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Report: Sony Mobile Cuts 975 Workers In Sweden As Troubled Handset Maker Restructures
Jun 01, 1:41PM
The difficult shakeout among less successful mobile handset makers continues apace. According to a report, and Sony confirmation, from Swedish local publication 8till5, Sony Mobile is cutting nearly 1,000 jobs in Sweden, one of the company’s key manufacturing and R&D centers. In all, 575 staff and a further 400 contract positions will be eliminated across all divisions,… Read MoreSimple Issues Bank Startup Mondo Cease And Desist Over Alleged Use Of "Safe To Spend" Trademark
Jun 01, 1:25PM
Simple, the U.S. banking startup now owned by BBVA after it was acquired in early 2014, seems to have forgotten what it’s like to be a fledgling upstart already. The company’s lawyers have sent yet-to-launch U.K. bank Mondo a ‘cease and desist’ over its alleged infringement of the trademark “safe to spend. Read MoreSeacrest Out: The Typo iPhone Keyboard Is Dead
Jun 01, 1:05PM
BlackBerry has successfully ended the short but dazzling life of Typo, the hardware keyboard for iPhone spearheaded by longtime BlackBerry user and iPhone switcher Ryan Seacrest. In a short press release announcing a settlement, BlackBerry notes that according to the terms of the agreement between itself and Typo, the latter company will stop selling any kind of keyboard for devices with a… Read MoreMorpholio's Crit Makes Marking Up Designs Faster Than Ever
Jun 01, 1:03PM
Crit (as in Critique) is a new iPhone and iPad app by Morpholio that allows designers, architects, photographers and other creative types to upload and markup images as a form of real-time communication. Read MoreFoursquare, Via Button, Now Lets You Order An Uber Directly In The App
Jun 01, 1:00PM
Foursquare and Uber are teaming up, with the help of mobile deep-linking startup Button, to offer Foursquare users a button within the app to call an Uber. The idea is that, as you look up restaurants or fun destinations on the Foursquare app, you could also execute on that plan far more easily with a button directly inside the app. For users without the Uber app installed, a discount will… Read MoreNintendo NX Dedicated Gaming System Could Run Android
Jun 01, 12:53PM
Android-powered gaming systems are not the weird outlier they once where, with Nvidia shipping multiple devices that fit that general description. News from Japan’s Nikkei business news outlet now suggests Nintendo might field a device in that category, in the form of the upcoming Nintendo NX gaming system. The NX is still an enigma wrapped in a mystery, after first being revealed as… Read MoreU.K. Police Making One Comms Data Request Every Two Minutes — Report
Jun 01, 12:16PM
U.K. civil rights group Big Brother Watch has obtained data revealing the extent of domestic police forces’ access to web users’ communications data. In a report published today the organisation says U.K. police forces made more than 733,000 requests for comms data over a three year period (between 2012 and 2014) — which is says is the equivalent of one request being made… Read MoreWindows 10 Is Available July 29
Jun 01, 12:13PM
Microsoft kicked off June with news that Windows 10 will ship on July 29, just a little under two months from now. The next big update for MS is designed as a unifying platform that will offer continuity across mobile, desktop, tablets and even the Xbox One gaming console, and it will be a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8 users for the first year. To help ensure easy updates (and probably as a… Read MoreGoPro Outs The Hero+LCD, A $299 Entry Level Camera With A Touchscreen
Jun 01, 11:38AM
Meet the GoPro Hero+LCD. The new camera is part of the company’s growing entry-level Hero line that sports capabilities perfect for YouTube. As the product’s name suggests, it features a LCD touchscreen, which is a handy feature for GoPro cameras. Read MoreSoftBank Ups Its Stake In Supercell To 73% As Accel Cashes Out Of The Mobile Gaming Giant
Jun 01, 9:32AM
Some ownership changes afoot at Supercell, the mobile gaming giant out of Finland behind blockbuster titles like Clash of Clans and Hay Day. Japan’s SoftBank has upped its stake in the startup to 73.2 percent, after buying an additional 22.7 percent of shares from existing external investors, with VC Accel exiting the company completely in the process. SoftBank says that Supercell… Read MoreDidi Kuaidi, China's Dominant Taxi App Firm, Launches Carpooling Service
Jun 01, 7:30AM
Uber launched a nonprofit car-pooling service in China called People’s Uber last year, and now its biggest rival — and China’s largest ride-sharing service — has followed suit with a service of its own. Read MoreKlook Lands $1.5M To Help Travelers Find Activities Across Asia
Jun 01, 6:43AM
Klook, a service that helps travelers find interesting things to do while they are overseas, is in the money today, after closing a $1.5 million seed investment round. Read MoreWill Silicon Valley Or Hollywood Solve Wall Street's Churn Problem?
Jun 01, 6:00AM
In this year’s annual letter to shareholders, JP Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon warned that “Silicon Valley is coming.” From investing to payments and lending, the rise of fintech has left many of the big banks and brokerages worried. In a March research report, Goldman Sachs estimated that 7 percent of annual bank profits ($11 billion-plus) may be at risk to non-banking… Read MoreUber Hires Its First India President To Lead Its Business In The Country
Jun 01, 5:12AM
India’s is Uber’s second largest market worldwide behind the U.S., and today the company showed its commitment to the South Asian market by appointing its first India President to head up its business there. Read MoreIncremental Design Won't Save You
Jun 01, 4:00AM
In games most studios follow that “distribution” strategy to a greater or lesser degree. A lot of them are concerned about where to find players, how to hold onto them, how to monetize them efficiently and so on. Too often they sideline the issue of how to actually design a game worth playing – to their cost. Read MoreMeet Musio, A Robot That Talks Back
Jun 01, 4:00AM
Natural language and machine learning company AKA says it’s taking the next step toward the creation of a robot that you really, truly talk to with a new project called Musio. Members of the AKA team demonstrated a prototype for me last week. As you can see in the video, Musio should be able to carry on a normal conversation, complete with bad jokes and (thanks to Bluetooth connections… Read MoreThe First Battle In The Mobile Payments War Is Over
Jun 01, 1:00AM
While the war to control mobile payments has been broadly covered over the last several years, it seems that the tactical warfare that has been at play is less understood by most observers. It’s been a tale of conflict, closed door bargaining, and one with a David vs Goliath subplot and huge fortunes at stake. Many watched and waited as PayPal and Google battled the oligopoly of the… Read MoreThe Senate Advances NSA Surveillance Reform Legislation As Deadline Approaches
Jun 01, 12:07AM
The Senate voted 77-to-17 to take up the USA Freedom Act, a bill already passed in the House that would reform National Security Agency (NSA), in a rare Sunday session. The procedural vote came just hours before key provisions of the Patriot Act are set to expire at midnight. It will likely take until the middle of the week for the Senate to pass the House bill, meaning several programs… Read MoreFormula 1 Technology Is Being Used To Make Better Surgeons
May 31, 11:30PM
McLaren, based in Woking, UK, is one of the biggest names in F1 but is now using their know-how in real-time data to help surgeons. Dr. Caroline Hargrove came to McLaren 18 years ago and is now Technical Director of McLaren Applied Technologies (or MAT), a subsidiary of the McLaren Technology Group. Read MoreI/O Spotlights Google's Machine Learning Smarts
May 31, 11:00PM
Few will argue that this year’s I/O keynote was Google’s flashiest yet. If you were expecting people to jump out of blimps to bring you a new version of Google Glass, the event surely left you disappointed. Instead, Google used its relatively low-key keynote to announce an evolutionary update to its mobile operating system, a new effort to bring Android to the Internet of Things… Read MoreIf at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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