Just in time for Apple’s annual event, AdBlock unveils an ad-free browser.
The mobile advertisement-blocking wars took an interesting turn today: Anti-advertising software provider AdBlock just released a browser that blocks ads for Android and iOS. This means that AdBlock, a small company best known for their AdBlock Plus product, beat Apple to producing a mobile browser with the ability to remove mobile ads from users’ experiences.
Five years after reinventing the tablet market, the iPad has grown stale while the competition keeps innovating.
I don’t know about you, but I’m in desperate need of some new gadgets. My 2011-era MacBook Pro just doesn’t pack the same punch when I’m editing video, and the battery of my screen-shattered (and now tiny-feeling) iPhone 5s feels like it barely lasts a few hours before needing a charge. My phone contract is up and I’m ready for whatever Apple announces on Wednesday.
This is a terrible palindrome.
Franzen, his wife Yi-Fen Chou, and an Iraqi orphan “walk” into a “bar”… #LiteraryTwitter
“That’s where the action is,” Kalanick says in an exclusive interview with Fast Company.
Earlier this year, an internal email to investors from CEO Travis Kalanick revealed that Uber intended to invest $1 billion in China. During its first nine months in the country, Uber had grown 400 times more rapidly than it had in New York within nine months of its launch there; by June, Uber was operating in China at a rate of nearly 1 million rides a day. In his note, Kalanick deemed China the “number one priority for Uber’s global team” and touted it as “one of the largest untapped opportunities for Uber, potentially larger than the U.S.”
Fast Company‘s profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick explains how the ride-hailing app tweaks its approach in different cities.
Since its launch in 2010, Uber has steadily expanded into more than 300 cities. With every move, CEO Travis Kalanick knew that he needed to tackle each region individually, with its existing transportation options and population in mind.
The e-commerce giant hopes to sell more tablets by offering a more affordable device.
You may want to bookmark this as a potential stocking stuffer: This holiday season, Amazon is supposedly releasing a $50 tablet for U.S. consumers, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new, as-of-yet untitled 6-inch device is designed to target what the WSJ calls “cost-conscious” customers, in hopes of increasing its tablet sales. Amazon’s budget tablet won’t have phone capabilities, and will be the cheapest option among several new tablets the company plans to release.
The Twitter-owned live-streaming platform is developing an app for Apple TV.
On Wednesday, Apple will introduce its shiny new Apple TV—and Periscope is allegedly building an app specifically for the device. TechCrunch reports that Periscope has been hard at work on an app for the media player, which could make live streams easier to watch in a group setting. The functionality is unclear at the moment, but it’s a safe bet that the app will focus on Periscope’s core business: allowing users to watch streaming video in real time.
Fast Company‘s exclusive profile details how Kalanick once accused a taxi driver of ripping him off—long before he started Uber.
More than 10 years before creating Uber, CEO Travis Kalanick joined the founding staff of Scour, a search engine that used peer-to-peer file sharing to distribute movies and music. As Max Chafkin writes in Fast Company‘s exclusive profile of Kalanick, the company was a “proto-Napster” for which Kalanick managed product, business development, and marketing. Though Scour grew quickly, it was slammed with lawsuit after lawsuit due to copyright issues; eventually, Scour’s most generous backer refused to further invest in the company, and it was forced to file for bankruptcy.
Here comes another Apple product announcement. Stop salivating.
Steve Jobs fueled the mania for Apple’s product releases in two important ways. First, he brought showmanship to the events, a combination of prestidigitation and circus blarney that Apple’s new leadership can’t match. Second, and more importantly, on more than one occasion Jobs delivered products that truly changed our world. As a result, Apple product announcements are preceded by dozens of frothy articles explaining why this or that predicted feature will alter—sorry, revolutionize—our lives.
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