Sentences with phrase «sharing app companies»

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T. Rowe Price cut valuations for 12 of its 17 investments in private tech companies, including the accommodations share site Airbnb, ride share company Uber, cloud storage company Dropbox as well as open - source development company Cloudera, and Evernote, the organization app company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

When the company rolled out its app platform in 2007, the company explained to users that when they installed an app they'd be able to share not only their own information, but that of their friends as well, he said.

She co-founded the media company Huffington Post before launching the wellness site Thrive Global and is currently on the board of directors for ride - sharing app Uber.

In recent weeks, mutual fund company Fidelity has reportedly marked down the share price of messaging app company Snapchat by 25 percent, and it slashed the share price of the cloud human resources provider Zenefits by 48 percent.

The CEO of NatureBox shares the apps that help him build company culture, manage staff and keep in touch.

In April, LinkedIn introduced Elevate, an app to help employees share company and industry content on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Emoticast is the company behind TuneMoji, apps that allow users share music GIFs with sound across platforms such as iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Kik.

The company, which counts global auto supplier Aptiv among its investors, is a digital broker of sorts: It scrubs and organizes bits of data for carmakers, sifts out the regulatory hopscotch for different countries and lets drivers select via mobile app which information they want to share with which companies in exchange for discounts or rewards.

Meanwhile, ride - sharing app Uber bought an autonomous transport trailer startup called Ottomotto in August 2016; the acquired company had filed its U.S. trademark application in March 2016.

Figure 1, a Toronto company that provides a photo - sharing app for health - care professionals, did just that.

Available via an online portal and mobile app, BambooHR helps companies find high - caliber candidates and track, evaluate and share applicant information easily throughout the business.

If history is our guide, he'll likely kick off his talk with how well Apple has done at getting its customers to run the latest versions of iOS and OS X, how many apps are available in the company's App Store, uptick in Apple TV usage, and perhaps most importantly to developers, how much the iPhone maker has doled out to the software makers as part of their revenue - sharing agreement.

The entrepreneurial dream of selling a startup for megabucks came true for the founders of photo - sharing app Instagram when Facebook agreed to buy the company for $ 1 billion in cash and stock.

The LGBTQ dating app, which has more than 3.6 million daily active users around the world, was recently revealed by BuzzFeed News to have shared the HIV statuses of its users as well as the dates of their most recent tests with two data optimisation companies.

Although Snap (snap) originally priced its IPO at $ 17 per share, investor enthusiasm for the company behind popular messaging app Snapchat lifted those shares 52 % to $ 25.88 in mid-day trading.

FoKo offers a secure, private enterprise photo - sharing app designed for companies and counts Whole Foods as a customer.

The app now counts an audience of 125,000, and its parent company, which shares its name, estimates that 15 % of medical students in the United States use it.

Or your company might pivot and reinvent itself entirely — just look at Instagram, a floundering check - in service that became a billion dollar photo - sharing app.

Finally, after coming under fire by users and advocacy groups, the app announced late Monday night that it had ceased sharing its users» HIV status with these third - party companies.

This one - app - to - rule - them - all approach is how the company plans to overcome its disadvantage in phones and tablets, where it is way behind Apple and Google in terms of market share and total number of apps.

Instead, Facebook's PR team and lower ranking leaders have led the company's defense by drawing technical distinctions between what happened and more common breaches by hackers, and by pointing out that Facebook curtailed the amount of user data it shared with app makers in 2014.

The Uber Rent feature, which is in partnership with car - sharing company Getaround, will let users find cars for short - term rentals using the Uber app.

The strategic partnership will let the companies share technology, product development, and local resources, and when US users of Lyft go to China (or when Didi users come visit the US), they'll be able to pay in their native currency on each app.

Facebook did not read the terms of service of the app that improperly shared user data with Cambridge Analytica, the company's chief technology officer said Thursday.

The app connects folks to drivers by ordering rides through their smartphones and can pay their cab fare just like they would if riding with another ride - share company.

Customers share video clips they film from their GoPro cameras on YouTube and by using the company's app.

Amid a Silicon Valley financing boom, companies including house - sharing app Airbnb Inc. and file - sharing company Dropbox Inc. have raised money at $ 10 billion valuations.

In April, the Hangzhou - based company led a $ 250 million financing round of ride - sharing app Lyft Inc..

Facebook will warn 87 million users, mostly in the U.S, that their data «may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica by apps that they or their friends used», the company just announced.

One company to have catapulted from a startup into a serious firm backed by significant investment is EyeEm, a photo - sharing mobile app that connects amateur photographers with potential buyers.

Sequence is used as a system of record by a diverse set of companies including mobile wallets, crypto asset exchanges, lending platforms, sharing economy apps, payment services, funding sites, asset managers, and many more.

Shares of Match Group, the company that runs Tinder and other popular dating apps such as OKCupid, plummeted more than 22 percent — the largest one - day drop in its history — after Mr. Zuckerberg's announcement.

Callinicos, who spent a total of 21 years working in various positions at Microsoft and Google, including treasurer and chief accountant at the search company before moving on to Uber, spent only two years as finance chief at the ride - sharing app.

Snap Inc.'s Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy saw their net worth fall more than 22 percent on Wednesday after the company said revenue gains will be even smaller in the current quarter as users of its mobile photo - sharing app revolt over a redesign.

So, for example, just 558 Filipino Facebook users installed the personality quiz app that passed data to Cambridge Analytica — yet the company was able to grab personal data on up to 1,175,312 more users in that country as a result of how Facebook allowed people's data to be shared with developers on its platform.

He was co-founder & CEO of Timelines, a company that allowed users to record and share events via the Web and apps, and founder & CEO of ShopLocal, which helps advertisers use the Web to promote local, in - store sales.

And the next time an app asks you to share your address book, there's a 99 - percent chance that this app is going to mine your address book to get new users, spam your friends, improve ad targeting and sell email addresses to marketing companies.

As we understand it now, the data mining and analytics company, based out of London, gained access to data on as many as 50 million Facebook profiles thanks to generous data - sharing policies Facebook app developers enjoyed back in 2014.

Tinder might be the app that's become synonymous with online dating, but the news that Facebook is planning on getting into the dating game sent its parent company's share price...

The company Qwiki, maker of an iPhone video sharing app, was hatched at a Summit event and acquired last year by Yahoo for $ 50 million; Basis, a company that makes wristwatch health trackers, secured its first major investment at Summit and was sold to Intel last year for over $ 100 million.

The company first released a statement early Monday afternoon defending its decision to share the information with the third parties, stating that «the inclusion of HIV status information within our platform is always regarded carefully with our users» privacy in mind,» and that the company, like any other mobile app company, «must operate with industry standard practices.»

In thinking through the social sharing strategy for our product launch, we're not only thinking about milestones that we as a company reach that we could share with our users, but also the milestones our users reach while in the app that they might benefit from sharing with their network.

Facebook was behind the Chinese photo - sharing app Colorful Balloons, which was launched anonymously earlier this year, the company confirmed last week.

A company is building a Blockchain - based system to eliminate fragmentation in the sharing economy — and creating a single app...

First, changes in the value of shares it owns in other companies, among which is ride - hailing app Uber, will be reflected as profit or loss on the income statement.

In November, parent company Snap Inc. embarked on a dramatic reorganization of its mobile photo - sharing app to combat sluggish growth.

Cambridge University professor Aleksandr Kogan reportedly shared user data collected by his Facebook personality test app with Cambridge Analytica, a company that worked to develop social media ads for the Trump campaign.

Since GM has been developing autonomous vehicles, and Lyft is one of the popular ride - sharing apps, it only makes sense that the companies would work together for this common goal.

The company removed Kogan's app at the time and demanded certifications from Cambridge Analytica, Wylie and Kogan that the information he had shared had been destroyed.

Sensitive information given to the «app optimisation» companies was encrypted and anonymised, and it was not shared with advertisers.