Chip company Arm files for Nasdaq listing in IPO anticipated to be this year’s biggest

August 21, 2023
Arm, the U.K.-based chipmaker owned by Japan’s SoftBank since 2016, has filed for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker symbol “ARM,” five months after announcing it had filed confidential, preliminary IPO paperwork with U.S. regulators. The outfit didn’t provide a projected share price in its F-1 paperwork. SoftBank recently bought a 24.99% stake in the […]

How ubiquitous keyboard software puts hundreds of millions of Chinese users at risk

August 21, 2023
For millions of Chinese people, the first software they download on a new laptop or smartphone is always the same: a keyboard app. Yet few of them are aware that it may make everything they type vulnerable to spying eyes. Since dozens of Chinese characters can share the same latinized phonetic spelling, the ordinary QWERTY…

Urgent Alert — China-Taiwan Showdown!

August 21, 2023
All right, Life Goal Nation! In recent months, tensions between China and Taiwan have escalated, with fears of a possible military invasion by China becoming a reality. This scenario has…

Triller’s S-1 filing claims 550M users, but its app installs fall far short, new data shows

August 21, 2023
TikTok competitor Triller is preparing to go public, but estimates from Apptopia call its self-reported user numbers into question. Per Triller’s S-1 filing, the short form video app has had 550 million lifetime signups. But market intelligence firm Apptopia estimates that Triller has been downloaded just 73.2 million times since launch in 2015 — that’s […]