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Google launches three new photography apps for testing experimental technologies: Storyboard, Selfissimo!, and Scrubbies; two are on iOS and two on Android — Google today is launching a trio of new photo apps - a part of new series of what it has dubbed photography “appsperiments.” (Get it?| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple announces developers can now make their apps available for pre-order — You may recall that when Super Mario Run was announced in 2016, customers could request notification of its release, which was a first at the time on the App Store. Now, all developers can do something similar by offering their apps for pre-order.| TechCrunch: |
Apple confirms Shazam acquisition; sources say deal was for about $400M, and Snap and Spotify also expressed interest — After we broke the story last week that Apple was acquiring London-based music and image recognition service Shazam, Apple confirmed the news today.
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Apple's GymKit, which pairs an Apple Watch to fitness machines, makes its US debut in New York, will roll out to Equinox gyms in 2018 — Apple just made connecting to treadmills and ellipticals as easy as tapping your Apple Watch on a piece of gym equipment.| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: |
SEC chairman Jay Clayton releases statement on cryptocurrencies, says ICOs effective for raising funds “whether they represent offerings of securities or not” — SEC Chairman Jay Clayton — The world's social media platforms and financial markets are abuzz about cryptocurrencies and “initial coin offerings” (ICOs).
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Ex-Facebook VP of user growth and Social Capital CEO says social media is “destroying how society works” and leads to “no civil discourse, no cooperation” — ‘No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth.’ — Another former Facebook executive …
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AR Stickers launch inside the camera app on Pixel phones running Android 8.1, with animated Star Wars and Stranger Things characters, Foodmoji, more — Coming soon to a Pixel near you. — Alongside the update to Android 8.1, Google slipped in a feature originally shown off at the Pixel 2 launch event.
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A look at HQ-like trivia app The Q, which launched last week for iPhone and Android, and offers an average prize payout of $150 vs. HQ's $1K-$10K per game — Talking to the CEO of ‘The Q’—which looks a lot like another trivia app you might have heard of — In the four months that HQ has existed … | Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
How companies are using AI to automate HR and workforce management tasks, a shift that could lead to narrower roles for some managers — Companies are using artificial intelligence and other elements of the work-on-demand business model to automate workforce management tasks| Iron Mountain: |
Iron Mountain to buy IO Data Center's US operations for $1.315B, plus up to $60M based on future performance — Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in storage and information management services, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire … | Reuters: |
Amazon is expanding its cloud computing business in China with new partner NWCD, after AWS China sold its hardware assets to Beijing Sinnet in November — BEIJING (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it was expanding its cloud computing business in China with a new local partner …
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Source says Softbank to invest ~$500M in OneWeb, bringing its total investment in the company to $1.5B, ahead of OneWeb's internet satellite launch next year — New money would bring Japanese conglomerate's investment to $1.5 billion — Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 .83% has agreed …
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