Alphabet’s provocative chief legal officer David Drummond is resigning, stating he has chosen to retire
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
The change of the keeper at Alphabet continues. It’s hardly been a month since Google originators Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced they would be moving away as the CEO and president of the search giant’s mother company. Now, one of their best leaders, Alphabet’s...
Instagram includes Boomerang effects as TikTok looms
Priyanka Khanapure,
6 years ago
2 min read
TikTok has produced innumerable memes formats from its creative effects, questioning Instagram for the filtered video crown. Now almost five years after starting Boomerang, Instagram’s back-and-forth video loop maker is eventually getting a big update to its editing opportunities. What Is Boomerang? Users throughout the...
Google is providing 3 months of Disney+ to new Chromebook buyers
Aditi Gade,
6 years ago
2 min read
Google is expecting to juice holiday sales of Chromebooks by turning on a subscription to the hot current streaming service, Disney+. The company on Monday stated that it would provide Chromebook buyers three free months of Disney+ with the buying of new devices. The Specifications ...
Snapchat Acquires AI Factory for $166M to Boost Cameos Feature
Priyanka Khanapure,
6 years ago
2 min read
In 2015, Snpacht obtained a Ukraine startup, Looksery to supercharge animated selfie lenses in Snapchat, replacing the filters game for every social video and photo apps. Now, Snap has made another purchase with sources in the country, co-founded by one of Looksery’s originators, to give...
TikTok’s income said to skyrocket above 300% in Q4
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
According to recently published third-party data, TikTok has the purpose of dancing. The Specifications The popular short-video application noticed its in-app purchase income rise 310% on year-over-year data, according to Apptopia, a startup that traces mobile app income and usage. The Boston-based startup has allocated...
Here is why Marc Benioff offered the AppStore.com domain to Steve Jobs
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
3 min read
In Marc Benioff’s novel, Trailblazer, he narrates the story of how Steve Jobs sowed the seeds of the concept that would become the primary enterprise app store, and how Benioff ultimately repaid Jobs with the gift of the AppStore.com domain. Salesforce Takes An Initiative While...
Tech’s most prominent businesses are worth ~$5T as 2019’s classic stock market wraps up
Priyanka Khanapure,
6 years ago
2 min read
Let’s take a look at how great tech stocks did last year. It did bonkers. So let’s note the year’s outcome with some records for our future selves. Yes, we understand that the Nasdaq has been establishing new records, and SaaS had a great year. ...
Spotify prototypes Tastebuds to improve social music exploration
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Spotify is prototyping a fresh way to view what companions have been hearing to, called “Tastebuds.” Despite how discovering music is essentially social, Spotify has no specialties for instantly interacting with friends in its mobile app following axing its inbox in 2017 and having its...
Pyka and its self-sufficient, electric crop-spraying drone acquire $11M seed round
Priyanka Khanapure,
6 years ago
2 min read
Modern agriculture includes areas of mind-boggling size, and spraying them properly is a severe operational challenge. Pyka Has A Solution Pyka is taking on the broadly human-powered spray business with a self-sufficient winged craft and, crucially, administrative approval. Just as we have observed with DroneSeed,...
Russia starts testing its internal Internet
Priyanka Khanapure,
6 years ago
2 min read
Russia has started testing a national internet system that would work as an alternative to the wider web, according to regional news reports. The Details of The Project Precisely what stage the country has entered is unclear, but surely the goal of a flexible and...