Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, we talked about some sunglasses from a company that many people do not like very much. This week, we’re talking about Apple and the company 1,600 times smaller than it that’s facing similar product problems. If you’re reading this on the ProWellTech site, you…
Freemium games hit Android like a dump truck. It allowed apps and games to pay for free with users who later paid money if they wanted to, and it was a model that prevailed. Freemium games make more money than their one time paid counterparts and people tend to download them more often. However, there…
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. BetterUp, a reskilling and coaching platform for employees before and beyond the C-suite, is getting in touch with its emotions. This week, the richly funded unicorn startup announced a pair of acquisitions…
Mit dem Cat S62 Pro hat sich das Unternehmen, das vor allem für seine riesigen Baufahrzeuge und -maschinen bekannt ist, aufgemacht, das ultimative Arbeitstelefon zu konstruieren. Im Vergleich zur vorherigen S61-Generation bietet der S62 Pro neben einem integrierten professionellen Flir 3.5-Thermosensor eine Vielzahl von technischen Upgrades. Das S62 Pro startet auch zu einem viel niedrigeren…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly ProWellTech series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has shared a new way to experience space, with three new “sonifications” which turn visual astronomy data into sounds. The first sonification is of Westerlund 2, a cluster of young stars which have been imaged in the optical wavelength by Hubble and in the X-ray wavelength by Chandra. As the sound…
SoftBank has been on a tear in Latin America. The Japanese investment conglomerate just announced it has launched its second Latin America-focused fund with a $3 billion capital commitment from the company that may grow as the fund explores “options to raise additional capital,” according to SoftBank. The vehicle follows hot on the heels of…
Having a no-log VPN is extremely important as it’s the very foundation of security and user privacy — if a VPN doesn’t commit to a no-log policy, it’s safe to assume that it is harvesting your data and selling it to advertisers or other third parties. Needless to say, in this age of digital data…
The crew of SpaceX’s first all-civilian mission, Inspiration4, has shared an update on how they have been spending their time in orbit — including performing scientific research, admiring the view from space, and enjoying art and music. The Inspiration4 crew consists of mission commander Jared Isaacman, the billionaire founder of Shift4 Payments, pilot Sian Proctor…