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Voice-Activated Tracker: Inner Strengths
Voice Activation // April 07, 2017

Amazon’s Alexa sits comfortably in the top voice-enabled software spot, taking some time to pay attention to the small things. Elsewhere, challengers leverage their strengths to prepare to knock Amazon down a peg (or, at the very least, do a little bit of legwork to keep...

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Inner Strengths

April 07, 2017
Amazon’s Alexa sits comfortably in the top voice-enabled software spot, taking some time to pay attention to the small things. Elsewhere, challengers leverage their strengths to prepare to knock Amazon down a peg (or, at the very least, do a little bit of legwork to keep up). Here’s what we mean. Amazon recently focused a bit […]

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Video App Snaptube Charges For Fake Purchases, Runs Invisible Ads

October 17, 2019
An Android video app called Snaptube has been taking unauthorized premium purchases from its users and generating fraudulent ad clicks. Snaptube lets its approximately 40 million users download videos from Facebook, YouTube and others, TechCrunch reported. The app was made in China, and it’s not on the Google Play store because Google doesn’t allow video […]