Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

Financial technology startups emerged as serious challengers to financial services in 2017

 While cryptocurrencies stole the spotlight in 2017, a clutch of companies were quietly working behind the scenes to slowly bring the financial services establishment to its knees. It may turn out that these startup entrants of the last several years will prove to be the more relevant disruptors. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

5 tangle-free ways to store your strand lights for next Christmas – CNET

Tired of spending hours detangling Christmas lights from the year before? Use these tricks for storing them for easier use next year.
Source: CNET

5 tips for your new Nest Thermostat – CNET

These tips take you beyond the basics so you can get the most out of your new Nest Thermostat.
Source: CNET

Xiaomi’s next A.I.-packed voice assistant speaker may support Cortana

Xiaomi subsidiary Yeelight is launching a new voice assistant speaker that supports two A.I.-based assistants, one of which is Amazon Alexa. The other may be based on Microsoft’s Cortana.

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Source: Digital trends

Latin America’s Groupon Mafia

 The founders of PayPal and its employees have produced many highly successful companies over the years. Often referred to as the “PayPal Mafia” because they’ve had such an impact on the startup ecosystem, this serial entrepreneur success story is reminiscent of a similar phenomenon taking place in Latin America. The story starts with another U.S. company, Groupon. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Best tech ads 2017: Call of Duty best, Facebook worst – CNET

Commentary: A look back at how tech companies tried to communicate in 2017 offers many sobering moments. And some that boggle the mind.
Source: CNET

Facebook has a 100-person engineering team that helps advertisers build tools and infrastructure

 Facebook says that one of its success stories in recent years involves a relatively small group of engineers. Originally it was just one engineer, Vastal Mehta, who serves as Facebook’s director of solutions engineering and now leads a team of more than 100 people that works with advertisers to build the technology and infrastructure needed to run more effective campaigns on Facebook. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

5 suprising, promising, sometimes ominous ways computers changed in 2017

2017 was both ominous and promising for PC users. Our machines are smarter, better built, and more flexible, but our most private and important information is increasingly vulnerable.

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All 50 states vote yes on AT&T’s $40 billion emergency response network FirstNet

 Communications are the bedrock of emergency response and management. However, those communications can be challenging when quickly evolving situations cross multiple jurisdictions. Today, AT&T announced that all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia have officially signed on to FirstNet, a government program operated by AT&T to provide universal emergency response… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

The best laptops for photo editing

When it comes to laptops, photographers have different needs than the average person. We talked to our own staff photographers to see what makes the best laptops for photo editing on the go.

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Source: Digital trends