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Google Apps for Work rebranded as “G Suite”, to get several machine learning-powered features; “Team Drive” brings team-level content management to Google Drive — Google announced today that its now ten-year old service Google Apps for Work (formerly Google Apps for Your Domain) …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google combines all of its cloud services under the ‘Google Cloud’ brand — Google for Work, Google's Cloud Platform and the rest of the company's cloud-based services are getting a new name. They have now been combined under the “Google Cloud” moniker. Google's Diane Greene made the announcement …
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| Brian Stevens / Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
Google Cloud Platform says eight new Cloud Regions launching in 2017: Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Northern Virginia, São Paulo, London, Finland, and Frankfurt — As we officially move into the Google Cloud era, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) continues to bring new capabilities to more regions …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Android Wear 2.0 delayed until early 2017, new dev preview adds Play Store on watches, more — Announced at I/O with a focus on messaging, customization and fitness, Android Wear 2.0 has been delayed from this fall to early 2017. Google is using the time to improve the operating system … | Akin Oyedele / Business Insider: |
Report: Qualcomm is in talks to acquire NXP Semiconductors in deal likely to be worth over $30B — Qualcomm is in talks to buy NXP Semiconductors, according to Eyk Henning, Dana Mattioli and Dana Cimilluca at The Wall Street Journal. — Qualcomm is worth $95 billion, while NXP has a market cap of $32 billion.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
KGI: ‘Increasing likelihood’ iPhone 8 will feature glass front and back, stainless steel metal for premium models — Reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has released a new report further forecasting that the 2017 iPhone will likely adopt and glass front and back design like the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s.| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Mozilla accuses Chinese certificate authority WoSign of back-dating SHA-1 certificates and other violations, proposes no longer trusting WoSign certificates — Mozilla has accused a Chinese Certificate Authority of back-dating SHA-1 certificates to get around restrictions barring deprecated certs …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud after its two earlier attempts proved unsuccessful — Spotify, the music streaming service, is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud, as competition heats up with Apple for the future of digital music, said people briefed on the discussions.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Skype iOS app updated with Siri and CallKit support, allowing incoming calls to be displayed and answered on lock screen — Skype today updated its iOS app to version 6.25, adding support for new features that were introduced with iOS 10. Skype now integrates with Siri … | Harry Shum / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft consolidates multiple groups to create new combined AI and Research group, which will include Bing and Cortana teams — This week at Microsoft Ignite, we showed how we are infusing artificial intelligence (AI) broadly across Microsoft to help our customers.
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Apple to open $45M R&D center in Beijing with 500 employees to focus on developing hardware — New center will employ 500 workers, Zhongguancun Science Park Administrative Committee says — BEIJING— Apple Inc. 's first research center in China will be a $45 million facility located … | Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
FCC votes to expand emergency text alerts from 90 to 360 characters, add support for embedded photos and links — The FCC has voted to strengthen the Wireless Emergency Alerts system, which sends warnings about missing children, natural disasters and other dangerous events directly to citizens' cell phones.
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| Andrew Dalton / Engadget: |
Google opens Waze Rider pilot program to all San Francisco users; drivers and riders limited to two trips per day, with drivers making $0.54/mile — Waze Rider, the ride-sharing version of the popular Google-owned navigation app, is now open to the general public in the Bay Area.
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| Recode: |
Sources: Qi Lu, Microsoft's EVP of applications and services, is leaving the company due to health issues; Corporate VP Rajesh Jha to assume many of Lu's duties — Rajesh Jha will assume many of Lu's responsibilities — Longtime Microsoft executive Qi Lu is leaving the company following medical issues …
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