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Apple has hired Timothy D. Twerdahl, director of Amazon's Fire TV business, as VP of Apple TV product marketing; Twerdahl worked at Netflix and Roku in the past — Former Amazon executive also held roles at Netflix and Roku — The hire lets company to beef up team seeking content deals| Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica: |
Google Brain research aims to enhance small, pixelated images by using details from similar, higher resolution images — Google Brain creates new image details out of thin air. — Google Brain has devised some new software that can create detailed images from tiny, pixelated source images.
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Twitter to hide abusive tweets in conversations, add safe search, and try to keep banned users from rejoining the service — The company promised users more features around safety, so here they are. — A week ago, Twitter executives said that making the service safer for users was the company's …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk since 2006, resigns effective immediately but will remain on company board — Design-focused software firm Autodesk has announced that CEO and president Carl Bass is stepping down effective tomorrow (February 8). — No immediate replacement has been appointed …
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| John Hopewell / Variety: |
EU agrees to cross-border access to streaming and digital content services, like video-on-demand, online TV, music, and online games, starting 2018 — So-called ‘portability’ rules the first piece in the European Commission's Digital Single Market strategy, and the least contentious
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Cloud Search, previously known as Springboard in limited preview, a search engine for G Suite products that also provides cards with useful info — Google today launched for its business customers a new tool called Google Cloud Search, which will allow users …
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Spotify partners with AccuWeather to launch Climatune, which generates playlists based on the weather and the mood it creates — The weather and its many faces have served as an inspiration for many musicians, who have crooned about the London fog, the Sun coming out, stormy weather and the clothes you wear for a season.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
YouTube opens up mobile livestreaming to all creators with 10K+ subscribers and debuts Super Chat, which lets users pay to highlight their messages — Eight months after announcing it would support livestreaming capabilities, YouTube has started giving more people access to the service.
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Tweets: @pkedrosky and @joshelman
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Google Material Design principal Nicholas Jitkoff joins Dropbox as head of design — Dropbox today said it has named Nicholas Jitkoff — former lead designer for Google's Material Design team — as its VP of design. — This comes on the heels of a suite of announcements Dropbox made last week …
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| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Pittsburgh mayor said last week that the relationship with Uber has been a “one-way street” as Uber expects carte blanche access to city amid self-driving tests — The honeymoon is over for Uber and Pittsburgh. After bending over backward to accommodate the ride-sharing company's … | Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
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| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Waze says its new carpool service is now open to the nine counties that comprise the Bay Area, plus Sacramento and Monterey — Waze, the popular crowd-sourced traffic navigation app purchased by Google in 2013, has expanded its smartphone-based Carpool service across the entire San Francisco Bay Area …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twilio reports Q4 revenue of $82M, up 60% YoY, as active customers rise 36% YoY to 36.6K as of December 31, 2016 — Twilio ($TWLO) has released the results of its fourth quarter 2016 earnings in which it generated $82 million in revenue, an increase of 60 percent, and a non-GAAP net earnings per share (EPS) of $0.00.
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Twitter's head of diversity, Jeffrey Siminoff, is leaving, after its chief HR officer, Renee Atwood, already left — Twitter's VP of diversity and inclusion Jeffrey Siminoff is leaving the company at the end of the month and its chief human resources officer Renee Atwood has already left, TechCrunch has confirmed.
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