Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle reports Q2 revenue of $9.61B, up 0.5% YoY and short of analyst estimates of $9.65B, with Cloud Services division revenue of $6.81B, up 3% YoY …
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Andreessen Horowitz: How brands and individuals across China are leveraging short video apps for commerce, a trend that can help inform the next frontier for ecommerce in the US — …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Snapchat is testing Cameos, a Bitmoji alternative that lets users replace the faces of people with selfies in Snapchat-made short looping videos — Snapchat is preparing …
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Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: Amazon unveils DeepComposer, a keyboard meant for devs that uses AI to compose music based on genre-specific models, a short initial tune, and other parameters …
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Wall Street Journal: Sources: Google has held discussions about acquiring the TikTok-like short video app Firework; California-based Firework was valued at $100M+ earlier this year — Firework is startup behind …
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Joseph Cox / VICE: Cities are paying companies like Host Compliance to be “Airbnb Police” and find real addresses of vacation rentals to enforce short term rental legislation — In …
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Wall Street Journal: Source: Bytedance spent ~$1B advertising TikTok in 2018, heavily promoting its short video app on Facebook and Instagram, and becoming Snap’s biggest advertiser — China’s first big …
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Alibaba to invest $100M in the Indian short video app and TikTok competitor Vmate, which is owned by its subsidiary UC Web and which has 30M …
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Esha Vaish / Reuters: Swedish startup Einride’s driverless truck T-pod gets a permit to make short trips on a public road in an industrial area in central Sweden at up …
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