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Apple confirms June 13-17 for WWDC 2016; ticket applications begin at 10 a.m. PT on April 22, with recipients notified April 25 — Siri announces WWDC 2016 will be held June 13th through June 17th in San Francisco [Update] — [UPDATE: Apple has confirmed what Siri told us earlier today.
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Bill Campbell, legendary “Coach” to Silicon Valley execs, and former Intuit CEO, has died of cancer at age 75 — Silicon Valley's Legendary ‘Coach’ Bill Campbell Has Died — Bill Campbell — who garnered the name “The Coach” for the sage advice and counsel he gave numerous tech leaders …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube debuts live 360 video, releases API for hardware makers to integrate into devices, also launches spatial audio for on-demand YouTube videos — YouTube rolls out support for 360-degree live streams and spatial audio — YouTube will today begin supporting 360-degree live streaming on its service …
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See also Mediagazer| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Play Music gets podcast support on Android and the Web — As promised, Google today added podcast support to Google Play Music. The new functionality is available today in Google Play Music for Android (grab the latest version from Google Play) and on the Web.| Lawrence Hurley / Reuters: |
Supreme Court declines appeal by the Authors Guild to challenge Google Books, leaving in place the 2015 ruling in favor of Google, and ending the copyright suit — Supreme Court rejects challenge to Google book-scanning project — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge …
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MIT's new AI platform, which incorporates input from human experts, can predict 85% of cyberattacks, which is 3x better than previous benchmarks — System predicts 85 percent of cyber-attacks using input from human experts — Virtual artificial intelligence analyst developed … | Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: YP Holdings, once called YellowPages.com, plans first-round Yahoo bid as it works with Goldman Sachs on strategic options — YP Plans First-Round Bid for Yahoo — Online directory said working with Goldman Sachs on strategy — YP Holdings separated from Yellow Pages print business in 2015
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
IBM beats Q1 earnings targets with quarterly revenue of $18.7B; strategic businesses including cloud and analytics grew revenue 14% year-over-year — IBM beats Q1 earnings targets on double-digit cloud growth — IBM said quarterly revenue from its strategic businesses including cloud … | Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
BlackBerry Won't Confirm or Deny it Gave Encryption Keys to Law Enforcement — Last week, a joint investigation by Motherboard and VICE News revealed that Canada's federal police are in possession of the “global encryption key” that unlocks every non-corporate BlackBerry user's encrypted BBM messages.
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| Josh Horwitz / Quartz: |
Twitter's new managing director for China worked in state security role, alarms Chinese Twitter users with plea to “work together” with state media — Twitter's new China head was a Communist Party engineer who worked on military security — Twitter's deeper foray into China …
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China Change, USA Today, Bloomberg, VatorNews, China Digital Times, New York Times, gdnonline.com and Washington Post
Tweets: @jack, @sarahfrier, @pekingmike and @kathychen2016
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Tencent launches Enterprise WeChat, an office communications and administration service, for mobile and desktop in mainland China — Tencent Targets Corporate Clients With Enterprise WeChat Launch — China's biggest Internet companies are trying to provide more services designed for workplaces
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The Next Web, Tech in Asia, Digital Trends and Mashable
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Sequoia Capital's newest partner is Mike Vernal, an eight-year Facebook veteran — Facebook VP Mike Vernal Is Leaving for Sequoia Capital — One of Facebook's top executives, Mike Vernal, is leaving the company and headed to Sequoia Capital to be the firm's newest partner.
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