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In its first-quarter earnings report today, Samsung said it expects the COVID-19 pandemic to continue impacting its business for the rest of the year,.Click To Read More

Samsung expects COVID-19 to hurt smartphone and TV sales, but increase demand for memory – TechCrunch In its first-quarter earnings report today, Samsung said it expects the COVID-19 pandemic to continue impacting its business for the rest of the year, cutting into sales for smartphones and TVs, but increasing demand for PCs, servers and memory chips as people continue to work or study from home. S....

Prague based Resistant AI has nabbed a $2.75M seed round.,.Click To Read More

Index and Credo lead a $2.75M seed in anti-fraud tech, Resistant AI – TechCrunch Prague based Resistant AI has nabbed a $2.75M seed round. The security startup’s machine learning technology is designed to be deployed on top of AI systems used for financial decision making to protect customers in markets such as financial services and ecommerce from attacks such as targete…

China’s smartphone shipments are reportedly up for April, following COVID-19-fueled decline. Click To Read More.

China’s smartphone shipments are reportedly up for April, following COVID-19-fueled decline – TechCrunch Smartphone shipments are reportedly beginning to see signs of life in China, after a sizable dip from the COVID-19 pandemic. New numbers from China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (a government-connected agency) point to a 17% rise in shipments for April, pointing to some recov....

Stripe and Shopify have transformed the face of commerce for small business users, yet when it comes to putting that cash somewhere, SMBs have found that the banking options aren’t quite as transformative.,.Click To Read More

Wise locks down $5.7 million to scale its challenger bank designed for small businesses – TechCrunch Stripe and Shopify have transformed the face of commerce for small business users, yet when it comes to putting that cash somewhere, SMBs have found that the banking options aren’t quite as transformative. Wise is a new challenger bank built specifically for small businesses. The startup is a…

Instagram is today launching a new way for users to fundraise for nonprofits via Instagram Live, amid the coronavirus pandemic,.Click To Read More

Instagram now allows users to fundraise for nonprofits while live streaming – TechCrunch Instagram is today launching a new way for users to fundraise for nonprofits via Instagram Live, amid the coronavirus pandemic. While the company had already offered Donation Stickers for the use in Stories, the new Live Donations feature will allow anyone to create fundraisers while live streaming....

Target Global has a €1M ‘super seed’ pot incoming to switch on laid off tech talent in Spain during COVID-19. Click To Read More.

Target Global has a €1M ‘super seed’ pot incoming to switch on laid off tech talent in Spain during COVID-19 – TechCrunch Target Global and a number of Spain’s startup founders are allocating a €1 million pot of money to support local tech talent laid off or furloughed as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The aim of the initiative is to provide pre-seed financing to help local, crisis-hit tech workers switch g…

Sony shows off first combination image sensor and AI chip. Click To Read More.

Sony shows off first combination image sensor and AI chip – TechCrunch Sony has developed an interesting new hybrid technology: An image sensor with AI processing system built into the hardware, making it a single integrated system. The benefits and applications for this are potentially enormous as imagery and code continue to merge. The idea is fairly simple in conce....

US-China trade enters new era after overnight Huawei, Foxconn and TSMC announcements. Click To Read More.

US-China trade enters new era after overnight Huawei, Foxconn and TSMC announcements – TechCrunch There has been a steady drumbeat of news on the U.S.-China trade front since the start of the Trump administration. President Trump has made decoupling from China’s economy on on-again, off-again proposition. There was the trade conflict with weekly changes in American tariff policy, the threats a...