Logistics are difficult, especially when every day you’re trying to keep track of 9 meetings, 13 phone calls, a dinner, a post-dinner, and a post-post-dinner. In a recent update, Google has decided to do its part to make daily logistics easier by more fully integrating its Maps and Calendar offerings for Android users worldwide. Now when you open Google Maps, you’ll be able to… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/30/heres-how-you-can-stop-jumping-back-and-forth-between-googles-calendar-and-map-apps/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/151167328596 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com
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Facebook is stealing the Stories format and invading countries where Snapchat isn’t popular yet. Today in Poland it launched “Messenger Day”, which lets people share illustrated filter-enhanced photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours, just like on Snapchat. By using the international popularity of Messenger to spread the Stories format, Facebook could boost retention… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/30/messenger-day/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/151157914936 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com Security firm Avast has today confirmed the completion of a $1.4 billion acquisition of fellow Czech-based antivirus company AVG. The deal will see Avast’s customer base nearly double — swelling from 230 million to more than 400 million in total, 160M of whom are mobile users. Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/30/avast-ceo-on-why-its-just-spent-1-4bn-to-absorb-security-rival-avg/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/151142392861 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com Shazam, the mobile and desktop app that acts as a digital ear and song identifier, crossed the 1 billion download mark recently, according to a report from Billboard on Thursday. The London-based company, Shazam Entertainment Ltd., also announced that it has achieved profitability, at long last, thanks to a new focus on advertising sales, alongside revenue from commissions on digital… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/29/shazam-is-finally-profitable-after-a-billion-downloads/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/151126673801 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com SoundCloud as a company is a disaster, but its the only streaming service with the DJ sets and remixes kids love. So it makes perfect sense that Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud, the Financial Times reports. Spotify already declined to buy it twice over the past year and a half, but talks broke down over pricing. But since then, SoundCloud has hammered out deals with the… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/29/spoticloud-or-soundify/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/151126673076 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com MightyTV, an app that helps you figure out what to watch next, is now available on Android. The startup is led by AdMeld co-founder Brian Adams, and it presents users with a stack of movie and TV recommendations which you swipe through, Tinder-style. If you’ve seen something already, you can say whether or not you liked it, which will influence the recommendations you see next. If you… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/29/mightytvs-tinder-style-tv-recommendation-app-comes-to-android/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/151119067491 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com Joining celebrity investors like Snoop Dogg, Ashton Kutcher, and Justin Bieber, Queen Bey is bringing her supreme business skills to the tech world. Beyoncé and the management company she started called Parkwood Entertainment have invested $150,000 into Sidestep, an app for buying concert merchandise and skipping the line to pick it up at the show. Sidestep originally started selling… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/29/stackin-money-everywhere-she-goes/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/151114440911 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com Hello, the makers of the Sense sleep tracker, has hired Angela Chang, a former marketing lead for Nest and who was most-recently head of marketing at DoorDash, as its chief marketing officer. Her hire comes at a time when the company is making an aggressive push to get into larger retailers — most recently Best Buy and Target — and get the device and brand in front of as many… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/29/the-sense-sleep-tracker-maker-hires-a-cmo-from-doordash/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/151109631086 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com On the fence about whether your child is old enough for their own smartphone? A new app called Luna Launcher can help you warm to the idea, by offering a simple way to limit access to select apps and actions, including who they can call or text – a list you can restrict to family members, for example. Of course, because of the way it needs to interact with your phone’s… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/29/luna-launcher-turns-your-android-phone-into-a-kid-friendly-device/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/151109630821 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com A Los Angeles startup called codeSpark has raised $4.1 million in seed funding for web and mobile games that teach kids how to code, even before they know how to read and write effectively. CodeSpark’s games were developed for kids 4 to 9 years old, and with a goal of not just teaching them STEM concepts, but engaging boys and girls equally well. The games feature characters who are… Read More from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8176981 https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/29/codespark-raises-4-1-million-for-games-that-teach-kids-how-to-code/?ncid=rss http://www.gadgetscompared.com http://ikonografico.tumblr.com/post/151105299226 via http://www.gadgetscompared.com |
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