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Canalys: Baidu crossed Google to capture 17.3% of the global smart speaker market, growing 3700% YoY with 4.5M shipments in Q2 2019; Amazon had 6.6M shipments — The global smart speaker market grew 55.4% in Q2 2019 to reach 26.1 million units. Amazon maintained the worldwide lead …
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, CNET, Digital Trends, Roughly Drafted, Android Authority, VentureBeat, GeekWire, RAIN News, KnowTechie, NDTV Gadgets 360, Droid Life, MSPoweruser, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizchina, 9to5Google, Android Police, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Tweets: @willoremus
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google and Dell team up to unveil Latitude enterprise-grade Chromebooks, with 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPUs, available to order from August 27, starting at $699 — The next time you get a laptop from your company's IT department, you might be getting a Chromebook.
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The Verge, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, CNET, VentureBeat, About Chromebooks, Fortune, TechSpot, WinBuzzer, Digital Trends, Thurrott, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @kevinctofel
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Macron says France and the US reached a deal that will end the standoff over a French tax on large internet companies that was passed earlier this year — BIARITTZ, France (Reuters) - France and the United States have reached a deal to end a standoff over a French tax on big internet companies …
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CNET, Telegraph, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, Neowin, and Slashdot
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Binance launches a crypto lending business, allowing holders of its BNB token, Ethereum Classic, and Tether to lend their assets and earn interest — The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has ventured into lending space, according to an announcement Monday.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Apple releases iOS 12.4.1 to patch a bug, inadvertently reintroduced in iOS 12.4, which allowed up-to-date iPhones to be jailbroken for the first time in years — The company released a patch to fix a dangerous bug on Monday, a week after hackers had released a jailbreak for fully patched iPhones.
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Apple Support, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, iMore, TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, The Mac Observer, BGR, and Neowin
| Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware: |
GlobalFoundries sues TSMC in the US and Germany, alleges infringement of 16 patents and seeks processor import bans that could affect Nvidia and Apple — GlobalFoundries (GF) today announced that it filed lawsuits against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) …
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, CNET, VentureBeat, and PC Gamer. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead. Thanks:@paulyalcorn
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Megvii, a China-based facial recognition focused startup, files for a Hong Kong IPO; Megvii has raised $750M, reportedly at a $4B valuation, earlier this year — KEY POINTS — An attendee uses his smartphone to record a facial-recognition demonstration on himself at the Beijing Megvii Co. booth …
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Abacus, TechCrunch, Reuters, Nikkei Asian Review, Bloomberg, Pandaily, Financial Times, China Money Network, and Tech in Asia
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| Alison Bevege / Reuters: |
Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events; sites to be censored will be determined on a case-by-case basis — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events …
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Gizmodo, Ars Technica, iTnews, The Next Web, TechSpot, and Engadget
Tweets: @inteloperator, @andreasharsono, and @inteloperator
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hackers seen attacking enterprise networks' Webmin servers and VPN services by Pulse Secure and Fortinet, after critical flaws were recently made public — Enterprise networks across the world are at risk after hackers start exploiting three very popular products.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
CRED, a 9-month old Indian startup, raises $120M Series B to help people improve their financial behavior; source: the startup's valuation is now $430M-$450M — Many Silicon Valley companies and fintech startups in India today share a common mission: They all want to bring their financial services to the next billion users.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
FreshToHome, which runs a fish, meat, and vegetable e-commerce platform in three Indian cities, raises $20M Series B, three months after an $11M Series A — FreshToHome, a Bangalore-based e-commerce startup that sells fresh vegetable, fish, chicken and other kinds of meat …
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Chinese self-driving company Pony.ai teams up with Toyota to work on autonomous driving vehicles, will start a pilot in September on public roads in China — - Companies to work together on autonomous-driving pilot — Asia driverless companies seeking to catch up with U.S. rivals
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VentureBeat, Pony.ai, and South China Morning Post
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