AT&T has agreed to pay $60 million in a settlement involving secretly throttled unlimited plans in 2011, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday. You might assume the fine has something to do with the broadband industry’s liberal use of the word “unlimited,” given that AT&T […]
Day: November 6, 2019
Senegal’s NIMA Codes to launch address app in 15 African countries
Senegalese startup NIMA Codes — a digital mapping service for locations without formal addresses — has upgraded its app and plans to go live in 15 African countries in 2020. The pre-seed stage startup launched in 2018 around an API that uses mobile-phone numbers to […]
First Thing Today | Audio Highlights November 5, 2019
A brief summary of some of the headlines Pro Farmer Editors are watching this morning.
Couple finds great price and care from international medicine
One Ohio couple is traveling the world and they know first-hand what medical care is like around the world even for a serious condition. … After a mammogram in Croatia, Ellen received a cancer diagnosis. … Pharmacist in Greece. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit […]
Canon EOS Ra is the smallest and most portable specialist camera yet
It’s been less than a day since one US retailer mistakenly – and rather prematurely – posted a pre-order listing for the EOS Ra on its site, revealing everything there is to know about the astrophotography specialist camera. However, Canon has now made it official, […]
Shopify expands into email marketing
Shopify continues to expand beyond its core e-commerce platform with a new product called Shopify Email. Shopify’s chief product officer Craig Miller and director of product for marketing technology Michael Perry gave me a quick demo of the product yesterday; Miller argued that they’ve created […]
Dumfries voters approve pari-mutuel betting
Voters in the Town of Dumfries have approved a ballot question that will allow for the opening of a “Rosie's Gaming Emporium,” a pari-mutuel betting …
China Scraps Plan to Categorize Bitcoin Mining as Industry to Be Eliminated
More than six months after the China National Development and Reform Commission proposed to categorize bitcoin mining as an industry to be … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Indennità e pensioni, Team K: “Stesse regole per politici e dipendenti pubblici”
Anche il trattamento pensionistico dei politici per i membri del Team dovrebbe essere calcolato in base al sistema contributivo come per tutti i … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
TikTok Is Having a Tough Time in Washington
In some ways, the social media app TikTok couldn’t have rose to prominence at a worse moment. The platform for sharing short-form video clips is owned by the Chinese startup Bytedance, and surged in popularity just as the United States’ relations with China are turning […]