Credit: David Imel / Android Authority Mediatek has reportedly extended its lead over Qualcomm in terms of smartphone SoC shipments. Counterpoint’s Q2 2021 data shows that it has a 43% share of the market compared to Qualcomm’s 24%. Mediatek made headlines earlier this year after it emerged that the Taiwanese chip designer led the way
Read MoreTage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: US and Senegal-based Wave, which offers mobile money services, raises $200M Series A at a $1.7B valuation, led by Sequoia Heritage, a subsidiary of Sequoia — The largest Series A in Africa by a long shot is geared towards taking on telecom-led mobile money
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple’s iPhone 13 is expected to be announced next week. A new MagSafe Charger has been filed with the FCC. The new MagSafe Charger lists four new iPhones, too. It’s possible an updated MagSafe will feature improved magnets for a stronger hold. With Apple now thought to be just days
Read MoreEvery startup founder faces the same issue — how do you manage your cap table and equity plans in a transparent and lightweight manner? If you’re based in the U.S., chances are you’re using an equity management solution like Carta. But if you’re not based in the U.S., you don’t have a ton of options.
Read MoreFinancial services, especially those for people who don’t have access to traditional bank accounts or lines of credit, are proliferating in Southeast Asia. Jeff App wants to give consumers a “super app” where they can compare many financial products and apply for them using the startup’s proprietary data-scoring models. For service providers, Jeff serves as
Read MoreCome on now, admit it. You’ve done it. We’ve done it. You know — you were really sure that sheet of plastic stock you found lying around the hackerspace was acrylic right? You dialled in the settings, loaded the design, set the focus and pushed the little green ‘start’ button. Lots of black smoke, fire,
Read MoreIndian crypto exchange CoinSwitch Kuber is in advanced stages of talks to raise a new financing round at up to $2 billion in valuation, several sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. If the talks materialize in a deal, CoinSwitch Kuber will become the second crypto startup in the world’s second largest internet market to
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Color OS 12 based on Android 12 will release later this month. Oppo has put out nine new wallpapers coming with the new skin. Oppo was expected to announce specifics of Color OS 12 based on Android 12 today. Instead, the company gave us a general timeline of
Read MoreMany of us don’t have a formal background to build off when taking on new hacks, we have had to teach ourselves complex concepts and learn by doing (or more commonly, by failing). To help new hackers get off the ground a bit easier, [PhilosopherFar3847] created a fantastic starter’s resource on electronics, The Electroagenda Summary
Read MoreEleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Didi’s ride hailing rival Cao Cao Mobility, which is owned by automaker Geely, raises ~$588M from Chinese state-owned funds; Cao Cao had 10M+ MAUs in July — Cao Cao Mobility raises Rmb3.8bn as it tries to take advantage of crackdown on larger competitor — Chinese state-owned funds …
Read MoreIn the latest quasi-throwback toward ‘do not track‘, the UK’s data protection chief has come out in favor of a browser- and/or device-level setting to allow Internet users to set “lasting” cookie preferences — suggesting this as a fix for the barrage of consent pop-ups that continues to infest websites in the region. European web
Read MorePortcast founders Dr. Lingxiao Xia and Nidhi Gupta For many manufacturers and freight forwarders, managing logistics is still a very manual process: tracking shipments with a call or online lookup, and entering that data into an Excel spreadsheet. Portcast, which describes itself as a “next-generation logistics operating system,” makes the process more efficient by gathering
Read MoreThe pandemic has triggered more demand for contactless and staff-less operations in the hospitality sector, and now H2O Hospitality, the unmanned hotel management company, has closed a $30 million round on the back of that boost. The South Korea and Japan-based startup automates front and backend processes including accommodation reservation, room management and front desk
Read MoreShopUp, a startup that is digitizing neighborhood stores in Bangladesh, has raised $75 million in a new financing round that is also the largest in the South Asian market. Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures led ShopUp’s $75 million Series B round. Prosus Ventures as well as existing investors Flourish Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, and VEON Ventures
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Bangladesh’s ShopUp, which aims to digitize neighborhood stores in the country, raises $75M Series B led by Valar Ventures, bringing its total raised to $100M+ — ShopUp, a startup that is digitizing neighborhood stores in Bangladesh, has raised $75 million in a new financing round that is also the largest in
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority AT&T always has a good mix of deals up its sleeve. These include discounts on smartphones and other tech products, various bundles, and more. Right now, you can even grab deals on AT&T’s new TV service. We’ve rounded up the best AT&T deals that you can get directly from
Read MoreFor those who like to muck around in boats, there’s enough to worry about without wondering if you’re going to run aground. And there’s really no way to know that other than to work from charts that show you exactly what lies beneath. But what does one do for places where no such charts exist?
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The private email service Protonmail is drawing harsh criticism from its users after providing IP information linked to a French activist who used the service, as first reported by TechCrunch. The data was requested as part of a broader investigation into a group of climate activists who have
Read MoreJohn Kehayias / VICE: A look at the growing movement of “self-hosting”, a practice where dedicated hobbyists run their own internet services at home on hardware they own — Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control.
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Deep dive on AWS, with margin estimates for specific services including S3, EC2, and EBS, as AWS has made up over half of Amazon’s operating profit since 2014 — – Amazon’s cloud division doesn’t break out gross margins by services, but some outsiders estimate that storage and network offerings could be
Read MoreWhat does “breadboard-friendly” mean to you? It’s become a game of minimum viability. Sure, it fits in the breadboard, but are there any accessible tie points left for wires and components? What good is a development board if you can’t easily prototype with it? A few years ago, [Michael Rangen] set out to change all
Read MoreA.ID, an identity and compliance platform with a focus on high-risk clients, has closed a pre-seed investment round of $500,000 from angel investors including former employees of RobinHood, Square and Snap. The startup says it is addressing a market that traditional Fintech companies and banking instutions can’t seem to deal with: namely the rise of
Read MoreFinancial automation platform, Aurelia has raised $3 million in seed funding, led by Blossom Capital. Billing itself as a sort of “IFTTT for finance” aimed at small businesses that want to integrate their bank accounts with financial tools, Aurelia says this then gives them greater control over cash flow, taxes etc to automate normally manual
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple’s head of people, Deirdre O’Brien, has reportedly addressed employees regarding their concerns about pay inequality. Opaque pay levels and other issues have been a hot topic for Apple employees of late. O’Brien says people should talk to their managers about any concerns they have. But some employees say that
Read MoreSmartphone screens have trended towards higher refresh rates in recent years. Starting with humble bumps to 90Hz, some gaming phones push the limits well beyond 144Hz. But how many of our readers use such devices? At the same time, how many are running phones still stuck on 60Hz? Well, we posed this question in a
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