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Apple accuses Spotify of asking for “preferential treatment” after app rejection complaint, says Spotify is “publicly resorting to rumors and half-truths” — “We find it troubling that you ... are publicly resorting to rumors and half-truths about our service."
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Google makes its expanded ad tracking opt-in, launches new ‘My Activity’ site — By default, ads shown on Google sites are tailored based on previous searches, watched YouTube videos, and more Google-related history. Now, Google is rolling out (via Wired) a new opt-in setting that will apply … | Mark Bergen / Recode: |
SEC filing reveals tick-tock story behind how LinkedIn shopped itself to Salesforce, Google, and Microsoft, which prevailed thanks to its all-cash bid — How the $26 billion deal went down. — Most Securities and Exchange Commission filings are dry affairs.
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Facebook announces 11K bots on Messenger, updates Messenger Platform with star ratings, quick reply buttons, more content types, and other features for bots — Since the launch of the Messenger Platform in April of this year, over 11,000 bots have launched.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
How a handful of Chinese companies that control a majority of the Bitcoin network are playing a central role in the community's civil wars — A delegation of American executives flew to Beijing in April for a secret meeting at the Grand Hyatt hotel, just blocks from Tiananmen Square.
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Sources: larger HTC Nexus will have 5.5-inch QHD AMOLED display, 4GB of RAM, 3450mAh battery, 12MP rear and 8MP front camera, quad-core Qualcomm CPU — You know about Google's smaller new Nexus phone, Sailfish, but what about Marlin? Everyone's keen to know what the bigger … | Jim Swift / bomble.com: |
Senate tells staffers it will no longer issue Blackberry smartphones — This is the way the world ends. Not with a clickity keyboard, but with a swipe. — Senate staffers will no longer be issued official Blackberry smartphones. — The reign of the Blackberry lasted a good decade …
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Profile of Mario Queiroz, VP of product management at Google, and the man behind Google Home — The man behind Google Home. — Six years ago, Mario Queiroz, a VP of product management at Google, stood onstage at the company's Mountain View headquarters holding the first hardware device bearing the company's name.| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Google adds WebVR and VR Shell to beta and dev versions of Chrome on Android, potentially allowing all websites to be viewed in VR — Google is working to add fully immersive browsing capability to Chrome, allowing users to browse any part of the web in VR, not just those sites that are specially built for VR.| Brian Crecente / Polygon: |
Xbox Play Anywhere, which delivers participating games to Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs with a single purchase, launches September 13 — PLAY ANYWHERE ... AS LONG AS IT'S AN XBOX OR PC — Xbox Play Anywhere, which delivers certain games to the Xbox One and Windows 10 PC with a single purchase … | John Ruwitch / Reuters: |
Alibaba unveils “IP Joint-Force System”, an online platform for helping brands identify and remove counterfeit goods from the company's marketplace — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Friday went public with a new drive to display its determination to stamp out fake goods …
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Amazon now lets you purchase millions of Prime qualified products via Alexa — Now you can talk into your friendly little home AI tower to order toilet paper. And deodorant and batteries. And tens of millions of other Amazon Prime qualified products, because no one does synergy quite like the good people at Amazon.
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