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Family networking app Life360 acquihires PathSense team to boost locationbased services

Hundreds of French academics sign letter asking for safeguards on contact tracing

Researchers find that filters dont prevent porn

Apples inapp purchase prices jumped 40 yearoveryear likely tied to privacy changes

Fairphone adds a 5G smartphone touting software support until at least 2025

Google launches Android Enterprise Essentials a mobile device management service for small businesses

Siilo injects 51M to try to transplant WhatsApp use in hospitals

Africa Roundup: CcHubs iHub acquisition Andelas 50M run rate and layoffs Transsions IPO

SumUp raises 624M at 85B valuation with its payments and business tech now used by 4M SMBs

HTC is gone

ZTEs dualscreen phone is a fascinating mess

Apples inapp purchase prices jumped 40 year over year likely tied to privacy changes

Xiaomi posts 21B profit in its first quarter as a public company

Pew: mobile and social media users in emerging markets have more diverse social networks

Swappie bags 406M to sell more secondhand iPhones across Europe

Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

Fleksy rolls out an SDK for its AI keyboard

Apple patches a NSO zeroday flaw affecting all devices

Forbes Fools Four Android Smartphones with 3D Printed Head Model but Not Apples iPhone X

Apple restricts ads and thirdparty trackers in iPhone apps for kids

Sony just announced a car

Apple says iPhones remain on sale in China following court injunction

Grace debuts privacyfocused parental controls for iOS devices built with Apples Screen Time API

Why OSOM went web3

Indias Cashify raises 12M for its secondhand smartphone business

iFixit gives Fairphone 3 a perfect 10 for repairability

Tech stocks walloped as China retaliates in the latest salvo of its trade war with the US

LG Electronics launches NFT platform that lets users buy and sell digital artwork

Baidu and Xiaomi are working together on internet of things and artificial intelligence

Apple patches an NSO zeroday flaw affecting all devices

Twelve Souths HiRise Wireless is a super versatile wireless smartphone charger

Happy 10th anniversary Android

Finlands Jolla maker of Sailfish OS is trying to cut ties with Russia

Parsing Samsungs data breach notice

Apple and Googles mobile duopoly likely to face UK antitrust action

Nothings Phone 2 is up for preorder starting at 599

Apple will reportedly unify iOS and Mac apps in 2018

Android security bug let malicious apps siphon off private user data

NextNav raises 120M to deploy its indoor positioning tech to find people in skyscrapers

Remitly raises 220M to expand from money transfers to financial services now at 1B valuation

Google Nokia Qualcomm are investors in 230M Series A2 for Finnish phone maker HMD Global

Gravity Sketch draws 33M for a platform to design collaborate on and produce 3D objects

Google is quietly formulating a new strategy for China

In Nigeria PalmPay waives fees and creates 100M COVID19 payout fund

Africas top mobile phone seller Transsion lists in Chinese IPO

Japan will restrict the export of some materials used in smartphones and chips to South Korea

Flip a popular chat app for frontline workers raises 33M as it passes 1M users

Augmented realitys halfdecade of stagnation

VCs and startups consider HaaS model for consumer devices

How smartphone apps could help keep health records accurate