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Sources: in the US, Apple Music subs are growing ~5% a month, may overtake Spotify, which is growing at ~2% a month, this summer; Apple says Music has 36M subs — Apple's U.S. subscriber-account base has been growing about 5% a month, versus No. 1 Spotify's 2% clip
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Apple is looking into reports of iPhone X glitch that causes an up-to-10 second delay before incoming calls show up on display after the phone starts ringing — Some owners of Apple's new iPhone X are finding an unusual bug in their $1,000 piece of kit — answering the phone.
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| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung heir and Vice Chairman Jay Lee set free after South Korean appeals court suspends his jail term in bribery case, after being detained for almost a year — Sentence was reduced to 2.5 years; gets 4 months probation — Lee was embroiled in national influence-peddline scandal| Douglas Hofstadter / The Atlantic: |
Google Translate's AI-driven translation is fast and useful, but simple tests show it's still a long way from real understanding — One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, since his mother was Danish, and he, as a child, had lived in Denmark.
Tweets: @katjabego, @jamesgleick, @timharford, and @mpigliucci
| Reuters: |
Sources: Broadcom plans to raise its bid for Qualcomm from $70 to $80-$82 per share, or about $120B, offer higher-than-usual breakup fee — (Reuters) - Broadcom Ltd (AVGO.O) plans to unveil a new offer of approximately $120 billion for Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) on Monday, aiming to ratchet …
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| Benedict Evans: |
Smart home devices, speakers, and assistants are mostly accessories with few network effects, which means no real ecosystem lock-in and winner-take-all outcomes — A few weeks ago I spent several days marching around CES in Las Vegas (along with close to 200,000 other people) …
Tweets: @stevesi, @fmbutt, @jordanharper, and @fcollective
| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
A look at Replika and other projects that are developing “emotional” chatbots and AI capable of discerning human feelings — WHEN EUGENIA KUYDA created her chatbot, Replika, she wanted it to stand out among the voice assistants and home robots that had begun to take root in peoples lives.
Tweets: @ekuyda
| Business Insider: |
Interview with Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's “deal-maker-in-chief”, on how she became an engineer, her 25 years at Qualcomm, the LinkedIn acquisition, and more — By - Anna Mazarakis Alyson Shontell — Before Microsoft, she spent 25 years at Qualcomm, on the technical side as an engineer and on the business side.
Tweets: @lauracatpjs, @daveambrose, and @businessinsider
| Mark Chediak / Skift: |
Bloomberg research: ridesharing startups raised $28B in 2017 despite tougher regulations in many places, boosted by Softbank's investments in Uber, Ola, Didi — Uber grabs the headlines. But this year expect money to pour into other mobility-themed companies, including ones focused on car-pooling … | WARC: |
Report: total UK ad spend on mobile, including display, search, and other formats like SMS, was higher than TV spend for the first time in Q3 2017 — LONDON: The UK's ad market reached a new milestone during the third quarter of 2017 as almost one in four pounds spent on advertising went to mobile …
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The Drum, Digital TV Europe, Mobile Marketing Magazine, and Marketing Week
Tweets: @ianmaude and @benedictevans
| Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News: |
AT&T looks to launch next-gen version of DirecTV Now this spring and a voice-controlled client that supports DirecTV Now and other OTT services by end of year — Will launch next-gen DirecTV Now platform this spring, new thin-client streaming device by end of year
Tweets: @thebauminator
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Amazon could disrupt US healthcare by converting a standardized healthcare interface for its employees into a marketplace for individuals and other employers — It's pretty rare for the same company to feature in two consecutive Weekly Articles; yesterday's announcement …
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