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| Satya Nadella / LinkedIn: |
Microsoft closes LinkedIn acquisition, will pursue specific integration scenarios like LinkedIn identity in Office, notifications within Windows, and more — Today is an exciting day, one I've been looking forward to since June. It marks the close of the agreement for Microsoft …
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
To avoid the mistakes of the past, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has asked LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner to continue running the company, which brings 10K new staff — SEATTLE — Microsoft announced on Thursday that it had completed its $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, the social network for professionals.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung to release Galaxy S8 next year with bezel-less wraparound OLED display and a virtual home button — March release said to face potential delay on testing — Company needs a hit product after exploding Note 7 debacle — Samsung Electronics Co. will create an all-screen front …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Shigeru Miyamoto explains why Mario runs on his own in Super Mario Run, launching next week on iPhone, and says the game will introduce new players to Nintendo — The creator of Mario on how smartphones will introduce new players to Nintendo — In 2004, Nintendo released …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Super Mario Run hands-on: looks and feels like a classic Mario game with simplified controls for mobile — Mario goes where you go — A week ahead of the release Nintendo's first true smartphone game, Super Mario Run, we had a chance to spend a half-hour with the portable platformer.
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Engadget, BGR, CNET, TechSpot, Macworld UK, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, Metro.co.uk, Recombu, The Pocket Gamer Podcast, and BGR. Tweets: @verge
| Bloomberg: |
Facebook investor lawsuit alleges Marc Andreessen aided Zuckerberg's interests instead of shareholders'; documents show Zuck interested in government service — Earlier this year, Facebook Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg came to his shareholders with a big question: would they approve …
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Thanks:@notjenniferyu| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft will use emulation tech to allow Windows 10 on ARM to run x86 Win32 apps through partnership with Qualcomm — Microsoft will again seek to expand the reach of its Windows PC operating system to devices running mobile-oriented ARM processors, through a partnership with Qualcomm announced tonight …
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @gartenberg, @windowsblog, @bdsams, @ow, @thisdavej, @rudyhuyn, and @satyanadella
| Mehedi Hassan / MSPoweruser: |
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Windows Blog, Digital Trends, Tech Times, International Business Times, The Verge, Liliputing, YouTube, The Verge, and Windows Central. Tweets: @reckless
| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber updates community guidelines specifying how riders could lose access to its service; the guidelines were previously only spelled out for drivers — Uber updated its Community Guidelines Thursday, and now the term “community” is more accurately applied, because for the first time …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google will now let select developers create pre-approved “conversation actions” for Google Home, with all developers getting access “early next year” — Actions for the Google Assistant are coming early next year — Google is announcing today that it's ready …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google Daydream adds two video apps, NextVR and HBO, which will let subscribers watch TV on a virtual big screen; Netflix is listed as coming later this month — Google's Daydream virtual reality headset is getting a new slate of games and apps. Today, seven more titles are padding out the library …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Source: Spotify backs away from SoundCloud acquisition after months of talks to focus on IPO — The digital music marriage that many wanted to happen isn't happening after all. Spotify has given up on its latest effort to buy SoundCloud following months of talks between the two …
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Mattermark, iPhone Hacks, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @jamesliamcook, @eringriffith, and @itibz
See also Mediagazer| Laura Jones / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft refreshes the design of its Cortana app and brings it to the UK, available now on Android and “in a few weeks” on iOS — Coming to the UK: — The Cortana Android and iOS apps are coming to the UK, extending the functionality of your Cortana on Windows 10 …
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Computerworld, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Android Authority, The Register, TechCrunch, The Fire Hose, Engadget, The Verge, MSPoweruser, On MSFT, Silicon Valley Business …, Windows Central, and Neowin. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Anonymous social network Yik Yak lays off a “significant” number of staff as growth stalls; sources say the remaining employees are mostly engineers — Yak to square one — Yik Yak has laid off a “significant” number of employees amid a downturn in the app's growth prospects, The Verge has learned.
Tweets: @caseynewton, @davidbyttow, and @danprimack
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will let some users outside the US make their own geo-specific frames for photos and videos — Facebook is launching a series of new features to help people customize their photos and videos in the social network's continuing battle with Snapchat, an app that put the camera …
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GeekTime, The Next Web, Business Insider, and SocialTimes
| Steve McClellan / MediaPost: |
WPP CEO Martin Sorell says the ad firm will spend $70M on Snapchat this year, versus $5.5B on Google, up from $4B a year ago, and $1.75B on Facebook — Facebook may have issues with measurement, but they don't appear to be hampering the social media giant's advertising growth.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson defends AT&T-Time Warner merger at Senate subcommittee hearing, saying deal won't hurt customers or competitors — AT&T denies that it will restrict Time Warner content to its own network. — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson spoke at a Senate antitrust … Sponsor Posts
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