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Sources: Apple is planning a subscription service for games; it began discussions with game developers in the second half of 2018 — Apple is planning a subscription service for games, according to five people familiar with the matter. — The service would function like Netflix for games …
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Tweets: @killercow, @stroughtonsmith, @martinsfp, @damianburns, @matthausk, and @stevekovach
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Dropbox is buying San Francisco-based electronic signature startup HelloSign for $230M, in the company's largest acquisition since its founding in 2007 — Dropbox on Monday said it's acquiring electronic signature start-up HelloSign for $230 million in cash.
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Work in Progress, TechCrunch, Reuters, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Dropbox, Android Police, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, Startups News, Neowin, and Fortune. Tweets: @martinsfp
| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Sources: 2013 “Assembled in USA” Mac Pro was delayed due to custom screw shortage in US, illustrating why Apple is unlikely to move manufacturing out of China — SAN FRANCISCO — Despite a trade war between the United States and China and past admonishments from President Trump …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
GDPR complaint against Google and IAB by privacy advocates claims that ad category lists enable mass broadcasting of intimate personal data — Male impotence, substance abuse, right-wing politics, left-wing politics, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, mental health.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Internal docs and sources describe how Facebook educates moderators about political issues and potential “PR fires” that are particular to different elections — Internal Facebook documents obtained by Motherboard show specific steps and strategies taken by the company … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Bluetooth 5.1, available to developers today, includes a feature that allows devices to determine the direction of a Bluetooth signal — Bluetooth is already a key feature in billions of connected devices, serving as a wire-free way of transferring data over short distances.
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Nvidia lowers revenue guidance from $2.7B to $2.2B for Q4 2019 due to “deteriorating macroeconomic conditions, particularly in China”; stock down 14%+ — - The company reports earnings on Feb. 14, and now expects quarterly revenue of $2.20 billion, down from previously stated guidance of $2.70 billion.
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SiliconANGLE, NVIDIA Newsroom, Bloomberg, Engadget, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Financial Times, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, The Tech Report, Financial Times, and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @gamoid
| Apple: |
Apple says it spent $60B with 9,000 American component suppliers and companies in 2018, up 10% YoY, “supporting more than 450,000 jobs” — Just over a year ago, component manufacturer Finisar was awarded $390 million from Apple's Advanced Manufacturing Fund.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Despite Facebook spending ~$1B last year on Watch, its would-be YouTube killer is a jumble of ads with no hit shows and a tiny slice of overall video revenue — Three long years ago, when the world knew little about Cambridge Analytica and laughed off the specter of fake news, Mark Zuckerberg had a very different kind of problem.
Tweets: @shiraovide, @simonowens, and @kerrymflynn
| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Sandbox VR, which offers VR experiences at seven public locations like malls in US, Canada, and Asia, raises $68M Series A to expand to new locations — - Sandbox VR makes virtual-reality experiences combining off-the-shelf hardware, green screens, and custom content.| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
ContentSquare, an analytics platform that helps businesses understand user interaction with websites and apps, raises $60M Series C led by Eurazeo — Paris-based analytics platform ContentSquare said Monday that it's raised a $60 million Series C just one year after announcing its $42 million Series B.
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SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
References are found in iOS 12.2 to four new iPad models without FaceID, two of which are WiFi-only, and a new iPod Touch without FaceID or TouchID — Earlier today, registration info for seven new iPad models was discovered in the Eurasian Economic Commission Database …
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MacRumors, TechCrunch, The Verge, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, Lowyat.NET, Gizchina, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, Redmond Pie, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, and Forbes
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @mhartington, and @zacbowden
| Canalys: |
Canalys: smartphone shipments in China fell 14% to 396M units in 2018, but Huawei still grew unit shipments by 16% and Vivo grew 9%, while Apple declined by 13% — In 2018, smartphone shipments in China fell to their lowest level since 2013, at 396 million units.
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