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Google creates holding company called Alphabet with Larry Page as CEO; Sundar Pinchai now CEO of Google, other subsidiaries will have own CEOs — Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure — G is for Google. — As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company.
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Alphabet holds Calico, Fiber, Google, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X, Life Sciences, Nest; Google contains YouTube, Android, search, ads, maps, apps — Google Absorbed Into New “Alphabet” Conglomerate Run By Larry Page & Sergey Brin — Google's been acquired.
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Google shares up more than 5% in after-hours trading after Alphabet announcement; all Google shares to convert to Alphabet shares — Google Creates New Company, Alphabet — Sundar Pichai will be CEO of Google as Larry Page will head Alphabet; Sergey Brin to be Alphabet president| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Sources explain how Force Touch on iPhone 6S will be different from Watch or MacBook, and they say it will work with the upcoming 12.9" iPad stylus — Force Touch on iPhone 6S revealed: expect shortcuts, faster actions across iOS — While Force Touch on the Apple Watch allowed Apple … | Tim Culpan / Bloomberg Business: |
HTC market valuation falls below its cash on hand; brand, factories, and other assets deemed to have no value by investors — HTC Trading Below Cash Leaves a Smartphone Brand With No Value — An HTC M9 smartphone. Photographer: Pau Barrena/Bloomberg — A 60 percent plunge … | Mark Scott / New York Times: |
PageFair study claims ad-blocking, regularly used by 200M people worldwide, will lead to $22B of lost ad revenue this year — Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use — Guillermo Beltrà spends a lot of time surfing the web. — Yet like many avid Internet users … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
OEMs and carriers make Android's security update strategy ineffective at Android's scale; a major attack on unpatched phones seems inevitable — Waiting for Android's inevitable security Armageddon — Editorial: Android's update strategy doesn't scale, and that's recipe for disaster.
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Snapchat adds Travel Mode feature, which stops snaps from auto downloading to reduce data use — Snapchat has a new feature to stop you from wasting data — Has Snapchat been eating up your mobile data each month? You can finally put a stop to that: in an update being released today …
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Google goes with Vulkan as Android's low-overhead graphics API — Khronos also announces OpenGL ES 3.2, which Android already partially supports. — Low-overhead graphics APIs are all the rage these days, at least if you're the sort of person who gets excited about graphics APIs. iOS 8 introduced Metal …
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How a Twitter bot written to automatically enter contests won 1000 prizes in 9 months, or about 4 contests per day — Twitter Contest Winning as a Service — This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight.
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