Japanese electronics giant Sony on Thursday announced the launch of numerous hardware products in its portfolio at IFA 2018 in Berlin. These include the company’s latest flagship smartphone the Sony Xperia XZ3, the WH-1000XM3 noise-cancelling pair of wireless headphones, the DMP-Z1 digital music player, IER-Z1R in-ear stereo headphones, IER-M9 and ...
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Google Play Holiday Sale Features Discounts on Movies, Books, Comics, and More
Google Play’s holiday sale has deals across categories until January 2, 2019 Google Play has deals going across categories this holiday season. There are deals on apps, games, book, comics, movies, and more. Though these deals are meant for your Android devices, audio books, which also have discounts running will ...
Read More »Discord announces 90/10 revenue split for self-published titles on upcoming games store – TechCrunch
After gaming chat app startup Discord announced in August that they were building out a games store, today, they’ve detailed that they’ll be pursuing a very competitive 90/10 revenue split for self-published titles in 2019. In addition, the company revealed that they now have 200 million active users on their ...
Read More »A startup’s guide to CES – TechCrunch
The Consumer Electronics Show, like Burning Man, is a massive event in the middle of the desert. Also like Burning Man it is populated by some of the greatest minds in technology. But, unlike Burning Man, these people are all dressed and only a few of them are on hard ...
Read More »My product launch wishlist for Instagram, Twitter, Uber and more – TechCrunch
‘Twas the night before Xmas, and all through the house, not a feature was stirring from the designer’s mouse . . . Not Twitter! Not Uber, Not Apple or Pinterest! On Facebook! On Snapchat! On Lyft or on Insta! . . . From the sidelines I ask you to flex ...
Read More »Four ways to bridge the widening valley of death for startups – TechCrunch
Shahin Farshchi Contributor More posts by this contributor Building a great startup requires more than genius and a great invention Investing in frontier technology is (and isn’t) cleantech all over again Many founders believe in the myth that the first steps of starting a business are the hardest: Attracting the ...
Read More »Facebook Watch Now Available Globally on Desktop and Lite App, Ad Breaks Roll Out in 14 More Countries
Facebook Watch is now available globally on desktop and Lite app Facebook has announced that its video platform Watch has clocked 400 million users who view content at least for a minute per month. Out of these, 75 million users watch videos for least one minute per day with an ...
Read More »Xfinity takes out Ookla’s US broadband report
(Image: Ookla) The major city with the fastest fixed broadband in the United States is Kansas City, with the fastest state being New Jersey, according to Ookla. Ookla’s 2018 US Fixed Report, published on Wednesday, measured speeds from 24.3 million unique users, 66.7 million samples, 115.5 million tests, and 3.2 ...
Read More »Popular avatar app Boomoji exposed millions of users’ contact lists and location data
Popular animated avatar creator app Boomoji, with more than five million users across the world, exposed the personal data of its entire user base after it failed to put passwords on two of its internet-facing databases. The China-based app developer left the ElasticSearch databases online without passwords — a U.S.-based database ...
Read More »My Microsoft wish list for 2019
From a business perspective, Microsoft had a pretty good 2018. That’s especially true when you examine the company’s revenue, profits, stock price, and momentum against other giant tech companies, especially Apple, Google, and especially Facebook. Those three stalwarts of the once-mighty FAANG displayed rare weakness in 2018, while Microsoft looks ...
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