Over the past few years, the presidential election and digital political ads have become quite the hot topic. Large social media and technology giants have struggled to deal with the issue of filtering accurate advertisements. Combined with a lack of regulation, there has been lots...
The founders and team members of the AI-powered travel assistant bot, Eddy Travels, has closed a pre-seed round which was lead by Techstars Toronto. They raised roughly $500,000 which included VC funds from Lithuania and angel investors from the U.S., Canada and U.K. The user...
Facebook is building a wide array of hardware devices and have the full understanding that their devices currently rely on Android’s operating system. In order to become independent and breakfree from Google, Facebook is currently working on constructing their own operating system from scratch. Their...
Splice is an online marketplace for purchasing audio samples and the platform has recently been exploding with popularity. Its revenue and user count has doubled since last year with many paying $7.99 for unlimited access. Now, Splice is investing even heavier on itself by implementing...
Virtual reality has been quite the buzzword used in a number of different industries over the past decade. As technology has advanced, we've begun to see how it's impacting our daily lives and how the progress in this field is revolutionizing each industry. Forbes recently...
Microsoft recently announced that they will be shutting down Cortana’s mobile applications in a number of different markets. The end date for its support on iOS and Android will be January 31st, 2020. Microsoft also will be removing Cortana from Microsoft Launcher. The impacted markets...
TechCrunch has verified that Spotify users in international markets have begun to see lyrics featured in sync with the music they’re listening to. Powered by Musixmatch, the feature is currently being tested by a number of markets. Users have compared the feature update to the...
Roku recently announced that they will be launching an Apple Watch app which will allow users to control their Roku device simply through their smart watch. Users will have the ability to pause and play along with the ability to launch their favorite channels. Voice...
Samsung has recently announced that their Smart TV’s that were produced and manufactured in 2010 and 2011 will no longer provide support for Netflix starting next month. Samsung has alerted its customers to advise and look to other smart devices in order to launch Netflix...
Google has announced its partnership with mobile security firms ESET, Lookout and Zimperium in hopes of stopping malicious Android mobile applications from entering the Google Play store and being downloaded onto millions of user’s Android devices. Although the Google Play store prescreens all mobile applications...
