Quizzes! Lists! Quizlists! Okay, I made the last one up. My point is, it seems like publishers are always trying something new to keep visitors clicking and reading. But if you don’t have a giant pile of cash from investors, it can be tough to keep up. Hence the launch of a new product called Boombox was created by a Lehi, Utah-based startup called Movement Ventures (note: not actually… Read More
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Today, Alphabet beat Q3 earnings projections.
During the earnings call, Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the (micro)phone (for the first time) to discuss the business and product highlights from the quarter. It was a pleasant addition after a strong showing at last month’s hardware event. Read More
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Today following the bell, Alaphabet reported its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $18.68 billion in revenue, and adjusted per-share profit of $7.35. Analysts had expected the company to earn an adjusted $7.21 on revenue of $18.53 billion. The company’s revenue ticked up 13 percent compared to its year-ago quarter. Cash flow sits at a strong $6 billion. Up over… Read More
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Education startup General Assembly, hot off raising a monster $70M round of funding, has partnered with Google to offer an immersive course on Android development. It’s 12 weeks, full-time and will start being offered next year in NYC (January) and San Francisco (February), expanding to other campuses as the year goes on. The cost for students? $13,500, which can be financed. This is… Read More
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Instagram doesn’t want its feed getting stale, but doesn’t want to bloat its app with extra features either. So today it’s launching Boomerang on iOS and Android. It’s a dead-simple app where you shoot a one-second burst of five photos that are turned into a silent video that plays forwards and then reverses over and over in a loop. Boomerangs are automatically saved… Read More
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Taiwan is a small country filled with passionate gamers. The island nation has a population of just 23 million, but almost one-fifth—or 4.5 million people—use Twitch every month. In Taipei alone, Twitch viewers stream over a billion minutes a month in total, making it the company’s top city in terms of hours viewed. Read More
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Kinetic charging battery startup Ampy — which makes a wearable spare battery pack charged by human movement — has closed an $875,000 seed round led by Clean Energy Trust and NewGen Ventures. The Chicago-based startup says it will be using the new funding to work on shrinking its tech to fit wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers, with the aim of expanding beyond… Read More
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Gone is the little wing in Shyp’s logo. The company is going through a major overhaul that not only changes the look and feel of the app, but also the way the entire company looks. It’s essentially a rebranding geared toward better demonstrating the company’s core competencies, CEO Kevin Gibbon said. “We’ve been working on this for over a year, and the reason… Read More
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Apple has plunged billions of dollars into making its global operations more efficient with renewable energy. The bulk of that push, which has won praise from Greenpeace, has come in the U.S. and Europe, but today Apple unveiled a suite of initiatives designed to make its business in China — the country where its revenue is positively booming — greener, too. Read More
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