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Facebook Messenger hits 900M MAUs, adds short URLs and Snapchat-like scannable codes for starting conversations with businesses and individuals — Facebook pushes businesses to Messenger with new tools for Pages, including Snapchat-like scannable codes — A day after people started noticing Facebook …
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Facebook will announce chatbot and live chat APIs at F8 — Chatbots could replace 1-800 numbers, and Facebook wants them on Messenger. But most businesses don't have the resources or technical skills to build chatbots themselves. That's why Facebook is currently providing developers …
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FBI director James Comey says the 3rd-party tool the FBI bought and used to unlock San Bernardino shooter's iPhone does not work with iPhone 5s or later — FBI director: We bought ‘a tool’ to hack terrorist's iPhone — FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that the government had purchased …
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Reddit launches its first official apps for iOS and Android — Reddit's long-awaited native mobile applications - the first-ever to be built by the company in-house - have now launched. Available today for both iOS and Android, the new Reddit app will not only serve as the official means …
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Outlook iOS and Android apps now integrate events and tasks from Wunderlist, Facebook, and Evernote — Introducing Wunderlist, Facebook and Evernote in Outlook on iOS and Android — The Outlook team is passionate about making your life easier by helping you manage and make the most of your time.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Verizon plans to make bid for Yahoo's core business next week; Google is also considering a bid — Verizon to Proceed With Yahoo Bid, Google Weighs Offer — Verizon Communications Inc. plans to make a first-round bid for Yahoo Inc.'s Web business next week …
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds video search to combat original content sharing decline — Facebook is desperate to get you to watch original videos. They're all over the feed, yesterday it launched a dedicated video browsing hub, and now it's announcing a video search engine.
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Tweets: @bluechoochoo, @theinformation, @ia, @paulgreenberg, @eringriffith, @ataussig, @joshconstine and @dangillmor
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Samsung forecasts solid Q1 earnings due to strong Galaxy S7 sales, helped by an early debut and lower pricing — Samsung Rewrites Playbook to Juice Galaxy S7 Sales — Estimates of S7 sales raised to 9 million units from 7 million — S7 expected to sell triple the amount of S6 in same period
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| John Leyden / The Register: |
Sensitive data of 55M Philippine voters, including passport info and 15.8M fingerprint records, leaked in massive breach — Megabreach: 55 MILLION voters' details leaked in Philippines — Election officials shrug: Yeah, we were hacked - but not of sensitive info...
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Amazon expands its same-day Prime delivery service from 16 to 27 US metro regions — Amazon brings same-day delivery to nearly a dozen more U.S. metros — Amazon's same-day delivery service is today seeing a notable expansion here in the U.S. The online retailer announced this morning …
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FBI says “CEO fraud” attacks, where scammers often scrape email addresses and impersonate execs to target employees, have cost organizations $2.3B+ since 2013 — FBI: $2.3 Billion Lost to CEO Email Scams — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week warned about a … | Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
On-demand parking startup Luxe confirms $50M Series B led by Hertz, source says round valued company at over $110M — Luxe, a startup that valet parks your car when you can't find a spot, just raised $50 million from Hertz — It's already a pain to find parking in crowded cities.
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Luxe, Silicon Valley Business … and silicontap.com. Tweets: @joefernandez. Thanks:@mattrosoff
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BlueStacks partners with Twitch to stream mobile games to PCs, TVs, and mobile devices — BlueStacks makes it easy to stream mobile games to Twitch — BlueStacks has integrated its service with livestreaming site Twitch to stream mobile games to PCs, TVs, or mobile devices.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Virtual assistant bot startup X.ai raises $23M Series B, sources say at a valuation of around $100M — Rise of the bots: X.ai raises $23m more for Amy, a bot that arranges appointments — While voice-recognition-powered virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana and Amazon's Echo continue … Sponsor Posts
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