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Google's Daydream VR headset is coming to stores in US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia on November 10, available to pre-order now — Last month, we announced Daydream View, a comfortable and easy-to-use virtual reality headset and controller powered by any Daydream-ready phone.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram to test window shopping, will partner with 20 brands so users can research and price products, but will send users to retailer's sites for purchases — Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window.
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Tweets: @sarahfrier, @brianroemmele, @joshconstine, @mdudas, @besvinick and @delrey
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Pinterest makes Instapaper's premium features free, previously $3/month; features include full text search on all articles, speed reading, text-to-speech, more — Nearly three months after being acquired by Pinterest, Instapaper is making some changes that will impact its users.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Lenovo starts shipping Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, the first Google Tango phone, for $499 — The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is shipping now — If it weren't for Pokémon Go, augmented reality might have stayed another forlorn futurist technology the public paid little attention to.
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A roundup of the mostly negative reactions to the new MacBook Pros and the current state of the Mac by creative professionals and developers — I was really disappointed with today's Apple event. It seems like Apple has either lost its way, that it has lost touch with what (some of) …
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iFixit, MacRumors, CNET, Motherboard, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, iPhone in Canada Blog, Computerworld, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, ZDNet and milen.me
Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @dhh, @dsilverman, @onejarednewman, @vladgeorgescu, @nelliebowles, @pinboard, @mattk and @jesse_squires
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Twitter adds Welcome Messages and Quick Replies to DMs to improve businesses' customer service response times — For all the talk of doom and gloom regarding Twitter's future, there are some things the platform does better than anyone. Recently it's been strengthening its position … | Dan Richman / GeekWire: |
Report: AWS has 45% share of worldwide public Infrastructure as a Service market, more than Microsoft, Google, and IBM combined — Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) — greater than Microsoft … | Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Uber partners with GM's car-sharing service, Maven, for a 90-day car rental pilot program for drivers in San Francisco — The pilot program with Maven, which looks a lot like Lyft's partnership with Maven, will only be available in San Francisco for 90 days.| Stefan Nicola / Bloomberg: |
YouTube strikes deal with German royalty-collection group Gema, ending seven years of legal battles and unblocking thousands of music videos in the country — @StefanNicolaBBG More stories by Stefan Nicola — Video service to pay licensing fees for clips shown in Germany
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Samsung Electronics says it's investing $1B+ by the end of June 2017 to boost system chip production at its Austin, Texas facilities to meet growing demand — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday it plans to invest more than $1 billion by end-June 2017 to boost production of system chips …
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Square beats with Q3 revenue of $439M vs $431M expected, says it processed 35K+ business loans for about $208M, up 70% YoY — While Jack Dorsey's other company Twitter might be struggling, Square continues on a roll that's keeping Wall Street happy. — There's going to, as always … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology convenes semiconductor industry working group to advance US competitiveness — President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (PCAST) today announced the launch of a new Semiconductor Working Group … | David Katzmaier / CNET: |
Roku TV updates to let users pause live TV delivered via OTA antennas for up to 90 minutes, listen to TV audio from smartphone, and more — A free software update brings the ability to pause, and subsequently rewind and fast-forward, on TV shows that come via an antenna.
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The Verge, Digital Trends, Variety, Engadget, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint and SlashGear. Tweets: @onejarednewman
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Self-driving car startup Otonomo founded in Tel Aviv in 2015 raises $12M Series A, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Stageone Ventures — Self-driving car startup Otonomo has closed a $12 million series A round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Stageone Ventures, with participation from Maniv Mobility and LocalGlobe.
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Tech.eu, TechCrunch, GeekTime and CNBC
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HipChat integrates with Echo via VoiceMyBot, letting Alexa start and join in conversations, tie-in with Hipchat room notifications, more — A new skill for Amazon Alexa-enabled devices gives you access to the Atlassian-owned HipChat platform, a first for the enterprise team chat app.
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The Next Web, HipChat Blog, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Business Insider and ZDNet
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iOS app Talkshow, which let groups have text conversations in public, will shut down on December 1, six months after launching — Talkshow, which launched about six months ago, will be shutting down effective December 1st. The service allowed groups to have text-based conversations in public.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Minecraft: Education Edition launches in 50 countries and 11 different languages; game costs $5 per user annually or less through volume licensing — Following months of testing and free trials for early adopters, Microsoft announced this morning that its learning-focused version …
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Tweets: @minecraft and @satyanadella
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Tableau Q3 revenue of $206.1M misses expectations but rises 21% YoY; stock down 13%+ after hours despite company generating its highest quarterly revenue — The first earnings report with new CEO Adam Selipsky at the helm was a mixed bag for Tableau Software, as the Seattle-based visualization …
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Alibaba creates new digital media company, Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group, to consolidate media assets, announces $1.48B fund for new projects — Yu Yongfu, of UCWeb, will become CEO of new group under Zhang — Breaking out media assets is part of transparency efforts
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