Month: October 2020

Disney wants Netflix’s throne, and the Wall Street crowd is into it

Markets reacted positively to Disney’s newly-found laser focus on streaming, pushing the company’s stock price up nearly 5%. Disney announced a restructure of its media and entertainment arms in a Monday press release. The move centralizes those businesses into one entity that will oversee all distribution and monetization of Disney content, including its streaming platform

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Alleged HomePod mini renders leak, showing a spherical design and black and white color options ahead of Apple's event (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Alleged HomePod mini renders leak, showing a spherical design and black and white color options ahead of Apple’s event  —  In addition to sharing what appear to be official images of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, reputable leaker Evan Blass today has shared images of what he claims is

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Alleged iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max renders leak before Apple's event, showing color options, including blue, and LIDAR sensor (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Alleged iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max renders leak before Apple’s event, showing color options, including blue, and LIDAR sensor  —  The best look yet at Apple’s new iPhones  —  Apple will reveal its latest iPhones in just a few hours, but if you

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Qatalog, which develops a virtual workspace that brings together disparate SaaS tools, raises $15M Series A led by Atomico, bringing its total funding to $18.5M (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)

Steve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Qatalog, which develops a virtual workspace that brings together disparate SaaS tools, raises $15M Series A led by Atomico, bringing its total funding to $18.5M  —  Qatalog, a London-based startup that has developed a “virtual workspace” that brings together disparate SaaS tools … Qatalog, which develops a virtual workspace that brings

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Q3 2020: Gartner says PC shipments in the US totaled 16.57M up 11.4% YoY, while IDC finds PC shipments to be 81.3M units worldwide, up 14.6% YoY (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: Q3 2020: Gartner says PC shipments in the US totaled 16.57M up 11.4% YoY, while IDC finds PC shipments to be 81.3M units worldwide, up 14.6% YoY  —  According to Gartner​, PC shipments in the US increased 11.4% in the third quarter of 2020 — the strongest growth in the US

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Microsoft announces that it is working with several nonprofits and advocacy organizations to make AI systems more inclusive of people with disabilities (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Microsoft announces that it is working with several nonprofits and advocacy organizations to make AI systems more inclusive of people with disabilities  —  AI-based tools like computer vision and voice interfaces have the potential to be life-changing for people with disabilities … Microsoft announces that it is working with several nonprofits

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