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GoPro’s $5-a-month subscription service, GoPro Plus, was designed to make it easier to edit and share your adventures from your phone, tablet or computer by automatically sending your photos and videos from your camera to cloud storage. For the camera maker’s hard-core users, automated backups and the service’s handful of other offerings might have made the fee worthwhile. But for …
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The GoPro Hero 6 Black isn’t quite the complete overhaul that its predecessor was, but it does raise the bar on what you can expect out of such a small freakin’ camera. It’s essentially the whipped cream and chocolate sauce on top of the awesome sundae that is the Hero 5 Black (dammit, now I’m hungry). The outside doesn’t change …
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GoPro just made frictionless video editing with your phone a thing. As part of an update to its GoPro (formerly called Capture) and Quik editing apps for iOS and Android available today, the camera maker has introduced QuikStories, a feature that automatically pulls video and photos from a paired Hero5 camera and turns them into a shareable video with customizable …
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GoPro said Wednesday it will cut 270 jobs in an effort to reduce operating expenses, its second round of layoffs in less than four months. The layoffs amount to about 18 percent of the camera maker’s work force. (The San Mateo, California-based company currently employs roughly 1,500 people, according to Business Insider.) In November, the company announced plans to lay …
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It was inevitable that DxO, long-time benchmarkers of camera sensors, would inevitably turn its attention to the eyes in the skies. The company tested a handful of the cameras that come with popular drones — 5 DJI models, the GoPro Karma’s Hero5 Black and the Yuneec Breeze 4K. The results aren’t very surprising, though they do serve to drive home …
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Business in the US has been tough for GoPro, so now the company looks to be targeting China. On Sunday at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, GoPro announced it will integrate an upgraded version of Quik, its photo editing app, into Huawei’s new babies, the P10 and the P10 Plus phones, reports Bloomberg. Although Huawei has a limited presence …
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GoPro is cutting its workforce by 15 percent and closing its entertainment arm that aspired to turn the action-camera company into a media power. GoPro plans to lay off 200 workers and cancel open positions, according to a company release Wednesday. It will close its entertainment division, which aimed to build a media company with original content inside GoPro. President …
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