Daily Archives: July 1, 2020

T-Mobile today announced that it has closed a deal that divests Sprint’s pre-paid businesses, including Boost and Virgin Mobile. The news finds Dish entering the wireless carrier game in earnest, courtesy of the $1.4 billion deal. The whole thing was, of course, a key part of T-Mobile’s bid to merge with Sprint. It was a […]

Dish closes Boost Mobile purchase, following T-Mobile/Sprint merger

This entry was posted in Mobile on July 1, 2020 by Brian Heater

Dish closes Boost Mobile purchase, following T-Mobile/Sprint merger

This entry was posted in Mobile on July 1, 2020 by Brian Heater

The first wave of AR startups offering smart glasses is now over, with a few exceptions. Google acquired North this week for an undisclosed sum. The Canadian company had raised nearly $200 million, but the release of its Focals 2.0 smart glasses has been cancelled, a bittersweet end for its soft landing. Many AR startups […]

AR 1.0 is dead: Here’s what it got wrong

This entry was posted in app-store apple inc augmented reality Developer Emerging-Technologies Gaming hardware Magic Leap mixed reality Mobile operating systems Startups TC Virtual reality Wearables and tagged apple facebook google on July 1, 2020 by Lucas Matney

AR 1.0 is dead: Here’s what it got wrong

Instagram Stories has grown to become one of Facebook’s best products to date. As of last year, roughly half of Instagram’s users — or 500 million people — were interacting with Stories on a daily basis. That’s nearly double the entire daily active user base of all of Snapchat, which first popularized the Stories format. […]

Instagram’s latest test puts all Stories on one page

This entry was posted in Apps Social and tagged facebook instagram on July 1, 2020 by Sarah Perez

IAC and Match Group announced that they have completed a “full separation.” Previously, Match Group (which owns Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, PlentyOfFish and Match itself) was a publicly-traded company, with digital holding company IAC as its majority shareholder. Last year, the companies announced a plan that would see IAC’s ownership of Match distributed to IAC’s shareholders […]

Match Group completes separation from IAC, new board includes Wendi ...

This entry was posted in Fundings & Exits IAC Match Group Media Mobile Social on July 1, 2020 by Anthony Ha

Kevin Mayer, the chief executive of TikTok said on Wednesday that the popular short-form video app complies with “all data privacy and security requirements under Indian law,” two days after New Delhi banned 59 apps including Mayer’s citing security concerns. Addressing TikTok’s 2000 employees in India on Wednesday, Mayer said ByteDance, the parent firm of […]

TikTok is engaging with India over ban and already complies ...

This entry was posted in Apps Asia China Government india Social on July 1, 2020 by Manish Singh

Bluedot, a geofencing and location data startup used by companies like Dunkin’, KFC and McDonald’s, is announcing that it has raised $9.1 million in Series B funding. The San Francisco-headquartered company claims that its technology its 20 times more accurate than competing solutions — something that CEO Emil Davityan attributed to its roots in the […]