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| Tamar Yehoshua / Official Google Blog: |
Google reveals new logo — Google's look, evolved — So why are we doing this now? Once upon a time, Google was one destination that you reached from one device: a desktop PC. These days, people interact with Google products across many different platforms, apps and devices—sometimes all in a single day.
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Google's new logo ditches serif look, is no longer just a static mark but an animated figure — Google's New Logo Is Its Biggest Update In 16 Years — You will very soon notice that Google has a new logo that's sleeker, brighter, and for the first time, animated. And then, you probably won't notice it at all.
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Intel unveils Skylake Y, U, H, and S CPU series for desktops, notebooks, convertibles, and compute sticks — Intel Unleashes Onslaught Of Skylake CPUs For Next Gen Notebooks, Convertibles And Compute Sticks — When it comes to Intel's Skylake processors, we've already got you covered things … | Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
Observations of notable investors as they confront the seemingly ubiquitous signs of a tech bubble — Is Silicon Valley in Another Bubble . . . and What Could Burst It? — With the tech industry awash in cash and 100 “unicorn” start-ups now valued at $1 billion or more, Silicon Valley can't escape the question.| Kyle Stock / Bloomberg Business: |
Car shopping service Shift raises $50M led by Goldman Sachs to expand service across US as it challenges Craigslist, CarMax, traditional dealers — This Startup Drives Used Cars Right to Your Door — Shift brings other people's cars to your driveway. Will it be the end of the used-car lot?
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will penalize mobile pages with app install ads covering a “significant amount of content” — Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites That Use Annoying App Install Ads — There's nothing wrong with app install ads, but too often now, you click on a mobile search result … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
US district judge in San Francisco grants California Uber drivers class action status in lawsuit against the company — Judge grants California Uber drivers class action status in lawsuit — A US District Judge in San Francisco has ruled that a lawsuit brought by Uber drivers may continue …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix launch Alliance for Open Media to develop next-generation of royalty-free video formats — Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Partner To Create Next-Gen Video Format — Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel … | John Koller / PlayStation.Blog: |
PS4 v3.0 update to include gameplay streaming to YouTube, increased online storage, more; beta starts today — PS4 System Software 3.00 Features Detailed, Beta Starts Today — We've been busy preparing our next major system software update for PS4, version 3.00 (codename: Kenshin).
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla will drop RC4 encryption in Chrome, Edge, IE, and Firefox next year — Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla all made the same announcement today: They will drop support for the RC4 cipher in their respective browsers. Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Sales automation startup Apptus raises $108M Series C at a valuation of more than $1B — Sales automation startup Apptus raises $108 million — Apptus is backed by Salesforce Ventures and makes a platform for configuring the quote-to-cash process. — Apptus, a maker of quote …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Direct's 85M Users Can Now Reply With Photos In Snapchat-Style Visual Convos — Instagram Direct felt half-baked when the in-app chat feature launched without the ability to send photo replies in December 2013. Still, the private group messaging feature built an audience …
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Instagram Blog, The Verge, PCWorld, MobileSyrup.com, Simply Measured, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, MacRumors and Android Police. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Feedly's news reader gets “Shared Collections” and collaboration features, including improved search, Slack integration, and shared tags — Feedly's News Reader Gets Business-Friendly With “Shared Collections,” Team Collaboration Features — Before Google decided … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Branch founder Josh Miller becomes the White House's first Director of Product after leaving Facebook — Josh Miller Leaves Facebook For The White House — Once an entrepreneur has sold his or her company and logged the required time with the acquiring outfit, he or she typically sets …
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Microsoft partners with VMware on Project A2, focusing on desktop virtualization and easier Windows 10 rollout for businesses — Microsoft just buried the hatchet with another one of its huge rivals: VMware — The kinder, softer, we-love-everybody Microsoft under CEO Satya Nadella's helm just struck again.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Yummly Raises $15 Million At $100M Valuation For Its Recipe Recommendation And Food Delivery Business — Yummly, the online recipe recommendation and food delivery service has raised $15 million in a new round of funding led by Bauer Venture Partners that values the company at $100 million.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Amazon lets iOS and Android users download some Prime Instant Video movies and TV shows for offline viewing — Amazon Lets Apple, Android Users Download Prime Videos — Amazon's Prime Video is a lot like Netflix: Both of the video streaming services have a lot of old TV shows … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla Relaunches Its Thimble Online Code Editor For Teaching HTML, CSS And JavaScript — Back in 2012, Mozilla launched Thimble, an online code editor for teaching the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Over time, though, things got pretty quiet around the project as other browser-based code editors …
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