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Sources: Apple phasing out in-house iAd sales team as it updates platform to be more automated — Apple Steps Back From Its iAd Advertising Business — Six years after launching its advertising platform, Apple is moving to phase out its in-house iAd sales team in favor of a new publisher-driven system.| Akin Oyedele / Business Insider: |
GoPro to cut 7% of staff, will take restructuring charge of $5M-$10M, reports weak Q4 revenue guidance for 2015; stock down over 22% after hours — GoPro cuts jobs and warns its sales are a disaster — GoPro shares are crashing to all-time lows after the company said it is cutting about 7% of its staff and sales are not great.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
GoPro entertainment head Zander Lurie to become SurveyMonkey CEO, replacing Bill Veghte, who was there for six months — Lurie Departs GoPro to Take CEO Job at SurveyMonkey — Zander Lurie has left GoPro, where he headed its entertainment efforts, to become CEO of survey startup SurveyMonkey.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Gartner: Global PC shipments fell 8.3% in Q4 2015, Apple only company in top 5 to see growth — The PC market ended its poor year with another negative quarter. Both Gartner and IDC agreed: PC shipments were down globally, again. — Gartner estimated worldwide PC shipments fell 8.3 percent to 75.7 million units in Q4 2015.
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Microsoft open-sources ChakraCore, a standalone version of the JavaScript engine that powers its Edge browser — ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open — In a December 2015 talk at JSConf US, we announced that we would be open-sourcing the key components of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge.
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Google Maps for Android adds new Driving Mode that predicts your destination based on your location history, recent searches, and time of day — Google Maps for Android's new Driving Mode guesses where you want to go — Google today released an update to Google Maps for Android that includes a new feature: Driving Mode.
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| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
SoundCloud strikes licensing deal with Universal Music that includes tracks from labels and artists, and also user-generated content and remixes — SoundCloud strikes licensing deal with Universal Music — The deal was announced this afternoon (although leaked in the New York Post yesterday) …
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GE to move headquarters from Fairfield, CT, to Boston, employing 800 people in the city — GE said to pick Boston for headquarters — General Electric Co., one of the most storied names in corporate America, will relocate is global headquarters to Boston, according to an official familiar with the process.| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Yahoo settles e-mail privacy class-action: $4M for lawyers, $0 for users — Company won't stop scanning e-mail for ads, but plaintiffs now seem unbothered. — In late 2013, Yahoo was hit with six lawsuits over their practice of using automated scans of e-mail to produce targeted ads.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Shape Security now protects apps in addition to websites from automated hacking, raises $25M from Beijing-based Northern Light Venture Capital — Shape Security Brings Its Bot-Blinding Technology to Mobile Apps — Two years ago, the startup Shape Security emerged from stealth mode …
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All Skype for Windows users get real-time translation — Skype today announced that its Skype Translator tool is now built directly into its main app for all Windows users. This means Skype for Windows users no longer need a separate app to translate conversations in seven languages … | Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Intel leads $15M round for robotics startup Savioke, joining a robotics investing boom that saw $923M last year — Intel Joins Robotics Investing Boom, Backing Startup Savioke — Intel Corp. invested in robotics startup Savioke Inc., part of a broader push into robotics …
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