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Google has an indoor positioning tech in the works, called VPS
Google has announced it’s working on a service to offer detailed indoor location positioning using its Tango 3D sensing computer vision tech. Read More
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Will smartphone AR stunt virtual reality’s growth?
T.J. Miller’s Erlich Bachman from HBO’s Silicon Valley isn’t necessarily known for his business prowess, but his assertion that virtual reality is a hotbed of hype right now in Silicon Valley is right — the real question is where it goes from here. Read More
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Lenovo’s massive Tango phone is now scheduled to arrive next month
It’s 6.4 inches, it’s got a crazy new depth-sensing camera system and it may actually arrive next month. Lenovo’s big Phab2 Pro was originally scheduled for retail release this summer, a date that eventually got pushed back to a fairly vague fall timeframe, casting some doubt on whether the first handset to leverage Google’s Tango system would ever see the light of… Read More
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Chat App Company Tango, Valued At Over $1 Billion, Makes More Layoffs
Messaging app Tango has made further layoffs as new CEO Eric Setton continues to orchestrate changes in a bid to transform the struggling company’s fortunes. Read More
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Tango’s New CEO Takes Its Struggling Messaging App Back To Basics
Tango’s new CEO isn’t wasting any time making changes to reverse the declining fortunes of the messaging app company. Co-founder Eric Setton, who made the jump from Tango CTO to CEO one month ago, announced this week that the company is splitting its service into two to rediscover the core chat experience that made it successful. Read More
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Faltering Messaging App Unicorn Tango Gets A New CEO To Turn Things Around
Last year we wrote fairly extensively about Evernote’s ongoing transition, which has seen it shutter products, lay off staff, hire a new CEO, and see its COO and other visible VPs move on to pastures new. Mobile messaging service Tango, a unicorn valued at more than $1 billion that made similar changes in 2015, looks to be another tech firm for which the year 2016 could be a critical one. Read More
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Tango, Chat App Unicorn, Lays Off 9% Of Staff Following Failed Move Into E-Commerce
Tango, the mobile messaging unicorn that reached a billion dollar valuation when Alibaba invested $280 million in it early last year, has laid off around nine percent of its workforce after it shuttered a brief effort at e-commerce. Read More
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The 20 Best Unicorn Companies For Paying Software Engineers Top Dollar
We pulled together all 153 unicorns currently listed on the Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboard and then matched them up with data provided by Glassdoor to give you the top 20 highest paying startup unicorns for software engineering jobs. In our previous report, we revealed cloud-based big data company Cloudera paid the best overall. Dropbox now takes the top spot when narrowing it down to… Read More
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Chat App Tango Launches In-App Commerce Powered By Walmart And Alibaba
Mobile messaging app Tango is taking a leaf out of the Asian playbook with the launch of an in-app commerce service called Tango Shop. Read More
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Mobile Messaging Conjures A Commerce Platform
America is finally discovering what Asia has known for years: mobile messaging is a commerce platform. Read More
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Tango Music Pix Returns For Its Official Launch
Today, Tango has officially re-released Tango Music Pix, an app for making musical slideshows, which the messaging service is calling its first “sister application.” Read More
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Messaging App Tango Expands Its Channels Program With BuzzFeed And Other New Publishers
Mobile messaging company Tango is announcing some new additions to its Channels program for publishers and brands, including BuzzFeed and Vimeo. As I wrote when the program launched in June, Tango’s Channels represent something similar to Facebook Pages — it gives consumers a way to subscribe to receive updates from publishers and other brands in the service. It’s not an… Read More
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Tango Luring Developers To Its Platform With New $25 Million Global Games Fund
Months after raising more than $280 million from Alibaba in a Series D round, Tango is looking to stand out in the messaging app space by committing $25 million to a fund to promote games built on its network and even make investments in exceptional developers. Read More
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Tango Brings Publishers And Brands Into Its Mobile Messaging App With Tango Channels
Mobile messaging company Tango is announcing a new way for companies like Spotify and 500px to push updates and content to consumers through a service called Tango Channels. At first blush, this might sound like a new ad program, but that’s not exactly it. Turns out that Tango already runs in-stream ads through a partnership with Twitter-owned MoPub. The new channels, on the other… Read More
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Google’s Project Tango Includes Tech Apple-Acquired 3D Imaging Company PrimeSense
If you want a hint of what might be on the horizon at Apple, look to Google – or at least look to its Project Tango experimental 3D depth-sensing smartphone. Tango got a teardown just the other day, and later on iFixit determined that one of its key components comes from what is now an Apple subsidiary (via 9to5Google), thanks to a deal that wrapped up last November. PrimeSense, which is… Read More
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Mobile Messaging App & Gaming Platform Tango Raises Massive $280 Million Series D
Tango, the mobile messaging application that allows users to text, play games and make free voice and video calls, is today announcing $280 million in Series D funding, in a round led by China’s Alibaba. The landmark round will give Alibaba, a company best known for dominating China’s e-commerce landscape, a minority stake in Tango, contributing $215 million. Read More
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And Now For Your Smartphone’s Next Trick: Seeing And Understanding, Courtesy Of Google
If that seems like something out of science fiction, that’s because it very much could be – the AI assistant in Her, for instance, manages to be so convincingly human because it shares an awareness of the user’s world, including recognizing the environment and putting that into the proper context. Google’s new prototype hardware and development kit, with its Myriad… Read More
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Tango’s Platform Expansion Continues With Debut “Road Riot,” Its First Original iOS Game
Tango, the mobile messaging service which is now attempting to transition into mobile gaming, has just released its first Tango-powered iOS application built in-house, with the launch of “Road Riot,” an arcade-style racing game. The app is the first iOS title to emerge from Tango’s game development studio in Austin, Texas, and is meant to serve as something of a test bed… Read More
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Mobile Messaging App Tango Debuts A Content Platform, Will Now Power The Social Layer Of Third-Party Apps & Games
Tango, a mobile messaging and video calling app with now over 120 million members worldwide, is expanding its service by opening its platform to third-party developers. By integrating the newly launched Tango software development kit (SDK) into their own applications, mobile publishers will be able to add a social layer into their apps meant to better reflect users’ real-world… Read More
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Now 75 Million+ Users Strong, Tango Expands Its Content Business With Avatars And Real-Time Filters For Video Calls
Mobile video chat app Tango is continuing its content push today, with the release of new freenium-based features to enhance the mobile calling experience: avatars and real-time filters. You may remember that Tango first started its content business with the addition of “Tango Surprises” a year ago – these are the cutesy animations used to decorate video call screens, for… Read More
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