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Canalys report: Apple's phone sales in China grew 40% YoY to 11M in Q3 after six consecutive quarters of decline, amid a 5% YoY decline in overall China market — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Monday, 30 October 2017 — Chinese smartphone shipments registered another quarter …
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iPhone X first look: nice big screen in compact form factor and improved battery life, but Face ID didn't always work — How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
How Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled's endorsements helped $30M ICO for Centra debit card, which had shady founders, made-up CEO, false Visa approval claims — Celebrity endorsements are helping start-ups raise big money in so-called initial coin offerings. But it is not always clear what they are selling.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo's Q2 earnings beat estimates with revenue of $1.9B, Switch sales of 2.9M units; company raises annual forecast for Switch sales from 10M to 14M units — Nintendo reported better-than-expected revenues and operating profit for the September quarter on Monday, while raising … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung Gear Sport review: sharp, vibrant display with a fun and intuitive interface, but has few third-party apps, and S Voice digital assistant is useless — Samsung's latest smartwatch is good at the basics, but lacks excitement — The latest is the new Gear Sport …
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| David Pierce / Wired: |
A look back at Google Goggles, an early precursor to modern mobile AR-infused camera apps like Snapchat — GOOGLE'S FIRST PUBLIC foray into augmented reality began with an argument in a bar. It was 2008, and David Petrou, a longtime Google engineer, was sitting in a Brooklyn watering hole explaining …
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| Matt Ranen / NewCo Shift: |
Augmented reality poses difficult legal and ethical questions about virtual graffiti, private and public property rights, and data verification — Let's not repeat the mistakes we made with social media — With recent product and SDK announcements by Apple and Facebook …
Tweets: @leolaporte
| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
How streaming boxes running open source Kodi media player software have made video piracy easy with third-party add-ons — THE KODI BOX pitch is hard to resist. A little black plastic square, in look not much different from a Roku or Apple TV, and similar in function as well.
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| Simon Mundy / Financial Times: |
India's startups have raised almost $10B in 2017 compared to $4.4B in 2016 and $7.9B in 2015 — The megabucks are back for Indian tech start-ups. Last year, the funding environment darkened after two years of exuberant investment followed by warnings that growth forecasts had been far too optimistic.| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon Echo Plus review: falls short as a Zigbee smart home hub, and Alexa app's smart home controls need more refinement and features — The Echo Plus is a great smart speaker, but a mediocre smart hub. In most cases, you're better off just getting the Echo.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Convargo, a French marketplace connecting shippers and truckers, raises $19M Series A — French startup Convargo is a marketplace for shippers and carriers so that you can find a truck and send goods across France more efficiently. The startup just raised a $19 million Series A round led by Inventure Partners and Earlybird.
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| Anya Schiffrin / Columbia Journalism Review: |
How European regulators are weighing control of misinformation and free speech, hampered by a lack of consensus, research, public data from Facebook and Google — This month, a new law against hate speech will go into effect in Germany, fining Facebook, Twitter, YouTube …
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