Viacom is launching Pluto TV channels for Comedy Central, MTV and more | With Kata Containers and Zuul, OpenStack graduates its first infrastructure projects | Amazon Pay launches peer-to-peer payments in India | Beats’ AirPods alternative start shipping May 10 | Samsung made a vertical TV for watching smartphone videos | Is this the vertical-folding Motorola Razr? | FutureLearn takes $65M from Seek Group for 50% stake in UK online degree platform |
MONDAY, APRIL 29 2019
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TOP HEADLINE | Anthony Ha | | Just a few months after acquiring video streaming service Pluto TV, Viacom says it will be bringing its major networks to the ad-supported streaming service, with a whole lineup of... Read More… |
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Frederic Lardinois | | Over the course of the last year and a half, the OpenStack Foundation made the switch from purely focusing on the core OpenStack project to opening itself up to other... Read More… |
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Sarah Perez | | Continuing its investment in India, Amazon today announced the launch of person-to-person (P2P) payments via Amazon Pay for Android users in the country. Customers can now make instant bank-to-bank transactions... Read More… |
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Brian Heater | | Earlier this month, Beats unveiled its long-awaited answer to AirPods. The Powerbeats Pro feature far longer battery life, better sound and an improved fit. The Apple subsidiary promised a May... Read More… |
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Brian Heater | | So it’s come to this. After years of letter boxes and angry commenters, the electronics world is finally giving in and developing hardware designed to view vertical videos. Time to... Read More… |
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Matt Burns | | This could be the upcoming Motorola Razr revival. The images purporting to be the upcoming smartphone appeared online on Weibo and show a foldable design. Unlike Galaxy Fold, though, Motorola's... Read More… |
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Natasha Lomas | | Edtech and recruitment continue to converge. London-based online degree platform, FutureLearn, is taking £50 million (~$64.6M) from Australian-based online job matching group, Seek, in exchange for a 50 per cent... Read More… |
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Matt Burns | | The Audi RS 5 Sportback is an animal. Tamed, sure, but not domesticated. It's important to remember as one day, maybe next week or next year or both, the RS... Read More… |
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Ingrid Lunden | | As Amazon reportedly gears up to offer its own hi-fi music streaming service, Spotify has posted its Q1 figures. One significant milestone: the world's currently biggest music streaming service reported... Read More… |
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Ron Miller | | Tray.io, the startup that wants to put automated workflows within reach of line of business users, announced a $37 million Series B investment today. Spark Capital led the round with... Read More… |
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