Month: February 2020
Redmi K30 launched in India as the Poco X2
Pocophone ended its year-long hiatus and silence by unveiling the Poco X2 in India today. While there was no mention of the Poco F2’s existence, the X2 aims to replicate the same success in the sub Rs 20,000 segment. The Poco F1 was a runaway success when it came to…
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Organisations in Middle East spend more than global average on insider threats
Organisations in the Middle East spent more than the global average of $11.45m annually on overall insider threat remediation. The region spent $11.65m annually and took 77 days to contain each incident. According to cybersecurity and compliance company Proofpoint’s report, commissioned with The Ponemon Institute and co-sponsored by IBM, the…
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Dixa, the customer engagement platform, picks up $36M Series B
Dixa, the customer engagement platform, has closed $36 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is Notion Capital, with participation from existing investors Project A Ventures and SEED Capital. The Copenhagen and now London-based startup says it will use the new capital to accelerate its product development. This will…
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PlayStation 4 sales are slowing as PS5 looms this year
Sony’s PlayStation 4 sales were down 25 percent year on year this holiday season, with the company shipping 6.1 million units for a total of 108.9 million as of the end of 2019. It’s the lowest holiday quarter for the PS4 since its launch period in 2013. Third-quarter revenue at…
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Truecaller hits 200 million users
Truecaller, one of the world’s largest caller-identification service providers, has amassed 200 million monthly active users and is increasingly proving that it can turn a profit, it said Tuesday. In India, Truecaller’s largest market, the service now has 150 million monthly active users, it said. Reaching the 200 million milestone…
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As Trump Expands His Travel Ban, Once-Vocal Tech Companies Are Silent
In January 2017, when the Trump administration first unveiled a travel ban targeting seven majority Muslim countries, the tech industry took up arms. CEOs wrote impassioned letters, a billionaire founder showed up to an airport protest, and multiple companies lent their voices to lawsuits challenging the policy. Last week, however,…
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