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Facebook begins testing new, content-heavy, immersive mobile ad format — Facebook Is Testing Its Fancy New Mobile Ads — Facebook is testing a new, content-heavy mobile ad that wraps a lot of the company's existing ad formats like image carousels and autoplay video into one product.| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Microsoft weighing multibillion-dollar revamp of Seattle campus to add more open work spaces — Microsoft Said to Weigh Multibillion-Dollar Headquarters Revamp — Skidmore, Owings & Merrill hired to design campus overhaul — Plan could create more open offices and add amenities
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| Yusuf Ozuysal / Chromium Blog: |
Latest Chrome for Android brings “custom tabs”, a faster alternative to WebView for apps — Chrome custom tabs smooth the transition between apps and the web — Android app developers face a difficult tradeoff when it comes to showing web content in their Android app.
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NDTV Gadgets, BetaNews, Android Police and 9to5Google
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Sources: feds open criminal probe over claims that HubSpot execs tried to get pre-release copy of book about the firm; cofounder fined, two execs have left — Feds open criminal investigation of HubSpot book incident — Federal law enforcement officials have opened a criminal investigation … | Luke Johnson / Digital Spy: |
Samsung looking to open Gear S2 to iOS after adding support for non-Samsung Android devices — Exclusive: Move over Android Wear, Samsung has confirmed it's looking at Gear S2 iPhone support — Run an iPhone 6 but covet the new Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch?
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| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Man arrested for parodying mayor on Twitter gets $125K in civil lawsuit — Mayor concerned about being portrayed as drug abuser who hangs with prostitutes. — An Illinois man arrested when his residence was raided for parodying his town's mayor on Twitter is settling a civil rights lawsuit with the city of Peoria for $125,000.
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Etsy's Pulling The Plug On Grand St. At The End Of This Month — When Etsy bought Grand St. last April, the plan was to let Grand St. continue to operate its maker marketplace for tech hardware. But that's about to change. At the end of this month, Grand St. will stop processing orders and on October 1 … | Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Google plans to launch a special China version of Google Play as early as this fall, marking its re-entry into China, compliance with censorship laws — Google Nears Re-entry to Mainland China — After a five year absence, Google expects to return shortly to mainland China …
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Announcing General Availability of Google Compute Engine Autoscaler and 32 core VMs — Our customers have a wide range of compute needs, from temporary batch processing to high-scale web workloads. Google Cloud Platform provides a resilient compute platform for workloads of all sizes enabling … | P. Claire Dodson / Fast Company: |
Human Rights Watch, Free Press and 15 other rights groups call on Twitter to restore API access to Politwoops — Human Rights Watch, Transparency Groups Condemn Twitter's Politwoops Ban — Last month, Twitter revoked access to its API from Politwoops, a network of sites that automatically archived the deleted tweets of politicians.| Mari Saito / Reuters: |
Amazon hiring staff for new restaurant division in Seattle, New York — Amazon.com Inc is adding staff for a new division dedicated to restaurants in Seattle and New York, with indications the unit is trying to rapidly expand a meal delivery service, according to posts on LinkedIn and the company's jobs site.
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Gothamist, Digital Trends and The Verge
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft phasing out support for Lumia camera-related apps on Windows Phone 8.1 — Microsoft is dropping support and updates for a number of Lumia camera-related apps on Windows Phone 8.1 devices in preparation for the consolidated Windows 10 Camera and Photo apps.
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Conversations, SuperSite for Windows and Tech Times
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