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Hashtag Trending – Apple Watch sales soar; Spotify’s love for podcasts; Slack as distraction machine

Brian Jackson

Published: May 6th, 2019
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Hashtag Trending – Apple engineer speak out about tough border searches; Google partners with Intel for hybrid cloud; Spotify’s Google Home mini giveaway

An Apple engineer’s experience at the border raises questions about civil liberties. Google announces a partnership with Intel for cloud computing. And how to get a free Google Home Mini. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/batmhw/aclu_asks_cbp_why_its_threatening_us_citizens/ Trending on

Published on: April 10th, 2019 Brian Jackson

Spotify to ban adblock users

In an update email sent out to all its subscribers last week, Spotify amended its terms and service to reserve the right to ban anyone using adblock with its service. Spotfiy has been combating modified

Published on: February 11th, 2019 Tom Li

Spotify launches app for Apple Watch

After years of waiting, Apple Watch owners are finally getting an official Spotify App that does more than just control volume and skipping tracks. In addition to being able to manage simple playback

Published on: November 15th, 2018 Tom Li
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TD Bank creates AI-powered Spotify playlist to win contest

Layer 6, a Toronto-based AI firm owned by TD Bank Group,  has won the international Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) RecSys Challenge for the second year running. The artificial intelligence (AI) company, acquired

Published on: July 31st, 2018 Meagan Simpson
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Hashtag Trending – Spotify’s IPO booms, Google’s machine learning figures out ramen, medical supply drone can fly at about 80 mph

Spotify is having a great debut on the public-market, Google’s machine learning software can now identify ramen by shop, and a medical supply drone will be making its debut in countries like the

Published on: April 4th, 2018 Brian Jackson
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Hashtag Trending – Spotify goes public, BMO to open tech campus, Equifax breach hits millions more customers

Spotify goes public, the Bank of Montreal will open a tech campus in Toronto’s Eaton Centre, and Equifax reveals millions more people were affected by its data breach last year. First up from

Published on: March 2nd, 2018 Mandy Kovacs
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Hashtag Trending – Spotify may create physical products, Uber Canada forces drivers to take a break, Intel rolls out new Spectre fix

Spotify appears to be on its way towards its first physical products, Uber Canada drops a new feature that will force Canadian drivers to take a break, and Intel rolls out its latest

Published on: February 22nd, 2018 Alex Radu

Apple acquires Shazam for $400 million

Apple is stepping up its music game once again, this time acquiring music and image recognition service Shazam for a reported $400 million USD. The intent to make this acquisition was first broken

Published on: December 11th, 2017 Alex Radu
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No reason to wait for Google Home to officially arrive in Canada

Google Inc. announced that its Google Home speakers were officially launched in the U.K. April 6, but Canada is still waiting. The search giant has promised 2017 access to the smart speaker hardware

Published on: April 11th, 2017 Brian Jackson
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Kindle Unlimited adds ebooks to all-you-can-eat digital buffet in Canada

Amazon Inc. launched its Kindle Unlimited service in Canada on Thursday, adding e-books to the forms of digital content that Canadians can subscribe to access in unlimited amounts. Kindle Unlimited allows customers using

Published on: February 12th, 2015 Brian Jackson
Facebook’s App Center now available in Canada

Facebook’s App Center now available in Canada

Facebook’s App Center is available to Canadian users today, the social network announced.The App Center was first announced May 9 and launched south of the border in June. It provides a central online

Published on: July 9th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff
Top 10 most useful Twitter bots

Top 10 most useful Twitter bots

You may think that Twitter is just good for followingcelebrities and swapping tweets with friends. But the social network iscapable of a lot more. Specialized services have tweaked it to turnordinary Twitter accounts

Published on: October 25th, 2011 David Daw