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Spotify free music service will now stream on Alexa devices, plus Bose and Sonos smart speakers
Spotify has worked with Amazon Echo since
2016, but only for premium subscribers
Today, that changes.
The Alexa support — which includes playing Spotify Top Hits playlist, Discover Weekly and more — will be available
for users in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand
Support for Sonos and Bose is more broadly available to users around the world.
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Facebook latest experiment is a meme-creation app, Whale
Currently, the app allows users to decorate photos with text and stickers in order
to create memes that can be shared to social media or texted to friends.
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Vayyar nabs $109M for its &4D& radar tech, which detects and tracks images while preserving privacy
Vayyar is an Israeli startup that builds
radar-imaging chips and sensors, as well as the software that reads and interprets the resulting images, for use in automotive and IoT
Google Assistant introduces personalized playlists of audio news
When you say &Hey Google, play me the news& to a Google Assistant-enabled
phone or smart speaker, you&ll get a tailored playlist of the day big headlines and stories
Your News Update draws from a variety of publisher partners, focusing on the stories that seem relevant to your interests and your
Bunch, the Discord for mobile games, raises $3.85M from Supercell, Tencent, Riot Games
Users who download the game can connect with friends
and join an audio or video chat with them
From there, users can choose a game to load and the whole party is instantly taken into a multiplayer game session with their friends.
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Build trust with remote users to get qualitative feedback
As co-founder of a digital health company, Alex Gold had to build a community of
And because of security and privacy concerns, he had to approach this process unconventionally
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5 reasons you need to be at Disrupt Berlin
We&re one month out from Disrupt Berlin
And no matter which part of the startup ecosystem you inhabit, the event should be a huge opportunity
