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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Google is rolling out RCS advanced messaging to Android devices on Sprint, but Google's RCS doesn't work with RCS on AT&T, T-Mobile, and other carriers — There has been much noise made about Google's launch of its RCS messaging platform via the Messenger app on Sprint today.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
The White House launches Code.gov for showcasing federal open source projects; website currently houses nearly fifty code repositories from ten federal agencies — The White House today is announcing the launch of Code.gov, a website that shows off U.S. government open-source projects …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: popular shopping app Wish is raising around $500M at a valuation between $3.5B and $5B; Temasek, owned by Singapore's government, is a lead investor — The fast-growing startup also raised $500 million last year. — Wish, the maker of the No. 2 shopping app of the same name … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook to test TV ads delivered via its ad network to apps on devices like Apple TV and Roku — Facebook is moving another step closer to getting its hands on TV ad budgets. — Facebook has wanted to get its hands on TV ad budgets for years. Now it's taking another step closer, by selling ads that will actually appear on TVs.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
NFL Films is producing an exclusive nine-part VR video series for YouTube and Google's Daydream about life in and around the NFL, to debut November 24 — The videos will be available on YouTube and Google's new VR headset, Daydream. — If anything can bring virtual reality into the mainstream, it's NFL football, right?| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
GoPro reports Q3 2016 revenue of $240.6M vs $314M expected and a loss of $0.60 per share vs $0.36 expected — Expectations were already incredibly low for GoPro this go around and yet somehow the company managed to eclipse even the worst fears of analysts.
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CNET, Tech Times, CNBC, Fortune, ValueWalk, Forbes, GoPro, Engadget, Quartz, Mashable, ZDNet, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters and Fortune
Tweets: @reckless, @dcurtis, @jowens510, @dougtee and @gamoid
| Tas Bindi / ZDNet: |
Storage company NetApp says it will lay off 6% of its global workforce, or about 640 employees, following layoffs in 2015 and from earlier this year — Storage company NetApp is once again cutting its headcount, this time by around 640 employees. — NetApp announced on Thursday …
| Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
Programmable-chip maker Lattice Semiconductor to be bought for $1.3B by Chinese backed private equity firm Canyon Bridge Capital Partners — Programmable-chip maker Lattice Semiconductor Corp said it is being bought by Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, a newly formed private equity firm backed …
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| Lucia Moses / Digiday: |
Condé Nast's Wired Media Group is launching the Emerging Tech Council, a $4K/year membership program for executives who want to stay ahead of tech trends — In the quest for new sources of revenue, publishers have been launching subscription programs and events series.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Inside Intel's Santa Clara VR lab, where the company is working on its Project Alloy headset, a “merged reality” experience, and more — n many ways, virtual reality is still a moonshot. — The $2 billion acquisition of Oculus by Facebook in 2014 lent the neo-futurist hobby …
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Intel Newsroom, Silicon Valley Business … and TechCrunch
| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Slack's chief marketing officer, Bill Maciatis, quietly stepped down a few months ago after less than two years but remains on Slack's board — Slack's head of marketing has quietly stepped down after two years on the job, leaving a key position at the $3.8 billion startup unfilled just as it faces tough new competitors.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
In letter to Uber and Lyft about potential discrimination by drivers, Sen. Al Franken questions the use of passengers' real names and pictures in profiles — Senator Al Franken has some questions for Uber and Lyft about racial discrimination following the recently released study … Sponsor Posts
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