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Google Maps lets you save and share favorite places with launch of Lists, which can be public, private, or shared with a link — Google Maps is today rolling out a new feature to all users on iOS and Android devices that will allow you to make lists of places that you can star, save and share with friends.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: large payouts awarded to veteran members of Google's self-driving unit in 2015 preceded a talent exodus — ‘F-you money’ awarded to veteran team members boosted parent Alphabet's R&D costs, prompting comment from the company's CFO — For the past year, Google's car project …
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| Song Su-hyun / The Korea Heald: |
Sources: Samsung Display won an Apple order for 60M OLED panels, worth about $4.35B, adding to a deal struck last April to supply 100M OLED panels — Samsung Display has received a display panel order from Apple for an additional 5 trillion won ($4.35 billion) in organic light-emitting diodes.| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts “spectator view” for HoloLens, a way to create video of peoples' experience with mixed reality holograms, requires camera with HDMI output — A way to show not just holograms, but people interacting with them — Virtual reality and augmented reality headsets …
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Disney Severs Ties With YouTube Star PewDiePie After Anti-Semitic Posts — Disney said it was severing ties with Felix Kjellberg, a top star with 53 million subscribers to his “PewDiePie” YouTube channel, after he posted videos in which he makes anti-Semitic jokes or imagery.
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Apple joins the Wireless Power Consortium, which promotes the Qi wireless charging standard — Long-running rumors that Apple will add wireless charging to the iPhone 8 have been lent additional weight with the news that the company has joined an industry group devoted to wireless power.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Verizon launches “unlimited” plan at $80/mo. for one device or $45/mo. per device for four lines, with 10GB of 4G LTE tethering; throttling starts at 22GB/line — Verizon today introduced its first unlimited data plan since 2011. Verizon Unlimited, which includes unlimited talk …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Yik Yak's lead mobile developer publishes group messaging app Hive to App Store and Google Play, possibly signalling pivot for the company — Yak to the drawing board — In the weeks before it laid off most of its staff, Yik Yak employees believed the company was back on the right track.
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Inside NYT's digital transformation: luring subscribers via Beta Group's vertical apps, a Facebook chatbot, live video, VR, and more on top of strong journalism — Arthur Gregg Sulzberger doesn't remember the first time he visited the family business. He was young, he says, no older than 6 …
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Fortune and Adweek. Tweets: @rosenblumandrew, @brianstorm, @techieparents, @ckummer, @aidan___kerr, @marklittlenews, @dkthomp, @nxthompson, @mathewi, @mikeisaac, and @dbfarber. See also Mediagazer
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook is in talks with record labels about licensing their music, focusing on how to prevent copyright violations in user-generated videos — Social network seeks accord for user videos, and possibly more — Music clips could lure ads away from $70 billion TV industry
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Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Axios, TheStreet.com, and Tubefilter
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Sources: Twitter plans to pare down three ad products, including legacy TellApart business, the firm's direct response business, and aspects of Promoted Tweets — Twitter continues to bleed cash and its advertising business has begun shrinking, so it's time for a change.
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The Information: Huawei shipped 139M smartphones in 2016, up almost 30% YoY; consumer division revenues grew 42% to $26B as profits declined ~10% to $2B — We've already reported on Huawei's dramatic growth over the last year. The company sold 30 percent more phones in 2016 than in the year previous … Sponsor Posts
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