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πŸ‘Ύ Game Boy's Birthday

Game Boy was first released on the 100th anniversary of #Nintendo in πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ on April 21, 1989, in πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ on July 31, 1989 & in πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί on September 28, 1990.
#History

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β€‹β€‹πŸŽ Apple's Road to $1 Trillion

Despite the news that #Apple lost its second place in the smartphone market to #Huawei in the past quarter, the #iPhone maker is closer than ever to becoming the first trillion dollar company. Following the release of better-than-expected results on Tuesday, the company’s share price climbed almost 6 percent on Wednesday, bringing its market capitalization to $990 billion.

As our chart illustrates, Apple reaching a market cap of $1 trillion would have been unthinkable a decade ago. Back in 2008, the company had just released the iPhone, the iPad was still confined to its secretive labs and the financial crisis had brought Apple’s market value down to $76 billion. 10 years and 1.4 billion sold iPhones later, the company founded in a garage in Los Altos, California in 1976 could make history once again.

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Do you own any Apple product?
β€‹β€‹πŸ—£ Top Genres of Podcasts Among Avid Fans

More than 61% of American households have a fan of #podcasts in the music genre.
- 37 million of these households identify as avid fans;
- 24 million consider themselves casual fans.

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❓ Do you listen to podcasts?
β€‹β€‹πŸ“° #iXDailyBrief is back!

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⚑️ VR-related Google search volumes were 44% lower in December 2017 than they were in December 2016. In contrast, interest in AR appears to be on the up as AR users in the US will reach 51.2 million this year - up 36% on 2017. (Source: Econsultancy)


INSIGHT
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley: prs.pctvix.co/2LVCGnW


OTHER NEWS
🌎 #GoogleMaps now depicts the Earth as a globe: https://t.me/iXNews/30868

πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ iPhone supplier TSMC shut down factories after virus attack: t.me/iXNews/30855

πŸ“Ί All the key news on Apple’s upcoming streaming TV platform: t.me/iXNews/30853

πŸ“ˆ Boston-Area Startups Are On Pace To Overtake NYC Venture Totals: prs.pctvix.co/2OixAiv

EXTRA: Alex Jones & InfoWars
🍏 Apple removes Alex Jones podcasts from iTunes for hate speech: t.me/iXNews/30881

❌ Facebook removes Alex Jones pages, citing repeated hate speech violations: t.me/iXNews/30879

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😍 Retro Games

The 'Internet Archive' just released their #HandheldHistory Collection. It's chock-full of your fav pocket LCD games from the 80's & 90's.

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β€‹β€‹πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Britain's favourite websites

That #Google affiliated webpages have been visited by nearly 100 percent of all Britons with an online connection comes as no surprise. However, websites of the Wikimedia Foundation, only seem to be known by every second British citizen. The most visited native British sites are BBC related webpages, some 86 percent have visited one of their internet presences.

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πŸ“– via Statista: prs.pctvix.co/2KvIZJe
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⚑️ Only about 2% of the people with devices that use Amazon’s Alexa intelligent assistant β€” mostly Amazon’s own Echo line of speakers β€” have made a purchase with their voices so far in 2018 (Source: The Information)
More on this later on today's #BigThought


INSIGHT
🎼 The definitive timeline of #Spotify’s critic-defying journey to rule music: prs.pctvix.co/2KE3H9Q


OTHER NEWS
πŸ₯§ #Android 9 Pie is available for Google Pixel phones, but some key features won’t ship until the fall: t.me/iXNews/30913

πŸ‘©β€βš•οΈ #Google plans to roll out digital wellness features in Pie but #Apple’s already got ’em: t.me/iXNews/30933

πŸš– India’s Uber rival Ola is headed Europe with ride-hailing launch in the UK: t.me/iXNews/30952

πŸ’³ #Facebook wants financial data from America’s largest banks: t.me/iXNews/30919 (but they're denying it: prs.pctvix.co/2KzFxNG)

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β€‹β€‹πŸ‘» Has Snapchat already stopped growing?

Snap reports its Q2 results today after the market close. And the consensus from analysts is that Snap’s audience will grow by just 1 million daily active users, according to FactSet.
That’s surprising, considering that #Snapchat added 21 million new users in the same period two years ago.

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πŸ“– via Recode: prs.pctvix.co/2Mqa5mZ
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STAT
⚑️ 9 out of 10 social media users do a music-related activity on their social media apps (Source: Billboard)


INSIGHT
❓ What do Reddit’s new media partnerships mean for publishers - and its future? prs.pctvix.co/2M3BLlw


OTHER NEWS
πŸ₯‰ #Facebook's app is now the third-most popular browser in the U.S: prs.pctvix.co/2nmmKwl

🀳 β€˜Stories’ was #Instagram’s smartest move yet: t.me/iXNews/31044

#️⃣ Slack is raising $400M+ with a post-money valuation of $7B or more: t.me/iXNews/31034

🚘 Elon Musks explains why taking Tesla private is β€˜the best path forward’: t.me/iXNews/31015

EXTRA: Snap's Q2 Report
πŸ“‰ #Snapchat shrinks by 3M users to 188M despite Q2 earnings beat: t.me/iXNews/31019

πŸ‘‘ Snapchat gets $250M investment from Saudi prince for 2.3%: t.me/iXNews/31021

πŸ˜– Why Snapchat is shrinking? t.me/iXNews/31030

🀯 Hacker Leaked Snapchat Source Code On GitHub: prs.pctvix.co/2nlc40Q
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β€‹β€‹πŸŽ§ Social Media & Music

9 out of 10 #SocialMedia users do a #Music-related activity on their social media apps.

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πŸ“– via Billboard: prs.pctvix.co/2nn4t1G
β€‹β€‹πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ London Is the World's Airbnb Capital

10 years ago, in early August 2008, the website Airbedandbreakfast.com went online, marking the birth of #Airbnb. Back then the three founders, Brian Cheky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk wanted to help short-term travelers find affordable accommodation and provide renters with an opportunity to make an extra buck by renting out spare rooms or even just the namesake airbed on the floor.

Now, it's about 10 years later and their little venture is valued at nearly $30 billion.

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πŸ“– via Statista: prs.pctvix.co/2OhGNra
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STAT
⚑️ The average U.S. adult now spends more than 6 hours a day watching video, an 11 minute increase from Q4 2017. (Source: Nielsen)


INSIGHT
πŸ‘Ά How Alexa could be better at responding to toddlers: prs.pctvix.co/2Ok92p4


OTHER NEWS
😢 Snapchat monitors Infowars as Alex Jones promotes β€œCensorship” gag AR filter: t.me/iXNews/31102

πŸ€– This robot uses AI to find Waldo, thereby ruining Where’s Waldo: t.me/iXNews/31103

πŸš• New York City Council votes to cap licenses for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft: t.me/iXNews/31110

🍻 Heineken is still worried about Snapchat’s age-gating policies: prs.pctvix.co/2KDtT4F

🌽 Your vegetables are going to be picked by robots sooner than you think: t.me/iXNews/31113

🐠 Microsoft’s undersea data center now has a webcam with fish swimming past 27.6 petabytes of data: t.me/iXNews/31122 | πŸ“Ί Watch Live: prs.pctvix.co/2KGArzz

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"If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting." ― Jeff Bezos

Ben, @iXNews
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😳 SHAASUIVG - and definitely not SAMSUNG - is my new favourite tech brand!

55-inch 4K TV for Β₯388 (β‰ˆ $57) on Chinese online store Pinduoduo! That logo though...

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β€‹β€‹πŸ’° Digital tech and industrial IoT startups raised $2.3bn in H1 2018

This is almost triple what was raised in April or May, and was driven by significant raises in industrial cybersecurity companies.

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πŸ“– via BloombergNEF: prs.pctvix.co/2M11f31