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Confirmed: Twitter Appoints Longtime American Express Executive Leslie Berland as CMO — Here's some positive executive news coming out of Twitter: It has found its new chief marketing officer. — Twitter has appointed longtime American Express executive Leslie Berland to CMO … | Re/code: |
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Sources: Twitter no longer showing ads to some of its more valuable users in order to keep them engaged — Twitter Has Stopped Showing Ads to Some of Its Most Valuable Users — Twitter makes its money by showing ads to its users. — But not all of its users: For the past few months …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony merges PlayStation businesses into US-based Sony Interactive Entertainment — Sony has merged the entire PlayStation business into one new company called Sony Interactive Entertainment. As of April 1st, SIE's president and CEO will be Andrew House, and the business will be run out of San Mateo, California.| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft testing its Windows phone keyboard Word Flow for iOS with fanned layout for one-handed typing — Microsoft's iOS Word Flow Keyboard Supports A New One-Handed Layout — Share Tweet Pin it Reddit Share Share — A few days back, Microsoft began sending out invites to Insiders …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Amazon is reportedly asking OEMs to integrate retailer's services into Android phones at a “factory level”, but Google's contracts may limit the possibilities — Amazon reportedly seeks a bigger hand in Android phone software — Amazon is reportedly in talks with OEMs to “gain a bigger backdoor to Google's Android.”
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Periscope integrates with GoPro to bring live streaming to action cameras — Periscope just took its first steps away from the smartphone. The Twitter-owned live-streaming app announced an integration with GoPro that will let users broadcast to their followers from an action camera for the first time.
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| Cam Bunton / 9to5Google: |
LG shipped 59.7M smartphones in 2015, 15.3M in Q4, while losing $36M+ in mobile division, promises 2 new flagships in 2016 — LG plans to launch two flagship phones in 2016 following 4th quarter mobile loss — LG announced its Q4 2015 earnings this morning and revealed that although …
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| Glenn Rifkin / New York Times: |
Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 — Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist's thirst for knowledge with a philosopher's quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the personal computer and the Internet, died on Sunday night in Boston.
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| Kristen V. Brown / Fusion: |
Uber was sued 50 times in US federal court last year, way more than other gig economy firms: 17 suits filed by drivers, 15 by taxi companies, 12+ by customers — Uber is facing a staggering number of lawsuits — Last year, 50 lawsuits were filed against Uber in U.S. federal court.| Bloomberg Business: |
Sony agrees to buy Israel's Altair Semiconductor, maker of LTE communication chips for IoT, for $212M — Sony to Buy Chipmaker Altair in Internet of Things Push — Sony to pay $212 million, close deal in early February — Semiconductor firm makes chips for ‘Internet of things’
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| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google Offers More Details On Ads In AMP, Set To Launch In Search Next Month — With more than 20 ad tech vendors joining the initiative, publishers should be able to support most ad serving scenarios in AMP pages at launch. — Since Google announced that AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) …
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| Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal: |
Canada's Vidyard raises $35M Series C at, source says, $350M valuation to expand its business video streaming and analytics platform — Canada's Vidyard Raises $35 Million to Help It Expand — Financing gives the video-software startup a valuation of about $350 million
| Ina Fried / Sprint: |
Sprint beats Q4 estimates on revenue of $8.1B, net loss of $836M, adds 500K postpaid subs, loses 491K prepaid customers, raises revenue forecasts; stock up 11%+ — Sprint Stock Rises on Narrower Loss, Upbeat Forecast — Sprint on Tuesday posted financial results ahead of expectations …
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| Therese Poletti / MarketWatch: |
San Francisco's Yellow Cab files for bankruptcy citing lack of resources to pay for lawsuits, plans to continue operations and restructure debt — Uber and Lyft didn't bankrupt Yellow Cab, and they could hit same pothole — It's easy to jump to the conclusion that the bankruptcy filing …
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