Rob’s Rolling Blog
Waymo expands app to iPhone devices in Phoenix
Alphabet-owned ride-hailing company Waymo has now stated that its iOS app will now be available to iPhone users in the metro Phoenix area of Arizona. The move by the company, which...
Uber to offer courier services for retail businesses?
Dara Khosrowshahi, the Chief Executive of Uber Technologies Inc mentioned at a meeting on Wednesday that the ride hailing company could extend its existing food delivery business t...
Nintendo’s Switch gaming console launches in China on December 10th
Japanese gaming icon, Nintendo will officially launch its Nintendo Switch gaming console in mainland China on December the 10th. The retail price is 2,099 yuan ($298.20), local par...
Facebook to allow transfer of your photos to Google Photos
Earlier this week, Facebook Inc announced it had introduced functionality enabling users the option to transfer their photos and video content from the social media network directl...
Brief on new Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
Google has announced that its CEO, Sundar Pichai will replace company the co-founder of Google, Larry Page as Chief Executive of its parent company Alphabet Inc, the company said i...
Thanksgiving outage for Facebook
Today was Thanksgiving in the US, which meant more time and space for folk to use social media. Unfortunately for users of Facebook and its related family of apps including Instagr...
AI specialist Appier has raised $80 million
Interested to learn that the articifical intelligence start-up Appier has raised $80 million in its Series D round of funding. The latest in a line of investors include TGVest Capi...
China plans stronger protections for intellectual property
Yesterday, China declared it would seek to improve its much criticised protections for intellectual property rights, including raising the upper limits for compensation for proven ...
Insurance platform raises $45 million
In case you missed it, San Francisco-based Vouch Insurance, a dedicated platform offering business insurance for start-up businesses, stated on Wednesday that it raised $45 million...
Y Combinator to close its Chinese unit
Interested to learn that the high profile business incubator, Y Combinator has announced it is to close its Chinese unit, YC China. The move comes as tensions between the United St...
Trump mulls whether to exempt Apple from China tariffs
President Donald Trump was quoted on Wednesday that he was considering whether to exempt Apple Inc from tariffs on Chinese imports.
Servers and software used (version 1)
We are a relatively new property, with a ton of CPU and memory intensive functionality. Our functional spec is based around the serving of content, e-commerce transactions and memb...
An insight into our hosting set-up
We have recently moved from the dedicated server hosted in Australia, over to the cloud primarily based in San Francisco. So far so good. Certainly, I am loving how easy it is to m...
Google is testing its own version of Live Gold
Reports highlight that the Silicon Valley titan has begun testing ‘Google Stadia”, an upcoming game streaming service that requires separate game purchases.
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