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November 1, 2018

Report: the cost to acquire a customer for subscription-based apps is $86.99, down 46.4% YoY, with engagement for subscription-based apps up 32% YoY (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Report: the cost to acquire a customer for subscription-based apps is $86.99, down 46.4% YoY, with engagement for subscription-based apps up 32% YoY — Mobile users are embracing the subscription model, with considerable momentum gained from last year, according to the Mobile App Engagement Index produced … Report: the cost to

November 1, 2018

This Day in Deals: ‘Magic’ security cameras for evading sorcerers

This Day In Deals is our new section where we share a historical fact and the day’s best deal – and try to connect them. The aim? To enrich ourselves financially, and you spiritually. The Tempest might not be Shakespeare’s best-known play, but it’s one of my favorites. By the way, yes, you’re right, I am

Spotify hits 87 million subscribers, keeping it the world's biggest streaming music service – CNET

Assuming Apple didn’t secretly sprint into the lead… Spotify hits 87 million subscribers, keeping it the world's biggest streaming music service – CNET Source: CNet

Alas, the Blockchain Won’t Save Journalism After All

Hype around the technology has led to incomprehensible applications of it. Alas, the Blockchain Won’t Save Journalism After All Source: NY Times Tech

November 1, 2018

Spotify meets expectations in Q3 with revenue of €1.35B, up 31% YoY, adds 4M premium subscribers in the quarter for a total of 87M, and reports 191M total MAUs (Reuters)

Reuters: Spotify meets expectations in Q3 with revenue of €1.35B, up 31% YoY, adds 4M premium subscribers in the quarter for a total of 87M, and reports 191M total MAUs — LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Spotify (SPOT.N), the world’s most popular paid music streaming service … Spotify meets expectations in Q3 with revenue of €1.35B, up

iPhone XR vs. Pixel 3: Which phone has the best camera? – CNET

Two phones. Two cameras. One winner. iPhone XR vs. Pixel 3: Which phone has the best camera? – CNET Source: CNet

See photos from the iPhone XR and Pixel 3 – CNET

Compare these photos from the Apple iPhone XR and Google Pixel 3 to see which ones you prefer. See photos from the iPhone XR and Pixel 3 – CNET Source: CNet

Drawing On an OLED with an ATtiny85, No RAM Buffers Allowed

Small I2C OLED displays are common nowadays, and thanks to the work of helpful developers, there are also a variety of graphics libraries for using them. Most of them work by using a RAM buffer, which means that anything one wants to draw gets written to a buffer representing the screen, and the contents of

Eye of Sauron watches over San Francisco for Halloween – CNET

The dark lord’s eye sat atop the Salesforce Tower for All Hallows’ Eve. Eye of Sauron watches over San Francisco for Halloween – CNET Source: CNet

November 1, 2018

New Zealand bank used blockchain to send meat to South Korea

A prominent bank has claimed a piece of New Zealand’s exporting history, by sending some meat to Korea and tracking it with its fancy new blockchain system. ASB, a subsidiary of Australia’s Commonwealth Bank, says it has conducted New Zealand’s first “bank blockchain” trade. Kiwi meat exporter Greenlea Premier Meats conducted the meat trade with

November 1, 2018

Morgan Stanley says Bitcoin is a new type of asset

Sometimes it seems institutions and governments spend more time trying to figure out how Bitcoin should be classified, rather than actually doing anything with it. Well, global investment bank Morgan Stanley is the latest to stick their oar in, claiming that Bitcoin has become an institutional investment class, CoinDesk reports. Basically this means its a

November 1, 2018

Sources: Apple held preliminary talks with radio broadcaster iHeartMedia about an equity stake or a marketing partnership to boost its music streaming service (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Apple held preliminary talks with radio broadcaster iHeartMedia about an equity stake or a marketing partnership to boost its music streaming service — Apple is turning to traditional broadcasting to boost its streaming service, exploring a tie-up with iHeartMedia … Sources: Apple held preliminary talks with radio broadcaster iHeartMedia about an equity

November 1, 2018

Police are outsourcing criminal-catching to IoT in Dutch ports

The Internet of Trucks is here. Or, to be, more specific: the internet of tarpaulins. Industrial textile company Sioen is currently developing smart truck tarpaulins that notify security when someone tries to cut through it. It’s one of three new innovations created for the project PASSAnT, a Dutch-Belgian initiative by Interreg to deal with crime

Apple Kernel Code Vulnerability Affected All Devices

Another day, another vulnerability. Discovered by [Kevin Backhouse], CVE-2018-4407 is a particularly serious problem because it is present all throughout Apple’s product line, from the Macbook to the Apple Watch. The flaw is in the XNU kernel shared by all of these products. This is a buffer overflow issue in the error handling for network packets.

November 1, 2018

Mobile e-commerce mistakes all entrepreneurs should avoid to stay relevant

Mobile management is the way of the future. Statista estimates that by 2021, mobile e-commerce will make up 54% of U.S. e-commerce sales, making effective mobile sites a vital element for e-commerce companies. To find out which e-commerce mobile mistakes should be avoided to stay relevant, I asked a panel of entrepreneurs from YEC the following question:

November 1, 2018

Twitter is finally giving our chronological timelines back

We might finally get what’ve been asking for from Twitter: a chronological timeline. The company tweeted saying it’s testing a button to display tweets by post time, instead of showing an algorithmically picked feed. According to Jack Dorsey, the company’s CEO, this feature is currently available to only a small number of iOS users and

Amazon to open second 4-star store, bringing it to Denver area – CNET

The store, which opens Thursday, includes stuff that’s 4 stars and above, are top sellers, or are new and trending on Amazon’s website. Amazon to open second 4-star store, bringing it to Denver area – CNET Source: CNet

State of the Art: How Mark Zuckerberg Became Too Big to Fail

Facebook has had a turbulent two years. But almost no one in tech thinks Mr. Zuckerberg, the social network’s chief executive, should step down from the company he built. State of the Art: How Mark Zuckerberg Became Too Big to Fail Source: NY Times Tech

November 1, 2018

Social platforms and Silicon Valley Funders operate with sloppy disregard of the consequences of hate speech, unwilling to lose users and hurt their bottom line (Kara Swisher/New York Times)

Kara Swisher / New York Times: Social platforms and Silicon Valley Funders operate with sloppy disregard of the consequences of hate speech, unwilling to lose users and hurt their bottom line — This is what the internet has come to: thugs like Mohammed bin Salman funding tech companies to host the vitriol of thugs like

All the planets found by NASA's Kepler space telescope – CNET

Spoiler: There was a lot of them. All the planets found by NASA's Kepler space telescope – CNET Source: CNet

Corporate Badgelife: Oracle’s Code Card

We tend to think of elaborate electronic conference badges as something limited to the hacker scene, but it looks like the badgelife movement is starting to hit the big time. Now even the “big boys” are getting into the act, and pretty soon you won’t be able to go to a stuffy professional conference without

Robots will deliver your mail in Norway – CNET

They move at terrifying speeds of 6 kilometres per hour. Robots will deliver your mail in Norway – CNET Source: CNet

October 31, 2018

Line Games, chat app Line's gaming division, raises $110M from Anchor Equity Partners; Anchor acquires 27.5% stake, dilutes Line's holdings to a minority 41.7% (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)

Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Line Games, chat app Line’s gaming division, raises $110M from Anchor Equity Partners; Anchor acquires 27.5% stake, dilutes Line’s holdings to a minority 41.7% — Messaging app firm Line has given up majority control of its Line Games business after it raised outside financing to expand … Line Games, chat app

October 31, 2018

WhatsApp's VP Chris Daniels confirms WhatsApp will put ads in its 'Status' section, but declined to provide a timeline (NDTV Gadgets 360)

NDTV Gadgets 360: WhatsApp’s VP Chris Daniels confirms WhatsApp will put ads in its ‘Status’ section, but declined to provide a timeline — Clearing the air on Facebook’s monetisation efforts towards WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service’s Vice President Chris Daniels on Wednesday said the company … WhatsApp's VP Chris Daniels confirms WhatsApp will put ads

Scientists confirm there's a 'supermassive black hole' at the centre of our galaxy – CNET

Scientists are calling it “mind-boggling”. Scientists confirm there's a 'supermassive black hole' at the centre of our galaxy – CNET Source: CNet

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