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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Sally Hubbard / CNN: |
How big tech platforms like Google, Facebook, and Amazon use exclusionary conduct to acquire and maintain monopoly power and thus possibly violate antitrust law — Sally Hubbard is a former assistant attorney general in the New York AG Antitrust Bureau who heads up big tech and monopolization for The Capitol Forum.
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Los Angeles sues the company behind the Weather Channel app, which is owned by IBM, for slyly using location data for commercial purposes — The Weather Channel app deceptively collected, shared and profited from the location information of millions of American consumers …
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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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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Niantic has closed a $190M funding round, according to an SEC filing, bringing total raised to more than $415M — Mobile AR gaming startup Niantic has closed a $190 million round of funding according to newly-filed SEC docs. — The filing comes after a WSJ report last month suggested …
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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.| 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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| 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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