire, @chromeunboxed, and @kevinctofel
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Binance launches a crypto lending business, allowing holders of its BNB token, Ethereum Classic, and Tether to lend their assets and earn interest — The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has ventured into lending space, according to an announcement Monday.| Reuters: |
Macron says France and the US reached a deal that will end the standoff over a French tax on large internet companies that was passed earlier this year — BIARITTZ, France (Reuters) - France and the United States have reached a deal to end a standoff over a French tax on big internet companies …
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CNET, Telegraph, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, Neowin, and Slashdot
| Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware: |
GlobalFoundries sues TSMC in the US and Germany, alleges infringement of 16 patents and seeks processor import bans that could affect Nvidia and Apple — GlobalFoundries (GF) today announced that it filed lawsuits against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) …
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, VentureBeat, PC Gamer, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead. Thanks:@paulyalcorn
| Alison Bevege / Reuters: |
Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events; sites to be censored will be determined on a case-by-case basis — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events …
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Gizmodo, Ars Technica, iTnews, TechSpot, The Next Web, and Engadget
Tweets: @inteloperator, @andreasharsono, and @inteloperator
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Swiss financial regulator FINMA issues banking licenses to SEBA Crypto and Sygnum, the first time it's done so for “pure-play blockchain service providers” — Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has issued banking and securities dealers' licenses …
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Eidgenössische …, BitcoinExchangeGuide, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and Messari Crypto
Tweets: @rogerdarin and @mdudas
| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Amid recent ransomware attacks against local governments, US officials fear similar attacks on election databases; CISA to launch a program to help secure them — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to launch a program in roughly one month that narrowly focuses …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Megvii, a China-based facial recognition focused startup, files for a Hong Kong IPO; Megvii has raised $750M, reportedly at a $4B valuation, earlier this year — KEY POINTS — An attendee uses his smartphone to record a facial-recognition demonstration on himself at the Beijing Megvii Co. booth …
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Abacus, TechCrunch, Reuters, Nikkei Asian Review, Bloomberg, Pandaily, China Money Network, Financial Times, Tech in Asia, and FutureSin
Tweets: @tculpan, @tculpan, @tculpan, and @luluyilun
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
CRED, a 9-month old Indian startup, raises $120M Series B to help people improve their financial behavior; source: the startup's valuation is now $430M-$450M — Many Silicon Valley companies and fintech startups in India today share a common mission: They all want to bring their financial services to the next billion users.Sponsor Posts
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