After “strongly encouraging” it earlier this month, Twitter said today that working from home is now mandatory for all employees around the world due to COVID-19 concerns. In announcement, the company said “we understand this is an unprecedented step, but these are unprecedented times.” The World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic yesterday. There … Read more
Apple opening online and physical store in India. At its annual shareholder meeting, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, said the company is planning to sell iPhones in India through its own online store this year. He also added that the first Apple store in the country will open in 2021. According to reports last August, the … Read more
Chinese firms rush to bring 5G smartphones to India. India is unlikely to have any substantial coverage of 5G until at least the end of next year, with telecom operators in the country yet to participate in spectrum auction. But that hasn’t stopped Chinese vendors Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi from bringing 5G-enabled smartphones to the … Read more
Weekly Startup Episodes – TikTok [Editor’s note: Want to get this weekly review of news that startups can use by email? Just subscribe here.] How well do Robinhood’s financials stack up against incumbent online brokerages? While we wait for the seven-year-old company’s long-planned IPO, Alex Wilhelm examined Morgan Stanley’s big $13 billion purchase of E-Trade for … Read more
This Week in Apps HQ Trivia’s dramatic death. Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion … Read more
Apple to prevent hearing damage? I want you to pause for a moment and think about how much time you spent listening to music today. Maybe it’s 30 minutes? Or an hour? According to Nielsen Music, on average, Americans now spend just slightly more than 32 hours a week listening to music — that’s approximately … Read more
6 years after mobile Instagram brings DMs to web as starting today, Instagram will be rolling out its Direct messaging system to its desktop site, meaning you can finally keep up with your conversations from your browser. After the feature has been in testing for what seems like forever, it’s good to see confirmation that … Read more
16GB RAM OF SAMSUNG GALAXY S20? Do you need 16GB of RAM on your phone? No. Do you want 16GB of RAM? Sure. That seems to be the logic Samsung is following with the Galaxy S20. Rumors about the S20 are now pouring in at a relentless pace, and now XDA‘s Max Weinbach – who … Read more
Leaked photos reveal Samsung’s Galaxy S20+ flagship. XDA Developers has obtained photos of what appears to be a high-end variant of Samsung’s next flagship phone for 2020 and it looks like, instead of advancing the model number to the Galaxy S11, the company is heading straight to S20. That’s from a photo sent to XDA … Read more
Facebook refuses to regulate Political Ads. They released a blog post detailing its ad policy, in which it essentially refused to bow to pressure to regulate political ads on its platform. It did offer to let people opt out of political ads in general, but there is a catch. Facebook has taken heat from just … Read more