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Samsung expects to lose about $3B in operating profit from Q4 2016 through Q1 2017 due to Note7 recall — The cost of playing with fire — Samsung says the Galaxy Note 7 discontinuation will cost it around $3 billion over the course of the next two fiscal quarters.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
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Google updates Photos to automatically make GIFs out of videos using machine learning, correctly orient photos, and highlight memories or collections of photos — Google Photos was already one of the smartest cloud photo services available today, thanks to its search technology and built …
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Verizon general counsel says there's a “reasonable basis” to believe Yahoo hack will have a “material” impact on deal — Verizon on Thursday said that it was leaning toward declaring as a “material” event the massive data breach disclosed three weeks ago by Yahoo …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
VMware and Amazon partner to bring VMware's infrastructure software to AWS starting in 2017 — It's been an open secret that Amazon's AWS division and VMware were going to announce a partnership at a press conference in San Francisco later today. Thanks to VMware mistakenly posting its announcement early …
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Tinder debuts Smart Photos, which alternates and reorders profile photos to show best based on user interest; users saw up to 12% increase in matches in testing — Goodbye guesswork. Hello right swipes. — Tinder has your back. Starting today, we're implementing a brand new algorithm that maximizes your match potential.
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| Christine Wang / CNBC: |
HP Inc. to cut between 3K and 4K jobs by 2019, starting in 2017; company expects savings of $200-$300M beginning FY 2020, with $350-$500M in restructuring costs — HP Inc. said on Thursday that it expects 3,000 to 4,000 employees to exit between fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2019.
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| Jemima Kiss / Guardian: |
Google News rolls out “fact check” tag for stories on web and mobile apps, starting in the US and UK — Launched today, fact check will now appear as a label among news search results alongside other labels such as opinion, local source and highly cited
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White House to invest $65M in smart-city technologies and $50M in small-satellite tech for broadband and more, as part of $300M innovation package — The government will release $65 million for smart-city technology, $30 million for small satellites — The U.S. government will invest tens …
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Apple has hired several high-level employees, including the COO, from GPU maker Imagination Technologies since July, after backing out of an acquisition — Apple is hiring a lot of talent from British chip designer Imagination Technologies, the company that provides the graphics processor for the iPhone 7.
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Periscope launches Periscope Producer, letting select users stream any live-video feed on Periscope without using Periscope's mobile app — So now you can stream stuff from places other than your phone. — Twitter-owned Periscope wants more high-quality video content — the kind of video that's not usually captured on a smartphone.
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A look at Uber's strategy in Latin America, a key area in the company's global expansion, which lacks the regulation of Europe or competition of India — After ceding China, the ride-hailing giant plans to double its presence in the region by the end of next year.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest says it now has 150M MAUs, up from 100M in September 2015; 40% of new signups are men, and 75% are from outside the US — Pinterest revealed today that more than 150 million people use its visual bookmarking and ideas service, with more than 75 billion “ideas” shared.Sponsor Posts
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