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| Luke Wroblewski / Official Google Blog: |
Google announces Spaces, a new app for small group sharing around any topic, for Android, iOS, and web — Group sharing isn't easy. From book clubs to house hunts to weekend trips and more, getting friends into the same app can be challenging. Sharing things typically involves hopping between apps to copy and paste links.
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| Lauren Pollock / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owned 9.81M Apple shares on March 31, valued at $1.07B — Legendary investor, who previously avoided technology stocks, also slightly increases position in IBM — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. took a new position in Apple Inc. in the first quarter …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Amazon to debut new lines of private label products, including perishable foods and household items, for Prime members only in coming weeks — The first of the brands could appear on the company's website in coming weeks — Amazon.com Inc. in the coming weeks is set to roll …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google plans to make Flash plugin click-to-play by default in Chrome in Q4'16, rendering HTML5 instead when available, except for 10 top sites relying on Flash — Google has outlined a plan to push HTML5 by default in Chrome, instead of Flash. In Q4 2016, the company plans to only serve Flash …
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| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
WhatsApp beta users briefly get the option to make video calls, hinting at future in-app feature — A beta version of WhatsApp for Android included the option to initiate a video call. The feature was not active for most users, and it was removed with a later update … | Patrick Foster / Telegraph: |
Sources: BBC working on subscription streaming service to rival Netflix, dubbed Britflix, delivered via iPlayer; ITV and NBC Universal are involved — The BBC is to push ahead with plans to launch a British rival to Netflix, after getting the go-ahead from the government to develop a new subscription streaming service.| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Facebook's video ads now available on third-party sites via Facebook Audience Network, and can now appear on both desktop and mobile — Facebook's Audience Network is chasing brand budgets with new video ads that mark its first foray onto the desktop web. — If an ad can run on Facebook … | Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Oculus puts $1M toward VR for Good, a pilot program that gives students at 9 San Francisco schools tuition and equipment to make 360 degree films, more — NEW YORK—Most of the energy spent to date on virtual reality has been around gaming and entertainment.| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
On-demand startups increasingly touting forms of “profitability” that exclude key expenses — Facing a tougher fundraising environment, on-demand companies are touting financial metrics to show the health of their businesses—using whichever definition looks rosiest.
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| San Francisco Chronicle: |
Waze tests carpooling option in Bay Area, starting with 25K+ employees from select firms, with new Waze Rider app that matches similar commutes among Waze users — Waze, the Google-owned traffic navigation app, said Monday more than 25,000 employees at select companies in the Bay Area …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Amazon open sources DSSTNE, its library for building deep learning models, says it's 2.1X faster than Google's TensorFlow when run on specific AWS configuration — Amazon has suddenly made a remarkable entrance into the world of open-source software for deep learning.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Walmart Pay rolls out to nearly 600 stores in Texas and Arkansas — U.S. retail giant Walmart is today accelerating the rollout of its mobile payment service, Walmart Pay, with a full state-wide launch in both Texas and Arkansas, equating to around 600 stores across the neighboring states.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Didi Chuxing, China's largest taxi on-demand firm, denies plan for U.S. IPO in 2017 — Didi Chuxing, the ride-sharing firm that leads Uber in China, has denied a report that it plans to go public in the U.S. next year. — Just days after Didi announced a landmark $1 billion investment from Apple …
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