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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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    • Swiss blockchain startups can now handle up to $100M – just like banks

    Switzerland’s blockchain-related businesses are one step closer to legitimacy. Local cryptocurrency startups can now apply for a new license that would allow them to handle deposits of up to $100 million, a right normally reserved for banks. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has released strict guidelines for cryptocurrency businesses to follow if they hope

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    • Samsung and Verizon will partner to release a 5G smartphone using Qualcomm processors in the first half of 2019, plan to show a concept device this week (Shara Tibken/CNET)

    Shara Tibken / CNET: Samsung and Verizon will partner to release a 5G smartphone using Qualcomm processors in the first half of 2019, plan to show a concept device this week  —  One of the world’s first 5G phones will be coming to the US from Samsung and Verizon.  —  The two companies on Monday

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    • TrackR, maker of Bluetooth trackers for physical objects, rebrands as Adero, a system to organise multiple groups of items using three or more smart tags (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: TrackR, maker of Bluetooth trackers for physical objects, rebrands as Adero, a system to organise multiple groups of items using three or more smart tags  —  Earlier this year, we reported that Trackr, a startup that makes a small Bluetooth device that you attached to items like keys to locate …

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    • DeepMind's latest AI program AlphaFold wins international competition with its algorithm predicting 3D shapes of proteins, beating 97 entrants (Ian Sample/The Guardian)

    Ian Sample / The Guardian: DeepMind’s latest AI program AlphaFold wins international competition with its algorithm predicting 3D shapes of proteins, beating 97 entrants  —  AI program’s understanding of proteins could usher in new era of medical progress  —  Having laid waste to the Atari classics … DeepMind's latest AI program AlphaFold wins international competition

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    • Sources: Amazon is testing its cashierless technology for bigger stores, leading to speculation that it may use it one day for its Whole Foods chain (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon is testing its cashierless technology for bigger stores, leading to speculation that it may use it one day for its Whole Foods chain  —  Online giant tries to overcome challenges caused by retail spaces with higher ceilings, more products  —  Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .99% … Sources: Amazon is testing its

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    • Source: ride-hailing startup Grab invests $100M in Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo, as part of SoftBank-led $1B round that had raised $800M earlier (Aditi Shah/Reuters)

    Aditi Shah / Reuters: Source: ride-hailing startup Grab invests $100M in Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo, as part of SoftBank-led $1B round that had raised $800M earlier  —  (Reuters) – Singapore-based ride-hailing firm Grab has invested $100 million in Indian hotel-reservations startup OYO, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday. Source: ride-hailing

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