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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Samsung says it projects Q2 operating profit of ~$5.5B, beating analyst estimates but down ~56% YoY following weakness in the price and demand of memory chips — KEY POINTS — Samsung Electronics said on Friday that profits for the three months that ended June more than halved …
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Tweets: @theregister, @kifleswing, @wsj, and @samkimasia
| Christopher Beam / MIT Technology Review: |
Privacy advocates warn that innovation in satellite imagery is outpacing the ability to regulate the technology to prevent 24-hour real-time surveillance — Can privacy survive? — In 2013, police in Grants Pass, Oregon, got a tip that a man named Curtis W. Croft had been illegally growing marijuana in his backyard.| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Inside Facebook's elite “info ops” team, created in 2017 to respond to co-ordinated disinformation campaigns, often from state actors like Russia's IRA — Among the thousands of staff at Facebook, there is one group that talks about the company not as a social network, but as a battlefield.
Tweets: @hughmason
| Noam Cohen / New Yorker: |
A California law went into effect July 1 banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure while selling products or influencing votes — When you ask experts how bots influence politics—that is, what specifically these bits of computer code that purport to be human …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Japan-based Tier IV raises $100M+ Series A for its Autoware open-source self-driving software which, it says, is used by 200 organizations around the world — Tier IV, an open-source self-driving startup based in Japan, has raised “over $100 million” in a massive Series A funding round led by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance.| Benjamin Pimentel / Business Insider: |
Application performance monitoring company Dynatrace files for IPO, posts $431M revenue for the fiscal year ending March 31, up 8% YoY, and a net loss of $116M — - Dynatrace filed papers for an IPO on Friday. The company aims to raise $300 million with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Citigroup as lead underwriters.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Ola says it has received a private hire vehicle license from Transport for London and plans to launch its ride-hailing service in the city in September — London's transport agency has given India's Ola the green light to launch its ride-hailing service in the UK capital …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google Play app called “Updates for Samsung”, with 10M+ installs and no affiliation with Samsung, tricks users into paying $35/year to download firmware updates — “Updates for Samsung” app promises firmware updates but only shows ads and wants money for (working) downloads.
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CSIS TechBlog, Digital Information World, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, and The Next Web
Tweets: @s_metanka and @peterkruse
| Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing: |
PwC: global podcast ad revenue to pass $1B by the end of 2019 and hit $1.4B by 2023, in part due to the advent of programmatic ads in podcasts — Podcast advertising revenue is expected to pass $1 billion by the end of 2019, according to figures from PwC's Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2019-2023.
Tweets: @mediapodawards
| Mary Loritz / EU-Startups: |
Antwerp-based Unifly raises €17 million Series B for its software that enables drone tracking and management alongside commercial aviation traffic — By 2020, there will be about 20 million drones in circulation - compared to around 30,000 planes today.| New York Times: |
How researchers combined AI and manual counting techniques to estimate the size of the crowd at Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest on July 1 — Crowd estimates for Hong Kong's large pro-democracy protests have been a point of contention for years. The organizers and the police often release vastly divergent estimates.| Jasper Jolly / The Guardian: |
UK's competition regulator orders Amazon to pause integration efforts with Deliveroo pending investigation into potential breaches of competition rules — Enforcement order issued after online retailer bought stake in food courier service — The UK's competition regulator has ordered Amazon …
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