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February 02, 2018
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Jon Russell
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Techcrunch
Line said the number of monthly active users in Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand — its four largest markets — stands at 167.5 million combined.
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Greg Sterling
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Search Engine Land
Amazon still has 69% of smart speaker market in US with 31M units.
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Venturebeat
Total number of apps on Google Play at 2.6 million in December 2016 and 3.5 million in December 2017, a 35% growth.
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WSJ
Apple plans to make about 20 million iPhone X handsets in the first quarter, down from roughly 40 million initially planned.
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Techcrunch
“We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users and both apps were taken off the App Store. Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to be back on the App Store,” he wrote.
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CNBC
Users of Square's Cash payments app can now trade bitcoin, except for those in New York state, Georgia, Wyoming and Hawaii.
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Recode
It’s not clear why that segment got smaller. But it has been a tough year for Facebook in the U.S., and most of the company has been grappling with the fact that Facebook’s service was used by Russian actors to try and sway the 2016 presidential election. Perhaps U.S users are grappling with that, too.
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Jon Russell
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Techcrunch
The change of position highlights Samsung’s focus on mobile, and in particular memory chips which are an essential part of smartphones. Intel’s chips may be in 90 percent of the world’s computers, but it missed the mobile boom and is playing catch-up.
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