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Facebook launches Sports Stadium, a hub for real-time chats, live scores, and more — Heads Up, ESPN: Facebook Built Its Own Game Hub for Live Sports Stats — Facebook has long argued that it's a great place to talk about live TV while watching live TV, including big-time sporting events.
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Uber says it's expanding full UberEats service, including dinner, and its dedicated UberEats app to 10 US cities in Q1, including NYC, LA, Chicago, and Austin — Uber to Ring the Dinner Bell in 10 U.S. Cities — Customers in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere will be able to use dedicated UberEats app
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
App Annie 2015: Google Play saw 100% more downloads than the iOS App Store, but Apple generated 75% more revenue — In 2015, Google Play saw 100 percent more downloads than Apple's App Store. Double the number of downloads is a huge achievement. In 2014, the figure was 60 percent … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Foxconn offers $5.3B to take over Sharp, as Sharp reviews $2.56B offer from government-backed Innovation Network — Taiwan's Foxconn Offers $5.3 Billion to Take Over Sharp — Innovation Network Corp. of Japan also has competing offer for electronics maker
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General Motors announces Maven, a new brand unifying its car-sharing services: City in Ann Arbor, Residential in Chicago, Peer-to-Peer in Germany and Campus — GM Unveils Maven, Its Big New Play In Car-Sharing Services — General Motors has taken the wraps off its latest move to put itself … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple releases Music Memos, a simple, free recording app for iOS that caters to musicians while avoiding the complexity of GarageBand — Music Memos is Apple's new, simple recording app — Alongside some fun GarageBand updates being rolled out today, Apple is also introducing a completely new app for iPhone and iPad: Music Memos.
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Thanks:@lucas_matney| Maria Bobila / Fashionista: |
Apple Watch Hermes collection will be available online January 22, prices start at $1,100 — The Apple Watch Hermès Will Finally Be Available to Purchase Online — Mark your calendars for this Friday, Jan. 22. Instead of having to visit a select boutique in a major city like New York …
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AliCloud, an Alibaba subsidiary, partners with Nvidia to develop GPU-based computing cloud platform in China — Alicloud launches Big Data Platform as Alibaba subsidiary aims to make technology accessible across China — E-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group is gearing up to make “big data” … | Mark Harris: |
Kickstarter-hired journalist concludes makers of failed Zano drone were overconfident but not fraudsters — How Zano Raised Millions on Kickstarter and Left Most Backers with Nothing — Kickstarter tasked me, a freelance reporter, to find out why a highly funded crowdfunding campaign …
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Machine learning company Maluuba raises $6.2M Series A, plans to broaden its voice search technology, expand into automotive and IoT sectors — Maluuba raises $6.2M Series A for machine learning — Supporting mobile technology companies like LG and Qualcomm, Maluuba picks up new funding
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Citrix appoints former Microsoft executive Kirill Tatarinov as CEO and president, effective Jan. 25 — Citrix nabs former Microsoft business division chief as CEO, president — Citrix as a whole has been undergoing a number of changes and cuts itself. — Citrix has found itself a new CEO …
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Yik Yak launches web client for its anonymous, location-based social network — Yik Yak Launches On The Web — Yik Yak, the anonymous, location-based social network that has taken college campuses by storm, has today launched a web client. — The company has been working on the web version …
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Ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich's startup Brave launches open-source browser for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android that blocks tracking ads by default — Mozilla cofounder Brendan Eich's startup, Brave, launches browser for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android — Brave Software, the new startup …
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Brave Software, Andreas Gal, Ad Age, Forbes, Techalive, Engadget, AdExchanger, Tech Times, CNET, Geek.com, Android Central, Tech Insider, Digital Trends, The Register, LJ INFOdocket, TechSpot, TechCrunch and The Next Web. Tweets: @craigoverend
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Instart Logic Raises $45M Series D Round For Its Application Delivery Platform — Application delivery platform Instart Logic today announced that it has raised a $45 million Series D round. The round was led by a new investor, the late-stage fund Geodesic Capital.
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