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The FCC officially proposes to end net neutrality rules (but it’s not over yet)

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Today the FCC voted to officially propose an order that would eliminate net neutrality rules as we know them. To be clear, the rules are not being adopted today — that vote will be about three months from [...]

Medium launches audio versions of stories for members

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Medium has launched a new feature that could add more incentive to its paid membership program: audio stories. The paid member exclusive offering will provide an audio version of every story created specifically for its members, and will [...]

Microsoft will soon open its first two data centers in Africa

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Microsoft today announced that it will soon open two data center regions for its cloud-based services in Johannesburg and Cape Town South Africa. This marks Microsoft’s first data center expansion into Africa, and the plan is to get [...]

For investors seeking a purpose-built CRM toolkit, Affinity raised $13.5 million to get you covered

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

For the venture capitalists, hedge funders, investment bankers and private equity folks trawling the skyways looking for deals, there’s nothing more important than a strong network. But for most firms keeping track of meetings, managing follow-ups, and plotting [...]

Android Pay to expand to new markets, add improved loyalty card features

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Yesterday at Google’s developer conference I/O, the company announced upgrades to its Payment API that will make it easier for end users to switch between their multiple payment cards when checking out on the mobile web, or paying [...]

Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram unite with cross-app notifications

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Facebook’s family of apps are moving in together. Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram are each testing a feature that shows notification counters from the other apps and lets you instantly switch between them. The feature could boost engagement across [...]

Google’s Seurat for mobile VR means you can finally truly step into Star Wars

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

At Google’s I/O developer event on Thursday, the company revealed Seurat, a new tool that allows for rendering of very high resolution immersive content even on mobile VR defies that don’t necessarily have the best specs. To demonstrate [...]

No, YouTube’s mobile live streaming is not yet open to all – but it’s very close

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

YouTube appears to be further opening up mobile live streaming by dropping requirements on subscriber counts in order to gain access to the feature, according to reports out today. Google, however, has disputed claims saying the new functionality [...]

Amazon Charts, Amazon’s new bestseller list, ranks titles by ‘most read’ and more

May 18th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Amazon has long relied on customers providing feedback and providing other ranking data as part of the process of encouraging more sales on its platform, and now the e-commerce giant is adding a new twist on this to [...]