The US giant says most of its App Store revenues in China are paid to developers and companies.
The surge was mainly on the back of Huawei’s Mate X5, which was launched last September and has remained the top-selling foldable model since.
ByteDance has adjusted its staff incentive policy for the second time this year, as Trump’s re-election boosts its valuation.
In video speech delivered to the annual World Internet Conference, Xi Jinping called for ‘inclusive’ cyberspace development as US-China fissures widen.
During our Unwrapped Digital Event week, Sasha Twining interviewed Shiv Putcha, Director of Research & Consulting, GSMA Intelligence on Fuelling Read more... The post Fuelling the private 5G opportunity appeared first on Mobile World Live.
IT giant aims to end revenue slide by March, former employees have doubts Special report Kyndryl, the managed infrastructure services business spun out of IBM in 2021, earlier this month repeated its somewhat glum prediction that its revenue will shrink by two to four percent for its fiscal 2025, the year ending March 31.…
LIVE FROM MWL UNWRAPPED: Veon Group and Microsoft executives agreed the short-term revenue opportunity for operators deploying AI centres on boosting customer engagement, addressing a key question around the use of the technology. The post Veon, Microsoft experts reveal AI opportunities appeared first on Mobile World Live.
GreenLake update dangles juicy carrot for VMware refugees HPE is continuing its GreenLake push with availability of its own virtualization product, plus disconnected operations for regulated environments, while touting an object storage platform intended to deliver greater performance and scale for modern workloads.…
Qualcomm unveiled a plan to up its earnings related to IoT, automotive, PCs and extended reality devices as part of a strategy to cut its reliance on the mobile handset market. The post Qualcomm targets $22B in automotive, IoT drive appeared first on Mobile World Live.
VMO2 insisted it reached major milestone in its evolution strategy as it switched on a converged interconnect network (CIN) to bring together its fibre and 5G offerings. The post VMO2 claims convergence feat with 5G, fibre play appeared first on Mobile World Live.
If only the company in the title knew how to scale servers in the cloud The debut of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 yesterday was met with severe turbulence as servers struggled to keep up with user demand.…
LIVE FROM MWL UNWRAPPED: Recently appointed chair of the AI-RAN Alliance Alex Jinsung Choi pointed to continued momentum around the industry group among the operator community, with SK Telecom among the new recruits joining founding companies T-Mobile US and SoftBank Corp as members. The post AI-RAN Alliance chair bullish on operator interest appeared first on Mobile World Live.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon does not foresee problems competing for business in China, which accounts for 46 per cent of company revenue.
Tailing a robotaxi for hours and hours is weird. And revelatory. And jealousy-inducing. But a driverless world is coming for all of us. So shut the door and buckle up.
Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week Obit Professor Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, has died aged 96.…
Senator Richard Blumenthal said Trump is welcome to try to change the law, but ‘sentiment is pretty strong’ in favour of it in Congress.
CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value Column I recently got to play a 'fly on the wall' at a roundtable of chief information security officers. Beyond the expected griping and moaning about funding shortfalls and always-too-gullible users, I began to hear a new note: data has become a problem.…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority decided Alphabet-owned Google’s investment in AI player Anthropic did not merit a full-blown investigation under merger rules. The post CMA clears Anthropic, Google partnership appeared first on Mobile World Live.
Don't say you weren't warned The latest Steam client finally delivers on the warning from January, dropping support for several older OS versions.…
EchoStar-owned Hughes Network Systems secured a $6.5 million contract from the US Department of Defence to test a RAN Intelligent Controller on a 5G open RAN network at a US Army base, which marked the latest in a series of military government contracts it has won. The post Hughes wins DoD contract for open RAN test appeared first on Mobile World Live.
Malaysia-based U Mobile became the latest operator to launch an API platform based on the GSMA Open Gateway initiative, the first in the country to make the move. The post U Mobile backs GSMA initiative with open API platform launch appeared first on Mobile World Live.
Bharti Airtel awarded a multi-year, multi-billion extension agreement to Nokia to expand 5G coverage to key areas and modernise its 4G footprint, preparing for the rollout of 5G-Advanced equipment. The post Airtel hands Nokia network extension deal appeared first on Mobile World Live.
At the 21st China International Semiconductor Expo, industry experts weighed in on the challenges and opportunities ahead in domestic chipmaking.
Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view SC24 Lawrence Livermore National Lab's (LLNL) El Capitan system has ended Frontier's 2.5-year reign as the number one ranked supercomputer on the Top500, setting a new high water mark for high-performance computing (HPC).…
Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13 A pair of researchers say they've determined that July 13 was likely the day that X, formerly known as Twitter, made platform-level algorithm changes that increased the visibility of posts made by Elon Musk and Republican-leaning accounts in the run-up to the US election.…
Ryan Browne / CNBC: Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia — Odoo, a startup taking on SAP in the realm of enterprise software, boosted its valuation to 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) …
Victoria Song / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: identical to the Watch 7 with similar health features, but has the guts of a three-year-old Watch 4, poor battery, and one size — As an entry-level device, the FE doesn't quite nail the right mix of price, features, and hardware. … Everybody loves a deal.
Meytal Vaizberg / Globes Online: Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024 — Cyera has more than doubled its valuation since its most recent financing round in April 2024, when it also raised $300 million.
David Streitfeld / New York Times: How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits — Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing AI training returns, a break from the market hype could be useful, just as with previous innovations — Businesses will benefit from some much-needed breathing space to figure out how to deliver that all-important return on investment.
Seeks grand alliance between manufacturers, developers and content providers – all in the name of socialism The Cyberspace Administration of China last week released guidelines that suggest mobile devices be equipped with "minors mode" that enforces both censorship and automatic usage time limits.…
Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium Exclusive The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) consortium has launched the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) to keep an eye on software licensing practices in the sector.…
Mia Sato / The Verge: Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse” — Google is tightening its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles and pages that often have little …
Bloomberg: SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push — - SMIC has more than doubled in two months as market eyes Trump — Competition looms and valuation not attractive: Morgan Stanley
Richard Milne / Financial Times: Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the absence of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for an IPO — Until there is a single market in areas from services to capital markets, more companies will choose American exchanges
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: ProRata, which is launching an AI search engine next month, inks licensing deals with DMG Media and more; sources say DMG bought a stake that values it at $130M — Groups including Guardian, Telegraph and Daily Mail agree licensing deals to ensure payment for content
Wired: An investigation reveals how 3B+ phone coordinates collected by a US data broker Datastream expose movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany — More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers …
Financial Times: How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, vision language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn new skills and tasks — Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible — “This is not science fiction,” …
Version 16 developer preview starts the new cycle, with warnings for devs to test sooner rather than later Google on Monday delivered the first developer preview of Android 16 – a release notable for both its status as the first step towards a new version and its release date signalling a change in the release cycle for the OS.…
Sharon Goldman / Fortune: How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google — Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to build Llama into all its products and services, including its Orion augmented reality glasses now in prototype stage.
Yoshua Bengio / Financial Times: AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI regulation to protect the public — Advances in reasoning will lead to substantially improved capabilities in mathematics and science — The writer is professor …
Nikkei Asia: TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply — BEIJING — China's public and private sectors are accelerating efforts to boost domestic production of semiconductors …
Bloomberg: Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds aerial surveillance drones that can serve as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised €70M — - Round led by Baillie Gifford and Nato Innovation Fund — Tekever's drones have searched for small boats in Channel
Shuttered reactor's operator says it's needed - once giant seawall is finished The president of Japanese energy company Hokkaido Electric Power wants to restart one of its nuclear reactors due to a surge in demand from local datacenters.…
Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet Ignite Microsoft is set to launch a database service that can manage transactional and analytical workloads in the same system.…
One of the braver lightning talks we've seen: Swapping motherboards, live on stage Ubuntu Summit The modular Framework laptop is moving outside the x86 world with a RISC-V main board now available.…
Ransomware scum LockBit claims it did the dirty deed Equinox, a New York State health and human services organization, has begun notifying over 21 thousand clients and staff that cyber criminals stole their health, financial, and personal information in a "data security incident" nearly seven months ago.…
Claims it was just spotting shoppers who threatened staff at Bluey's favorite big box store Australian hardware chain Bunnings Warehouse will challenge a ruling by local regulators who found it violated shoppers' privacy by checking their identities with facial recognition tech.…
More than 100M rely on gear rife with vulnerabilities, says EPA OIG Nearly a third of US residents are served by drinking water systems with cybersecurity shortcomings, the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General found in a recent study – and the agency lacks its own system to track potential attacks. …
Plus: Maxar Space Systems confirms employee info stolen in digital intrusion Updated Ford Motor Company says it is looking into allegations of a data breach after attackers claimed to have stolen an internal database containing 44,000 customer records and dumped the info on a cyber crime souk for anyone to "enjoy."…