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September 28, 2016, 7:05 AM

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Aaron Souppouris / Engadget:
Google debuts YouTube Go app for Android with offline viewing, expands free Wi-Fi program Google Station beyond public transport sites in India  —  At an event in New Delhi, India, Google laid out plans to better serve users in the country.  These efforts broadly focus on two areas: data usage and language support.
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Google Translate now converts Chinese into English with neural machine translation  —  Google today is announcing that web and mobile versions of Google Translate are now using a new neural machine translation system for all translations from Chinese into English — and the app conducts those translations about 18 million times a day.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Source: Facebook is ready to launch Facebook at Work, its enterprise collaboration network, in the next few weeks; companies will be charged per user  —  Facebook is ready to make work as addictive as socializing.  The company plans to launch its enterprise communication and collaboration network Facebook …
Mark Scott / New York Times:
Facebook ordered to stop collecting data on WhatsApp users in Germany and to delete info already forwarded to Facebook from roughly 35M German WhatsApp users  —  When WhatsApp, the internet messaging app, announced last month that it was starting to share some of its users' online information with Facebook …
Ben Popper / The Verge:
DJI's Mavic Pro drone is extremely small and portable, packing high-end features, 40MPH speed, 27 mins of battery, starts at $749, less than GoPro Karma at $800  —  The unit is extremely small and portable, but still packs all the high end features DJI drones are known for
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Major music labels, RIAA, others sue stream-ripping site YouTube-MP3 for copyright infringement  —  Two weeks ago, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry published research which claimed that half of 16 to 24-year-olds use stream-ripping tools to copy music from sites like YouTube.
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Source: Walmart in advanced talks to invest $1B in India's largest online retailer Flipkart, recently valued at about $16B  —  The deal would help the companies battle Amazon.com in India  —  Investors most recently valued Flipkart at about $16 billion  —  Wal-Mart Stores Inc …

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