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5:58am, 18th June, 2020

Kenya video-conference platform elbows its way into crowded field

Tiny Kenyan start-up Gumzo is a minnow on the booming teleconferencing scene but its creators hope the platform will help companies spend more of their cash in Africa rather than on foreign technology companies.

U.S. podcast platform Pockets Casts says Apple removed app from China store

4:01am, 11th June, 2020

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U.S. podcast platform Pockets Casts says Apple removed app from China store

New York-based podcasting platform Pocket Casts said its app had been taken down from Apple Inc's app store in China.

Uber Eats features black-owned restaurants on U.S., Canadian delivery platform

6:56pm, 4th June, 2020

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Uber Eats features black-owned restaurants on U.S., Canadian delivery platform

Uber Technologies Inc on Thursday launched a feature on its food delivery app Uber Eats that lets customers in the United States and Canada order from restaurants owned by black people and pay no delivery fees for those orders through 2020.

India says Zoom 'not a safe platform' for video conferencing

9:36am, 16th April, 2020

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India says Zoom 'not a safe platform' for video conferencing

India said on Thursday videoconferencing software Zoom is "not a safe platform", joining other countries that have expressed concern about the security of an application that has become hugely popular worldwide during the coronavirus lockdown.

Apple-Google alliance welcomed by European coronavirus app platform

6:20am, 15th April, 2020

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Apple-Google alliance welcomed by European coronavirus app platform

An Apple collaboration with Google will make it quicker to get systems for tracing coronavirus infections up and running, the prime mover behind a European effort to support the smartphone technology says.

Twitter suspends group of pro-Bloomberg accounts over 'platform manipulation'

1:05pm, 22nd February, 2020

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Twitter suspends group of pro-Bloomberg accounts over 'platform manipulation'

Twitter Inc on Friday said it had started suspending and restricting dozens of accounts posting content promoting U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.

Harry Potter, the Platform, and the Future of Niantic

5:02pm, 12th April, 2019

Games

Harry Potter, the Platform, and the Future of Niantic

What is If they recognize the name, most people would rightly tell you it’s a company that makes mobile games, like Pokémon GO, or Ingress, or Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. But no one at Niantic really seems to box it up as a mobile gaming company. Ma...

3:44pm, 4th April, 2019

Games

Snapchat launches Mario Party-style multiplayer games platform

Snap is unlocking a new revenue stream while giving you something to do in between chats and Stories. Today Snapchat debuts its Snap Games platform that lets you play real-time, multiplayer games while texting and talking with your friends. The platf...

12:58pm, 19th March, 2019

Games

Google’s Stadia game-streaming platform kills downloads and lets you play anywhere

Onstage at CEO Sundar Pichai announced the company’s latest big initiative, taking on the entire gaming industry with a live-streaming service called Stadia. The service will let gamers leave their hefty GPUs and expensive systems behind. Pichai says...

U.S. chipmaker Nvidia to provide AI platform for Chinese EV start-ups

5:56am, 21st November, 2018

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U.S. chipmaker Nvidia to provide AI platform for Chinese EV start-ups

U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp has signed separate deals with Chinese electric vehicle startups XPeng Motors, Singulato Motors and SF Motors to develop autonomous driving technology, Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on Wednesday.