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December 15, 2017

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Apple confirms it will buy Shazam music-recognition app

Financial Times

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A $400m price ranks Shazam alongside some of its largest deals in the last 20 years, including 2012’s purchase of security company AuthenTec, which went on to power the iPhone’s TouchID system; PrimeSense, the Israeli maker of 3D scanning technology that helped to create the iPhone X’s face-matching TrueDepth camera.

Click-to-WhatsApp messaging buttons are now rolling out in Facebook ads

Techcrunch

WhatsApp has always said that it has no plans to put ads into its own app, but this is not stopping Facebook, which now owns WhatsApp, from figuring out other ways of monetizing the hugely popular messaging service, which has around 1 billion daily users.

Global internet speeds got 30 percent faster in 2017

Recode

U.S. ranks 44th in mobile download speeds, at 26.32 Mbps.   So slow!

Messenger’s 2017 Year in Review

Facebook

17 billion realtime video chats on Messenger, marking two times as many video chat sessions in 2017 compared to 2016.

Synaptics’ in-display fingerprint sensor coming to Vivo phones, not Samsung

Android Authority

US biometrics company Synaptics has announced that it has perfected an in-display fingerprint sensor that is now in mass production in partnership with Vivo.

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