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Today, marks the fifth birthday of Action Launcher’s release. In that time, developer Chris Lacy has released 32 major updates for his launcher and has been installed over 5 million times and even won a couple of awards.
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Nine years ago today, Android was first released. It was running on the HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1).
Today marks the 20th anniversary of when Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the domain, google.com.
Twenty years ago today (August 29th, 1997), is when Netflix was founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. The pair started Netflix after Hastings just sold off his company, Pure Atria for $700 million.
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the iPhone’s release. It was back 2007 at Mac World, where Steve Jobs introduced their revolutionary product.
This year marks the 10th birthday of Google Street View. It first began as a “far-fetched idea” by Larry Page to create a 360-degree map of the world, now it has become something that people use everyday.
On May 25th 1977, 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm Ltd. release the first installment in the space opera film series, Star Wars.
Today, marks the one year since the HTC Vive first launched. To celebrate, HTC is giving away a free month to their Viveport subscription service and a free copy of Arcade Saga to Vive owners.
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It’s been exactly five years since Google first launched Google Play (today to be exact, on March 6th, 2012).
Now it has grown to more just apps, over the past five years, Google has added games, movies, TV, books and music to their Google Play.
They’ve accumulated over 1 billion active users in 190 countries and there are millions of apps, 40 million songs, 5 million books and lots of movies to choose from.
On November 15th, 1996, Warner Bros. under their Family Entertainment and their Feature Animation label, released Space Jam.
