BlackBerry has already teased it will release two new keyboard phones this year, and we may be just about to get the second. Leaks are hinting the phone will be called the BlackBerry Key2 Lite, which may cost less than the Key2 due to different materials. Here’s everything we think we know about the Key2…
No ratings yet. Do you already have a full-time income but wants to supplement your income with a side business? Are you looking for creative small business ideas? Or maybe you want to finally quit your office job? Anyway, your first step to entrepreneurship is to find the best small business ideas. In this post,…
Gorilla Glass SR+ got a sequel Gorilla Glass DX and DX+. While these are being used mostly in smart wearables, Corning says they are working on versions of these materials that can be used on phones as well. The DX and DX+ follow the Gorilla Glass 6 and their main goal is to reduce…
NEWSBYTE Amazon has denied reports that it is planning to manufacture and sell its own network switches – a move that would have pitched the company against hardware makers such as Cisco, Juniper Networks, Arista, HPE, Avaya, Netgear, and Dell. Earlier this week, The Information suggested that Amazon Web Services (AWS) had been eyeing the…
Anyone who follows George Takei on Twitter can tell you that Star Trek‘s original Sulu is not a fan of President Donald Trump. But he’s found a new way to express that criticism — not just in tweets, interviews and op-eds, but also in an augmented reality app called House of Cats. The app was…
TrueLayer, the London startup that’s built a developer platform to make it easy for fintech and other adjacent companies, such as retailers, to access bank APIs — and ride the Open Banking and PSD2 gravy train — has picked up further $7.5 million in funding. Leading the round is venture capital fund Northzone. It follows…
Alibaba is investing big bucks into offline distribution. The Chinese e-commerce giant has forked out $2.23 billion in exchange for a sizeable piece of Focus Media, a Shanghai-based company that operates outdoor digital advertising screens across China, Singapore and Hong Kong, according to a U.S. filing. The deal itself is broken up into a few pieces. Alibaba itself…
Every time Accel invests in a startup, it’s an instant positive sign in the startup community. The venture capital firm has a rich history with decades of investments in successful startups. That’s why we’re excited to have four partners at Accel on stage at Disrupt Berlin. Philippe Botteri, Sonali De Rycker, Luciana Lixandru and Harry…
Days after raising $500 million via a strategic investment from travel giant Booking Holdings, Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing has continued its international push with the launch of a local business in Japan. Its new Japan-based unit is a joint venture with SoftBank, a longtime Didi investor, which has been in the works since an announcement back…
The Wall Street Journal’s Timothy Martin reports that Samsung’s highly anticipated foldable phone will arrive early next year with a flexible 7-inch screen and a secondary display bar on the exterior of the device. At that size, Samsung is veering into tablet territory – but because it’s foldable, the handset will likely be as portable…
