Month: January 2020
Amazon Music passes 55 million customers as it chips away at Spotify and Apple Music
Amazon Music often doesn’t get the same buzz as Spotify or Apple Music, but the service is still growing rapidly and is catching up to those competitors at a rate that might surprise you. Amazon says its music service has now surpassed 55 million customers. There’s still a long way…
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Senator asks Jeff Bezos for more information on Saudi-linked hack
One day after news broke that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia may have been personally involved in the hack of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ phone, a United States senator is asking for more information. “I encourage you to provide my office with information” As first reported yesterday by The…
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Unito raises $10.5M to help workplace collaboration tools speak to each other
Startup productivity tools have never been better, but that’s led to employees being more passionate than ever about the tools that they want to use themselves. PMs don’t want to use Jira, engineers don’t want to mess with Trello and keeping everyone happy can mean replicating processes. Montreal-based Unito is…
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Tesla strikes deal to sell cars in Michigan
Tesla has reached a deal with Michigan that will allow the company to sell its cars directly in the state, bringing a multiyear legal battle to an end. It’s a small but crucial victory for Tesla, and one that comes in the home state of the automotive industry. Thanks to…
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This is Microsoft’s vision for dual-screen apps on Windows 10X and Android
Microsoft is starting to share more details on exactly how it imagines apps will run on dual-screen devices like the Surface Duo and Surface Neo. The software giant unveiled both devices back in October, with the smaller Surface Duo running Android and the larger Surface Neo powered by Windows 10X.…
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Teeth aligning company SmileDirectClub is using NDAs to stifle bad reviews online
SmileDirectClub, a Warby Parker-style company that sells 3D-printed teeth aligners online that are typically cheaper than braces, has asked some customers dissatisfied with the product to sign extremely restrictive nondisclosure agreements that stifle them from saying anything negative about the company, according to a report from The New York Times…
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