Hello friends and welcome back to the week in retrospect! I’m back from a very fun and rehabilitative few weeks away from my phone, twitter account, and messaging cycle. Still, I really missed writing this newsletter and while Greg did a fantastic job in my absence, I won’t be releasing the reins anytime soon. A … Read more
Android Auto is best known for accessing your phone from the dashboard of a car – so you can easily access Google Maps, music apps, and data without using your phone. But for years, Google has also been offering an Android Auto experience right on a phone for people who don’t have a compatible dashboard … Read more
Jelani Memory, Founder and CEO of A Kids Company About, with the book that started it all. (A child company via photo) There are the traditional ways to start, fund, and run a business and then there is the Jelani Memory approach. The CEO of A Kids Company About founded his Portland, Oregon-based company in … Read more
Disrupt is just around the corner and this year the show is filled to the brim with incredible panels and conversations, an absolutely stacked Startup Battlefield cohort of companies launching on our stage, investor insights and a virtual exhibition hall full of exciting new products and services in Startup Alley . We can hardly wait! … Read more
Microsoft photo An upcoming Microsoft 365 business software subscription price hike announced this week promises to boost business by up to $ 5 billion annually, an analyst predicts. Microsoft plans to increase the price of its business software subscriptions, including the Office 365 core suite, starting March 1, 2022. The company calls it “the first … Read more
Manav Garg is CEO and founder of Eka Software Solutions and founding partner of SaaSboomi and Together Fund. Software as a service is one of the most important technology sectors today. While its transformative potential was fairly clear prior to the pandemic, the sudden shift towards dispersed workforces skyrocketed interest in SaaS products as medium … Read more
A California judge ruled that Proposition 22, the measure that allows companies like Uber and Lyft to continue to classify app-based drivers as independent contractors in the state, is unenforceable and unconstitutional. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch found that Prop 22 “illegally restricts a future legislature’s power … Read more
(Gambling picture) If you’ve always wanted to recruit a who’s who of characters from folklore, mythology, and the public realm and then send them to fight and die on your behalf, Storybook Brawl is the game for you. Designed by the Good Luck Games of Olympia, Washington, Brawl is free to play and has been … Read more
In an APK teardown of the latest version of the Peloton Android app, 9to5Google found evidence that the company is preparing the software to support a rowing machine in the near future. The point of sale found various code snippets that mentioned a device with the code names “Caesar” and “Mazu”. The latter is a … Read more
While Apple may have released Siri before Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, its voice-activated assistant is the least advanced of the three in many ways. This has a lot to do with the amount of data and the training digital assistants need to understand different languages, dialects, and language patterns. To improve its digital assistant, … Read more