Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is preparing to enter North America, but it isn’t quite the launch you may be waiting on. The company, which was last valued at $45 billion by investors, has revealed plans to sneak into the continent by selling its Redmi Note 4 phone in Mexico. Fans can pick up the device from Coppel, Best Buy and Sam’s Club stores when it is stocked towards… Read MoreDaily Archives: May 9, 2017
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is preparing to enter North America, but it isn’t quite the launch you may be waiting on. The company, which was last valued at $45 billion by investors, has revealed plans to sneak into the continent by selling its Redmi Note 4 phone in Mexico. Fans can pick up the device from Coppel, Best Buy and Sam’s Club stores when it is stocked towards… Read More Smule, maker of Sing! Karaoke and other social music apps, announced yesterday that it has raised $54 million in a round led by Chinese company Tencent. Adams Street Partners, Bessemer Ventures, Floodgate, Franklin Templeton and Shasta Ventures a...
Social music startup Smule raises $54M for Asian expansion
Taser’s decision to relaunch itself as Axon and give away thousands of body cameras could have been interpreted either as a growing company looking to expand or a desperate one scrambling for purchase. Fortunately it appears to be the former: Axon is growing and the next year may be even bigger. Read MoreAxon (formerly Taser) grows like a weed as it refocuses ...
Yelp shares are down more than 25% after the company reported its first-quarter earnings report today, where it reduced its full-year guidance that it set in the previous quarter. The company said it would bring in between $850 million and $865 million in revenue for the full fiscal year of 2017. In the fourth quarter (reported in February), Yelp said net revenue was expected to be in the… Read MoreYelp is getting eviscerated after it toned down its expectations ...
The conference lasts two days, with keynote addresses starting at 8 am on both Wednesday and Thursday.
Microsoft Build 2017: Expect Announcements on AI, Windows, and HoloLens
The conference lasts two days, with keynote addresses starting at 8 am on both Wednesday and Thursday. The post Microsoft Build 2017: What to Expect at the Big Developer Bash appeared first on WIRED.
Microsoft Build 2017: What to Expect at the Big Developer ...
San Francisco-based Tubi TV has raised an additional $20 million for its advertising-supported streaming service for TV and movies. Investors in the round are betting on the fact that the next big streaming competitor won’t be a direct rival to Netflix and others with a subscription-based business model, but rather a free service that offers a wide variety of titles for free viewing. Read MoreFree streaming service Tubi TV grabs $20 million in new ...
Pinterest today is adding a new feature to its Lens — its live camera search — that will help pick apart what’s in the image and make it easier to search specific parts of that image. As you can see in the run-through above, what Pinterest calls Visual Guides based on object detection is another way that the company is trying to figure out what it is you are actually… Read MorePinterest adds visual search guides to its Lens and a ...
Amazon’s Echo Show killer feature is video calls. If you buy a couple of devices, you can call each other using the device. And it should be so easy that young kids and grandparents will be able to use it in no time. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Amazon invested in a startup called Nucleus then built a copycat. And today is a rough day for the young startup. Nucleus spent… Read MoreHey Walmart, here’s the startup that inspired the thing Amazon ...
Snapchat today launched a slew of new creative tools in its effort to stay one step ahead of Instagram. Most prominently, it’s letting users erase things from their photos and remove the 10-second time limit on viewing them, though they’ll still disappear once closed. As Snap adds more creative tools, it’s now organizing them all down the right side of the screen for easy… Read More