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South Korea tells Apple and Google to remove play-to-earn games, which require in-app purchases before playing, from their app stores — The Games Committee has strengthened its stance against P2E games by saying those games should not receive an age rating needed to get listed on app marketplaces.
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Samsung cuts output at its two fabs in Xi'an, China, which account for 42.5% of its NAND production volume, amid COVID-19 lockdown; Micron output also affected — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and Micron Technology (MU.O), two of the world's largest memory chip makers … | Reuters: |
Six women who work at Foxconn's Indian iPhone plant describe crowded dorms and food crawling with worms, which sickened 250+ workers, leading to protests — For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Apptopia: Amazon ranked #4 in global shopping app installs in 2021, down from first in 2020, as e-commerce apps Shopee and Shein rose to #1 and #2, respectively — Amazon's leading position in U.S. e-commerce is well-documented, but the latest global rankings for app installs show the potential … | Wall Street Journal: |
Google, Microsoft, and Oracle invest in potential cloud clients to beat AWS; Google claims 6% cloud market share, behind AWS at 41% and Microsoft at 20% — Alphabet company and others invest in potential clients as they look to close gap with Amazon in fast-growing sector| Washington Post: |
As the US faces record COVID-19 infections, effective use of exposure notification apps is unlikely, given slow adoption and poor data on their efficacy — The United States is grappling with record-high infections, but adoption of the system is still far behind what its creators and proponents envisioned
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Fortnite servers are back online after a major five-hour outage prevented players from logging on, among other issues — The hit battle royale game told players “You do not have permission to play Fortnite.” — There was some bad news if you're on winter break and hoping to play some Fortnite …
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OneCard, which offers an app-based card to help users in India build credit, raises a $75M Series C at a $722M post-money valuation, following a $35M Series B — Mobile-first credit card company OneCard has scooped up $75 million in a new round led by existing investor QED Fund.
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| Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg: |
Research: Binance Coin (BNB), the third largest digital token by market value, Solana, and Fantom gained over 1,000% in 2021; BTC gained 65% and ETH gained 408% — - Binance's BNB surged as Binance Smart Chain rivaled Ethereum — Smaller alt coins also saw returns upward of 1,000% this year| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel closes the first phase of the sale of its SSD and NAND businesses to SK hynix and says SK hynix's Solidigm subsidiary will operate the Dalian fab in China — Intel and SK hynix seal the first phase of the deal. — Intel announced this evening that it has closed the first phase …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
HDMI Forum will introduce HDMI 2.1a, the latest standard, at CES 2022, with minor updates that only further complicate the system's haphazard device support — Brace yourself for yet another new HDMI standard — The HDMI standards are a mess. HDMI 2.1, in particular, is a uniquely frustrating mess …
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| Eileen Yu / ZDNet: |
China plans to become a global innovation hub for robotics by 2025; its manufacturing robot density in 2020 was 246 per 10,000 people, double the global average — Chinese robotics market is projected to expand at 20% through to 2025, when the government is aiming to double manufacturing robot density … Sponsor Posts
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