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Open-source API integration company WSO2 closes $93M in funding

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open-source journey! Sign up here. WSO2, the company behind an open-source enterprise platform for integrating APIs, has closed out its series E round of funding at $93 million. Founded in 2005, WSO2’s products include API Manager, which companies use for building, integrating and exposing all their digital services as “managed APIs,” either…
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Google Calculator 8.2 adds two-column UI optimized for tablets

Following Lens last week, Google Calculator is the next first-party application to be updated for tablets and other large screen Android devices. Before this update, the tablet UI was just the landscape version of the app with additional functions shown to the left of the…
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Google Discover is getting video ads as new formats come to Search, YouTube Shorts

Google Marketing Live is the company’s annual equivalent of I/O for advertising. The 2022 edition saw Google announce several new shopping and advertising experiences that end users can expect in the coming year, including Discover video ads. YouTube Shorts has been testing ads since last year, and Google announced today that it’s “now gradually rolling that out to all advertisers around the…
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How to disable video autoplay in Google Discover on Android

Google Discover is a wonderful tool and something I end up using every single day. Unfortunately, even great tools have features you may want to disable for various reasons. One of those features is video preview autoplay. Here’s how to disable Google Discover’s YouTube video autoplay function. Table of contents What are YouTube video previews in Google Discover? How to disable YouTube video…
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Google says Stadia is a result of Immersive Stream for Games, not the other way around

A recent interview shines an interesting light on how Google thinks of Stadia in relation to Immersive Stream for Games. When Google announced that it was winding down its efforts to make first-party and second-party titles through Stadia Games & Entertainment, one of the details that came out was that Google would be bringing Stadia’s streaming tech to other companies. This was first put to…
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