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  • Buzzy Ethereum wallet app Argent comes out of stealth

    Argent is launching the first public version of its Ethereum wallet for iOS and Android. The company has been available as a limited beta for a few months with a few thousand users. But it has already raised a seed and a Series A round with notable investors, such as More

    Buzzy Ethereum wallet app Argent comes out of stealth
  • The Trash app’s new features can create AI-edited music videos

    The team behind Trash, an app that uses artificial intelligence to edit your video footage, launched a number of new features this week that should make it more useful for anyone — but especially independent musicians.I wrote about the startup last summer, when CEO Hannah Donovan told me that her More

    The Trash apps new features can create AI-edited music videos and more
  • Google highlights accessible locations with new Maps feature

    Google has announced a new, welcome and no doubt long asked-for feature to its Maps app: wheelchair accessibility info. Businesses and points of interest featuring accessible entrances, bathrooms and other features will now be prominently marked as such.Millions, of course, require such accommodations as ramps or automatic doors, from More

    Google highlights accessible locations with new Maps feature
  • Daily Crunch: Disney’s streaming chief departs for TikTok

    TikTok enlists a big name from Disney as its new CEO, Walmart is shuttering its Jet e-commerce brand and EasyJet admits to a major data breach.Here’s your Daily Crunch for May 19, 2020.1. Disney streaming exec Kevin Mayer becomes TikTok’s new CEOMayer’s role involved overseeing Disney’s streaming strategy, including More

    Daily Crunch: Disneys streaming chief departs for TikTok
  • Disney streaming exec Kevin Mayer becomes TikTok’s new CEO

    Kevin Mayer, head of The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer and international business, is departing to become CEO of TikTok, as well as COO of the popular video app’s parent company ByteDance.Founder Yiming Zhang will continue to serve as ByteDance CEO, while TikTok President Alex Zhu (formerly the More

    Disney streaming exec Kevin Mayer becomes TikToks new CEO