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Slack debuts Enterprise Grid, an admin-focused tool to scale its software for large firms, including the ability to create an unlimited number of “workspaces” — With the launch of its new ‘Enterprise Grid’ — Team communication service Slack today announced a new product designed …
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Amazon and Expedia join Washington State's lawsuit against Trump's travel ban, file sworn statements in court; Microsoft is working with the State AG office — The attorney general of Washington state filed a lawsuit Monday challenging President Donald Trump's controversial immigration order …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
More than 2K Google employees across eight campuses, including Sundar Pichai and Sergey Brin, stopped work to protest Trump's executive order on immigration — Google employees in offices around the world staged a walkout on Monday afternoon in protest of President Donald Trump's executive …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Walmart drops membership fee for its free two-day shipping program on purchases of $35 or more, discontinuing its $49/year ShippingPass program — The only catch is a $35 order minimum. — If Walmart.com is ever going to put a dent in Amazon's dominance, this will have to be the starting point.| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
As FCC chairman, Ajit Pai says he plans to rollback unnecessary commission regulations but declined to comment on net neutrality or the AT&T-Time Warner merger — The new Republican chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, vowed to pare back outdated commission regulations … | Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Uber strikes deal with Daimler to add self-driving Mercedes-Benz to Uber's fleet — Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] has signed another deal with a major automaker as the popular ride service accelerates efforts to build out one of the world's first fleets of autonomous vehicles.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
American Civil Liberties Union joins Y Combinator's winter batch of startups, giving access to mentoring and Demo Day — The American Civil Liberties Union will learn how to turn the $24 million it raised over the weekend into growth and progress with help from top Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
How Lego built Lego Life, its child-friendly social network with Instagram-style profiles, a news feed, and more, available today on iOS and Android — There are Lego bricks and Lego movies, Lego videogames and Lego books. The stackable, sortable plastic molds permeate all corners of society.
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Nintendo says that 5%+ of 78M people who downloaded Super Mario Run paid the $10 to unlock full game and that Animal Crossing for iOS is delayed — Nintendo today rolled out an update to Super Mario Run that includes a collection of feature additions and bug fixes, along with a new “Easy Mode.”
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google open-sources Chrome for iOS, adding the code to the Chromium project repository — Google has uploaded its Chrome for iOS code into the open-source Chromium repository. In other words, Chrome for iOS has now been open-sourced like Chrome for other platforms, letting anyone examine, modify, and compile the project.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple-recommended LG UltraFine 5K Display doesn't operate well near routers, dropping connections or freezing connected Macs; LG acknowledges the issue — Apple discontinued its Thunderbolt Display last summer after five years on the market, and now Apple recommends the LG UltraFine 5K Display …
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| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
Facebook announces new partnerships with third-party ad-tech firms to improve quality of measurement data and show marketers how its ads perform compared to TV — Facebook is refining its ad measurement offerings to give marketers more information about their campaigns on its ad platform.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Streaming media app Plex acquires news video startup Watchup, which will now be integrated into the Plex app, with an expected launch of Q2 2017 — In recent months, streaming media app Plex has expanded its focus from offering tools to organize and stream your home media collection of photos …
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| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to begin a limited trial of Delegated Recovery, a system for recovering third party accounts that aims to obviate email's role in that process — Getting locked out of your account sucks. Almost everyone has experienced the frustration of forgetting a password … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
CB Insights report: 3,358 tech exits in 2016 from 3,260 M&A exits and 98 IPOs, down 4% from 2015; unicorn “births” fell by 68% YoY to 25 — As we kick off 2017 with a surprise acquisition of what was planned to be the first big IPO of the year — Cisco snapping up AppDynamics …
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