Startups Weekly: What the E-Trade deal says about Robinhood[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 […]
Read moreThis Week in Apps: HQ Trivia’s dramatic death, Android 11, Apple mulls a more open iOSWelcome 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 […]
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Fintech startups raised $34B in 2019Financial services startups raised less money in 2019 than they did in 2018 as VC firms looked to back late stage firms and focused on developing markets, a new report has revealed. According to research firm CB Insights’ annual report published this week, fintech startups across the world raised $33.9 […]
Read moreOriginal Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Locke & Key’ offers spooky delightsAt times, it can be hard to tell exactly who “Locke & Key” was made for. Adapted from a comic book series written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez, the show tells the story of the Locke family after they move into the mysterious […]
Read moreDo phones need to fold?As Samsung (re)unveiled its clamshell folding phone last week, I kept seeing the same question pop up amongst my social circles: why? I was wondering the same thing myself, to be honest. I’m not sure even Samsung knows; they’d win me over by the end, but only somewhat. The halfway-folded, laptop-style […]
Read moreTest and Measurement: Breaking down early 5G strategiesUsers Users “should not automatically expect speeds of several hundred Mbps on 5G,” Opensignal says How do the initial 5G strategies of the Big Four carriers in the U.S. match up? Opensignal took a look and found that speeds are all over the map—but coverage often isn’t. Spectrum […]
Read moremCDNs on moving trainsNetskrt: ‘5G by itself won’t solve the problem’ As streaming video increasingly becomes one of the primary functions of an average user’s device, the transportation sector, in particular, is struggling to provide the bandwidth necessary to keep up. The communications industry continues to be enamored with 5G, treating it as a cure-all […]
Read moreDeutsche Telekom scores larger stake in New T-Mobile T-Mobile US and Sprint have slightly tweaked the merger agreement between the two companies, resulting in Deutsche Telekom having a larger stake in the combined New T-Mobile and a larger overall equity value for the merger deal, the two U.S. carriers announced Thursday. DT is expected to […]
Read moreRakuten Mobile, TPG Telecom to carry out OpenRAN trial in Singapore Japanese telco Rakuten Mobile is collaborating with Singaporean carrier TPG Telecom on a 5G technology partnership program to trial OpenRAN solutions in Singapore, the former said in a release. Rakuten Mobile had launched what it claimed to be the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualized, […]
Read moreStrategy Analytics highly recognizes ZTE’s slicing practice in its freshly released white paper on 5G monetization with network slicing Strategy Analytics, a world-renowned market research and consulting company, recently released a white paper entitled “Driving 5G Monetization with Network Slicing: Potential Business Models”. The report explains that for 5G networks to achieve commercial success, network […]
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