Daily Archives: April 1, 2020

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and chief executive of India’s most valuable startup, Paytm, posed an existential question in a recent press conference. “What do you think of the commercial model for digital mobile payments. How do we make money?” Sharma asked Nandan Nilekani, one of the key architects of the Universal Payments Infrastructure that created […]

Mobile payments firms in India are now scrambling to make ...

This entry was posted in Asia Finance Flipkart india Mobile payments and tagged google on April 1, 2020 by Manish Singh

Many TikTok videos don’t start from scratch, so neither can its competitors. TikTok is all about remixes where users shoot a new video to recontextualize audio pulled from someone else’s clip, or riff on an existing meme or concept. That only works because TikTok’s had time to build up an immense armory of content to […]

“Content network effect” makes TikTok tough to copy

This entry was posted in Apps Entertainment Media Mobile Social TC YouTube and tagged facebook instagram on April 1, 2020 by Josh Constine

“Content network effect” makes TikTok tough to copy

This entry was posted in Apps Entertainment Media Mobile Social TC YouTube and tagged facebook instagram on April 1, 2020 by Josh Constine

Amazon has made it easier for Apple customers to buy or rent movies from its Prime Video app with a recent update. Before, customers using the Prime Video app from an iOS device or Apple TV would have to first purchase or rent the movie elsewhere — like through the Amazon website or a Prime […]

In a significant change, Apple customers can now buy or ...

This entry was posted in Amazon Apps Media Mobile TC Video and tagged apple on April 1, 2020 by Sarah Perez

In a significant change, Apple customers can now buy or ...

This entry was posted in Amazon Apps Media Mobile TC Video and tagged apple on April 1, 2020 by Sarah Perez

Vinyl has been coming back for the last few years, but unlike MP3s, CDs, or even cassette tapes (also coming back), records aren’t easy to record on your own. This tiny toy record maker makes it easy, though you probably shouldn’t expect that famous vinyl sound quality. The Easy Record Maker was created by designer […]

This adorable tiny record maker lets you cut your own ...

This entry was posted in audio Gadgets hardware and tagged design on April 1, 2020 by Devin Coldewey

This adorable tiny record maker lets you cut your own ...

This entry was posted in audio Gadgets hardware and tagged design on April 1, 2020 by Devin Coldewey

A European coalition of techies and scientists drawn from at least eight countries, and led by Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for telecoms (HHI), is working on contacts-tracing proximity technology for COVID-19 that’s designed to comply with the region’s strict privacy rules — officially unveiling the effort today. China-style individual-level location-tracking of people by states […]

An EU coalition of techies is backing a ‘privacy-preserving’ standard ...

This entry was posted in Apps Bluetooth China data protection Europe Health Microsoft Mobile privacy smartphone smartphones TC United Kingdom and tagged google on April 1, 2020 by Natasha Lomas

Like many other websites at the moment, the career-oriented networking platform LinkedIn has seen a big boost in traffic as a result of people being asked to work from home and stay indoors overall to slow the spread of the coronavirus, with a bump of 55% more conversational activity between existing connections in recent weeks. […]