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- Samsung says Galaxy S10 sold better than the company’s plummeting profit suggests
- The man who predicted Antennagate is no longer at Apple
- Uber adds public transportation directions and schedules to its app in London
- Google admits trouble selling expensive Pixels, but it’s got a cheaper one coming soon
- A new startup helps podcasts get promoted on other podcasts
- Robot toy company Anki is going out of business
- Daimler will stop selling its adorably small Smart cars in the US and Canada
- T-Mobile and Sprint’s merger deadline was extended — again
- Uber and Lyft stop hiring new drivers in New York City
- Watch the high school adaptation of Alien that impressed Sigourney Weaver and Ridley Scott
| Samsung says Galaxy S10 sold better than the company’s plummeting profit suggests Posted: 29 Apr 2019 06:25 PM PDT  Samsung Electronics warned investors it was going to make a lot less money this quarter, and sure enough, the company just reported first-quarter earnings that show profits slid 60 percent compared to last year, from 15.64 trillion won (roughly $13.4 billion) to just 6.2 trillion won (about $5.3 billion). But unlike Google earlier today, the company's not blaming its expensive phones for anything whatsoever — Samsung says the Galaxy S10 lineup actually sold well, with the company shipping 78 million phones overall (as well as 5 million tablets) in the quarter, and that any weakness in phones can be explained by its low and mid-range models cannibalizing sales for last year's Galaxy models. (A big part of Samsung's new phone strategy is... |
| The man who predicted Antennagate is no longer at Apple Posted: 29 Apr 2019 05:42 PM PDT  Apple's had a few public embarrassments in recent years — AirPower, the MacBook's unreliable butterfly keyboard, and the iPhone slowdown saga come to mind — but it's been a minute since since the original tech scandal of "Antennagate," when the iPhone 4 had a tendency to drop calls if you held it in certain ways. Today, The Information is reporting (and AppleInsider is corroborating) that Apple VP of engineering and wireless specialist Rubén Caballero has left the company, which is notable for a couple of reasons. First, The Information reports he was the driving force behind Apple's in-house 5G modem efforts — because yes, it seems that Apple is trying to design its own 5G modem to compete with Qualcomm. We can't read too much into his... |
| Uber adds public transportation directions and schedules to its app in London Posted: 29 Apr 2019 04:01 PM PDT  Uber is adding public transportation schedules and directions to its app in London. Starting today, London residents who open the Uber app and punch in their destination — expecting to see just ride-hail options — will now also get time and cost comparison, plus point-to-point directions for taking that same trip with London's many public transportation options. It's part of Uber's broader effort to become a one-stop shop for all modes of transportation. The ride-hail company first introduced in-app public transportation pricing, schedules, and directions in Denver, Colorado, earlier this year. London is now the second city to receive the feature, though Uber hopes to eventually roll... |
| Google admits trouble selling expensive Pixels, but it’s got a cheaper one coming soon Posted: 29 Apr 2019 02:51 PM PDT  Google has a simple, yet subtle, reason for its anticipated push into the midrange smartphone market: there's too much competition in the high-end one. Next month, on the first day of its I/O developer conference, Google is expected to show off its new, cheaper Pixel 3a and 3a XL. And on an earnings call with reporters today, Ruth Porat, the chief financial officer of Google parent company Alphabet, said that industry-wide pressure on high-end phones led to fewer Pixel sales last quarter compared to this time a year ago. Porat specifically cited "some of the recent pressures in the premium smartphone market."
While Porat didn't... |
| A new startup helps podcasts get promoted on other podcasts Posted: 29 Apr 2019 02:08 PM PDT  Podcast startup RedCircle is officially launching today with a focus on helping small shows grow. Its first step is releasing a feature that assists podcasters in setting up cross-promotions with other podcasters, agreements in which two shows promote each other. It promises there's more to come. RedCircle raised $1.5 million in its seed round and offers free hosting, analytics access, distribution help, and other features designed for smaller creators. The company's cross-promotion feature allows RedCircle to automatically insert promotions into shows once both podcasters have agreed. "The short story [of how we got started] is that there's not a lot of interesting technology that's being built for the small podcaster," Mike Kadin,... |
| Robot toy company Anki is going out of business Posted: 29 Apr 2019 02:00 PM PDT  Anki, the San Francisco-based robotics company that specialized in making smartphone-controlled toys, is shutting down this week, reports Recode. The sudden news, delivered to staff today by CEO Boris Sofman, means the company's staff of nearly 200 people will lose their jobs by Wednesday, with only one week of severance. Anki raised more than $200 million in venture capital funding to date. According to Recode, Anki ran out of money and could no longer "support a hardware and software business" that would enable it to achieve its "long-term product roadmap." Last August, Anki said it had sold 1.5 million robot units to date, which appears to have included both its toy cars and personal robots. That wasn't enough to keep the business... |
| Daimler will stop selling its adorably small Smart cars in the US and Canada Posted: 29 Apr 2019 01:00 PM PDT  Daimler will end US and Canada sales of its electric, pint-sized Smart Fortwo cars after the 2019 model year, the company confirmed today. "After much careful consideration, Smart will discontinue its battery-electric smart EQ Fortwo model in the U.S. and Canadian markets at the conclusion of MY2019," Daimler said in a statement to The Verge. "A number of factors, including a declining micro-car market in the US and Canada, combined with high homologation costs for a low volume model are central to this decision." TechCrunch first reported the decision earlier today. The tiny two-seater cars (which are not even nine feet in length) were pitched as the perfect urban vehicle for quick, everyday travel between different city neighborhoods.... |
| T-Mobile and Sprint’s merger deadline was extended — again Posted: 29 Apr 2019 12:26 PM PDT  Last April, T-Mobile and Sprint announced their plans to merge, yet one year later neither the US Federal Communications Commission nor the Justice Department have approved the deal — and the telecommunications companies just opted to extend the deadline an extra month. On Monday, T-Mobile and Sprint announced a deadline extension for the $26.5 billion merger in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The two companies will now have until July 29th to convince officials at both the FCC and DOJ to approve the transaction that would combine the third and fourth largest telecommunications companies in the country into one. Makan Delrahim, who heads the antitrust division of the Justice Department, says that he had not decided... |
| Uber and Lyft stop hiring new drivers in New York City Posted: 29 Apr 2019 12:16 PM PDT  Uber and Lyft have stopped accepting new drivers on their respective platforms in New York City, Politico reports. The move comes after the city passed new rules that are designed to curb the explosive growth of ride-hail companies. On its website, Uber attributes the new policy to "new [Taxi and Limousine Commission] regulations." (To find Lyft's notice about not accepting new drivers, I had to go through the process of signing up as a new driver.) This is a reference to legislation passed by the New York City Council in December 2018, which requires ride-hail companies to pay drivers at least $17.22 an hour after expenses. The pay formula uses a so-called "utilization rate," which accounts for the share of time a driver spends with... |
| Watch the high school adaptation of Alien that impressed Sigourney Weaver and Ridley Scott Posted: 29 Apr 2019 12:06 PM PDT  Back in March, we heard that a New Jersey drama club was adapting Alien as a high school production. Now there's a recording of the production making the rounds that shows the play straight through, including their take on the Space Jockey, the Chestburster, the Xenomorph, and a guy playing Harry Dean Stanton in an accurate Hawaiian T-shirt. Since the video could potentially get taken down for being an unauthorized adaptation of Alien (it already has several music-related copyright claims), it's better to watch it now while it's up, so you can see how well the drama club did adapting a film built on an $11 million budget for the high school stage. The students say they raised their own money for the play and made costumes out of... |
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