Tech
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Samsung shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones in 2019
Samsung Electronics announced today that it shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones in 2019, surpassing expectations set by the company...
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540Reading Isaac Asimov at 100
In his recently published book “Astounding,” the author Alec Nevala-Lee brings American science fiction’s Golden Age back into focus by following four...
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449This particle accelerator fits on the head of a pin
If you know nothing else about particle accelerators, you probably know that they’re big — sometimes miles long. But a new approach...
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430Here’s where California residents can stop companies selling their data
California’s new privacy law is now in effect, allowing state residents to take better control of the data that’s collected on them...
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Kicking off 2020 with 4 new members of the $100M ARR club
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today we’re...
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These ten enterprise M&A deals totaled over $40B in 2019
It would be hard to top the 2018 enterprise M&A total of a whopping $87 billion, and predictably this year didn’t come...
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481Jumia, DHL, and Alibaba will face off in African ecommerce 2.0
The business of selling consumer goods and services online is a relatively young endeavor across Africa, but ecommerce is set to boom....
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400Airbnb’s New Year’s Eve guest volume shows its falling growth rate
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. It’s finally...
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The California Consumer Privacy Act officially takes effect today
California’s much-debated privacy law officially takes effect today, a year and a half after it was passed and signed — but it’ll...
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Tech’s biggest companies are worth ~$5T as 2019’s epic stock market run wraps
Look, this is the last post I’m writing in 2019 and I’m tired. But I can’t let the year close without taking...