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Sundar Pichai lays out priorities for Google in his first Founders' Letter, with machine learning and AI playing a key role — This year's Founders' Letter — Every year, Larry and Sergey write a Founders' Letter to our stockholders updating them with some of our recent highlights and sharing our vision for the future.
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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber tests wait-time fees and a shorter cancellation window in NYC, New Jersey, Dallas, and Phoenix, in response to driver complaints — Uber Tests New Rider Rules: Two Minutes to Cancel or Show Up...or Else — Pilot program to allow charges for customers making drivers wait or canceling rides late, addressing complaints
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Intel's Changing Future: Smartphone SoCs Broxton & SoFIA Officially Cancelled — The past two weeks have been a busy - if not tumultuous - period for Intel. Driven by continued challenges in various semiconductor markets, culminating in weaker-than-desired earnings in the most recent quarter … | Tony Maglio / The Wrap: |
Rovi buys TiVo for $1.1B at $10.70 per share, will adopt TiVo brand as new company name — Rovi Buys TiVo for $1.1 Billion — Entertainment technology firm values original DVR company at $10.70 per share — Entertainment technology company Rovi has purchased original DVR service TiVo for $1.1 billion, or $10.70 per share.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
New Google Trips app is a smart assistant for your vacations, currently in beta testing — One of Inbox's most convenient features are Travel bundles that organize reservations and other related emails in an easy to read manner. Google is now testing (via Androidworld) … | Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
ITC judge rules that Jawbone patents in its case against Fitbit are invalid — Fitbit Wins Ruling Knocking Out Jawbone Patents at Trade Agency — Fitbit Inc. won a ruling that invalidated the last of the Jawbone Inc. patents that were the subject of a dispute at the U.S. International Trade Commission.| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft has launched an IFTTT-like automation tool called Flow — LEAKED: Microsoft is working on a new tool to help automate your life — Meet Microsoft Flow: A free way to connect all of your cloud services — including Slack, GitHub, Twitter, and Google Drive — together in new and novel ways.| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
YouTube responds to music industry's complaints about low artist payments, says it is more like radio than Spotify — YouTube hits back at ‘noise’ around its music payouts — It's been a bruising month for YouTube as labels, music industry bodies and artists have attacked Google's video service …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter quietly retires Magic Recs, a DM bot that recommended viral accounts and Tweets — As Twitter tries out bigger things to spur growth activity — like changing the orderandlengthof tweets — it is turning away from others. Twitter has quietly retired Magic Recs …
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| Michele Chandler / Investor's Business Daily: |
Report: Yahoo reaches deal to sell 48.6-acre undeveloped site in Santa Clara to Chinese tech firm LeEco — Yahoo Reportedly Selling Huge Silicon Valley Site To Chinese Firm — Yahoo (YHOO) has reached a deal to sell a 48.6-acre undeveloped site in Santa Clara, Calif. …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Snapchat strikes a non-exclusive deal with NBC to show Olympics highlights in US via live stories and Discover channel curated by BuzzFeed — Snapchat Scores Unprecedented Deal With NBC to Showcase Olympics — Companies to share revenue from ads paired with content
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IBM raises its blockchain game with secure cloud services and Docker integration — Bitcoin may still be the most famous application of blockchain technology, but the distributed, encrypted database architecture is now being applied to a range of other services, from different kinds of …
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