Marrian Zhou

YouTube TV apologizes for World Cup outage with free week of service

I was pretty upset after missing the first Croatia goal because of the YouTube TV outage on Wednesday. I’m slightly happier now. YouTube TV is offering subscribers a free week of binge watching as compensation for the untimely outage, which interrupted the World Cup semifinal game, according to Deadline Hollywood. The outage occurred in the midst of …

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Pinterest launches new collaboration tools

Pinterest says you can now plan events better with friends and family on the site. The visual discovery app on Wednesday launched new collaboration tools that make it easier to plan events and projects on the platform, according to the company’s blog. On group boards, now you can converse with other members of the board via the new activity feed …

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Walmart’s Jet.com zooms toward same

Walmart will start a grocery delivery service in the Big Apple. The company’s Jet.com unit will offer same-day grocery deliveries in New York City, the company said Tuesday. Jet will open an e-commerce center in the Bronx in the third quarter. “We are excited to bring 100’s of jobs to the greater New York City area through the opening of …

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Postmates launches in more than 100 new US cities

Postmates will deliver your Chipotle burritos for free through July 15. The food and retail delivery service said Tuesday it’s expanding into more than 100 additional cities in the US. On-demand services have become a way of life — lunch, groceries, laundry, moving, rides, you name it. Apps seemingly put the whole world at your fingertips. Although the debate continues …

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Samsung opens world’s largest smartphone factory in India

Samsung is setting up shop in India in a big way. The South Korean tech giant said Monday that it’s opening the world’s largest phone factory in Noida, near the outskirts of New Delhi. The company is hoping to tap into the lower manufacturing costs there as it pushes its presence in the fastest-growing mobile phone market, according to Reuters. …

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Pokemon Quest hits $3 million in revenue

Pokemon games have been consistently popular. Still, the latest entrant to the franchise has had an impressive performance even by those high standards.  The mobile version of Pokemon Quest launched last week and it has already racked up roughly $3 million in revenue, according to Sensor Tower, an app intelligence company. The game has also been installed 3.5 million times …

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Charter offers you yet another wireless option

Now you can stream DVD-quality videos through the Spectrum network. Charter Communications has launched Spectrum Mobile, a 4G LTE mobile broadband service that supports DVD-quality video streaming at 480p. You can get an unlimited data plan with free calling and texts for $45 per month, or pay for $14 for each gigabyte of data you use. What you don’t get, apparently, is …

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Amazon may be opening its second Amazon Go store in Seattle

Seattle residents will soon be able to shop at two Amazon Go stores. The company will open its second cashier-free Amazon Go store in Seattle this fall, GeekWire reported Tuesday. The new store will be bigger than the original location, according to the news site. “We’re excited to bring Amazon Go to 920 5th Avenue in Seattle,” confirmed an Amazon …

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Facebook bids farewell to Hello, tbh, Moves

Say goodbye to Hello. Also to Moves and tbh. On Monday, Facebook said it was bidding adieu to the three apps, none of which generated enough user interest to continue supporting them. The world’s largest social network also promised to delete the user data from all three apps within 90 days. “We know some people are still using these apps …

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HTC will lay off 1,500 in its Taiwan operations

More people will lose their jobs at HTC as the device maker tries to right the ship. HTC said Monday that it will lay off 1,500 employees, about 22 percent of its total, from its Taiwanese division in order to restore profitability, according to a tweet from Bloomberg’s Taipei bureau chief, Samson Ellis. June 26: @htc says it will return …

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