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Chinese authorities are using a mobile app designed for mass surveillance to profile, investigate and detain Muslims in Xinjiang by labelling "completely lawful" behaviour as suspicious, a Human Rights Watch report said Thursday.
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Instagram has moved closely towards being a fully-fledged e-commerce site with the addition of a new checkout app, available for mobile devices. The service is starting with 20 fashion brands.
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The classroom communication app, ClassDojo, has announced that it has raised $35 million in Series C funding. This app helps facilitate communication among teachers, parents and their children at the school setting.
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So you want to learn Greek? Greek-Australian teen and entrepreneur Fotios Tsoulkas has developed an app, "Metropolis," to help kids learn the Greek language.
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In February of 2019, world-renowned actor Chris Hemsworth and his wife, actress, and fitness author Elsa Pataky, launched their new health and wellness app, Centr.
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The television network Cinémoi is forming a partnership with Samsung, in an effort to launch the new Cinémoi Channel app. Digital Journal has the scoop.
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A new app is being tested out by retail chain Marks and Spencer. If successful, this could mark the end of the supermarket checkout.
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Entrepreneur Lindsey Smith chatted with Digital Journal about her Fashion Buddy app, as well as the digital transformation of the fashion world.
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The ruling U.K. Conservative Party faced a major data leak via its own app ahead of the Party's annual conference in Birmingham.
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The on-demand trucking app service Convoy has attracted a massive $185 million in investment as the company prepares plans to expand its services. The company is now valued at $1 billion.
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A luxury retail company leveraging popular chat platforms to make sales announced a $20 million Series A funding round on Friday.
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Three-time Grammy-nominated rapper Pusha T is taking over the tech world. He has teamed up with tech entrepreneur Summer Watson, and they launched the hip-hop app Heir.
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It's easy to get off track when it comes to managing personal finances, and founders recognize that. Gone are the days when you have to go to a bank to create a financial plan: here are three startups that make managing your personal finances easier.
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Things are looking tricky for the messenger service Telegram, with Apple instigating a block to further updates for the social media platform. In Europe this has additionally caused GDPR issues.
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The problems of opioid dependency have been widely reported and the problem is affecting many high-income nations. To overcome the challenges faced by the medical community, a new digital health solution is proposed.
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The mobile company Mylo has launched a scheme called "Round Up To Give", making it Canada’s only mobile giving app. The scheme operates in partnership with CanadaHelps.
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Country music queen Martina McBride has launched a new meal-planning app called "Menu'd." Digital Journal has the scoop.
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A new app has been designed to make cannabis use safer. The app is called 'Am I Stoned?' Here the intention is to help users understand their impairment.
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The music streaming service Spotify has just launched a new mobile app with on-demand playlists for its 90 million free users.
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Russia has announced plans to block the use of the social media app Telegram over security concerns. This stems from the developers refusing to supply the encryption keys used to scramble messages.
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Designed in Germany and being successfully used in countries like Inida, the newly developed app Plantix allows farmers to identify pests from crop damage. The app also gives advice on how to treat crop diseases.
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A new app, modeled on a computer game, has been launched for children who have been identified with a type of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The app takes the form of a game.
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Pakistan's cattle markets have been crammed for weeks as the Muslim country prepares for the sacrificial festival of Eid al-Adha this weekend, but in Islamabad and Karachi crowd-weary residents are ordering animals by app instead.
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Toronto is capturing the world’s attention as an innovation ecosystem — and success for startups like parking app Rover could be a sign of the bright things to come.
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A new update to Uber's app will make it a lot easier to get in touch with your driver, thus solving one of the most awkward aspects of hailing an Uber.
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Following the United States, McDonald’s Canada announced they now provide home delivery of their restaurant items in certain Canadian centres. McDonald’s is partnering with UberEATS allowing Canadians to place their orders using the UberEATS app.
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A man who was badly injured in an explosion is crediting the iPhone app Siri for saving his life. His hands were too badly burned to be able to dial 911 for assistance.
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A new app has been developed and it offers a series of personalized therapies for stroke patients to gain back use of their arms.
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If, like me, your DVD collection is languishing unwatched because you don’t have a DVD player or a disc drive on your laptop, Walmart’s Vudu has a solution.
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When President-elect Donald Trump tweets about a public company, the market listens.
And if you hold the stock of one of the companies that has come into Trump's crosshairs, finance app Trigger thinks you'll want to know about it.
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