Facebook wants to build brain-controlled wearables

THE DAILY CRUNCH WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 2019 By Anthony Ha Facebook reveals its research into brain-controlled wearable devices (yes, really), iPhone sales dip and Samsung announces a new Galaxy Tab. Here's your Daily Crunch for July 31, 2019. 1. Facebook is exploring brain control for AR wearables Facebook revealed that it's working with UCSF to research a brain-computer interface as a way to control future augmented reality interfaces. The company says the approach would involve "a non-invasive wearable device that lets people type just by imagining what they want to say." The company acknowledged that there are some thorny privacy issues here: "Neuroethical design is one of our program's key pillars — we want to be transparent about what we're working on so that people can tell us their concerns about this technology." 2. Apple's revenue growth slows as iPhone sales dip 12% year-over-year Across categories, iPhone revenue had the biggest year-over-year dip, going from $29.5 billion in last year's Q3 to just $26 billion this most recent quarter. SPONSORED CONTENT: BREX A corporate card actually built for you? Brex is the first corporate card built to help ambitious companies grow. Brex provides business cards with no founder liability, industry-specific rewards programs, automated receipt capture and direct integrations into top accounting software. Get waived fees for life with this special offer. Learn More… 3. Samsung targets iPad Pro with the Galaxy Tab S6 Samsung's latest tablet is going after the same slice of creatives targeted by the iPad Pro and various Surface devices. Its most appealing feature may be the addition of the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. 4. Spotify hits 108M paying users and 232M overall, but its average revenue per user declines "We missed on subs… That's on us," the company said. 5. The maker of popular selfie app Facetune just landed $135 million at a unicorn valuation Facetune, a photo-editing app that empowers users to cover their gray hairs, refine their jaw lines and reshape their noses, was first introduced around six years ago. Its parent company Lightricks is based in Jerusalem and has 260 employees supporting six products across three divisions. 6. How the new 'Lion King' came to life Even though the film looks like a live-action remake of "The Lion King," every shot (except for the first) was created on a computer. 7. The dreaded 10x, or, how to handle exceptional employees The very concept of a 10x engineer seems so… five years ago. (Extra Crunch membership required.) 8. Bindu Reddy, co-founder and CEO at RealityEngines, is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise RealityEngines is creating research-driven cloud services that can reduce some of the inherent complexity of working with AI tools. Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Software Engineer at Summit Search Consultants (Chicago, IL, USA) Senior Systems Engineer (Officer, Systems Engineering) at The Pew Charitable Trusts (Washington, D.C., USA) Business Development Manager - Venture Technology Group at Dentons US LLP (New York, USA) Server & Storage Architecture Supervisor at Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Middletown, PA, United States) Technology Venture Professional for Northpond Ventures at Northpond Ventures (Bethesda, MD, United States) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Unsubscribe © 2019 Oath Tech Network. All rights reserved. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

                                                           

E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- July 30, 2019

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How to Compete With Big Retail by Optimizing Your Product Page
Recipe for CX Success: Combine Context From Conversations With Speech Analytics
Automation: Helping SMBs Cut the Gordian Knot of Transaction Tax
Timely Antitrust Investigation
Understanding the IP Policy Changes Coming to Amazon Sellers
Salesforce's Road to China

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How to Compete With Big Retail by Optimizing Your Product Page
Congratulations! You've succeeded in driving online traffic to your
product page. So why aren't customers actually clicking 'Add to Cart'?
Making successful e-commerce conversions, or transforming your website's
visitors into actual paying customers, isn't an easy feat. Expertise on
doing it well and accurately is key to your long-term growth. This is a
critical area where SMBs really struggle.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86156.html

Recipe for CX Success: Combine Context From Conversations With Speech Analytics
The contact center uses familiar benchmarks to determine if a call, chat
or email is successful or not. Call metrics such as net promoter score,
handle time, and amount of silence are correlated with positive or
negative outcomes. However, insights from speech analytics technology
prove that these metrics only tell part of the story. What's missing?
Context -- and it's the essential CX ingredient.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86152.html

Automation: Helping SMBs Cut the Gordian Knot of Transaction Tax
Finance and accounting technology became the No. 1 software budgeting
priority for small and mid-sized businesses, according to a survey
conducted last year. Almost 54 percent of respondents were budgeting to
invest in accounting tools in the next 12 to 24 months, with those in
the retail industry specifically forecasting to spend between $30,000
and $40,000.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86151.html

Timely Antitrust Investigation
The Justice Department is opening antitrust investigations into some of
the biggest tech companies around, including Facebook, Google, Amazon
and others. This is nothing that either the public or the companies
involved should fret about. This is part of the evolution of the tech
sector. We've been through this kind of thing before. Each economic era
follows a similar trajectory.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86150.html

Understanding the IP Policy Changes Coming to Amazon Sellers
Amazon is keenly interested in protecting the IP rights of its third-
party sellers because the company depends upon them for their long-term
success. In a recent newsletter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
explained that third-party sellers currently make up a majority of the
site's gross merchandise sales, with the share of revenue from third-
party sellers having grown to 58 percent.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86146.html

Salesforce's Road to China
It was bound to happen. Salesforce was going to China at some point, and
it announced that action this week saying it was partnering with
Alibaba. There are so many ways to read this, but I don't have the
filters to resist comparing the announcement to what Robin Williams once
said about cocaine: "Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making
too much money."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86147.html

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Tech News Flash

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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- July 30, 2019

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Apple to Jump on 5G Bandwagon in 2020
Tesla's Failings Overshadow Its Impressive Successes
What the CBS Blackout Means for the Future of Streaming
Emmabuntüs Is a Hidden Linux Gem
DoJ to Examine Big Tech Competitive Landscape

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Today's Story Highlights

Apple to Jump on 5G Bandwagon in 2020
Apple's 2019 crop of iPhones haven't been released yet but there's
already talk about its 2020 plans, largely because that will be the
first year the company's mobile lineup will support 5G. Ming-Chi Kuo, an
Apple analyst known for his accurate predictions, believes all three
iPhones introduced in 2020 will support 5G. Kuo gave three reasons for
Apple's decision.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86153.html

Tesla's Failings Overshadow Its Impressive Successes
Launching a new car company and getting it to global scale doesn't
happen often, and it has been a long time since there has been a
successful launch of one in the United States. Tesla really stands alone
as the only new U.S. car company of scale since American Motors and
Studebaker failed decades ago, when three auto companies then dominated
the U.S. industry.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86148.html

What the CBS Blackout Means for the Future of Streaming
CBS went dark across AT&T's U-verse and DirecTV services, days after the
seven-year contract between the two companies expired. As the two
couldn't come to new terms, CBS and its related channels -- including
CBSN, CBS Sports and The Smithsonian Channel -- were blacked out. This
latest disruption in service affected viewers in major markets across
the United States.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86149.html

Emmabuntüs Is a Hidden Linux Gem
Emmabuntüs is a great find if you are looking for an all-around Linux
operating system that keeps legacy computers out of the trash heap and
is easy to use with no setup or regular Internet access required. This
distro is not one whose name is readily recognizable. Hidden from
popular view, it's seldom spotted by product reviewers. Yet it has
fulfilled a range of user needs for years.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86145.html

DoJ to Examine Big Tech Competitive Landscape
The DoJ has announced an antitrust probe into big tech, following
several months of rumors that it was about to do so. The DoJ plans to
review how the leading online platforms achieved market power and
whether they have engaged in practices that reduced competition, stifled
innovation, or otherwise harmed consumers. The department will consider
widespread concerns.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86144.html

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Capital One discloses enormous data breach

THE DAILY CRUNCH TUESDAY, JULY 30 2019 By Anthony Ha Capital One discloses a major hack, Huawei reports "robust" earnings with a major asterisk and Compass is now worth $6.4 billion. Here's your Daily Crunch for July 30, 2019. 1. Capital One hacked, over 100 million customers affected Another day, another data breach. This time, the company involved is Capital One, which says the breach affects roughly 100 million individuals in the U.S., and 6 million in Canada. The data leaked potentially includes "names, addresses, ZIP codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income," as well as information like "credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information." 2. What Huawei didn't say in its 'robust' half-year results The media has largely bought into Huawei's "strong" half-year results today, but there's a major catch in the report: the company's quarter-by-quarter smartphone growth was zero. 3. Real estate platform Compass raises another $370M on a $6.4B valuation en route to an IPO The platform is not just a marketplace to connect buyers to real estate agents to sellers, but an engine that helps figure out pricing, timing for sales and how to stage homes to get the best prices and most sales. 4. Monday.com raises $150M more, now at $1.9B valuation, for workplace collaboration tools The big bump is in part due to the company's rapid expansion; it now has 80,000 organizations as customers, up from a mere 35,000 a year ago. 5. The Museum of Future Experiences offers a spooky, surreal take on VR The experience isn't easy to describe, but afterwards, I felt equal parts amused, excited and unsettled, and I knew this wasn't like any other VR I'd seen. 6. Techstars nabs $42M to expand its global presence Techstars is both a fund deploying capital to early-stage upstarts and an operating business nearing $100 million in annual revenue. Its latest equity investment will fuel the latter. 7. Facebook and YouTube's moderation failure is an opportunity to deplatform the platforms While the major platforms reap the bitter harvest of years of ignoring the issue, startups can pick up where they left off. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Systems Engineer (Officer, Systems Engineering) at The Pew Charitable Trusts (Washington, D.C., USA) Business Development Manager - Venture Technology Group at Dentons US LLP (New York, USA) Server & Storage Architecture Supervisor at Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Middletown, PA, United States) Technology Venture Professional for Northpond Ventures at Northpond Ventures (Bethesda, MD, United States) Software Developer at Quorum (Washington, DC, USA) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Unsubscribe © 2019 Oath Tech Network. All rights reserved. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107