Author: Tech Support

    • Groups360, a booking engine for meeting spaces founded in 2014, raises $50M from Marriott International, IHG, Accor, and Hilton, bringing total raised to ~$55M (Andrew Sheivachman/Skift)

    Andrew Sheivachman / Skift: Groups360, a booking engine for meeting spaces founded in 2014, raises $50M from Marriott International, IHG, Accor, and Hilton, bringing total raised to ~$55M  —  The hotel industry has had a tough time improving the painful process of selling event space and room blocks to meeting planners. Groups360, a booking engine

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    Software development is broken — here’s how to fix it

    {$inline_image}In the software industry, the product development cycle is broken. It’s costly. It’s laborious. And too often, product teams fail to meet their customers’ needs. And this is especially true in the business-to-business market. More than one in three “enterprise projects” — those solutions created for entire organizations, rather than individuals — come in over

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    • Interview with CEO of Razer, a gaming PC maker with 70M registered user accounts, which has steadily increased its share of revenue from software and services (Chua Kong Ho/South China Morning Post)

    Chua Kong Ho / South China Morning Post: Interview with CEO of Razer, a gaming PC maker with 70M registered user accounts, which has steadily increased its share of revenue from software and services  —  Gaming company Razer reported a narrower loss in the first six months CEO Min-Liang Tan says Razer is a gateway

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    • Australia’s plan to block sites hosting extremist content during crisis events seems flawed

    As countries continue to grapple with the rise of online extremism, Australia is taking its first step by cutting off access to any internet domain that hosts terrorist material during a crisis event. In addition to temporary bans, the government is reportedly considering legislation to force digital platforms to improve the safety of their services. Popular

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    • J.P. Morgan Chase says it will shut down its digital wallet app, Chase Pay, in early 2020, but will continue pushing the Chase Pay button in apps and on the web (Yun Li/CNBC)

    Yun Li / CNBC: J.P. Morgan Chase says it will shut down its digital wallet app, Chase Pay, in early 2020, but will continue pushing the Chase Pay button in apps and on the web  —  KEY POINTS  — The bank plans to add more retailers that accept Chase Pay through merchant apps including food

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    • Moonday Mornings: Binance to give KYC hack victims VIP accounts

    Welcome to Moonday Mornings. Let’s not waste anytime, here’s the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you can’t afford to miss. 1. With every passing week the outlook for Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra looks worse and worse. After meeting with Suisse financial regulators last week concerns still remain for representatives of the US Financial Services Committee.

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    • Founder of Spiderweb, which has been making indie games for 25+ years, explains the business and design reasons for still making games with a retro, quirky look (Jeff Vogel/The Bottom Feeder)

    Jeff Vogel / The Bottom Feeder: Founder of Spiderweb, which has been making indie games for 25+ years, explains the business and design reasons for still making games with a retro, quirky look  —  We spent years working on this game.  We’re betting our family’s future on it.  So.  Why does it look so bad?

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    • Megvii, a China-based facial recognition focused startup, files for a Hong Kong IPO; Megvii has raised $750M, reportedly at a $4B valuation, earlier this year (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

    Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Megvii, a China-based facial recognition focused startup, files for a Hong Kong IPO; Megvii has raised $750M, reportedly at a $4B valuation, earlier this year  —  KEY POINTS  —  An attendee uses his smartphone to record a facial-recognition demonstration on himself at the Beijing Megvii Co. booth … Megvii, a China-based

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    • Pew study: smartphone users in emerging markets have more diverse social networks than those without smartphones (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Pew study: smartphone users in emerging markets have more diverse social networks than those without smartphones  —  The latest study from Pew Research Center takes a look at the impact mobile technology, including the use of smartphones and social media, is having on the diversity of people’s social network in emerging

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    NES Gets A Slick Acrylic Casemod

    Those alive during the 1990s will remember the clear or “crystal” versions of various home consoles. Made with the usual injection molding processes, they usually came out somewhere closer to a smoky translucency and didn’t reveal much of the insides. [BitHead1000] likes to do things right though, and has busted out an awesome acrylic case

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