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Black Friday online sales reach an estimated $3.34B, up 21.6% from last year; mobile sales rise 33% to $1.2B — Black Friday online shopping is continuing to grow, and this Friday was another record-breaking day. According to a new report out this evening from Adobe …
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Best 2016 Cyber Monday deals on smart home and media streaming devices, HDTVs, computers, smartphones, tablets, and other electronics and software — Greetings, Arsians! It's Cyber Monday, one of the busiest online shopping days of the year! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains …
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Q&A with Jestin Coler, registered Democrat and founder of Disinfomedia, which owns fake news sites including the Denver Guardian, on ad networks, money, more — Audio will be available later today. — Enlarge this image — A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election.
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Marc Andreessen talks about sectors tech is disrupting next, flying and autonomous cars, IoT, AR, VR, and more — Marc Andreessen may be the most dedicated optimist in Silicon Valley. During a year when the public's attention was often focused on international conflict, mass shootings … | Google Research Blog: |
Google says its Neural Machine Translation System shows signs of “interlingua” common representation, translating language pairs never seen by the system — Posted by Mike Schuster (Google Brain Team), Melvin Johnson (Google Translate) and Nikhil Thorat (Google Brain Team)| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Android Nougat's new file-based encryption is a move in the right direction, but Google's efforts to achieve lock screen security are still six years behind iOS — Over the past few years we've heard more about smartphone encryption than, quite frankly, most of us expected to hear in a lifetime.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
CNN acquires social-video startup Beme, co-founded by YouTube star Casey Neistat; app to be shut down, team to form a new media startup as an extension of CNN — With millions of people regularly tuning in to his YouTube video blogs every morning, Casey Neistat has a millennial fan base coveted by both marketers and media companies.
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How the rise of the Internet, Facebook, and fake news has fueled anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar — YANGON, Myanmar — The internet brought Donald Trump to Myanmar. Or, at least that's how Shar Ya Wai first remembers hearing about the Republican president-elect. — “One day, nobody knew him.| The Economic Times: |
Sources: India's Ola is seeking to raise at a $3B to $4B valuation, down from its $5B valuation from November 2015 round — NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: India's largest ride-hailing app Ola is preparing to bite the bullet and accept fresh funding at a lower valuation as it seeks to shore … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
One of Trump's advisers on FCC, Mark Jamison, argued last month that the agency should only regulate radio spectrum licenses, scale back all other functions — FCC should handle spectrum licenses, but nothing else, Trump advisor wrote. — A Donald Trump advisor who will help set … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
After pivoting from app sales to app analytics and intelligence, Apptopia raises another seed round of $2.7M, led by Sound Ventures — Apptopia, a startup that began its life as a marketplace for reselling apps before morphing into the app intelligence provider that's now used by Google …
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Report: BMW's i Ventures VC fund increased to $500M from $100M, to relocate from NY to Bay Area — BMW (BMWG.DE) is increasing the size of its venture capital fund, BMW i Ventures, to 500 million euros (425 million pounds) from 100 million, German business daily Handelsblatt said on Sunday …
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