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Samsung says it projects Q2 operating profit of ~$5.5B, beating analyst estimates but down ~56% YoY following weakness in the price and demand of memory chips — KEY POINTS — Samsung Electronics said on Friday that profits for the three months that ended June more than halved …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hacker sentenced to 27 months in prison for launching DDoS attacks on many gaming services from December 2013 to January 2014 — Six years later, DerpTrolling, the hacker who started all the Christmas DDoS attacks, gets prison time. — A 23-year-old man from Utah was sentenced this week …
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| Noam Cohen / New Yorker: |
A California law went into effect July 1 banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure while selling products or influencing votes — When you ask experts how bots influence politics—that is, what specifically these bits of computer code that purport to be human … | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Japan-based Tier IV raises $100M+ Series A for its Autoware open-source self-driving software which, it says, is used by 200 organizations around the world — Tier IV, an open-source self-driving startup based in Japan, has raised “over $100 million” in a massive Series A funding round led by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance.| Benjamin Pimentel / Business Insider: |
Application performance monitoring company Dynatrace files for IPO, posts $431M revenue for the fiscal year ending March 31, up 8% YoY, and a net loss of $116M — - Dynatrace filed papers for an IPO on Friday. The company aims to raise $300 million with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Citigroup as lead underwriters.| Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing: |
PwC: global podcast ad revenue to pass $1B by the end of 2019 and hit $1.4B by 2023, in part due to the advent of programmatic ads in podcasts — Podcast advertising revenue is expected to pass $1 billion by the end of 2019, according to figures from PwC's Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2019-2023.
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UK's competition regulator orders Amazon to pause integration efforts with Deliveroo pending investigation into potential breaches of competition rules — Enforcement order issued after online retailer bought stake in food courier service — The UK's competition regulator has ordered Amazon …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Ola says it has received a private hire vehicle license from Transport for London and plans to launch its ride-hailing service in the city in September — London's transport agency has given India's Ola the green light to launch its ride-hailing service in the UK capital …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google Play app called “Updates for Samsung”, with 10M+ installs and no affiliation with Samsung, tricks users into paying $35/year to download firmware updates — “Updates for Samsung” app promises firmware updates but only shows ads and wants money for (working) downloads.| Mahsa Alimardani / VICE: |
A look at Iran's efforts to tighten internet controls and curtail digital freedoms, as US sanctions and cyberattacks against the country escalate — The anxiety about cyberattacks and the perceived need for greater control in the wake of American economic sanctions has led to a loss of internet freedom in Iran.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Baidu says its DuerOS AI assistant install base has passed 400M devices and voice queries topped 3.6B; DuerOS was installed on 150M devices last November — A self-driving milestone and an AI accelerator partnership with Intel weren't the only high points of Baidu's Create conference in Beijing this week.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
TrapX, which makes tools to thwart cyberattacks in real time via decoy databases and workstations, raises $18M Series C, bringing its total raised to ~$50M — San Jose-based cybersecurity company TrapX has secured $18 million in a round led by Ibex Investors, bringing its total raised to nearly $50 million.
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