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Snapchat Acquires AI Factory for $166M to Boost Cameos Feature
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Rivian includes $1.3 billion in financing for its electrical service and adventure vehicles
The American automotive technology startup Rivian has put $1.3 billion in new funding, the company announced. More About The Latest Funding The latest investment is the fourth round of capital declared by the company in 2019 alone, following previous announcements of $700 million led by...
A Twitter app glitch was employed to meet 17 million phone numbers to user accounts
A safety researcher said he had equaled 17 million phone numbers to Twitter user accounts by exploiting a defect in Twitter’s Android app. Ibrahim Balic saw that it was feasible to upload complete lists of created phone numbers by Twitter’s contacts upload feature. He said...
Coral Raises $4.3M for Innovative Home Manicure Machine
Coral is a company that desires to “simplify the special care space through intelligent automation,” and they have accumulated $4.3 million to get it done. Their initial goal? An at-home, entirely automated machine for decorating your nails. How Does Coral Work? Put a finger in,...
