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Facebook says it miscalculated more metrics including Organic Reach, Instant Articles time spent, adds more third-party verification, forms Measurement Council — Facebook is also adding more third-party verification and forming a Measurement Council to stay in step with evolving products and metrics.
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Tweets: @laura_nelson, @joelcifer, @shafqatislam, @caseynewton, @darth, @mikeisaac, @caseynewton, @odavis_, @vranicawsj, @jonhew, @anthony, @pkafka and @derektmead
See also Mediagazer| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation as a Platinum member; John Gossman, architect on the Microsoft Azure team, will sit on the foundation's Board of Directors — At its Connect(); 2016 developer event in New York City today, Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google joins the .NET Foundation as Samsung adds support for it on its Tizen platform, deepening its commitment to the open source organization — Microsoft is hosting its annual Connect(); developer event in New York today. With .NET being at the core of many of its efforts …
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Google Cloud Platform Blog, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Forbes and InfoWorld. Tweets: @googlecloud
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
iFixit: Teardown of 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar reveals speaker grilles are cosmetic and the Touch Bar is hard to replace — iFixit has published a teardown of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and discovered a few interesting differences compared to Apple's new lower tier MacBook Pro sans Touch Bar.
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Sources: Snap Inc. has filed confidentially for its IPO, could go public as soon as March at valuation of $20-$25B — Snapchat has filed for an initial public offering, sources familiar with the situation said on Tuesday, which puts the messaging app a step closer to the biggest U.S. stock market debut since 2014.
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @danprimack and @danprimack
See also Mediagazer| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Amazon Music Unlimited launches family plans for up to 6 users in US; $15/month for all customers or $149/year for Prime members — Following a launch of its new Amazon Music Unlimited plan in the U.S. last month followed by an EU launch earlier this week, today the company announced …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases Visual Studio for Mac, which is a rebranded version of Xamarin Studio, and Visual Studio 2017 for Windows in preview — Microsoft is releasing a first Visual Studio for Mac preview, as well as a near-final Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2017 for Windows.
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docs.microsoft.com, VentureBeat, The New Stack and TechCrunch
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google incorporates neural machine translation into Google Translate app for eight languages, increasing accuracy and allowing for entire sentence translation — The search giant says it's made a “leap” in giving you more natural translations. — World travelers, language nerds and everyone in between, you're in luck.
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Tweets: @sundarpichai and @ericschmidt
| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Donald Trump's digital director, Brad Parscale, says Facebook helped generate most of the campaign's $250M in online fundraising — Mark Zuckerberg is trying hard to convince voters that Facebook had no nefarious role in this election. But according to President-elect Donald Trump's digital … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
HP announces Z2 Mini, a workstation-class Intel Xeon-powered mini PC, to ship in December starting at $699 — HP has unveiled the Z2 Mini, a mini PC that packs workstation-class parts, including an Intel Xeon CPU, NVIDIA Quadro mobile M620 graphics and M.2 SSD tech.
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HP, ZDNet, Neowin, PCWorld, Fudzilla.com, TechRadar.com, StorageReview.com, HotHardware, Digital Trends, The Mac Observer, Boing Boing, The Fire Hose, SlashGear, Windows Central, Inquirer, Liliputing, Tom's Hardware and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @tapbot_paul
| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Twitter suspends several high-profile accounts associated with the alt-right, including those of Richard Spencer and Pax Dickinson — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter suspended a number of accounts associated with the alt-right movement, the same day the social media service said it would crack down on hate speech.
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See also Mediagazer| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung acquires NewNet Canada for its Rich Communications Service technology — The company buys a provider of Rich Communications Services, which add more features to SMS text messaging. — The texts you send from your Galaxy phone may soon look a lot like Apple's iMessages.| Lauren Johnson / Adweek: |
Snapchat partners with Foursquare to provide better geofilters, giving Snapchat advertisers access to Foursquare's data points for 90M+ locations — Opens up more specific location-based advertising — Snapchat ads are getting a bit more targeted. The mobile app has inked a deal …
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Foursquare Direct, AdExchanger and The Drum
Tweets: @rsa, @sarahspagnolo, @martinsfp and @danielsing3r
Thanks:@dj| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft replaces mustache with Amp, a Bluetooth-enabled, dash-mounted LED device that displays a specific color indicated in riders' app — Meet the Lyft Amp — Lyft has outgrown its pink mustache. Today, the ride-hail company says it will retire the oversized facial hair logo that has defined …
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Tweets: @dannysullivan and @amir
Thanks:@selviano| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google debuts PhotoScan app for iOS and Android, which makes it easy to digitize old print photos; Google Photos updated with more advanced image editing tools — On the surface, Google Photos has a simple mission: to store all your pictures. Specifically, Google says it wants the service …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
DJI's new Inspire 2 drone for professional filmmakers has two cameras and starts at $2,999 — More drone than most of us will ever need — DJI has a chokehold on the consumer drone market, and it's leveraging that dominance to try and establish itself as the clear leader for commercial drones used by professionals as well.
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Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo and Digital Trends
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