Just last week, AT&T announced the first handful of cities where it’ll roll out its 5G network later this year. Today at Mobile World Congress, T-Mobile and Sprint did the same. Sprint’s first 5G networks will go live in Chicago, ... These will be the first cities getting 5G from Sprint ...This entry was posted in Mobile TC on February 27, 2018 by Greg Kumparak
Doogee’s Mobile World Congress press conference is mostly what you’d expect from a company you’ve never heard of: small, low key, in the second basement meeting room at a hotel across from the convention center. It’s a bit... Chinese smartphone maker Doogee shows off its vision for the ...This entry was posted in hardware Mobile on February 27, 2018 by Brian Heater
Doogee’s Mobile World Congress press conference is mostly what you’d expect from a company you’ve never heard of: small, low key, in the second basement meeting room at a hotel across from the convention center. It’s a bit... Chinese smartphone maker Doogee shows off its vision for the ...This entry was posted in hardware Mobile on February 27, 2018 by Brian Heater
Facebook is trying to play extra nice with local news publishers by putting $3 million behind the launch of the Local News Subscriptions Accelerator. The three-month pilot program will help 10 to 15 U.S.-based metropolitan news organizations gain... Facebook launches a local news accelerator for publishersThis entry was posted in local news Mobile and tagged facebook google on February 27, 2018 by Megan Rose Dickey
German robotics firm Magazino, creator of robots meant to work alongside people in warehouses and the like, has raised $24.8 million to continue development and deployment of its TORU and SOTO robots. Read More Robo-logistics company Magazino raises $25M for its warehouse botsThis entry was posted in artificial intelligence Europe Gadgets robotics TC on February 27, 2018 by Devin Coldewey
An interesting reporton the Facebook ad machinery in play during the election highlighted an issue that I hadn’t considered: Facebook’s ad marketplace gave a huge pricing advantage to one candidate over the other. It seems like a no-b... Facebook should disclose and limit pricing for political campaign adsThis entry was posted in Advertising Tech Opinion Social TC and tagged facebook on February 27, 2018 by Devin Coldewey
Pinterest today is adding another executive to its upper c-suite with the hire of Francoise Brougher, who was most recently business lead at Square and prior to that VP of SMB global sales and operations at Google, as its first chief operating of... Pinterest hires former Square and Google exec Francoise Brougher as ...This entry was posted in Mobile Square Startups TC and tagged google pinterest on February 27, 2018 by Matthew Lynley
“What’s all the fuss about?” Curiosity over why people are protesting the Snapchat redesign seems to have inspired a new wave of users to try the app. Snapchat downloads in the U.S. went up 41 percent to 76 percent in the week f... Despite backlash to the redesign, Snapchat downloads are upThis entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC and tagged snapchat on February 27, 2018 by Josh Constine
If an engineer ends up leaving a company, on their own, or for any other reason, the company work is going to have to quickly work to change all of their keys for their credentials and keys application components. That’s a huge hassle, beca... EnvKey wants to create a smarter place to store a ...This entry was posted in Enterprise Mobile Startups TC on February 27, 2018 by Matthew Lynley
It’s no secret, Apple has been relying on third-party cloud companies for iCloud. And CNBC spotted an interesting tidbit in Apple’s own documents. The company now relies on Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Platform’s storage product t... Apple now relies on Google Cloud Platform and Amazon S3 ...This entry was posted in Cloud Gadgets iCloud TC and tagged apple on February 27, 2018 by Romain Dillet