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Facebook to add tools to connect businesses and job seekers in US on Friday: “Apply Now” button, autofill for applicant information, responses via Messenger — Facebook is going after LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and other job listing sites. — Starting Wednesday …
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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Snap seeks to raise $3.2B in IPO at $14 to $16 per share, which would value it at about $18.5B at the high end of the range — Snap Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $3.2 billion in its initial public offering in what could be the third-biggest technology listing of the past decade.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
KGI: Apple's 2017 OLED iPhone to have a “function area” for virtual buttons in place of home button, a bigger battery, and a price tag starting at $1K — Apple will ditch the home button when it debuts a new ‘iPhone 8’ model later this year, and will dedicate the extra screen real estate …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter is now limiting visibility of tweets from “potentially abusive accounts” only to their followers for a limited number of hours — Twitter time out. — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey — Teresa Kroeger / Getty Images — Twitter is temporarily decreasing the reach of tweets …
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Apple announces WWDC 2017: June 5th - 9th, held at San Jose McEnery Convention Center — Apple has announced it is holding WWDC 2017 from June 5th to June 9th, with a big change from previous years: the conference will be held in San Jose, at the McEnery Convention Center.
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LG G6 to feature 5.7-inch QHD+ FullVision display with 2880x1440 resolution and special UX 6.0 software with split screen option for better multitasking — It may seem that LG has run out of gimmicks to pull off for the LG G6, which is why it implemented a never before seen on a smartphone 18:9 screen aspect ratio.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft open sources simulator that lets developers test autonomous drones, cars, robots, and more in a virtual environment — Microsoft has made available a beta version of an advanced virtual world for training autonomous drones, as well as other gadgets that move on their own.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Verizon close to new deal for Yahoo properties, which reduces the $4.8B fee by about $250M; Verizon and Altaba to share liability for security breaches — Verizon has tentatively reached a revised Yahoo deal that would lower the price by about $250 million, Bloomberg News reports.
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Tweets: @joonian, @ryan_knutson, @tomaxwell, @panzer, @danprimack, @ampressman, and @karlbode
See also Mediagazer| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Huawei has 100+ engineers developing a smartphone digital assistant for its Chinese users, aimed at competing with Siri — One of China's largest smartphone makers wants to take on Siri. — by — Huawei Technologies Co., the third-largest smartphone maker … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon closes up 23% after it beats estimates with Q4 revenue of $934.9M, reveals it paid nothing for LivingSocial — Groupon, the daily deals platform that has been restructuring itself and trying to shift into more profitable areas of e-commerce, today reported its Q4 earnings.
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| Ian Barker / BetaNews: |
IBM and The Weather Company develop a new app that uses a mesh network to send emergency alerts to smartphones, so that it works even when networks are down — Communicating news of severe weather events or natural disasters is something mobile phones are well suited to … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google News expands “fact check” tag for stories on web and mobile apps to Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina — In October, Google announced it would begin highlighting fact-checked resources in its Google News vertical, allowing readers to more easily find links to reputable sources …
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| Andrew Siff / NBC New York: |
Spotify announces it's moving US headquarters to 4 World Trade Center, promises to add 1K jobs by end of 2018, and gets rent reduction credits of $11M — Spotify is relocating its headquarters in Manhattan, the company announced alongside Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday.
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