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Amazon unveils Tap, a $130 Alexa-enabled portable bluetooth speaker, and the $90 Echo Dot, which adds Alexa support to other speakers — Amazon adds the $130 Tap and the $90 Dot to the Echo family — Amazon's voice-operated command center Echo produces something close to modern …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Amazon's Alexa will be able to control Nest and Honeywell thermostats this month — Last month Amazon started allowing its Alexa voice assistant to control smart home thermostats. Now, Amazon's virtual assistant will be compatible with two major brands: Honeywell and Alphabet-owned Nest.
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| Lucas Mearian / Computerworld: |
Samsung ships the world's highest capacity SSD, with 15TB of storage — Samsung Electronics announced Wednesday that it is now shipping the industry's highest-capacity solid-state drive (SSD), the 15.36TB PM1633a. — Samsung revealed it was working on the drive last August …
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Samsung Newsroom, Engadget, Ars Technica, The Register, Digital Trends, FierceCIO News, ValueWalk, TechSpot, The Tech Report, PCWorld, Mashable, Tech Times, Neowin, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, ZDNet and BetaNews. Tweets: @samsungsemius
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Several tech execs were initially worried about supporting Apple in FBI case because of its potential to backfire, concerns over public perception — Apple Gets Tech Industry Backing in iPhone Dispute, Despite Misgivings — It is a remarkable moment for the technology industry …
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YouTube partners with UN to produce content that promotes gender equality, invests in videos by and about women at YouTube Spaces — YouTube Boosts Female Content Creators With Two New Initiatives — Both programs will focus on producing videos by women, for women, that discuss gender equality and other women's issues.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Former Snapchat and Instagram exec Emily White creating personal concierge startup Mave — Ex-Snapchat COO Emily White Has A New Startup — Former Snapchat and Instagram executive Emily White has created a high-end personal concierge startup, Fortune has learned.
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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner forgoes his annual stock package, sources say valued about $14M, and puts it into employee pool — LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Is Passing His $14 Million Stock Grant to Employees — How do you perk up employees after your company's stock price falls off a cliff? More money!
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SiliconBeat, ValueWalk, Wall Street Journal, Tech Times, Silicon Republic, Business Insider, Silicon Valley Business … and Fortune. Tweets: @sachinrekhi
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple Launches Support Account on Twitter With Tips, Tricks, and Customer Service — Apple today created an official Twitter support account to provide customers with tips, tricks, and customer service regarding the company's product and services. One of the account's first tweets shares step …
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Tweets: @applesupport, @msquinn, @adambain and @digiphile
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
HTC Vive Pre: unfinished, but makes best case for VR both as entertainment device and computing interface — The HTC Vive Pre: an unfinished, incredibly fun virtual reality system — Of all the virtual reality headsets out there, the HTC Vive feels most like what science fiction visionaries promised us in the '80s and '90s.
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| Chris Ciaccia / TheStreet.com: |
HBO to launch its streaming services in Brazil and Argentina by year end — Move Over Netflix — HBO Is Coming For You — Mover over Netflix (NFLX - Get Report) — Time Warner's (TWX - Get Report) HBO is coming. — HBO CEO Richard Plepler announced that HBO is expanding …
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Variety, BGR, Deadline, Bloomberg Business, Hollywood Reporter, Multichannel News, Business Insider and TechCrunch. Thanks:@chris_ciaccia. See also Mediagazer
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Blippar raises $55M Series D led by Malaysian government to build out its AR tech that uses a phone's camera to identify objects — Blippar raises $54 million to continue its mission to ‘build something bigger than the internet itself’ — Blippar, the company best known for its augmented reality app …
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VentureBeat, Business Standard, livemint.com, The Economic Times, MediaPost, Financial Times, TechCrunch, VCCircle, The Memo and BBC. Thanks:@0_magtastic_0
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Nigeria's Africa Internet Group, startup behind online retailer Jumia, says it raised over $327M at a $1.1B+ valuation in latest round — Africa Internet Group Raises More Funds in Bid to Become Continent's Amazon — Startup raised more than $327 million in latest round with investors valuing firm at just over $1.1 billion
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IT-Online, TechCrunch, Reuters, AFKInsider, PC Tech Magazine and Financial Times. Tweets: @vijayshekhar
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