Black Eyed Peas frontman, music producer, and creator of the terrible Puls smartwatch, will.i.am, has a bone to pick with Instagram.
The artist sent a tweet on Jan. 26 alleging Instagram had emailed him with what’s ostensibly a copyright claim for a …
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i.am+ is a strange company — of course, we’d expect no less from a startup owned by Black Eyed Pea turned tech entrepreneur, Will.i.am. Probably best known for its gaudy Buttons headphones and the largely panned Puls smartwatch/wrist-band dealie, the company has been making some strange and seemingly disparate moves of late. At Dreamforce back in November, it announced that it… Read More
will.i.am believes he’s building the future’s voice-based operating system (yes, really)
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Will.i.am was sitting in a tight, grey conference room in San Francisco’s Moscone Center when he dropped a bomb on me: Not Amazon, nor Apple, nor Google, nor anyone had developed a real voice assistant… yet.
When will.i.am says he’s working on an assistant, I say I have one on my iPhone.
“No, you don’t,” he said. He grabbed his own phone from the table. “That’s a platform on iOS.”
I’m meeting with him to learn about Omega, which he — like any confident entrepreneur — argues is far superior than its competitors. Yes, will.i.am believes he has the next big thing, and he’s not alone. There’s $117 million in fresh venture funding and a team of Amazon veterans with him. Read more…
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