November 10, 2015
Apple Music Comes To Android As An Emissary
Today, Apple Music comes to Android phones. It’s the first user-centric app that Apple has created for Android (but not its first). As people download and dissect it,…
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November 10, 2015
Twitter Sees 6% Increase In “Like” Activity After First Week Of Hearts
Speaking at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco today, Twitter’s SVP of Product, Kevin Weil, shared with the crowd that the new hearts aren’t stopping activity. In…
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Slew Of New Virtual Reality Titles Available Alongside Samsung Gear VR
As we reported earlier, you can now pre-order your Samsung Gear VR. It’s a device that’s going to unlock virtual reality for a lot of consumers, even though…
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Google Maps Gets Offline Navigation And Search
It’s 8am and you’re in your garage. You have to head into a different direction today, but you can’t fire up Google Maps until you’ve left the garage,…
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Airbnb Safety Practices Challenged By Story Of A Father’s Death
Journalist Zak Stone recently published a gripping, thought-provoking account of his father’s death while staying at an Airbnb rental in Texas. As told by Stone, his family was…
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Trim Will Find Your Subscriptions, Cancel Those You No Longer Want
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Birchbox, Spotify, HBO NOW, newspapers, box of the month clubs, meal services, and more: The rise of subscription-based commerce means consumers now pay for a number of…
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Enterprise Tech Vendors Explore Strategies To Fight Disruption
We are in the midst of a tectonic shift in enterprise technology as the cloud has an ever-growing impact on how businesses provision infrastructure and software. Established vendors…
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Google Expands Its VR Program For Students To More U.S. Schools
Earlier this year, Google announced its so-called Expeditions Pioneer Program. This project aims to bring Google’s Cardboard VR viewer to students by bringing a full kit of gear for using…
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Hullabalu Raises $2.5 Million For Its Interactive Storytelling App For Kids
The iPad helped introduce the concept of interactive books, where stories are accompanied by games and other tappable animations to complement their tales. But a company called Hullabalu offers a twist.…
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Microsoft Goes For Another Israeli Security Firm Buying Secure Islands
Israel is a small country with a thriving security startup industry, and Microsoft appears to be have a taste for them. Today it announced an agreement to buy Secure…
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