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FCC Proposes First Major Fine on Robocaller

Compliance

FCC Cracking Down on Spoofed Local Robocalls

Eugene O'Rourke
October 5, 2018

In a recently proposed $37 million fine, the FCC has recently proposed a fine against Affordable Enterprises, which the agency claims made over 2 million spam calls utilizing spoofed local phone numbers dating back to 2016.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Yahoo Acquires Qwiki

Eugene O'Rourke
July 10, 2013

Yahoo confirmed the acquisition of Qwiki, a startup that makes an iPhone application that allows users to automatically turn photos, music, and videos into short movies.

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Mobile

Android Google Play Edition Camera Now Available for Download

Eugene O'Rourke
July 3, 2013

The stock camera from the new Google Play Edition phones has been made available for download / install by the team over at XDA.

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Marketing

Google Now Backgrounds Available for Download

Eugene O'Rourke
June 20, 2013

If you’re one of the many users that enjoys the clean artwork from the Google Now backgrounds, you can now access the images directly from the artist’s Flickr account.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Google Acquires Waze

Eugene O'Rourke
June 12, 2013

It’s official – Google has just announced the closing of an acquisition deal with Waze. While the terms of the deal weren’t made public, it’s rumored that Google paid around $1.3 billion for the acquisition.

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