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Source: Apple's planned satellite capabilities for the iPhone are focused on emergencies, enabling texts and crisis reports in areas without cellular coverage — - Apple plans an emergency-reporting tool for future iPhones — Apple Inc.'s push to bring satellite capabilities to the iPhone …
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| Micah Singleton / Billboard: |
Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic, giving users six free months of Apple Music, and will launch its own classical music app in 2022 — Apple has acquired Primephonic, the classical music streaming service, for an undisclosed amount, the company tells Billboard.
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| Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop: |
White House announces the US Digital Corps, a two-year fellowship aiming to recruit early-career software engineers and other technologists to federal agencies — The White House launched a two-year fellowship Monday designed to place early-career software engineers, data scientists and other technologists at federal agencies.
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Some Apple employees say their privacy is not well protected by Apple, as they decry norms and rules that encourage personal iCloud accounts be used at work — Jacob Preston was sitting down with his manager during his first week at Apple when he was told, with little fanfare …
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
The Central Bank of Nigeria says it will work with blockchain and payments startup Bitt Inc. to launch Nigeria's eNaira digital currency later this year — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said Monday it will work with Bitt Inc., a blockchain and payments startup, to launch …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
State media says China is restricting online gaming for minors to three hours most weeks of the year, from 8pm to 9pm on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays — - The country is imposing its strictest limits yet on play time — Beijing is waging a campaign to groom productive youths
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cloudera reports Q2 revenue of $236.06M, up 10% YoY, subscription revenue of $213.3M, up 11% YoY, and ARR of $832M, up 13% YoY, announces departure of its CPO — Cloudera also said Arun Murthy, chief product officer, will leave the company effective immediately.
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| IDC: |
Global smartphone shipments are expected to grow by 7.4% in 2021, reaching 1.37B units, with iPhone shipments growing 13.8% and Android shipments growing 6.2% — While the supply chain situation hasn't drastically improved, the smartphone market has shown positive results in recent quarters.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Telegram crossed 1B global downloads, with ~214.7M installs in H1 2021, up 61% YoY, and 22% of total global downloads coming from India — Popular instant messaging app Telegram has joined the elite club of apps that have been downloaded over 1 billion times globally, according to Sensor Tower.| Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: |
Singapore-based digital asset exchange Zipmex raises $41M Series B with participation from Krungsri Finnovate, the VC arm of one of Thailand's largest banks — Singapore-headquartered digital asset exchange Zipmex has completed its $41 million Series B funding round with participation coming from one of Thailand's largest banks.| Bloomberg: |
Japan's Nippon Foundation wants its crewless ships to make up 50% of Japan's local fleet by 2040; a container ship will test a 236-mile voyage in February 2022 — - Group aims to have self-manned ships in practical use by 2025 — Aging workforce make self-sailing ships a priority in Japan
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| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Facebook, Google, and Xiaomi are eyeing India's digital loan market, which Boston Consulting Group estimates to triple to $350B by 2023 and reach $1T by 2025 — India's digital loan market is becoming a battleground for companies from Facebook Inc. to Xiaomi Corp., seeking a foothold in what's set to be a $1 trillion industry.| Kate Kaye / Digiday: |
Technologists say Google's Privacy Budget proposal to reduce fingerprinting is vague, and could create privacy harms and break some of the web's functionality — In its scramble to advance ad targeting and measurement methods that work without third-party cookies, Google has been accused …
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| Chong Koh Ping / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan reported a third consecutive loss of $519M in Q2, compared to a $341M profit last year, while revenue rose 77% YoY to $6.8B — Under pressure amid crackdown, CEO says ‘fine-tuning’ of business will be long-term positive — Chinese food-delivery giant … Sponsor Posts
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