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Sources: Amazon plans more physical stores, including retail stores that aren't bookstores, but has no immediate plans for 300-400 stores — Meet the Guy Behind Amazon's Secret Retail Store Plans — The man behind the Kindle is leading Amazon's project to create the retail stores of the future.
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| Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Google's search chief Amit Singhal to retire February 26, will be replaced by AI manager John Giannandrea — Google Search Chief Singhal to Retire, Replaced by AI Manager — Successor John Giannandrea works on machine intelligence — Google CEO Sundar Pichai has highlighted AI as crucial
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YouTube Red to launch its first original programming, three films and a series, on Feb. 10 — YouTube Set to Premiere First Original Movies, PewDiePie Series — YouTube next week is set to launch its first exclusive programming — a test of how many customers will fork over $10 per month … | Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple ordered to pay $625M to VirnetX after court finds FaceTime, VPN, iMessage infringed patents — Apple ordered to pay $625M in revived VirnetX patent trial — A federal jury on Wednesday found Apple guilty of willfully infringing on four VirnetX patents, awarding …
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Thanks:@mikeycampbell81| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Premium Spotify subscribers can now play music directly on Amazon Echo — Amazon's Echo can now play music directly from Spotify — Playing Spotify music on the Amazon Echo is now as easy as saying three words: “Alexa, Play Spotify.” The e-retailer-slash-device-maker launched voice control …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Justin Kan to restart his lifecasting channel, Justin.tv as a Snapchat channel — Justin.tv is coming back to life as a Snapchat channel — Justin Kan is relaunching the channel that created the modern live-streaming movement. Justin.tv, founded in 2007 and shuttered in 2014 …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
GoPro CEO says firm will discontinue three of its cameras in April, but Hero 4 Black at $500, Hero 4 Silver at $400, and Hero 4 Session at $200 will remain — GoPro will slash camera lineup to just three models in April — Coming to terms with a rather miserable financial quarter … | Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld: |
Microsoft announces Azure IoT Hub, its cloud service for managing internet-connected devices, will become generally available February 4 — Microsoft launches IoT Hub to ingest data from the physical world — The service helps companies manage a massive fleet of embedded devices
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Cisco says it agrees to pay $1.4B for Jasper, a platform to connect Internet-of-Things devices — Cisco To Buy Jasper Technologies For $1.4 Billion — Cisco announced today it was buying Jasper Technologies, developers of an Internet of Things cloud platform for $1.4 billion.
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Square NFC payment reader available in US Apple stores for $49, compatible with chip-enabled cards, Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Samsung Pay — Square is selling its NFC payment reader in Apple Stores — Last November, Square finally got on with the times and unveiled an NFC-friendly reader …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Cisco: Internet traffic will pass a zettabyte this year driven by mobile, will double again in 2019; 5.5B people will own a mobile device by 2020 — Phones Will Drive Internet Traffic Past the Zettabyte Mark This Year — It's no real secret that the rise in the world's Internet traffic … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Adblock Fast, a plugin for Samsung's browser, removed from Google Play days after launching because it “interferes” with third-party apps — Adblock Fast disappears from Google Play days after launch — Over the weekend, Samsung added support for content-blocking plugins …
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