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End of an era as China’s love affair with US real estate fades

  Bloomberg For David Wong, the business of selling homes isn’t as good this year as it was in 2015, and he’s blaming that on a decline in customers from China. “The residential-property market here, especially for those priced between $2.5 million to $3 million, has been affected by China’s measures to control capital flight,” said the New York City-based ...

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Apps that are meant for the ‘smart’

  Bloomberg Africa’s startups are seizing an opportunity they say Google and Apple Inc. have missed — making apps for non-smartphones. In a region where the average customer doesn’t own a smartphone or a bank card, hundreds of millions of people do use some kind of basic phone. That’s prompting developers to build no-frills text-based apps, keeping data consumption down ...

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Eastern Europe spawns another viral hit with Prisma

  Relaxnews The former Soviet Union is proving to be a productive source of photo and video apps that go viral. The latest is Prisma. The smartphone app can transform your photos — even lousy ones — into something resembling a work of art, stylized as an impressionist or pop-art painting. It’s been downloaded about 16.5 million times since release ...

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