A banner quarter for Xiaomi helped the Chinese mobile company snag the No. 2 spot in global smartphone shipments, according to newly posted Q2 numbers from research firm Canalys. It’s pretty stunning growth for the company, up 83% year-over-year for the quarter and capturing 17% of the global market. The surge puts Xiaomi at No. […]
Digital payments giant Paytm, one of India’s most valuable startups, plans to raise up to $2.2 billion in an initial public offering, it said in draft papers submitted to the country’s market regulator on Friday. The Noida-headquartered firm — backed by Alibaba, Berkshire Hathaway, and SoftBank among others — said (PDF) it will issue new shares […]
A new challenger has emerged in the gaming hardware category. Game distribution giant Valve today announced the launch of Steam Deck, a $399 gaming portable designed to take PC games on the go. The handheld (which has echoes of several portable gaming rigs of years past) features a seven-inch screen and runs on a quad-core […]
Apple, Inc. If you’ve been wondering where the iPhone 12’s battery case is at — I have good news. Apple on Tuesday released its MagSafe Battery Pack for the iPhone 12 lineup. It’s not a case, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The $99 battery pack magnetically attaches to the back of any iPhone 12 or […]
Ricoh has announced a new wide-angle zoom lens that is classified under its “Star” series optics: the HD Pentax-DA 16-50mm f/2.8ED PLM AW lens. Ricoh says it promises the highest imaging performance available and is designed for use on K-mount DSLRs. This new lens can be used on both APS-C and full-frame Pentax cameras. When […]
Lenovo ThinkStation P350 Tiny Though nowhere near as visible as its laptop offerings, Lenovo’s business PCs are still an important part of the company’s computer stable, harkening back to the early days of IBM’s systems, long before the Chinese manufacturer acquired those assets. So news like this week’s launch of the company’s ThinkStation P350 desktop […]
Steve Dent is an associate editor at Engadget. As it promised last month, Amazon has launched its serialized fiction Kindle Vella store that lets you unlock episodic, self-published stories via in-app purchases. The new platform is a way for readers to discover new fiction and a new way for authors to generate revenue from the Kindle Direct Publishing service. […]
WhatsApp is finally pushing an improvement to a key feature that even the Facebook-owned instant messaging service acknowledges has been a top request from users for years. On Wednesday, WhatsApp said it is rolling out a limited public beta test for its improved multidevice capability. The update enables WhatsApp users for the first time to […]
Microsoft today launched Windows 365, a service that gives businesses the option to easily let their employees access a Windows 10 desktop from the cloud (with Windows 11 coming once it’s generally available). Think game streaming, but for your desktop. It’ll be available for business users (and only business users) on August 2, 2021. Announced […]
Indian startup Inshorts, which operates an eponymous news aggregator service, has raised $60 million in a new financing round as its two-year-old bet — launch of a new social media app called Public — continues to impress, the startup confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Vy Capital led the new round in Inshorts, which has raised […]