Sean Keane

SeatGeek, Lyft want to take the hassle out of going to concerts

We’ve all been there — rushing to your seat at a concert just as the artist starts the first song. SeatGeek and Lyft want to save you from that stress by dropping you off and picking you up closer to your seat. They plan to do it by integrating their apps this fall. If you …

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Google Chrome 69 redesign rolling out in September

Google’s browser will be getting a redesign when its Chrome 69 update arrives on Sept. 4. We don’t know the details of visual changes, but they’re likely to be the rounded tabs of Material Design overhaul shown in July. The company’s Enterprise release notes mention some of the new features, which focus on Windows integration, security and stability. “Highlights include …

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WhatsApp promises to battle ‘sinister’ false messages in India

WhatsApp told India’s government on Tuesday it’s developing tools to crack down on rumors and false messages plaguing users of the app. Chris Daniels, CEO of the Facebook-owned messaging service, promised IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad that it would figure out a solution, according to Reuters. The minister said he asked WhatsApp to develop a method of tracing the origin …

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Apple removes thousands of ‘illegal’ gambling apps from Chinese App Store

Apple has pulled thousands of apps from its Chinese store after state-run media accused the company of being slow to clean up illegal content, according to a new report. The company came under attack by the government-run China Central Television for apparently allowing fake lottery-ticket apps in its store, which resulted in people losing huge amounts of money, Bloomberg reported …

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Apple allegedly pressured Yahoo to go slow on App Store rival in Japan

Apple allegedly pressured Yahoo Japan to cut back development of its game platform, a report says. The Fair Trade Commission, Japan’s antitrust watchdog, is investigating reports that Apple interfered with the potential App Store competitor, according to Nikkei. Yahoo’s Game Plus platform, launched in July 2017, lets people play games without needing to download apps. Now playing: Watch this: 11 …

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Amazon reportedly looking into launching UK insurance comparison site

Amazon is reportedly considering the launch of UK insurance price comparison website. The US e-commerce giant is asking European insurance companies if they’d offer their products on such a site, Reuter reports, citing three anonymous industry executives. The executives told the news agency that the talks were several discussions Amazon is having with insurers, and that there are no immediate …

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Samsung may suspend production at Chinese phone factory due to sales slump

Samsung is reportedly looking into suspending operations at one of its phone manufacturing plants in China as sales fall and labor costs rise. It may stop making phones at Tianjin Samsung Telecom Technology, according to Reuters, which cited South Korea’s Electronic Times. Samsung told the news agency Monday that the fate of the factory, which is located in the northeastern …

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Twitter Lite launches in 21 more countries, covering more developing markets

Twitter Lite launched in 21 more countries, giving people in emerging markets a way to stay informed. The slimmed down version of the app has been added to the Google Play Store in places like Argentina, Belarus, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Morocco, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Romania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Yemen and Zimbabwe, the company …

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Ticketmaster shuts down UK ticket resale sites, launches ‘fan

Ticketmaster UK announced Monday that it’s shutting down its second-hand ticket reselling sites and will launch a fan-to-fan ticket exchange on its site later this year. You won’t be able to buy tickets for any new events on Seatwave or Get Me In from Monday and the new site will launch in the UK and Ireland in October. It’ll roll …

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Facebook gets rid of its Friend List Feeds feature

Now playing: Watch this: Why Alex Jones and Infowars were kicked off YouTube,… 2:41 Facebook has removed a feature that allowed users to tailor their feed. NurPhoto Say goodbye to Facebook’s Friend List Feeds feature. The feeds allowed you create a personalized version of social network that only showed posts from a predefined friend list. But the feature has now …

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