Archive for July 4th, 2007
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Posted by: amygdala on July 4, 2007
- Lenovo reports annual profit of $535M, reversing a loss of $128M in the previous year, and revenue of $43B, down 4% YoY (Sijia Jiang/Reuters)
- Acer unveils 15.6-inch Nitro 5 midrange gaming laptop, and a 11.6-inch Spin 1 convertible laptop with touch display, two Iconia tablets (Tom Brant/PC Magazine)
- G2 Crowd, which crowdsources enterprise software reviews, raises $30M Series B led by Accel with LinkedIn among those participating (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Eugene Kaspersky offers to testify in the US and provide source code to US authorities amid AG and DNI concerns about potential risks of Kaspersky software (Chris Griffith/The Australian)
- Twitter updates its Apple TV app to include support for Periscope's global map and the ability to watch live 360 degree video (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Brazilian ride-hailing service 99 raises $100M from SoftBank to better compete in a region where, a source says, Uber's margins are one of their highest (Eric Newcomer/Bloomberg)
- Pure Storage Q1 beats with $182.6M revenue, up 31% YoY, shares up 11% after hours; CEO says company continues to take business from traditional storage rivals (Robert Hof/SiliconANGLE)
- DJI debuts Spark, a drone with a palm-sized body for taking pictures and video, controllable via smartphone; preorders open today, shipping next month for $499 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
- IFTTT opens its platform for making and publishing Applets to all developers via a free app maker tier, alongside current premium partner tiers (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
- A Q&A on the process and legality of ICOs, and what they might mean for VCs (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
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