July, 2019

• 24 July

  Facebook reveals new FTC investigation as Q2 earnings show continued growth

  

  Facebook said Wednesday that the Federal Trade Commission opened an antitrust investigation into the company, but the heightened regulatory scrutiny doesn’t appear to have slowed down the social network’s growth. The new investigation came on the same day that the Federal Trade Commission announced that it was hitting Facebook with a record $5 billion fine for its …

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• 24 July

  Save up to $500 on a Samsung Galaxy S10 at Best Buy

  

  Procrastinators, rejoice! You could have saved $300 on a Samsung Galaxy S10 for Prime Day last week. Failed to pull the trigger on a purchase? That’s OK — sometimes fortune favors not the bold but the indecisive. The phones are even cheaper now.  Both Best Buy and Amazon still have the 512GB at its Prime Day price, but the savings …

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• 24 July

  Corsair acquires Origin PC to build a better gaming computer

  

  PC gamers might have a lot to look forward to. Corsair, a computer peripherals and hardware company, on Wednesday said it’s acquired Origin PC. Origin PC specializes in hand-built, personalized computers designed to optimize the gaming experience.  The companies plan to expand Corsair’s iCUE software ecosystem into Origin PC’s systems, according to a press release. Corsair says this will offer …

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• 24 July

  Use Pandora’s new hands

  

  You can now control the Pandora app hands-free on your iPhone ($899 at Amazon) or Android phone. Once you enable Pandora’s new voice assistant, just say, “Hey Pandora” to activate the music bot and play your favorite tunes.  Other music services such as Spotify let you request songs and playlists using your voice. But with Spotify, you need to long-press the search …

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• 24 July

  AT&T is launching another new streaming service this fall called AT&T TV

  

  AT&T’s video struggles may be continuing to worsen, but that doesn’t mean the company has stopped trying to find new ways to get people to watch television. During its second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, the company announced that it will begin trialing a new over-the-top streaming service in the third quarter of the year called AT&T TV.  It is currently …

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• 24 July

  Amazon reportedly buys another 2,200 delivery vans

  

  Amazon has confirmed buying 2,237 delivery vans from Spartan, according to Business Insider. Spartan, based in Michigan, on July 16 said that “North America’s leading online e-commerce and fulfillment company” had purchased the vans.  Amazon has been ramping up its delivery options in a push to provide one-day delivery for Prime members, which accounts for 10 million items. Last month, …

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• 24 July

  5G customers predicted to hit 1 billion by 2023

  

  5G subscribers are expected to reach 1.1 billion by 2023 across the Asia-Pacific and North America regions, where the next-generation network has been launched. That would be triple the number of subscribers 4G reached in the same five-year time period after launching, IHS Markit said in a report released Wednesday. 5G, already launched in some parts of the US by Verizon, …

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• 24 July

  AT&T earnings sees wireless growth in Q2, but video side continues to struggle

  

  AT&T met analyst expectations in its latest earnings report, even as struggles continued around the company’s U-Verse and DirecTV video unit.  The technology giant added 335,000 phone users, the bulk of them coming on the company’s prepaid side. AT&T says it added 72,000 postpaid users, the more lucrative customers that sign up for its traditional monthly wireless service. By comparison, …

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• 24 July

  John McAfee believed to have been detained, campaign manager says

  

  John McAfee has apparently gone missing and is believed to have been detained by authorities, according to a series of tweets Tuesday from the Twitter account of the 2020 presidential candidate and maker of an “unhackable” cryptocurrency wallet. Operating McAfee’s Twitter account, his campaign manager Rob Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Loggia-Ramirez said data hidden across the world by McAfee will be …

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• 24 July

  Tinder’s new alert warns LGTBQ users when they visit discriminatory countries

  

  To better ensure the safety of its LGBTQ+ users when traveling, Tinder is adding a new feature — the Traveler Alert — to its iOS and Android apps in the coming days. Users who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer will get a warning message when they open the app in a country that criminalizes same-sex status.  “Based …

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