Market Dynamics in Smartphone Sales: Winners and Losers

Another day, another data breach… but this Capital One breach has some odd new wrinkles, the Android smartphone industry continues to be a tough gig for most manufacturers, I’m ready for smart contact lenses and apparently, the YouTube creator community is ready for a union.

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Links:

• Capital One says data breach affected 100 million credit card applications (Washington Post)
• Amazon's cloud was at the heart of the big Capital One hack, even though it doesn't seem to be at fault (Business Insider)
• Sony and LG still struggled to sell smartphones in Q2 2019, surprising nobody (Android Police)
• Scientists create contact lenses that zoom on command (Engadget)
• Techstars raises $42 million from SVB and Foundry Group to accelerate its growth in Europe and beyond (Tech.eu)
• Israel's New Top Unicorn: Monday.com Hits $1.9 Billion Valuation With $150 Million Raise (Forbes)
• Real estate platform Compass raises another $370M on a $6.4B valuation en route to an IPO (TechCrunch)
• PBS & PBS Kids Coming to YouTube TV Later This Year (The Streamable)
• The YouTubers Union Is Not Messing Around (Motherboard)

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