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| M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
As the law of large numbers catches up with Apple, it faces a rocky but pivotal year where it needs to transition into a services company earlier than planned — Yesterday's updated guidance wasn't just about China... The results are in. Actually, they're not in. And that was a major problem yesterday for Apple.
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| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
Apple failed to warn about China and market saturation, the underlying conditions for its guidance downgrade, which were obvious to those paying attention — The company has reached the end of its denial phase. — The optimistic narrative about Apple Inc.'s iPhone business is falling apart in front of our eyes.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Apple and Samsung struggle to adapt to stalling sales as smartphones reach market saturation, plateau technologically, and face unstinting competition in China — The two biggest phone makers are having to adapt to stalling sales and unstinting competition from China
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| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Report: for the second year in a row, FCC's Ajit Pai has canceled his CES trip, as the US government shutdown forces furloughs for non-essential FCC employees — It will be the second year in a row that he hasn't attended the conference — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Verily, the life sciences arm of Alphabet, raises $1B in round led by Silver Lake, says Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat and Silver Lake's Egon Durban are joining board — - Alphabet's Verily is raising $1 billion in a new round led by Silver Lake, and Ruth Porat is joining the board.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Segway unveils Loomo Delivery, an autonomous delivery robot, and Shared Scooter Model Max, a rugged scooter aimed at scooter-sharing startups — Segway-Ninebot has morphed its signature electronic scooter technology for use in two new kinds of vehicles: the Shared Scooter Model Max and the Loomo Delivery robot.| Jesse Damiani / The Verge: |
Netflix's interactive format for films like Bandersnatch makes content harder to pirate, increases viewer engagement, and generates insightful data about users — Light spoilers for Black Mirror's interactive episode Bandersnatch ahead. — On Friday, December 28th, after months of speculation …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM's self-driving unit Cruise partners with DoorDash to test a food delivery service in San Francisco starting in early 2019 — The pilot will commence in early 2019 in San Francisco — Cruise Automation, the self-driving unit of General Motors, is teaming up with DoorDash to test …
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| Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
YouTubers popular with kids are promoting a shady gambling site selling “mystery boxes” filled with supposed prizes — Paul and Bryan “Ricegum” Le are among the popular children's entertainers promoting “mystery boxes” filled with supposed prizes the site says underage users are ineligible to win.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is testing a project codenamed “Bali” that lets users “visualize, manage, control, share, and monetize” data that the company collects about them — Microsoft Research is looking to provide users with access to their own ‘personal data bank’ via its ‘Project Bali’ effort.
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
BitTorrent announces its own crypto tokens that users trade to other users for faster downloads — BitTorrent, which pioneered peer-to-peer technology for sharing files on the internet, is creating its own cryptocurrency. — Issued by the Singapore-based BitTorrent Foundation …
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Tweets: @tronfoundation and @altcoinbuzzio
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft adds two new Microsoft 365 bundles focused on security and compliance, expands availability of its MyAnalytics “fitness tracker for work” service — Microsoft is adding new Microsoft 365 packages to its subscription-service roster, as well as expanding availability …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, Microsoft 365 Blog, Thurrott, Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, Petri, Petri, cloudpro.co.uk, BleepingComputer, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, Neowin, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @magrom
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Square hires Blizzard Entertainment's Amrita Ahuja as CFO three months after long-time CFO Sarah Friar exited for the CEO job at Nextdoor — Founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey says Square has poached Amrita Ahuja from Blizzard Entertainment, a division of the gaming company Activision Blizzard …
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