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Google launches Accelerated Mobile Pages for faster mobile web, partners with Twitter, Pinterest, Adobe, LinkedIn, WordPress, and more — Introducing the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, for a faster, open mobile web — Smartphones and tablets have revolutionized the way we access information …
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AMP adds constraints for faster loading webpages that restrict Javascript and ban some HTML tags including iframes; new AMP-specific elements introduced — Get AMP'd: Here's what publishers need to know about Google's new plan to speed up your website — Google unveiled its new plan … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
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Amazon Launches Snowball, A Rugged Storage Appliance For Importing Data To AWS By FedEx — Amazon surprised developers today with the launch of Snowball, a new physical appliance that will allow AWS users to ship huge amounts of data for import into AWS by shipping the device back and forth between …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's AWS Is Now A $7.3B Business As It Passes 1M Active Enterprise Customers — Today Amazon's AWS business kicked off its big Re:Invent conference with some stats that speak to how the company's enterprise division continues to dominate the cloud-based data services space.
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Amazon launches Inspector, a tool that automatically finds security and compliance issues — Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced Amazon Inspector, a sort of bot service that looks for and identifies potential security and compliance vulnerabilities. — Amazon Inspector is available in preview today.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Amazon weighs creating a live online TV service, holds preliminary talks with CBS, NBCUniversal — Amazon Said to Weigh Creating a Live Online Television Service — Amazon.com Inc. is exploring the creation of a live online TV service and has reached out to major media companies …
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Sources: Dell in talks for full or partial takeover of EMC — Dell Is in Talks to Strike Merger Deal With EMC, Sources Say — Unclear whether deal would be for part or all of EMC — Dell Inc. is in talks to strike a combination with EMC Corp., according to people familiar with the matter …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP unveils Spectre x2, a 12-inch laptop/tablet hybrid with adjustable kickstand, starts at $800 with keyboard — The HP Spectre x2 is like the Surface Pro, but cheaper and lower-specced — What timing: Just a day after Microsoft announced the Surface Pro 4, HP is unveiling a similar-looking 2-in-1 of its own.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Jet.com Overhauls Business Model, Kills $50 Membership Fee to Broaden Appeal — Jet.com launched less than three months ago, but it's already pivoting its business model. — The startup shopping site, which gives discounts to shoppers who place large orders, has decided to do away …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Facebook now lets advertisers send leads to Salesforce, Marketo, and other CRMs — Facebook has done quite a bit with its ads that do more than its traditional cousins. Not only can marketers still direct users to their brand's website, but the social network offers other ad types based on the campaign's needs.| New York Times: |
State-affiliated Chinese hackers breached LoopPay's corporate network as early as March, no indication that consumer data was stolen — Chinese Hackers Breached LoopPay, a Contributor to Samsung Pay — WASHINGTON — Months before its technology became the centerpiece of Samsung's … | Sarah Jeong / Motherboard: |
Matthew Keys found guilty of hacking under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; US attorney's office may seek less than five year prison sentence in January — Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Found Guilty of Three Counts of Hacking — On Wednesday, a jury in Sacramento, California …
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Former Twitter CEO and one-time standup comic Dick Costolo consults in writers' room for HBO's Silicon Valley a couple days a week — Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Has His Next Gig: Writing for HBO's Silicon Valley — The technology executive and onetime stand-up comedian works a couple of days a week in the show's writers room.| Sam Altman / Y Combinator Posthaven: |
Y Combinator starts a new nonprofit research lab, YC Research; researchers are full-time YC employees; IP to be made freely available over time — YC Research — Our mission at YC is to enable as much innovation as we can. Mostly this means funding startups.
| Matthew Martin / Bloomberg Business: |
Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed ups stake in Twitter to about $1B, making his firm the second biggest investor — Saudi Arabian Billionaire Prince Alwaleed Boosts Twitter Stake — Prince now second biggest investor in micro-blogging site — Increased stake disclosed in week Dorsey named Twitter CEO| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp for Android now lets you back up your chat history, voice messages, photos, and videos to Google Drive — Bitter rivals Facebook and Google today announced a partnership that may feel a bit odd at first glance. WhatsApp for Android is getting Google Drive integration … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Windows 10 Mobile coming to existing Windows Phone devices in December after shipping with new Lumia 950, Lumia 950XL, and Lumia 550 — Windows 10 Mobile is coming to Windows Phone devices in December — Microsoft didn't talk much about Windows 10 Mobile at its big press event yesterday …
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