Roku announces 15 million active monthly accounts

Roku announced it reached 15 million monthly active accounts as of June 30, 2017 growing 43 per cent over the same period of the prior year. Users streamed nearly 7 billion hours on the Roku platform in the first half of 2017, growing 61 per cent over the same period of the prior year.

“Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the United States as measured by total hours streamed,” said Roku Founder and CEO Anthony Wood. “We are growing our active accounts by distributing our proprietary TV OS across a broad range of streaming devices with multiple price points and many new and highly rated Roku TV models from our TV brand partners.”

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You can now use PayPal with Apple services

PayPal just announced that its payment service is now coming to Apple’s major services. You can now use it for the App Store, Apple Music, iTunes, and iBooks on both iOS and Mac devices. It’s available in Canada, the US, the UK, Mexico, Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. Setting it up is similar to how you would a credit card. PayPal now shows up as a payment option. So when you select that, any purchases you made on that Apple ID will be charged to your PayPal account.

LG will most likely debut V30 on August 31st at IFA

All signs point to the V30 being the new handset LG is unveiling at this year’s IFA. The South Korean tech company just sent out save-the-date press invites for the event. While it doesn’t say which device they’re planning to unveil but the invite posted above shows the shape of a smartphone with a not-so-subtle silhouette of the V in the back. And as Android Authority points out, the resolution of the invite is at 2,880 x 1,440. The significance of that is it’s been rumoured that the V30 will also have a 2:1 aspect ratio like the G6.

Much has been said about the device already. It’s said the V30 will lose the secondary display and will have an OLED screen this time. Wireless charging is expected to be available on the device, too. Aside from that the V30 will reportedly run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and at least 4GB of RAM. All of these have been speculation, though, so we just have to wait until the end of August to find the truth.

Source: GSMArena

Google officially launches Backup and Sync

Introduced last month, Google has finally taken the wraps off its new Backup and Sync desktop application. The app, which works on both Windows and Mac, can sync everything from your personal files to photos and videos from things like cameras, SD cards, and even USB devices. These will get backed up as long as you put them in Google Drive and Google Photos. The app is for personal/consumer use, though. Google’s business users are being told to keep their files on Google Drive as the tech company is developing a business-centric solution they call Drive File Stream. This program is expected to come out later this year but interested businesses can sign up for the early adopter program.

Source: The Verge