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New Burger King ad for prime time TV aims to trigger Google Home by asking “OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?”; Google intervenes to stop Home responding — Oh no, Google — Burger King is unveiling a horrible, genius, infuriating, hilarious, and maybe very poorly thought …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: secret Uber program “Hell” created fake Lyft rider accounts to track Lyft driver locations, and identified individual drivers using Lyft vulnerability — As the ride-sharing market was exploding in the U.S. between 2014 and the early part 2016, Uber had an advantage …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a hub for WebVR content and adds support for its Cardboard headset — Today, Google made some WebVR updates to Chrome, adding support for Cardboard while also building a home for all of its online VR web content. — WebVR Experiments is a bit of a storefront for online VR experiences …
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| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Google launches food delivery and home services app called Areo in India, currently operational in Bengaluru and Mumbai — Areo aggregates food dishes and home services across various local service providers, allowing users to order food or schedule appointments with a local beautician … | Tony Romm / Recode: |
Internet Association, which represents Google, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and others, tells FCC chairman Ajit Pai to keep Obama-era net neutrality rules — The D.C. lobbying group for Facebook, Google and others tells FCC Chairman Ajit Pai they have their doubts.
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
BlackBerry awarded a preliminary $815M in arbitration dispute with Qualcomm over royalty payments, with final award to be determined on May 30; stock up 15%+ — BlackBerry said Wednesday it has been awarded a preliminary $814.9 million in royalty overpayments made to Qualcomm.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Yext prices IPO at $11 per share, above the initial offering range, raising $115.5M+ and valuing the company at about $940M ahead of a NYSE debut on Thursday — Yext is the latest tech company to price its IPO, raising over $115 million tonight by pricing 10.5 million shares at $11 a piece.
| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft announces an event on May 2 in New York City; sources say the focus will be on education and creativity, with new high-end Surface devices unlikely — It's official: Microsoft is holding a big Windows event in New York City on May 2nd. This event was first reported by Mary Jo Foley at ZDnet …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says Messenger now has 1.2B MAUs, up from 1B in July 2016 and 900M in April 2016 — Normally adding 200 million users in 8 months to a product that already has a billion would reduce the average engagement, but most apps don't have Facebook Messenger's network effect.| Brian Fagioli / BetaNews: |
Mark Shuttleworth to take over as Canonical CEO in July as current CEO Jane Silber announces her departure and move to board of directors — Ubuntu is in a very weird and uncertain place right now. If you have been following the Linux distribution lately, you would know that Canonical dropped …
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| Robert Safian / Fast Company: |
Wide ranging interview with Mark Zuckerberg about his 2017 open letter, Facebook's mission, global culture, the spread of misinformation, more — In a candid, wide-ranging interview, the CEO shares thoughts on where his company is headed. — When Fast Company first wrote about Mark Zuckerberg …
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| Scott Rosenberg / Backchannel: |
A look at how 15-year-old Google Book Search has shrunk in ambition and scope, after prolonged legal battles — Google Books was the company's first moonshot. But 15 years later, the project is stuck in low-Earth orbit. — Books can do anything. As Franz Kafka once said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
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