Sharing Spree: Focus on women, launch slow, donate profits. A daily deals twist.

We’re overwhelmed with daily deals by this point. In order to get any sort of attention, a deals site better be doing something really special. Fortunately forSharing Spree, everything that the site is doing is extremely special. I had a chance to sit and talk with Sharing Spree’s VP of Marketing, Tim Moorehead. What he had to tell me about where Sharing Spree is going made sure that I would tell you about the site....

3 min · 522 words · Jillian Gallagher

Sharp’s new phone with a massive 1-inch sensor has me salivating

Sharp’s newest flagship has a 1-inch camera sensor with Leica branding — and that’s probably enough to catch the attention of camera photography nerds. But it might be hard to get your hands on a unit as the Aquos R6 is limited to Japan for now. The 1-inch 20-megapixel camera sensor is the largest in the smartphone world, beatingthe Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra’s 1/1.12-inch sensor. This means that the phone’s camera will be able to absorb more light in a short amount of time, resulting in detailed photos even in low-light situations....

2 min · 305 words · Darren Short

Shave hours off your writing time with the Rytr AI Writing Tool

TLDR:The Rytr AI Writing Tool uses the power of artificial intelligence to get your prose some help or even a nudge in the right direction. The biggest asset of most writing assistance software usually isn’t in sitting back and letting artificial intelligence hammer out the next chapter of your book. While many such apps are versatile, the real value comes in the time saved on small to mid-level tasks like banging out return emails, crafting on-the-spot social media posts, or even just simple texting prompts that can effectively give your brain a rest and just like the algorithm take over....

3 min · 446 words · Gregory Hogan

Shaw ignores its customers and moves to usage-based billing

Despite a resounding number of Canadians saying that they are against usage-based billing, Shaw Communications is going to forge ahead with a plan to charge its customers via Internet metering. Vancouver’sNews 1130reports that a conference call that was posted by Open Media, an advocacy group that has petitioned against usage-based billing, has a recording of Shaw’s CEO Bradley Shaw telling shareholders and executives within the company that metered billing plans could be announced as early as later this May....

3 min · 430 words · Anthony Bailey

Shazam Currently Boasts 30 Million Total iOS and Android Users

According toMobile Entertainment, music discovery service Shazam now has 25 million iPhone and iPod Touch users and a total of 5 million users using its Android application, continuing to add more thanone million users a week. With so many users interacting with its service, Shazam’s app now tags 3 million tracks a day, facilitating between 250,000 and 300,000 track purchases, a conversion rate that fluctuates between 8-10%. In December we noted that Shazam has surpassed the100 million users mark, it has now become clear that this accounts for all of the people that have used the service in the ten years since the platform launched....

2 min · 334 words · Jamie Thompson
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