Sources: Google plans to push Google Pay in India via an SDK for developers that aims to drive user engagement via rewards and cashbacks in Android apps
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Tweets: @refsrc and @jonrussell Tweets: Manish Singh / @refsrc : The company's Next Billion Users team has developed an engagement rewards platform to help businesses and ...
Line launches its own cryptocurrency, Link, as an incentive for using Line services and exclusively available on Line's own Bitbox exchange
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Google's Tez, its payment service in India, updates to let users pay bills from 80+ organizations from its iOS and Android apps
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iPhone X: 5.8" edge-to-edge OLED Super Retina display without home button, A11 SoC, Face ID, dual OIS 12MP rear cameras, Qi wireless charging
Introducing iPhone X — Apple Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat : iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X: What Apple changed Kate Conger / Gizmodo : Face ID Raises Some Scary Questions—Here Are Some Answer...
Telegram 4.0 update brings support for chatbot payments, video messages, and Telescope, a video hosting platform
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Facebook launches Messenger-based platform for HTML5 games, played in message threads; 17 games available at launch, including Pac-Man, Space Invaders
Here's how Mariella Moon / Engadget : Facebook's Instant Games work in Messenger and your News Feed Roger Fingas / AppleInsider : Facebook launches Instant Games on Messenger for iOS, Android & Web Tw...
Apple: removing headphone jack took “courage” and “ancient analog” 3.5mm jack is bad use of space; new peripherals can use Lightning, and wireless is the future
Phil Schiller today caused the largest collective eyeroll … Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch : No, really, the headphone jack is more useful than you think! Caleb Denison / Digital Trends : As the iPhone's...
Sources: Pokémon Go to launch in Japan with McDonald's as the first launch partner, with 3K+ stores set to be sponsored “gym” locations
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Alibaba is working to bring virtual reality into its e-commerce services, announces GnomeMagic Lab, its own virtual reality research lab
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Alibaba is working to bring virtual reality into its e-commerce services, announces GnomeMagic Lab, its own virtual reality research lab
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