BloomThat Grows Beyond Flower Delivery To Gifts With $5.5M fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 BloomThat wants to be the “Make someone happy” button. Open its app, choose between a few curated bouquets, and a beautiful flower arrangement is delivered to someone you care about in 90 minutes. Y Combinator fertilized the startup in 2013 before it raised $2.1 million from SV Angel and Ashton Kutcher’s A-Grade to blossom in the SF Bay Area. Now BloomThat has found roots in… Read More

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Says Alibaba Spinoff Is Still On Track Despite Potential Tax Risks fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said that potential changes in the way its Alibaba spinoff could be taxed would not be an issue as the company continues its proposed spinoff of its Alibaba assets. Yahoo shares fell sharply in May when there were reports that the IRS could change how it might tax spinoffs. That would effect Yahoo’s planned spin-off of its Alibaba assets, which it still owns a… Read More

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Super Mario Maker Will Let You Build Your Own Mario Levels This September fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Nintendo is letting players take control of its Mario platform game building tools with Super Mario Maker, and now we know when it’ll be available: September 11, 2015. The “game” allows people to create their own levels in either Super Mario Bros 8-bit graphics, or more modern 3D style (albeit with the same mechanics underneath), and then play them instantly. During their… Read More

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Dick Costolo Dances Around The Question Of Who Will Lead Twitter Next fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Dick Costolo stepped down as Twitter’s CEO last week, and since then theories about who will lead Twitter next have flown throughout the Internet. Costolo, on stage at the Bloomberg Tech conference, still didn’t have a good answer about who would be running Twitter next — and emphasized that there is an active search for a new CEO. He announced he would be stepping down as… Read More

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Hulu Officially Drops The “Plus,” But Service Remains The Same fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 As promised earlier this spring at the NewFronts, Hulu is now officially dropping the “Plus” branding from its service in order to eliminate consumer confusion about the streaming video service. The change is being communicated to Hulu customers by way of an email message, rolling out now. Nothing else is changing with regard to the Hulu service, however – it will still… Read More

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Nintendo Shows Off Star Fox Zero For Wii U With GamePad Aiming fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Nintendo kicked off its special ‘Digital Event’ at E3 2015 with a trailer for Star Fox Zero, the upcoming sci-fi fighter game based on Apple’s much-loved dogfighting title. The original Star Fox premiered on the Super Nintendo back in 1993, and its signature characters have appeared in sequels and in other games like Super Smash Brothers ever since. Star Fox Zero is the… Read More

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Box Integrates Into Office Online As The Cloud Company’s Bromance With Microsoft Continues fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Box has integrated into Microsoft’s Office Online product, burrowing the enterprise file storage and sharing company deeper into the latter firm’s cloud productivity offering. Previously, Box integrated into Microsoft’s Office 365 product. The move is a win for both firms: Box is now an easier sale to potential customers, presuming that those potential users are also… Read More

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Nod Labs Gets $13.5 Million In Funding To Push Nod Backspin, A Gaming Ring To Rule VR Headsets fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Gesture recognition and motion tracking hardware startup Nod Labs has raised $13.5 million in Series A funding to market the latest addition to its ring controller family – the Nod Backspin. Nod released a gestured controlled ring that could work with almost any Bluetooth-enabled device in 2014. The Nod Backspin is the second iteration of that ring and comes complete with gaming… Read More

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Tidemark Continues To Sail Along With $25M In New Funding fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Tidemark, the cloud financial planning platform announced $25 million in additional funding today along with some new growth numbers. Existing investors Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Tenaya Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank all participated in the round along with new investor, fellow cloud company Workday. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $100… Read More

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Reveal Picks Up $1.5M To Bring Cryptocurrency To The Mobile-Social Space fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Reveal, a startup focused on the mobile-social space, has raised a $1.5 million seed round. The capital event was led by Resolute Ventures, and participated in by Digital Currency Group and Boost VC, among others. The startup’s app is notable for two things: It’s interesting, and fun question and answer format, and that the company is using a cryptocurrency, backed by its own… Read More

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Twitter Now Autoplays Video And GIFs fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Twitter has introduced auto-playing video and animated GIFs to its official timelines in both the iOS application and on the web, with support for the feature coming to the Android app soon. The feature means that you’ll see native video uploaded directly to Twitter, Vines and GIFs uploaded to the service playback instantly as you scroll – similar to how video works on Facebook.… Read More

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Misfit Debuts An Online Dashboard For Tracking Health And Fitness Activity Across Devices fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Misfit has long since expanded its product line beyond its original Shine fitness tracker and now offers a range of devices from the more affordable “Flash” to the pricier Swarovski Shine collection, as well as connected smart bulbs and the “Beddit” sleep monitoring system. Today, the company is introducing a new feature that will allow users to make better sense of… Read More

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Google’s App Engine For PHP Hits General Availability fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Google’s App Engine for PHP is now out of beta and generally available on the company’s platform as a service offering. This means PHP apps are now covered by Google’s App Engine service level agreement and deprecation policy. No matter what you think about PHP, it remains one of the most popular programming languages on the Web and thanks to projects like… Read More

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Nvidia Shield Review: The Best Way To Experience Android TV fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 The new Shield (not to be confused with the old Shield, which is now the Shield portable) is an over-the-top box that uses Android TV to provide access to a range of mobile apps and games formatted for the big screen. But it does more than that, thanks to powerful gaming features that work with Nvidia services to give this small streamer powers akin to the top home gaming consoles. Video… Read More

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Pinterest Releases A Small Update To Streamline Its Search Experience fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Pinterest is releasing a small update to its search engine that’s designed to make the process a little simpler for its users. These updates are small, but even these little refinements bring Pinterest closer and closer to being a more powerful search engine that can be highly competitive and differentiated from other forms of search on the Internet. Guided Search, which launched in… Read More

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Flipboard Users Can Now Add Their Own Voice, Opinions And Photos To Their Magazines fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Mobile news magazine app Flipboard may be putting on a brave face in the wake of new competition from iOS 9’s forthcoming News app, practically a Flipboard clone. But there’s no doubt that the service needs to continue to innovate as it prepares to go up against a built-in alternative soon to arrive on millions of iPhones. This morning, the company announced one way it plans to… Read More

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Techstars Buys UP Global, The Non-Profit Behind Startup Weekend fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Techstars — the startup incubator that has built up a network of programs across the U.S. and Europe and specific verticals like health and education — is expanding once again. The company has acquired UP Global, the non-profit group that organizes the entrepreneur events Startup Weekend, Startup Week, Startup Next, and Startup Digest. Terms of the deal, which closed on Monday,… Read More

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Starbucks Mobile Ordering Expands To 21 More States, Now Live In Over 4,000 Stores fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Starbucks, whose embrace of mobile payments and mobile loyalty in-store has already established the company as a forward-thinker when it comes to new technology, is this morning announcing the expansion of its “Mobile Order & Pay” system to 21 more states, including 3,400 individual café locations across the U.S. The feature allows customers to place their order and pay… Read More

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Instacart Adds Smart & Final To Its Retailers fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Instacart has added Smart & Final to the list of retailers it works with for its food delivery service. Like many other on-demand startups, a company like Instacart can grow its overall footprint by expanding to new cities and, like today, adding new retailers. Instacart now has more than 70 retailers that it works with. Instacart in December raised $210 million in a financing round… Read More

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Extreme Fliers Launches Crowdfunder For A Meerkat Drone fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 ExtremeFliers are back crowdfunding the third generation of their micro drone. This time the teeny quadcopter will be able to livestream footage straight to Meerkat. Or it will if they raise the $75,000+ they’re looking for via Indiegogo. Read More

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Sketchfab, The Platform For 3D Files, Lands $7M Series A Led By FirstMark fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Sketchfab, the online platform for 3D file sharing, has today announced the close of a $7 million Series A round led by FirstMark Capital. Existing investors TechStars, Balderton, Partech and Borealis also participated in the Series A round. At its core, Sketchfab is a marketplace for 3D files, whether it lies in creating web-sharable 3D files, browsing them, searching specifically, or… Read More

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This Range Rover Prototype Can Be Driven By A Smartphone App fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 There are remote control cars and then there are Remote Control Cars. This is the latter of the two. Range Rover UK developed a prototype system that allows a Range Rover Sport to be controlled remotely through a smartphone app. And not just the door locks. The vehicle can be driven from the app. Read More

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Bloom Launches With A New Way To Connect Parents, Grandparents, and Children fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 After several months of development, the Google Ventures and FKA-backed bloom, is unveiling its first generation of products aimed to combat dementia, and (perhaps equally as important) the disintegration of communication among families. Read More

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Ex-Googlers Raise $6M For Connectifier, An AI Approach To Recruitment Search fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Sites like LinkedIn and and Monster.com have become online mainstays both for people looking for jobs and also companies looking to find the right people to fill a role. Now a new startup hopes to turn the recruitment process on its head through artificial intelligence and powerful search software that crawls across many sources at once to build up some 300 million online profiles to find… Read More

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BlackSky Global Wants To Launch 60 Satellites To Give You a Near Real-Time View Of Earth fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 We’re all familiar with the kind of satellite imagery on Google Maps and similar services at this point. Those images, however, are only updated every few months. BlackSky Global, a “satellite-imaging-as-a-service” startup based in Seattle, wants to launch a fleet of 60 satellites to provide its customers with a near real-time view wide swaths of the planet and sell those… Read More

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With $44 Million In Funding, Biotech Startup Zymergen Is Buying Up Robots To Mass Produce Materials From Microbes fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 The mostly under-the-radar biotech startup Zymergen has gone about making microbial DNA manipulating robots for the last couple of years. It has now raised a total of $44 million to use these microbes to manufacture chemicals and new materials for various large industries. Zymergen had raised an undisclosed $2 million seed near the time of its founding in 2013. It has just closed another… Read More

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Watch Nintendo’s E3 Press Event Live Right Here fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Nintendo’s E3 press event happens at 9 AM PT today (12 PM ET), and the company is in a tough position as both Microsoft and Sony delivered solid conferences. In particular, Sony tried to break the Internet with a lengthy Last Guardian trailer, a Final Fantasy VII HD remake and a Shenmue 3 Kickstarter campaign. Read More

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Google Launches Bug Bounty Program For Android With Rewards Up To $8,000 fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Google today announced the launch of a security rewards program for Android at Black Hat’s Mobile Security Summit in London. The Android program will only cover vulnerabilities that affect Nexus phone and tablets available for sale in the Google Play Store, though. Right now, that’s the Nexus 6 phone and Nexus 9 tablet. Read More

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French IoT Startup Actility Raises $25M From Foxconn, Orange And More fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Startup activity in France around Internet of Things continues to heat up. Following yesterday’s news that Samsung had taken an investment in Sigfox, today another IoT startup, Actility, announced that it has raised €22.5 million ($25 million), led by Ginko Ventures, the European investment arm of Foxconn. Others in the round include the carriers Orange (which has disclosed a €3… Read More

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‘La Ruche Qui Dit Oui’ Scores $9 Million From USV And Felix Capital For Its Local Food Marketplace fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Forget about your supermarket and buy directly from your local farmers and foodmakers. French startup La Ruche qui dit oui (also known as The Food Assembly in the U.K.) has been making waves in its home country for a while now. But it seems like international investors also got the word as Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures and Frédéric Court from Felix Capital are leading a $9… Read More

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Microsoft Opens A Branded Store On Indian E-Commerce Platform Snapdeal fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Microsoft has launched its own branded store on Snapdeal, one of India’s top e-commerce sites, as it aims to grow its share of the country’s fast-growing mobile market. Read More

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Doppel Is A Wearable That Puts A Pulse On Your Pulse fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 The wacky world of wearables has a new would-be entrant: meet doppel, a wrist-worn device that’s not a smartwatch, not a fitness tracker, and not (just) a heart-rate monitor. It’s a psychophysiology wearable for people who want to be able to influence how they’re feeling via a tactile rhythm. Read More

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Two Days Left To Sign Up For Limited 2-for-1 Tickets To Disrupt London fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

While it may seem far away, Disrupt London will be here before you know it. Disrupt London 2015 takes place December 7-8 at the Copper Box Arena in London, and you aren’t going to want to miss the show. With this year’s Disrupt, we are giving you the unprecedented opportunity to purchase a limited supply of tickets at the special rate of two for the price of one, but you need to… Read More

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“Optimize Everything” Startup SigOpt Raises $2M From A16Z And Data Collective fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Y Combinator-incubated SigOpt is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The company’s aim is to help customers optimize anything, whether it’s an ad campaign or a formula for shaving cream. In fact, co-founder and CEO Scott Clark (pictured above) told me that his newer customers include Pembient, a bioengineering company that creates synthetic… Read More

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BitReserve Launches API For Its Currency Conversions And Payments Platform fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 BitReserve, the currency conversion and transaction platform based on Bitcoin that was launched by CNet founder Halsey Minor, has created a platform for application programming interfaces (APIs) and has signed agreements with partners who are using the service. Read More

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Beauty Booking Site Wahanda Raises Another $65M, Buys ZenSoon To Expand Into France fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Wahanda, the startup out of the UK that has built a platform for beauty salons and consumers to find and book appointments based on time and location, continues on its march to expand by rolling up regional rivals. Today the company is announcing that it has picked up a further $65 million in funding, and that it is buying ZenSoon, a beauty platform in France.  The $65 million is coming… Read More

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Hey Asian Startups, Apply For Our Startup Battlefield Competition In San Francisco fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 TechCrunch has come a long way in 10 years. As well as covering the most important tech news from the U.S. and Europe, we very much into Asia. We have two writers in the region — Catherine Shu and yours truly — but, beyond covering news from Asia, we want to show case startups from this part of the world. Read More

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Google Play Prepaid Vouchers Are Now Available In India For Users Without Credit Cards fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 India is one of Android’s fastest-growing markets, but its extremely low credit card penetration rate is a challenge for Google as it goes after sweet, sweet app revenue. The tech giant is taking several steps to make it easier for people to purchase from Google Play, however, and the latest is the launch of prepaid voucher cards. Read More

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Shenmue 3 Raises More Than $1M On Kickstarter In Less Than Three Hours fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Fans let out a collective squeal of joy when Shenmue 3 was announced at Sony’s E3 conference and then rushed to pledge their support on Kickstarter. In just three hours, the campaign has raised more than $1.36 million, more than half of its $2 million goal, from about 16,000 backers. Read More

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Adobe Updates Creative Cloud With Dehaze Tool For Photoshop and Lightroom, Photoshop Artboards, Adobe Stock Integration And More fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Adobe’s Creative Cloud may be a subscription service with updates that roll out at regular intervals, but once a year, the company also announces a major update to all of the Creative Cloud apps. This year’s milestone update brings a number of new features to virtually all of the Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and others, but it… Read More

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Adobe Launches Stock Photo Service With Deep Creative Cloud Integration fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Adobe today unveiled Adobe Stock, a stock imagery service with deep integration into Creative Cloud tools like Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro. This marks the company’s first foray into the stock content business, and the new product is the result of Adobe’s acquisition of the Fotolia stock content marketplace, which closed fewer than six months ago. Read More

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Watch Conan Play Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer With The Cast Of Silicon Valley fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Conan got to play Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer before you did, and he played it with three of his own crew including Andy Richter, against three of the stars of Silicon Valley, including Thomas Middleditch, TJ Miller and Zach Woods. Basically everyone’s incompetent, but it still looks like a great game. The game was on stage today at Microsoft’s E3 2015 event, where a huge new… Read More

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Sony To Become First Company To Offer A La Carte TV Service With The PlayStation Vue fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Today at Sony’s E3 2015 press conference the company announced that it will unbundle its Vue streaming channels and offer the stations a le carte. In doing so, Sony becomes the first provider to offer (at least some) TV stations to the American consumer without bundles. Details are still a bit fuzzy but it seems clear-cut. Subscribers will be able to choose which stations they want in… Read More

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PlayStation Will Have Four-Player Local Morpheus VR Multiplayer At E3 2015 fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Sony is showing off a live four-player local multiplayer mode for its Morpheus virtual reality headset for PlayStation 4 at E3 2015 this year. This marks the first time the company has had this kind of multiplayer experience ready for people to actually try out with a real game, including a new game called Rigs for 3v3 multiplayer arena battles. Virtual reality is coming much closer to… Read More

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Money Transfer Startup Azimo Raises $20M At A $100M Valuation fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 Azimo, a mobile money transfer startup out of London that was once feted by Facebook, is jumping into the funding ring with a $20 million raise. CEO and co-founder Michael Kent says the company will use the investment to continue to build out its operations across Europe and deeper into the community of migrants who already form the bedrock of its services. While Azimo — which was… Read More

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Final Fantasy VII Next-Gen HD Remake Coming To PS4 First fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 A full-scale next-gem console remake the game everyone in the world loves more than anything is coming to PlayStation 4 first: Final Fantasy VII is the game, and based on footage shown during the PlayStation press event at E3 2015 this year, it’s very, very good-looking. The game was originally released in 1999 for the original PlayStation, and is basically the best-loved title in the… Read More

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PlayStation 4 To Finally Gain Media Playback Capability Tonight fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 The PlayStation 4 will soon stream content from DLNA source or connected USB device. The update comes tonight. Finally. Sony announced the impending update in a pre-show to its E3 press conference. The update will start rolling out to PS4s tonight, but as with updates, your millage could very. But soon, very soon, one of the most requested PS3 features will finally hit the next generation.… Read More

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PlayStation 4 Will Finally Get The Last Guardian In 2016 fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 The Last Guardian, the long-awaited spiritual successor to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, is coming to PlayStation 4. The game was originally made official back in 2009, and has been in development since 2007, and if you don’t know about it you’re probably a bad person. Just kidding, but really the previous two games put out by the studio behind The Last Guardian, Team Ico, are… Read More

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The Growth Equity In Venture Capital fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 The technology industry is booming and contrary to popular belief, it’s not just early stage venture funding that’s steering the ship. Helping to propel this rapid expansion is actually another group of investors who specialize in growing established companies and taking them to the next level, aptly named “growth equity.” Read More

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Twitter Tests App Install Ads On News And Other Profile Pages fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 While Apple is rethinking how it aggregates, filters and presents news to iPhone and iPad users, Twitter is also sharpening its focus on news media, while also honing the kinds of ads it presents to its users. We have found that the social network is currently running a new kind of app install ad on the mobile versions of profile pages for select news sites, a card that gives users… Read More

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TC AppleCast 18: El Cap And WWDC Recap fifianahutapea.blogspot.com

 This week’s AppleCast is actually last week’s, and it’s us recapping the WWDC announcements, including iOS 9, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Apple Music and watchOS 2. We also dive a little more deeply into 10.11 now that we’ve had some time with it. We cover the watchOS 2 pending updates in some detail, too, and specifically address the new Time Travel and Complications… Read More

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