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Blueshift raises $30 million to manage and analyze customer data

February 25, 2021
Customer data analytics company Blueshift today announced it has closed a $30 million series C round, bringing its total raised to $65 million. The company plans to put the funds toward expanding its workforce while further developing its marketing platform. A recent report from Forrester Research found that highly personalized, omnichannel marketing campaigns have the potential to generate 4…
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Jetpack Compose enters beta, making Android UI development easier

February 25, 2021
Jetpack Compose, Google and Jetbrain’s up-and-coming Kotlin-based UI toolkit for Android, is entering beta testing stage, meaning it’s now suitable for production-ready apps. Some could point to Jetpack Compose as an Android-native alternative to Google’s other UI framework, Flutter. In particular, Jetpack Compose and Flutter both use a “declarative” model, where developers can…
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Google Recorder web app arrives early, set to bring Pixel audio backups

February 25, 2021
In 2019, Google introduced a powerful Recorder app with real-time transcriptions for Pixel devices. The latest version, released alongside the Pixel 5, added editing and social sharing through video clips. A Google Recorder web app is coming soon with the ability to backup audio on your Pixel. Recorder.google.com, which differs from the old recorder.withgoogle.com landing page, just went live.
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Yonhap: LG has put the rollable phone project on hold

February 24, 2021
A report from last month claimed that LG is weighing its options for the rollable phone it showed off at CES 2021. Now reports that the decision has been made to mothball the project. LG has told its parts suppliers to put work on the rollable phone on hold, according to…
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Meizu 18 specs leak, Snapdragon 870 for the vanilla model

February 24, 2021
The Meizu 18 series has been rumored for a long while though without much clarity in terms of specs. Today we have a leak which aims to clear up the picture regarding the vanilla model, revealing it’s powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 870 chipset, complete with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage. Meizu 18 leaked specs We can also see the phone will come with a 64MP primary camera alongside 12MP and…
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