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Global smartphone shipments in Q1 2024 grew 7.8% YoY to 289.4M units; iPhone shipments fell 9.6% YoY, more than any other top brand, and Xiaomi grew 33.8% YoY — Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker , global smartphone shipments increased 7.8% year over year to 289.4 million units in the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24).
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The US awards Samsung $6.4B in CHIPS Act funding and says the company plans to make 2nm chips at its Taylor, Texas plant by 2026, two years ahead of TSMC — South Korean group set to outdo rival TSMC with cutting-edge 2nm chip production in US by 2026 as part of $40bn investment| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: Google's new Pixel 9 series, next-generation Pixel Fold, and an under-development 5G tablet will use a new Samsung modem that has satellite connectivity — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdwN- WKDVec — Most people don't consider the modem when considering buying a new phone, and why should they?
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As Microsoft begins its most ambitious security overhaul in two decades, critics question if Microsoft has sufficient incentive to make deep and lasting changes — Company has embarked on biggest security reboot in two decades, but critics question whether it has wherewithal to complete the job.
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OpenAI opens a Tokyo office, releases a Japanese language GPT-4 model, and taps former president of AWS's Japan arm Tadao Nagasaki to lead an enterprise push — OpenAI named the former president of Amazon Web Services's Japan arm to spearhead its push to woo enterprise clients in the world's fourth-largest economy.
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| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin's next halving, set for around April 20, will cut miners' validating transactions to 450 from 900 now, costing the industry ~$10B in annual revenue — - Cryptocurrency's update will slash new supply in late April — Competition for favorable electric rates growing from AI firms
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| Joseph Politano / Apricitas Economics: |
An overview of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, which shows California's percentage of US tech jobs has continued to steadily decline since 2020 — The Golden State Used to Dominate Tech Employment—But Its Share of Total US Tech Jobs has Now Fallen to the Lowest Level in a Decade — Thanks for reading!
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Meta plans to temporarily shut down Threads in Turkey from April 29 to comply with an interim order prohibiting data sharing between Threads and Instagram — To comply with an interim order of the Rekabet Kurumu/Turkish Competition Authority (TCA), we will shut down Threads in Türkiye from Monday 29 April.
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| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Singapore-based used car marketplace Carro raised ~$100M in pre-IPO funding at a $1.5B+ valuation and reports its first annual operating profit — - Used-vehicle platform courts investors with profit pledges — Carro vies with Malaysia's Carsome for region's top spot
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Source: cloud data management startup Rubrik plans to sell 23M shares priced between $28 and $31 each, raising up to $713M and reaching a $5.4B valuation — Cybersecurity software firm Rubrik, which counts Microsoft (MSFT.O) among its prominent investors, is aiming to raise as much as $713 million …
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| Hannah Giorgis / The Atlantic: |
A look at BlackPlanet, a social network for African Americans that went live in 1999, had ~15M users in 2008, and arguably laid the foundation for Black Twitter — Revisiting BlackPlanet, and a lost era when social media was still fun — A few years ago, Stephanie Williams and her husband fielded …
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LinkedIn: the number of companies with a designated head of AI position or a chief AI officer (CAIO) has almost tripled globally in the past five years — As boards grapple with the opportunity and risk of generative artificial intelligence, companies are leaning into a new role: the chief AI officer.
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