Month: February 2020
Samsung’s stylish Serif and Frame design TVs now in sizes for every living room
Don’t fancy having a giant black slab sat on your TV stand for most of the day? For a couple of years Samsung has been pushing its design-led Serif and The Frame TVs, engineered to compliment your living room interior. At today’s Samsung 2020 Forum TV event in Malta, it…
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Samsung unveils seven more QLED TVs for 2020 – and a neat new casting trick
Only a few weeks after CES 2020, electronics maker Samsung has pulled back the curtain on a number of new Samsung TVs coming this year, from high-end 8K displays to still-pretty-fancy 4K QLED TVs. We’d already caught a glimpse of the Q950TS 8K QLED at the CES expo, with its…
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Catching up on China’s tech influence operations in America
It’s been a dizzying few weeks following all the China news emanating from Washington DC these days. While a “phase one” trade deal with China has been signed and appears to be moving forward as of a month ago (we covered the origins of this trade war extensively on TechCrunch…
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Google closes $2.6B Looker acquisition
When Google announced that it was acquiring data analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion, it was a big deal on a couple of levels. It was a lot of money and it represented the first large deal under the leadership of Thomas Kurian. Today, the company announced that deal has…
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Tesla launches $2 billion stock offering after Elon Musk said ‘it doesn’t make sense’
Tesla has announced that it will sell $2 billion of common stock in a new public offering, just days after CEO Elon Musk said it wouldn’t “make sense” to raise more cash. The company says it plans to use the proceeds from the offering “to further strengthen its balance sheet,…
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Your favorite browser extensions might not work with the new Firefox
Mozilla has been busily beavering away on a new version of Firefox for Android, and its work is nearly done. The browser has been rewritten from scratch, and this explains why the project has been so many months in the making. But with the launch now not far away, there’s…
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