Feb. 6, 2020
Thu. 02/06 - Google Maps Freshens Up For Its Birthday
Google Maps turns 15 and puts on a fresh coat of paint, it turns out you WILL be able to unlock your car via iPhone and really soon, Huawei is suing Verizon, Twitter impresses investors, Casper has a rollercoaster IPO, and does the fact that Google has stopped reporting a key metric basically guarantee that they have crossed the ad-load Rubicon?
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- Google Maps gets a new icon and more tabs to celebrate 15th anniversary (The Verge)
- New ‘CarKey’ feature in iOS 13.4 beta brings built-in support for unlocking, driving, and sharing NFC car keys (9to5Mac)
- Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry (The Verge)
- Huawei sues Verizon for alleged patent violations (The Verge)
- Twitter reports $1.01B in Q4 revenue with 152M monetizable daily active users (TechCrunch)
- Casper surges nearly 30% in market debut (CNBC)
- The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric (ZDNet)
- Ancestry to lay off 6% of workforce because of a slowdown in the consumer DNA-testing market (CNBC)
- U.S. allows SoftBank-backed Nuro to deploy driverless delivery vehicles (Reuters)
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