Topic: market demand
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Chinese Brands Cancel Plans After iPhone Air Flop
Apple's iPhone Air and Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge experienced disappointing sales and production cuts, indicating weak consumer demand for premium ultra-thin smartphones. Major Chinese manufacturers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo have canceled or frozen their ultra-thin phone projects in response to ...
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Miri Technologies Expands Global Reach with 3 New Distributors
Miri Technologies has expanded its international distribution by partnering with Corsair Solutions in Australia, GNODE in Mexico, and Thameside TV in the UK to make the X510 router more accessible. The X510 router combines multiple internet sources into a stable connection, using Speedify's bondi...
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Tesla Finally Adding Apple CarPlay After Years of Resistance
Tesla is considering reversing its long-standing policy against integrating Apple CarPlay due to market pressure and consumer demand for smartphone connectivity as a standard feature. The potential change comes as Tesla faces declining sales and shrinking market share, with CarPlay seen as essent...
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Xbox Boss Confirms Next-Gen Console Will Have First-Party Games at Launch
Microsoft's next Xbox will launch with a strong lineup of exclusive first-party games to strengthen its value proposition and competitive stance in the gaming market. Despite speculation about a shift to software-only models, the market for dedicated gaming hardware remains strong, supported by a...
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Defense Tech Startups: Where Policy and Profit Collide
Defense and commercial innovation intersect, creating challenges and opportunities for startups, with dual-use technologies blurring lines between defense-adjacent and non-lethal applications. Government policies like the CHIPS Act and private-sector demand drive innovation, but long-term success...
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Apple Reportedly Scaling Back iPhone Air Plans
Apple is reducing iPhone Air production and shipments due to lower-than-expected consumer demand, despite its praised lightweight design. The demand shortfall is specific to the iPhone Air, with other iPhone models continuing to perform well in the market. This reflects Apple's ongoing challenge ...
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M2: Digital Asset Wealth Management for High-Net-Worth & Institutional Investors
M2 is repositioning as a digital asset wealth management platform exclusively for high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional investors. The firm offers bespoke investment solutions, institutional-grade security, and services like regulated custody and yield generation to meet s...
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CoreWeave: The AI Industry's Hidden Risk
CoreWeave is a specialized AI cloud provider with high-profile clients but faces significant financial risks, including massive debt and questionable accounting practices that threaten its long-term viability. The company's heavy reliance on Nvidia as investor, customer, and supplier creates stra...
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Affinda Acquires Pathfindr to Boost AI Transformation
Affinda Group has acquired Pathfindr in a $15 million all-scrip deal, combining two Australian AI specialists to enhance their service offerings for corporate digital transformation. The acquisition integrates Pathfindr's expertise in AI training and implementation with Affinda's focus on automat...
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Selling the AI Dream: The New SEO Sales Tactic
The SEO industry is rebranding traditional strategies as specialized "AI SEO" services, despite these methods being long-established fundamentals of search optimization. While AI-powered search platforms are growing rapidly, the core tactics promoted—such as semantic clarity and authoritative con...
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Paris AI Startup Gradium Raises $70M in Seed Funding
Gradium, a new Paris-based AI startup, has launched with $70 million in seed funding to provide developers with realistic and responsive synthetic voices for applications. The company specializes in ultra-low latency audio models and launches with multilingual support, aiming to serve a global ma...
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Can Tech Save the Bourbon Industry From Turmoil?
Many traditional whiskey distilleries prioritize heritage and hands-on methods, but this can lead to inconsistencies and quality issues due to a lack of technological control. The bourbon industry often involves interdependence, with many brands sourcing whiskey from large producers or using cont...
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Apple's Vision Pro Headset Development Reportedly Paused
Apple is reportedly halting development on its Vision Pro headset and affordable Vision Air model to pivot entirely toward creating smart glasses, reflecting a major strategic shift. The decision follows tepid market reception for the high-cost Vision Pro, which faced challenges with consumer int...
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Celonis & Cavalis Launch App to Optimize Manufacturing Portfolios
Celonis and Cavalis have launched a Product Portfolio Optimisation app that provides real-time, data-driven insights to help manufacturers streamline operations and boost revenue. The app integrates data from multiple sources to create a digital twin of the product lifecycle, featuring Bill of Ma...
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Australia Poised to Become World's Second-Largest Rare Earth Supplier
Australia is poised to become the world's second-largest rare earth supplier, capitalizing on growing demand for these elements in renewable energy and technology sectors, with projections to meet 15-20% of global neodymium and praseodymium demand outside China. China currently dominates the rare...
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Humanoids: The Future That's Not Quite Here
Experts caution that humanoid robotics faces significant technological and safety hurdles, including a lack of dexterity and risks in human environments, which may lead to an investment bubble. The development of humanoid robots is highly uncertain and complex, with slow real-world progress and c...
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Dbrand's Cosmic Orange Skins Now Available for Android
Dbrand has released Cosmic Orange skins, extending the popular iPhone 17 Pro color to a wide range of Android and Apple devices, allowing users to coordinate their tech with a vibrant citrus aesthetic. The skins are available for numerous brands and products, including Samsung, Google Pixel, and ...
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Valve's New Steam Machine Aims to Fix Past Mistakes
Valve is launching a new Steam Machine in 2026 to reintroduce PC gaming to living rooms, addressing past failures by expanding the game catalogue and simplifying developer support. The company has developed Proton, a compatibility tool that allows Windows games to run on Linux, removing technical...
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Ferrari Unveils Its 1000-HP Electric Supercar
Ferrari has unveiled the technology for its first fully electric supercar, featuring a 1000-horsepower powertrain, a top speed of 193 mph, and an estimated 329-mile WLTP range, with a unique acoustic system that uses real powertrain vibrations for sound. The electric model, potentially named "Ele...
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Ferrari Testarossa Reborn: 1035hp Plug-In Hybrid
The new Ferrari 849 Testarossa is a plug-in hybrid that combines a 4-liter turbocharged V8 engine with three electric motors, producing a total of 1,035 horsepower. It accelerates from 0–62 mph in under 2.3 seconds, reaches a top speed of 205 mph, and offers all-electric driving for about 15 mile...
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Meta Ray-Ban rivals: Better, cheaper alternatives tested
The Rokid Glasses are a globally available, more affordable alternative to the Meta Ray-Ban Display, offering unique features like superior comfort, a lighter weight, and broader prescription lens support. Rokid excels in capabilities such as live translation across 89 languages, versatile photog...
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Vibe-Coding Startup Anything Hits $100M Valuation After $2M ARR Launch
Vibe coding, which uses AI tools to build applications via simple prompts, is rapidly growing, with companies like Lovable and Replit achieving massive revenue increases in under a year. Despite their success, these platforms often struggle to help users launch fully functional, production-ready ...
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