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Google announced today it is providing $2.3 million in funding to 18 news organizations in the Asia Pacific region, the latest in its ongoing effort to support publishers globally. News organizations from 11 nations, including Australia, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan are receiving the grant as part of Thursday’s announcement, the company said, which began accepting applications for the new innovation challenge fund in the region late last year. The search giant said more than 250 organizations had applied for the funding. Those that are selected showed “variety and creativity of their ideas” to explore ways to increase reader engagement that would drive greater loyalty and willingness in readers to pay for content. The $2.3 million innovation challenge fund is not evenly distributed among the 18 hand-picked organizations, a Google spokesperson told TechCrunch. The company additionally also offers mentoring and training sessions to these organizations, the spokesper

A screenshot is a perfect way to capture the contents of your screen and share it. Taking a screenshot is easier than ever, and there are several ways to do so on your OnePlus phone. Let's take a look at the more common options, and see how you can set up a gesture to easily take a screenshot. How to take a screenshot with hardware buttons The most straightforward way to take a screenshot is the Android default of pressing down on the power and volume buttons at the same time. Here's how it works: Open the page that you want to screenshot. Press down the power and volume down buttons at the same time for one second and release. You'll see the screen flash for a brief moment and a small preview of the screenshot will show up at the bottom right corner of your screen. You can select this to share or edit the screenshot . Editing options include changing the size of the screenshot, blurring out sensitive information on the page, annotation, and the ability to a

That's despite supply chain operations starting to resume... What you need to know Research suggests smartphone production could be about to fall by up to 16.5%. TrendForce says that it only expects 287 million phones to be produced in the June quarter. That's despite signs that supply chains and manufacturing are starting to resume production. Research from TrendForce suggests that global smartphone production may fall by up to 16.5% in the June quarter. As reported by Reuters : Global smartphone production is expected to slump a record 16.5% to 287 million phones in the June quarter from a year earlier as the coronavirus pandemic muzzles demand, TrendForce said here despite supply chains resuming after weeks of shutdown. Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will retain their first and third spots on the leaderboard, but are both expected to lose market share to Chinese rivals, the market research firm said on Thursday. That follows a 10% drop

Just as challenger banks have appeared in the B2C space, so to have B2B startup banks aimed small businesses, among them startups like Qonto (Fr), Tide (UK), Penta (GER) and CountingUp (UK). Today another such firm, Finom , has closed a €6.5m ($7M) seed funding round led by Target Global, with participation from General Catalyst. Further investors include FJ Labs, Raisin founders Tamaz Georgadze, Frank Freund and Michael Stephan, and Ilya Kondrashov, the founder of MarketFinance. The company will primarily use the fresh capital to develop its product, and to expand further into Italy and France in the summer of 2020. Finom puts accounting, financial management and banking functions for early-stage businesses and SMEs into one ‘mobile-first’ product. Businesses can set up an online account, with accounts payable and account receivable from both the app and the site in fairly short order. The company was started by the team that also launched Modulbank, ‘neobank’ for SMEs in Russia.

Over 75% of those downloads came from Android users... What you need to know Data suggests TikTok has surpassed 2 billion global downloads.. TikTok has also generated over $450M in spending. Its Q1 performance has been record-breaking. Popular video app TikTok has surpassed 2 billion global downloads on iOS and Android, according to the latest data from Sensor Tower The report states: Social video app TikTok from ByteDance has been downloaded more than 2 billion times globally on the App Store and Google Play, according to Sensor Tower Store Intelligence estimates. The latest milestone comes just five months after TikTok surpassed 1.5 billion downloads. In Q1 2020, it generated the most downloads for any app ever in a quarter, accumulating more than 315 million installs across the App Store and Google Play. Sensor Tower notes that whilst the app was previously already popular, its recent surge of 315M downloads in Q1 2020 comes as consumers are "drawn to their mob

Since iPadOS 13 was released last year, Apple has included native suppport for opening two or more windows in the same application to view them side by side. Since then, more and more third-party apps have been building in multi-window support, and now Microsoft is beta testing its own versions for Word and PowerPoint on iPad . The ability to display two documents next to each other is particularly useful for comparing two versions of the same document or keeping an eye on your reference notes while working. Similarly, PowerPoint support would let users cross-reference presentation slides on the same screen. In a blog post , Microsoft details three ways to access multi-window support in Word and PowerPoint for ‌iPad‌: Touch, hold, and drag a file from the Recent, Shared, and Open file list in the app to the ‌iPad‌ screen edge to open it side-by-side. In Word or PowerPoint, swipe up from the bottom of the screen and open the dock. Then touch and hold the same app’s icon and

Duo will finally allow users to share invite links to add friends to a group call. What you need to know You may soon be able to share invite links for group video and audio calls in Google Duo. People who receive an invite link will be able to tap on it to join a group call instantly. There is currently no word on the feature's release timeline. Unlike Google's previous communications apps, Duo has proved to be extremely popular and is currently among the best video calling services available. Google also adds new features to Duo regularly to make it more appealing to users. A teardown of the latest version of Duo by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong has now revealed that Google is working on group invite links for Duo calls. Google Duo continues working on group invite links, now with an ability to share/copy one pic.twitter.com/bKHUHVNlDr — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 30, 2020 With the new feature, users will be able to share invite links for group vi