Month: October 2018

Line Games, chat app Line's gaming division, raises $110M from Anchor Equity Partners; Anchor acquires 27.5% stake, dilutes Line's holdings to a minority 41.7% (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)

Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Line Games, chat app Line’s gaming division, raises $110M from Anchor Equity Partners; Anchor acquires 27.5% stake, dilutes Line’s holdings to a minority 41.7%  —  Messaging app firm Line has given up majority control of its Line Games business after it raised outside financing to expand … Line Games, chat app

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WhatsApp's VP Chris Daniels confirms WhatsApp will put ads in its 'Status' section, but declined to provide a timeline (NDTV Gadgets 360)

NDTV Gadgets 360: WhatsApp’s VP Chris Daniels confirms WhatsApp will put ads in its ‘Status’ section, but declined to provide a timeline  —  Clearing the air on Facebook’s monetisation efforts towards WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service’s Vice President Chris Daniels on Wednesday said the company … WhatsApp’s VP Chris Daniels confirms WhatsApp will put ads

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Fitbit posts a net loss of $2.1M in Q3, down from $113.4M a year ago, on revenue of $393.6M, as smartwatches accounted for 49% of company's total revenue (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Fitbit posts a net loss of $2.1M in Q3, down from $113.4M a year ago, on revenue of $393.6M, as smartwatches accounted for 49% of company’s total revenue  —  Fitbit is slowly righting its financial ship, courtesy of a successful push into smartwatch category. Fitbit posts a net loss of .1M

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Apple's newly unveiled products start at higher price points, with the 2018 Macbook Air 128GB model starting 20% higher, continuing Apple's push into higher ASP (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Apple’s newly unveiled products start at higher price points, with the 2018 Macbook Air 128GB model starting 20% higher, continuing Apple’s push into higher ASP  —  When Apple launched the iPhone X, it did more than just change the design language of the iPhone: it also offered a whole new pricing

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The Modern Analog Soldering Station

There is a certain sense of accomplishment one gets when building their own tools. This is what [Alejandro Velazquez] was going for when he built his own soldering station. Sure you can get a decent station for a pittance on Amazon, or eBay. You can even build your own microprocessor controlled station. [Alejandro] is currently

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Xiaomi sends cease and desist letter to Lyft, saying it will pursue legal action if Lyft continues to modify scooters originally manufactured by Xiaomi (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)

Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: Xiaomi sends cease and desist letter to Lyft, saying it will pursue legal action if Lyft continues to modify scooters originally manufactured by Xiaomi  —  Xiaomi, the electric scooter manufacturer that a handful of the shared electric scooter services in the U.S. (like ones from Lyft … Xiaomi sends cease

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WhatsApp VP confirms ads are coming to the ‘Status’ section

The day we’ve been fearing is on the horizon: WhatsApp is getting ads. For real, this time. In a comment to several publications in India. WhatsApp Vice President Chris Daniels confirmed that the popular messaging app will be placing ads in the Snapchat-like Status section: “We are going to be putting ads in ‘Status’. That is

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A look at the internal backlash at Google over its handling of sexual harassment claims, with 1,500+ employees planning to walk out in protest on Thursday (New York Times)

New York Times: A look at the internal backlash at Google over its handling of sexual harassment claims, with 1,500+ employees planning to walk out in protest on Thursday  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google is struggling to contain a growing internal backlash over its handling of sexual harassment and its workplace culture. A look at

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Apple says its T2 security chip, found in the 2018 Mac laptops, disconnects the device's microphone from the rest of the hardware whenever the lid is closed (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Apple says its T2 security chip, found in the 2018 Mac laptops, disconnects the device’s microphone from the rest of the hardware whenever the lid is closed  —  Apple’s newest MacBooks include a new feature that makes it virtually impossible for hackers or spies to eavesdrop on your microphone. Apple says

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Amazon launches the Music Skill API for Alexa, allowing developers to stream songs from online services to Alexa devices and Amazon Echo speakers in the US (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Amazon launches the Music Skill API for Alexa, allowing developers to stream songs from online services to Alexa devices and Amazon Echo speakers in the US  —  Spicing up voice apps on Amazon’s Alexa assistant with jammin’ tunes just got a whole lot easier. Amazon launches the Music Skill API for

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Twitter says it's testing a home screen toggle to switch between latest and top tweets timelines with a small number of iOS users; toggle previously in settings (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Twitter says it’s testing a home screen toggle to switch between latest and top tweets timelines with a small number of iOS users; toggle previously in settings  —  Twitter is digging one of its most important new features out of its settings and putting it within easy reach. Twitter says it’s

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Profile of Gab co-founder Andrew Torba days after Gab went offline and its CTO and co-founder Ekrem Buyukkaya quit following "attacks from the American media" (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Profile of Gab co-founder Andrew Torba days after Gab went offline and its CTO and co-founder Ekrem Buyukkaya quit following “attacks from the American media”  —  Like many young entrepreneurs drawn to California’s technological gold rush, Andrew Torba brought a familiar mix of smarts … Profile of Gab co-founder Andrew Torba days after

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Amazon says Alexa can now give information about federal and gubernatorial elections and that it is working with AP and Ballotpedia for poll times and results (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)

Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: Amazon says Alexa can now give information about federal and gubernatorial elections and that it is working with AP and Ballotpedia for poll times and results  —  Amazon today announced a series of updates to Alexa’s knowledge base so the intelligent assistant can deliver helpful information ahead of … Amazon says

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