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Sony forms mobile gaming firm ForwardWorks to make PlayStation games for iOS and Android devices in Asia — Sony announces plans to make PlayStation games for iOS and Android — It looks like Sony will follow Nintendo's cue and focus on mobile gaming. The company announced today …
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| Leslie Picker / New York Times: |
Sources: TiVo in merger talks with Rovi, would own about 30% of the combined company — TiVo Said to Be in Merger Talks With Rovi — TiVo, the digital video recorder company that popularized the DVR and revolutionized “time shifting” and fast-forwarding through advertising …
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See also Mediagazer| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Apple is selling Microsoft Office 365 as an accessory for the iPad Pro — Apple wants the iPad Pro to replace Windows, and to convince customers it's bringing in a familiar face or two: Microsoft's Office Suite. As part of the ordering process for the new iPad Pro, buyers are given the option …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to reunify Skype calling, messaging, video in new Universal Windows 10 app — Microsoft is readying a new Universal Windows Platform version of its Skype app for Windows 10 for PCs and phones that will bring together Skype's calling, messaging and video features.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's new AI bot Tay goes silent after Twitter users teach it racism; Microsoft deletes damaging tweets, begins “making adjustments” to Tay — Microsoft silences its new A.I. bot Tay, after Twitter users teach it racism [Updated] — Microsoft's newly launched …
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Apple's iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro now available for preorder in 13 territories — As previously announced, Apple on Thursday activated online preorder sales for its new 4-inch iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro in 13 territories, including key markets in North America, Europe and Asia.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Sources: Google building Periscope-like live streaming app YouTube Connect for iOS and Android — Google is building YouTube Connect, a live streaming app to take on Periscope — Google has quietly been building a new live streaming app called YouTube Connect, VentureBeat has learned.
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PCWorld, CNET, Android Police, International Business Times, RAIN News, Gizmodo, Investor's Business Daily, TechSpot, Social Media Today, ReelSEO, Tubefilter, Tech Times, Neowin, Android News, Rumours …, AndroidGuys, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, Android Authority, Phandroid, Fone Arena, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Mashable, SlashGear, The Verge, Ausdroid, iMore, ResearchBuzz, 9to5Google and The Next Web. Tweets: @adnys. See also Mediagazer
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
U.S. charges Iran-linked hackers with targeting banks, N.Y. dam — The Justice Department on Thursday announced it has indicted seven hackers associated with the Iranian government with cybercrimes. — The crimes include disrupting U.S. banks' public websites from late 2011 through May 2013 … | Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Instacart says it now makes money on average orders in 10 of its markets, revenue run rate has grown 6x since January 2015, it's now “gross margin positive” — Instacart Is... Generating Profits? — “What exactly are they saying about us?” — The question from Apoorva Mehta, founder and CEO of Instacart, made sense.
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Business Insider and Consumerist. Tweets: @instacart, @bhorowitz, @bradchacos, @paulg, @pmarca and @danprimack
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Sources: Apple Pay coming to mobile websites, will be available to Safari users on iPad and iPhone with Touch ID this year — Apple Pay Coming to Mobile Websites Before Holiday Shopping Season — Apple Pay is finally ready to move beyond apps. — Apple has been telling potential partners …
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Marketing Land, Bank Innovation, PCWorld, Nieman Lab, Fortune, TechnoBuffalo, Investor's Business Daily, TechSpot, Tech Times, PYMNTS.com, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, MacNN, The Next Web, Quartz, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet, MacRumors, NFC World+, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, iMore, AppleInsider and MobileSyrup.com
| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung wants to reform its internal culture to be more like a startup, seeking to be more nimble as growth slows — World's biggest startup? Samsung Electronics to reform corporate culture — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), the world's biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips … | Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Facebook impersonation tool is now live in 75% of the world, alerting users when their names and profile pictures are being used by someone else — Facebook is testing a feature that alerts you if someone is impersonating your account — Facebook is working on a new tool to help stem one source of harassment on its platform.| Michelle Quinn / SiliconBeat: |
Glassdoor: female computer programmers make $0.72 for every dollar made by male programmers — Computer programmer: one of the largest gender wage gaps among all professions — Female computer programmers make 72 cents for every dollar earned by male programmers.
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VentureBeat, Engadget, CNET, Guardian, Hit & Run, Wall Street Journal, Glassdoor Economic Research, The Huffington Post and Washington Post. Tweets: @sasschristina
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Cloud Machine Learning Platform to assist in developing pre-trained machine learning models and building new models from scratch — Google launches new machine learning platform — Google today announced a new machine learning platform for developers at its NEXT Google Cloud Platform user conference in San Francisco.
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ProgrammableWeb.com, Ars Technica, Tech Trader Daily, cloudpro.co.uk, Google Cloud Platform Blog, CIO.com, Fortune, The Tech Portal, InfoWorld, SiliconANGLE, International Business Times, Light Reading, eWeek, Kubernetes, Silicon Republic, ITworld.com, Google Research Blog, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Slashdot, The Register and The Verge
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