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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces Google Home, an always-listening small speaker to compete with Amazon Echo, coming out later this year, price unknown — For the past year and a half, the tech world has been recovering from Amazon's surprise announcement of the Echo. Now, Google is finally doing what everybody wanted it to do: release a competitor.
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Tweets: @arrington, @samsheffer, @dcseifert, @benpopper, @raywongy, @google and @thurrott
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces Allo, a messaging app with smart replies to image and text messages, Google Assistant, Incognito mode, available this summer for iOS, Android — Google is announcing a new messaging app today. It's called Allo and its main feature is a Google assistant that's built right in.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Duo, a one-on-one HD video-calling app, coming to iOS and Android later this summer — Some have criticised Google for falling behind when it comes to social networking and new communications services, but the company is how working hard to catch up.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils Google Assistant, a conversational virtual assistant that's a big upgrade to Google Now — Google today said it was unveiling a virtual assistant tool at its annual Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View called Google Assistant. — This appears to be similar …
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Tweets: @earcos and @benthompson
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Android Instant Apps that launch immediately, no installation required, also works on some older versions of Android — Google today unveiled Android Instant Apps, a new project the company is experimenting with that offers users a subset of an existing app.| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft selling feature phone business to Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile for $350M, to transfer 4.5K employees — Microsoft is selling its feature phone business to FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of Foxconn, for $350 million. The deal will see 4,500 employees transfer over to Foxconn's subsidiary …
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Tweets: @nokia, @zpower and @benedictevans
| Nokia Corporation: |
Nokia-branded phones and tablets returning to market as HMD Global acquires rights to Nokia brand and IP to sell new devices made by Foxconn's FIH Mobile — Espoo, Finland - Nokia has announced plans that will see the Nokia brand return to the mobile phone and tablet markets on a global basis.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Google reveals plans for new VR headset and motion controller slated for this fall, to be part of Daydream, Google's VR platform that's baked into Android N — At its annual I/O developer conference today, Google is showing off a reference design for a new virtual reality headset that builds … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Google Photos passes 200M monthly active users, up from 100M users last October — Google's photo app appears to be a hit: CEO Sundar Pichai said today that the Photos service now has 200 million active users every month. — The company announced the news during its annual I/O developer conference.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 9.3.2 update bricking some 9.7-inch iPad Pro devices with “Error 56” message, Apple looking into the issue — iOS 9.3.2 is causing problems for some 9.7-inch iPad Pro owners, with multiple MacRumors readers and Twitter users reporting issues shortly after installing the update over the air.
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Fitbit acquires “wearable payment assets” from Coin including key personnel and IP; Coin products to no longer be sold; existing Coin 2.0 cards will still work — “No plans” for integration into products in 2016, but 2017 is a whole new year. — Fitbit devices are known …
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Welcome-Coin Blog, Fitbit, Inc., TechCrunch, Welcome-Coin Blog, AppleInsider, Android Police, Engadget, The Verge and Windows Central. Tweets: @neilcybart
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
117M LinkedIn user emails and passwords from 2012 hack offered for sale on dark web marketplace; LinkedIn is contacting affected users — A LinkedIn hack from back in 2012 is still causing problems for its users. The company announced this morning that another data set from the hack …
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Tweets: @jasonlk and @lorenzofb
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google turns Firebase into a unified platform for developers, with analytics, new notification system, and more; a free plan is now available — Google offers a plethora of cloud services that mobile developers can use to power their apps. With Firebase, which it acquired in 2014 … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Apple: |
Apple announces new iOS app design and development accelerator in Bengaluru, to open in early 2017 — First-of-its-kind Center to Support Developers Creating Innovative Mobile Apps in India — Apple® today announced a new initiative to support engineering talent and accelerate growth in India's iOS developer community.
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Quartz, Computerworld, eWeek, SiliconBeat, Reuters, Bloomberg, Fortune, MacNN, Macworld, Silicon Valley Business …, I4U News, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @tim_cook
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