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| 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 while Samsung adds .NET support on its Tizen platform — Microsoft is hosting its annual Connect(); developer event in New York today. With .NET being at the core of many of its efforts, including on the open-source side, it's no surprise that the event …
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| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Facebook says it overstated organic Page reach and time spent on Instant Articles due to bugs; firm will expand 3rd-party verification, form 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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See also Mediagazer| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
iFixit: Teardown of 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar reveals speaker grills 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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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google releases Google Earth VR on the HTC Vive for free and is exploring support for other platforms — A virtual reality version of Google Earth is now available for free on the HTC Vive, letting users explore reconstructed cultural treasures, global landmarks, or (for some) their own homes in VR.
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| 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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| 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.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Republican congressional leaders send letters to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler urging him to refrain from passing new rules before Donald Trump's inauguration — Set-top box rules and other changes could be dead in Obama's final months. — Republicans in Congress have urged … | Todoist Blog: |
Todoist will use user habits to prioritize, reschedule, or postpone tasks with its Smart Schedule feature — It's the rare day when we get to cross every item off our to-do lists. It's a fact of life. We almost never accomplish everything we set out to do at the start of the day. — And that's okay.
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| 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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| Dan Primack / LinkedIn: |
Sources: DraftKings and FanDuel have agreed to merge; DraftKings CEO Jason Robins to run new company as FanDuel CEO Nigel Eccles becomes chairman — Daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel have agreed to merge, according to three sources familiar with the situation.
Tweets: @danprimack, @pkafka and @danprimack
| 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 …
Tweets: @jeffmgould and @wired
| 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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| The Intercept: |
Snowden docs shed light on NSA's BLARNEY initiative that leverages “commercial partnerships” for spying; AT&T has surveillance equipment in at least 59 US sites — They called it Project X. It was an unusually audacious, highly sensitive assignment: to build a massive skyscraper … | 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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Tweets: @rsa, @sarahspagnolo, @martinsfp and @danielsing3r
Thanks:@dj| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
SoundCloud opens up applications for On SoundCloud, its revenue-sharing program for creators — SoundCloud is hoping to make itself more appealing to creators with the announcement that it is opening up more applications for its invite-only Premier program and launching new track editing capabilities within SoundCloud Pulse.
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