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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

TechCrunch

In the summer of 2019, Timilehin Ajiboye became intrigued with the idea of building a travel app after conversations with a circle of friends. And while social media, growing exponentially over the past decade, has changed the way we communicate and connect, it has also changed how we travel. Social media and travel.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. We’re skeptical about things like job displacement, at least in technology. This has been a strange year. What will those changes be?

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Welcome debuts a smarter city guide app on iOS, backed by $3.5M led by Accel

TechCrunch

He was sifting through Google Maps, recommendations from friends, and trying to read reviews to make a decision about what was next on their journey. Eventually, it wants to expand this technology to any site — like local blogs, for instance — which users could click and save, perhaps via a web browser extension.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace of technology development and the ongoing market slowdown , have left it spinning. Reports on social media show the company’s reluctance to handle consumer complaints. ” Micromax was challenged also due to a state-level move.

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Remojo is building tools to combat digital addiction, starting with porn

TechCrunch

But while the early wave of tech businesses mostly aimed to provide (easier) access to pharmaceuticals for treating health issues like erectile dysfunction (e.g. If the tech really works that would imply major user churn every three months. Hence ‘ Re’ mojo.). So there’s about 1.3

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Technology Trends for 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Last year we cautioned against a “horse race” view of technology. While new technologies may appear on the scene suddenly, the long, slow process of making things that work rarely attracts as much attention. Important signals often appear in technologies that have been fairly stable. This report is about those transitions.

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2018: A Year in Review for Storage Systems.

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

This new company will unify the operations of these three companies into a single integrated business as Hitachi Vantara to capitalize on Hitachi’s social innovation capability in both operational technologies (OT) and information technologies (IT). 2019 will provide even more proof points.