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Startup Digest

Mobile

February 02, 2018

Hello from Honolulu!  Excited to check out Blue Startups' East Meets West conference today. 

Have a great weekend!

Startup Digest Mobile is curated by:
Edith Yeung

Edith Yeung - Partner at 500 Mobile Collective Fund

Contact Edith Yeung at edith.yeung@startupdigestmail.com

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SoftBank buys into Line’s mobile service in Japan

Jon Russell - 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. 

Google Home gains ground on Amazon Echo, now 44M total devices sold

Greg Sterling - Search Engine Land

Amazon still has 69% of smart speaker market in US with 31M units.

Google Play removed 700,000 bad apps in 2017, 70% more than in 2016

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. 

Apple to Cut iPhone X Production in the Face of Weak Demand

WSJ

Apple plans to make about 20 million iPhone X handsets in the first quarter, down from roughly 40 million initially planned.

Telegram apps fall foul of iOS App Store content rules

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.

Square shares climb after the payments company launches bitcoin trading for most users

CNBC

Users of Square's Cash payments app can now trade bitcoin, except for those in New York state, Georgia, Wyoming and Hawaii.

Facebook lost daily users for the first time ever in the U.S. and Canada

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.

Samsung topples Intel to become the world’s largest chipmaker

Jon Russell - 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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