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YouTube launches its counter-terrorism experiment for would-be ISIS recruits

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google’s big experiment in digital counter-terrorism begins rolling out today. Collaborating with its own in-house think tank Jigsaw, the new effort seeks to bury ISIS-related propaganda on YouTube. Now, when a potential ISIS recruit searches for known extremist [...]

Microsoft earnings beat expectations thanks to strong cloud performance

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Following its longstanding tradition of reporting quarterly earnings for its fourth financial quarter of the year in July, Microsoft today announced non-GAAP revenue of $24.7 billion and GAAP earnings per share of $0.83 (and non-GAAP earnings per share [...]

EBay shares sink after posting financial results

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

EBay shares were down about 4% in initial after hours trading, after posting second quarter financial results. But in terms of revenue and net income, the company’s results were in line with expectations. According to Yahoo! Finance, analysts [...]

Shyp is reducing headcount and suspending all operations outside of SF

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Shyp, the on-demand shipping service launched in 2013, has announced in a blog post that they are withdrawing from all but one city and “reducing headcount at headquarters” in an effort to “prove their business model and set [...]

Alexa is coming to the Amazon app on Android, starting this week

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

This spring, Amazon introduced Alexa to a wider audience by making the virtual assistant a feature that could be accessed within the retailer’s main shopping app. However, that integration – which allows you to ask Alexa about news, [...]

Watch this teaser for Pacific Rim: Uprising that looks like a Jaeger commercial

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Your next ride could be a huge, amazing combat robot designed to fight monsters: That’s the message behind this new teaser for Pacific Rim: Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo Del Toro’s 2013 Kaiju movie. The new instalment is [...]

Mobile savings and investment services Acorns is on track to do 1 billion trades in 2017

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Acorns is quickly turning into an oak tree in the financial services space. The company now boasts more than 2 million investment accounts (with 600,000 opened in 2017 alone) and is on track to do 1 billion trades [...]

Dote raises $7.2 million for its mobile shopping app

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

While consumers are increasingly turning to Amazon to buy everything from home goods to electronics, a newly launched app called Dote believes there’s an opportunity to compete with the e-commerce giant’s fashion business. There are “brands that don’t [...]

Uber’s SVP of leadership and strategy says she hasn’t seen any toxicity

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Uber SVP of Leadership and Strategy Frances Frei is optimistic about the future of Uber, despite the allegations of sexual harassment, greyballing and an executive accessing a rider’s medical records. In fact, Frei wears an Uber t-shirt every [...]