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Disney+ already has 26.5M subscribers
The Walt Disney Company just announced that its streaming service Disney+ has 26.5 million paying subscribers — ahead of the already impressive 25 million predicted by Wall Street analysts. Disney+ launched on November 12 and is not yet available globally. The day after the launch, the company said the service already…
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After closing its $2.2 billion latest tech fund, KKR adds top Cisco exec to its leadership team
KKR, the multibillion-dollar multistrategy investment firm, is beefing up its technology practice with the appointment of Rob Salvagno as a co-head of its technology growth equity business in the U.S. It’s a sign that KKR is taking the tech industry seriously as it looks for new acquisition and investment opportunities.…
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Samsung leaks images of its new Galaxy S20
Samsung appears to have accidentally revealed the Galaxy S20 in a set of leaked marketing images posted to its own website, as spotted by WinFuture. The images confirm a few things that were already rumored about the phone, including the Galaxy S20 name (instead of the S11, which would technically…
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Snapchat hits 218M users but big Q4 losses sink share price
Snapchat still isn’t profitable nearly two years after its IPO. In Q4 2019, Snap lost $241 million on 560.8 million in revenue that’s up 44% year-over-year and an EPS of $0.03. That comes from adding 8 million daily users to reach a total of 218, up 3.8% this quarter from…
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Your future phone will be able to record 8K video that looks like this
We’re just getting to smartphone cameras that can shoot in 4K – so, naturally, Qualcomm has released a video showing 8K video shot on a phone. We don’t know which phone it was, of course, except that it was packing the chipmaker’s new Snapdragon 865 5G (yes, with the 5G…
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Disney+ has surpassed 26 million subscribers since launch
Disney+ amassed 26.5 million Disney+ subscribers in the first three months since it launched, far exceeding the 20 million estimate that analysts suggested Disney would make by the end of 2020. “We had a strong first quarter, highlighted by the launch of Disney+, which has exceeded even our greatest expectations,”…
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