Month: December 2018

Oura Health, a sleep-tracking platform offering its Oura smart ring, raises $20M with Will Smith, Steve Chen, Michael Dell, and others participating (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)

Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: Oura Health, a sleep-tracking platform offering its Oura smart ring, raises $20M with Will Smith, Steve Chen, Michael Dell, and others participating  —  Oura Health, a sleep-tracking and sleep-improvement platform, just raised $20 million in a funding round led by MSD Capital with participation … Oura Health, a sleep-tracking platform

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Sources: Microsoft is working on Windows Lite, a super lightweight, instant on, always connected OS that runs only PWAs and UWP apps, to challenge Chrome OS (Brad Sams/Petri)

Brad Sams / Petri: Sources: Microsoft is working on Windows Lite, a super lightweight, instant on, always connected OS that runs only PWAs and UWP apps, to challenge Chrome OS  —  For more than a year, we have been hearing about Windows Core OS and how it is a modern version of Windows. Sources: Microsoft

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Google addresses Pixel 3 and 3 XL RAM management and camera performance issues with its December security patch release (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google addresses Pixel 3 and 3 XL RAM management and camera performance issues with its December security patch release  —  Google detailed the December security patch this morning for all Android devices.  For the Made by Google lineup, this update addresses a number of issues that have cropped … Google addresses

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NEA announces a $1.35B spinout fund called NewView Capital, sells 31 of its portfolio companies including 23andMe, Duolingo, Forter, and GumGum to the new fund (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)

Kate Clark / TechCrunch: NEA announces a $1.35B spinout fund called NewView Capital, sells 31 of its portfolio companies including 23andMe, Duolingo, Forter, and GumGum to the new fund  —  Companies are staying private longer and longer, and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) has a new plan to combat the negative implications of the trend. NEA

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Tumblr says it will permanently ban adult content from its platform beginning December 17 and will eliminate Safe Mode (Shannon Liao/The Verge)

Shannon Liao / The Verge: Tumblr says it will permanently ban adult content from its platform beginning December 17 and will eliminate Safe Mode  —  Tumblr is permanently banning adult content from its platform as of December 17th in a move that will eradicate porn-related communities on the platform and fundamentally alter how the service

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Middle East ride-hailing service Careem says it has launched a bus-booking service in Egypt and will soon expand it into Saudi Arabia and Pakistan (Alexander Cornwell/Reuters)

Alexander Cornwell / Reuters: Middle East ride-hailing service Careem says it has launched a bus-booking service in Egypt and will soon expand it into Saudi Arabia and Pakistan  —  DUBAI (Reuters) – Middle East ride-hailing company Careem said on Monday it had launched a bus-booking service in Egypt and would soon expand it into Saudi

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Gartner: 389M smartphones were sold to end users in Q3, up 1.4% YoY, but market leader Samsung dropped 14% YoY to 73M units, now at 18.9% marketshare (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Gartner: 389M smartphones were sold to end users in Q3, up 1.4% YoY, but market leader Samsung dropped 14% YoY to 73M units, now at 18.9% marketshare  —  The global smartphone market’s continuing on a slow but steady uptick.  That’s according to research firm Gartner, which today published … Gartner: 389M

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Microsoft launches real-time captions and subtitles for Skype and says PowerPoint will also get them in early 2019 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Microsoft launches real-time captions and subtitles for Skype and says PowerPoint will also get them in early 2019  —  Alongside news that PowerPoint is getting real-time captions and subtitles in 2019, Microsoft announced similar technology is now available in Skype. Microsoft launches real-time captions and subtitles for Skype and says PowerPoint

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Tencent Music sets its US IPO price range of $13 to $15 per share, aims to raise $1.15B at a valuation of $23.4B at midpoint of the range (NASDAQ.com)

NASDAQ.com: Tencent Music sets its US IPO price range of $13 to $15 per share, aims to raise $1.15B at a valuation of $23.4B at midpoint of the range  —  Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China’s largest online music-streaming service, announced terms for its IPO on Monday. Tencent Music sets its US IPO price range of

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