Friday, August 10, 2018

All of Samsung's shiny new devices. It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 2018 By Anthony Ha

Samsung's big day, Apple's auto plans and Qualcomm's settlement with Taiwan. Here's your Daily Crunch for August 10, 2018.

1. 7 takeaways from Samsung Unpacked 2018

The overarching theme of Samsung's big event in Brooklyn yesterday was increased productivity throughout the company's connected ecosystem with performance improvements across the board.

More concretely: There's a new phone, a new watch, new smart speakers and more. And if you're less excited about hardware, there's also a partnership with Spotify and launch plans for Fortnite on Android.

2. Apple hints at plan to build a car after all as it rehires ex-Tesla engineering head

If you're looking for hints that Apple might deliver on its long-rumored plan to develop its own car, a significant one landed this week after it emerged that Doug Field — Apple's former VP of Mac hardware engineering — has rejoined the company after a spell with Tesla.

3. Qualcomm settles antitrust case in Taiwan

The U.S. chip firm was hit with a record $773 million fine last October when it was accused of monopolistic practices, but Qualcomm and the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission said today they have reached an agreement that sees the charges dropped in exchange for the firm investing $700 million in the country.

4. Wonderschool raises $20M to help people start in-home preschools

Wonderschool lets licensed educators and caretakers launch in-home preschools or daycares. It helps candidates get credentialed, set up their programs, launch their websites, boost enrollment and take payments in exchange for a 10 percent cut of tuition.

5. Some Infowars tweets vanished today, but Twitter didn't remove them

A handful of tweets and videos that appear to have been cited in the choice to remove Alex Jones from Facebook and YouTube vanished from Twitter on Thursday after being called out in a CNN piece focused on the company's hypocrisy. But Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch that it did not remove the tweets in question.

6. Dropbox is crashing despite beating Wall Street expectations, announces COO Dennis Woodside is leaving

Dropbox's second quarter results came in ahead of Wall Street's expectations on both the earnings and revenue front, but that didn't win over investors.

7. Facebook is shutting down Friend List Feeds today

The feature allowed users to scroll through only those posts from one of their designated friend lists — for example, family, work colleagues, neighbors, industry peers and so on. The end result was a much more personalized version of Facebook.

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