Consumer Technology

“There’s this new type of excitement about putting your money to work for you,” said Flori Marquez, the founder of BlockFi, a cryptocurrency trading platform.

Samsung launched a slew of new smartphones and tablets at its Galaxy Unpacked event Wednesday.

5G refers to the fifth generation of high-speed mobile internet that aims to provide faster data speeds and more bandwidth.

Annual smartphone shipment grew 4% year on year to 1.39 billion handsets in 2021 even as the impact of Covid and a worldwide chip shortage hampered supplies.

China’s tech giants Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and Meituan have all started investing heavily into chip development.

Sony confirmed its new virtual reality hardware will be called PlayStation VR2.

India’s technology start-ups will continue to attract capital from both private and public markets next year as they grow and mature, investors told CNBC.

PropertyGuru announced plans in July to go public through a merger with Bridgetown 2 Holdings — a blank-check company backed by Richard Li and Peter Thiel.

A consortium that includes co-founder Tan Min-Liang made an offer to take the Hong Kong-listed gaming hardware company private.

A parliamentary bulletin dated Nov. 23 showed that the Indian government plans to introduce a new bill that seeks to ban most private cryptocurrencies.

An ongoing supply crunch for chips has hurt production across sectors ranging from cars to consumer appliances, and personal computers to smartphones.

Indonesia’s GoTo Group has secured $1.3 billion from investors in the first close of an ongoing funding round ahead of a planned initial public offering.

Around 40 million people across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand came online for the first time this year, the report said.

In papers submitted to India’s market regulator on Thursday, Paytm raised its IPO size from $2.2 billion to $2.44 billion.

Australia has been “at the forefront” of establishing regulatory framework for social media companies to operate, Minister Paul Fletcher said.

Samsung said its operating profit for the quarter that ended in September was up 28% from a year ago to 15.8 trillion Korean won ($13.26 billion).

Facebook has apologized for the mass outage that left billions of users unable to access Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger for several hours.

Carousell said last week it raised $100 million in fresh funds that valued the company at more than a billion dollars.

As many as 828 venture capital funded deals were announced between January and July, with a total disclosed value of $16.9 billion, according to GlobalData.

Recent rules from the FCC will slow robocall scammers down, but experts say they won’t disappear.