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Apple's new 175-acre “Apple Park” campus will open in April; 12K+ staff to move in over six months; the 1K-seat auditorium will be named the Steve Jobs Theater — Theater to Be Named for Steve Jobs — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced that Apple Park …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Leaked documents show how Palantir's tools for analyzing big data, made with help from staffers of intelligence agencies, became integral to NSA, GCHQ, others — Donald Trump has inherited the most powerful machine for spying ever devised. How this petty, vengeful man might wield and expand …
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Thanks:@samfbiddle| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
AMD launches flagship Ryzen 8-core desktop CPUs, pre-orderable today, available March 2, starting at $329 — AMD is back in the performance game... finally. — SAN FRANCISCO—Oasis' smash hit “Wonderwall” was playing as the throng of journalists assembled in the ballroom of a Grand Hyatt hotel …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon will test 5G service in 11 cities by mid-2017 as a replacement for home or office broadband — The company plans to offer 5G to some customers in 11 cities by midyear. It's not full mobile wireless. Instead it's a replacement for fixed broadband. — We're slowly inching toward a super-connected 5G world.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Windows 10 Mail and Calendar apps with Focused Inbox, @mentions for adding contacts to email threads, package delivery information, more — Microsoft is updating its Mail and Calendar apps for Windows 10 today with some features that the company has been using in its mobile apps.
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Waze plans to expand ride-sharing service to several US cities and Latin America over the next few months — The growth of Waze's carpool service puts Alphabet Inc.'s Google more directly in competition with Uber — Google is planning to dramatically expand a carpool service …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram will open up carousel posts, with up to 10 photos and videos, to all users in the coming weeks — Instagram wants you to share a more complete picture of your experiences in its classic feed, not just its Snapchat Stories clone. Today, Instagram launches the ability to share …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Email delivery service Mailgun spins out of Rackspace and raises $50M round led by Turn/River Capital, with participation from Scaleworks and Rackspace — Mailgun, a Y Combinator-incubated email delivery service that was acquired by Rackspace in 2012, today announced that it is being spun … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Filing: Fitbit acquired Pebble's talent and intellectual property for $23M, well below reported price of $30-40M — Wearable device company Fitbit today disclosed that it paid $23 million to acquire smartwatch maker Pebble in the fourth quarter of 2016. — That's lower than previous estimates …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter to let businesses create personalized profiles for customer service agents, adding their name and photograph to DMs with customers — Twitter is once again tinkering with direct messages, this time to let brands show customers that they're communicating with a human, not an automated bot.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Square beats Q4 estimates with $452M in revenue, up from $374M last year, as gross payment volume rises 34% YoY to $13.7B; stock up 4% — While Twitter continues to struggle as a public company, Jack Dorsey's other business seems to be doing pretty well. Today payments company Square …
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| Yolanda Redrup / Financial Review: |
Australian accounting software company MYOB to buy payment processing firm Paycorp for AU$48M — Accounting software company MYOB is pushing further into payment processing solutions, which it sees as a major growth opportunity for the business, thanks to the $48 million acquisition of Paycorp
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