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Apple says it has invested $1B in Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Thursday it has invested $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing, a move that Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said would help the company better understand the critical Chinese market.
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Mark Zuckerberg promises “full investigation” on Trending Topics matter, will talk to “leading conservatives” — I want to share some thoughts on the discussion about Trending Topics. — Facebook stands for giving everyone a voice.
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See also Mediagazer| Justin Oskofsky / Facebook: |
Facebook explains how Trending Topics works, publishes internal guidelines, reiterates that discrimination against sources of any political origin isn't allowed — At Facebook, we stand for connecting every person — for a global community, for bringing people together, for giving all people a voice …
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See also Mediagazer| Sam Thielman / Guardian: |
Leaked documents show human intervention at almost every stage of Facebook's news operation — Exclusive: Leaked internal guidelines show human intervention at almost every stage of its news operation, akin to a traditional media organization — Leaked documents show how Facebook …
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See also Mediagazer| Rajan Patel / Official Google Blog: |
Google unveils GBoard in US, an iOS keyboard app that lets you search the web, find GIFs, emojis, places, and more from the keyboard — iPhone users—this one's for you. Meet Gboard, a new app for your iPhone that lets you search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard.
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| Slav Petrov / Google Research Blog: |
Google open sources SyntaxNet, a neural network framework for parsing natural language, and releases Parsey McParseface, a SyntaxNet-trained English parser — At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how computer systems can read and understand human language in order to process it in intelligent ways.
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Automattic quietly acquired the rights to .blog TLD in 2015 for about $19M, will start selling the domains this year — The company behind the world's most popular publishing platform is trying to make .blog happen. — WordPress.com owner Automattic announced today that it has …
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| Trista Kelley / Bloomberg: |
SWIFT warns of a new hacker attack on a commercial bank similar to Bangladeshi heist, says it is part of a wider highly adaptive campaign targeting banks — Hackers used malware to target PDF reader of commercial bank — Warning comes after cyber heist from Bangladesh central bank
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| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Apple's average app review time has fallen from 8.8 days a year ago to 1.95 days in the past two weeks — Average approval times reduced to two days from about nine — Apple is trying to keep developers loyal to iOS projects — Apple Inc. has cut the approval time for new submissions …
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| Jordan Golson / The Verge: |
Google looking for test drivers for its self-driving cars in Arizona, must have clean driving record, bachelor's degree, and type 40WPM, will be paid $20/hour — Do you live in Arizona and want to get paid to “drive” a self-driving car? Google could have a job for you.
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| John Ribeiro / Computerworld: |
Mozilla court filing asks government to turn over details of Tor browser flaw to protect Firefox users before making details of vulnerability public — Mozilla says it wants to check if the vulnerable code is found in Firefox code — Mozilla has asked a court that it should be provided information …
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| Yuka Koshino / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn to replace Sharp CEO, most of the board after acquisition; Tai Jeng-wu, Foxconn's No. 2 executive, will succeed Sharp's current CEO — Japanese company's net loss widens; chief executive and most of board will be replaced — TOKYO— Sharp Corp. on Thursday unveiled sweeping management changes …
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