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Google acquires Fabric, Twitter's mobile app development tool suite, and its team; Fabric will join Google's Developer Products Group — Google is taking over Twitter's mobile app developer platform Fabric, as well as its Crashlytics crash reporting system, Answers mobile app analytics … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Slack debuts new threaded messages feature on all platforms; conversations are attached to specific messages and show in the “flex pane” sidebar on desktop, web — Evolving beyond chat — Slack today is rolling out message threads inside its familiar chat window …
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Obama's tech teams are optimistic publicly, but quietly fear for their programs' future after Trump inauguration; Matt Cutts in line to be interim head of USDS — The While House imported Silicon Valley's best to transform government. Will Trump undo it all?
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Report: Google bringing its Android One program for budget smartphones with timely software updates to the US; the first such device is expected before mid-year — Google's Android One platform was originally designed to provide low-cost Android devices to developing markets without the stuff …
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Microsoft is testing feature that brings Cortana to the lock screen on Android — Cortana recently got a pretty sweet update for Android and iOS, bringing a much cleaner and prettier user design. If you use Cortana on your Android phone, you might be glad to know that Microsoft is making … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Department of Labor sues Oracle over discriminatory pay and hiring practices — The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Oracle for discriminatory employment practices, the government body announced on Wednesday. The Department of Labor specifically states that the company has “a systemic practice” … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Zuckerberg has 12+ Facebook employees helping him with posts and comments on his Facebook page and professional photographers to snap personal moments — When Facebook went public five years ago, the world had a pretty vivid picture of who Mark Zuckerberg was.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla unveils new logo, font, and design — Mozilla today revamped its “brand identity”: a new logo, font, color palette, language architecture, and imagery. This is the first time the company, first founded in February 1998, has done such thorough brand refresh.
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Apple revamps Logic Pro X and GarageBand for iOS with redesigned interfaces and new features — Apple today announced major updates for music creation software GarageBand and professional editing software Logic Pro X, introducing a number of new features for its music-related apps.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Starship Technologies partners with Postmates and DoorDash to test deliveries by its largely self-driving robots, in California and Washington D.C. respectively — Postmates and DoorDash are the first commercial partners Stateside — A small number of Americans will soon be able to have food …
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Netflix reports $2.35B in Q4 revenue, up from $1.67B in Q4 2015, as it adds 1.93M new US subs vs 1.3M expected, 5.12M global subs vs 3.8M expected; stock up 8%+ — Holy cow, we have quite the beat for Netflix. — Netflix added nearly 2 million new subscribers domestically …
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YouTube rolls out group chat feature for its iOS and Android apps that allows discussion around videos as they play, arriving first in Canada — Canadians share more videos online than any other nation so it's fitting that YouTube is unveiling its latest social feature in this country.
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