Welcome to another edition of our Dreamers Digital Digest. This week we’ll be going through stories from companies such as: Twitter, AngelList, Google, Snapchat and Spotify.
AngelList acquires Product Hunt for $20 million
A company which helps investors find start-up companies to invest in has (link: http://www.recode.net/2016/12/1/13802154/angellist-product-hunt-acquisition text: acquired) Product Hunt for $20 million dollars. Product Hunt lets people share and discover new products posted by other people. Whilst Product Hunt will still continue to run under its own brand name, it will still fall under the AngelList umbrella. The plan will be to find ways to integrate in the future but at the moment Product Hunt are and will continue running its own brand name.
Twitter buys start-up company Yes, Inc.
Twitter have (link: https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/01/twitter-vp/ text: announced their plans) to buy mobile app start-up company Yes, Inc and gain a new VP of product in the process. As part of the acquisition, Yes, Inc’s internal team of a half dozen people will also join Twitter with various roles in design and product. Interestingly, the new VP, Keith Coleman currently doesn’t even use Twitter so the new job role is sure to help him engage with the platform he’ll be helping to lead.
Snapchat Spectacles introduce prescription lenses
Following the news of Snapchat’s new video sunglasses, Spectacles last week, the company has (link: https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/01/prescription-lenses-for-snapchat-spectacles-start-at-99/ text: confirmed) that there will be an option to get prescribed Spectacles via the company who created prescription lenses for Google Glass. The downside to this is it is not possible to create prescription lenses for the Spectacles that are too high so get eating those carrots so you can get your prescribed Spectacles!
More than a million Google accounts breached by malware
(link: http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/11/30/1-million-google-accounts-breached-gooligan/ text: Gooligan, a new malware campaign) has been reported to have attacked and breached over a million Google accounts. The campaign aims to infect devices and hack into authentication tokens to access data from things such as Google Play, Photos, Gmail, Docs and Drive plus many more. Google and Check Point are currently looking into the issues and looking into ways to protect users’ data.
Oculus Rift announces over 50 titles in time for the launch of motion controllers
Oculus Rift have (link: http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/1/13811990/oculus-touch-rift-vr-launch-titles-controllers text: announced) 53 launch titles in time for when they release their motion controllers in December. The games themselves range from smaller indie type games to major studio productions meaning everyone should be happy when they purchase the controllers.
Spotify using billboards to showcase users listening habits
Spotify’s latest marketing campaign(link: http://thenextweb.com/music/2016/11/30/spotify-is-using-billboards-to-call-users-out-on-their-questionable-listening-habits/ text: highlights) various bits of insight gained throughout 2016. This then spurred them on to ask some very interesting questions regarding these listening habits as well as providing some much needed humour in regards to the past year.
Join us soon for some more digital news.