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Vivo has announced that it will be hosting a sale dubbed ‘Vivo Republic Day Sale’ that will commence on January 20 and will go on till January 22 on Flipkart and January 23 on Amazon. These dates coincide with both the online retailers’ own respective sales. Amazon Prime Members will get a 12-hour early access to the Vivo Republic Day Sale, while Flipkart Plus members will get early access to the sale at 8 pm on January 19. Customers using HDFC Bank cards to purchase devices will get a 10 per cent instant discount on Amazon and SBI credit card users will get the same benefit on Flipkart.

Xiaomi recently launched the Redmi Note 7 in China and will launch its Redmi Note 7 Pro next month. Now, the pricing details and processor specifications have been leaked online. A tipster by the name Dream Dust (according to Google Translate) on Weibo claims that the upcoming device from Redmi by Xiaomi will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 processor. He also stated that the device will be priced at 1,499 Yuan, which roughly translates to Rs 16,000. Qualcomm launched its 11nm based Snapdragon 675 processor back in October. The processor comes with an octa-core Kryo 675 CPU paired with an Adreno 612 GPU.

EZ-Grow’s co-founder Elon refused to give his last name on the record, but told me “[Clients]  always need something new. At first it was follows and likes. Now we even watch Stories for them. Every new feature that Instagram has we take advantage of it to make more visibility for our clients.” He says EZ-Grow spends $500 per day on Instagram ads, which are its core strategy for finding new customers. SocialFuse founder Alexander Heit says his company spends a couple hundred dollars per day on Instagram and Facebook ads, and was worried when Instagram reiterated its ban on his kind of service in November, but says “ We thought that we were definitely going to get shut down but nothing has changed on our end.” Instagram   has been earning money from businesses flooding its social network with spam notifications. Instagram hypocritically continues to sell ad space to services that charge clients for fake followers or that automatically follow/unfollow other people to get them to

Amazon has hired Disney SVP Kyle Laughlin to head its Alexa Gadgets division, TechCrunch has learned. Laughlin spent eight years at Disney, most recently as the SVP and general manager of Games, Apps and Connected Experience at the entertainment giant’s Consumer Products and Interactive Media division. According to his LinkedIn profile, the role found Laughlin overseeing apps, connected hardware and games for Disney and Lucasfilm. The gig also involved AI, IoT and AR/VR. Also, lots of Muppets. The gig appears to revolve around the newly defined “Alexa Gadget” category, which the company describes as “fun and delightful accessories that pair to compatible Echo devices via Bluetooth.” Doesn’t seem like much of a stretch after eight years at Disney. Examples of current Alexa Gadgets include the Echo Wall Clock and Gemmy Industries’ connected Big Mouth Billy Bass and Dancing Plush Animatronics. In a few short years, the Echo has transformed from smart speaker to a category-defi

Welcome to 2019, where we learn Facebook   is the new crapware. Sorry #DeleteFacebook, you never stood a chance. Yesterday Bloomberg reported that the scandal-beset social media behemoth has inked an unknown number of agreements with Android smartphone makers, mobile carriers and OSes around the world to not only pre-load Facebook’s eponymous app on hardware but render the software  undeleteable ; a permanent feature of your device, whether you like how the company’s app can track your every move and digital action or not. Bloomberg spoke to a U.S. owner of a Samsung Galaxy S8 who, after reading forum discussions about Samsung devices, found his own pre-loaded Facebook app could not be removed. It could only be “disabled,” with no explanation available to him as to what exactly that meant. The Galaxy S8 retailed for $725+ when it went on sale in the U.S. two years ago. A Facebook spokesperson told Bloomberg that a disabled permanent app doesn’t continue collecting data or

Almost every word in the name of TAG Heuer’s new watch – the Carrera  Calibre Heuer 02T Tourbillon Nanograph – is important. Carrera connects it to TAG’s long history of chronographs while Calibre suggests a handmade watch made with some technical prowess. Tourbillon means you can expect this thing to cost more than a car (about $25,000 when it goes on sale) and Nanograph suggests that this thing is doing something quite unique. And it is. TAG Heuer loves experimenting with new materials and the Nanograph features a new hairspring design that is unique to TAG. The hairspring, which is made of carbon-composite, is lightweight and unaffected by gravity or shock. It also offers “perfect concentric oscillations” and is completely antimagnetic. Couple that with the rotating tourbillon and the suggestion is that this watch will remain accurate under all sorts of pressure. Further, rest of the movement includes carbon fiber and aluminum which reduces the effects of temperature and l