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Sources: Apple in talks to introduce person-to-person payment service, which may be announced later this year, and plans to offer prepaid Visa debit cards — Could the money-transfer service be called Apple Cash, perhaps? — Apple's on-again, off-again flirtation with building its own money-transfer service appears to be back on.
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Google debuts Google Assistant SDK in preview, letting developers run Assistant on their own hardware — Build your own Google Home out of whatever you want. — Today Google is launching yet another Google Assistant feature: The Google Assistant SDK. This will allow developers to run … | Siddharth Parwatay / Digit: |
Acer announces range of new devices including Predator Triton 700 ultra-thin gaming laptop, Switch 2-in-1 detachables with liquid cooling, more — Read the complete press release below — Acer today introduced its full 2017 back-to-school product lineup at the next@acer global press event in New York … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook details its plans to tackle “information operations” by state actors and other orgs that amplify false content by deleting accounts identified using ML — Facebook Inc (FB.O) acknowledged on Thursday that it has become a battleground for governments seeking …
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Samsung Electronics says it will not adopt holding company structure, announces share buyback worth $2.03B; Q1 profit up 48% YoY to $8.75B — Strong memory chip earnings propelled tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) to its best quarterly profit in more than 3 years … | Chris Morris / CNBC: |
Nintendo has sold 2.74M Switch units since it went on sale in March, more than Wii U sold in its first year, and 2.76M copies of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — - Those sales figures are 20 percent of what the last console — the Wii U — has sold in four and a half years. — Nintendo's back in the game.| Barak Turovsky / Official Google India Blog: |
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai outlines plan to roll back Title II net neutrality rules, plans to release full proposal on April 27 for FCC vote on May 18 — Vote to begin net neutrality rollback scheduled for May 18. — The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month to start the process …
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Jimmy Iovine says Apple will introduce a new version of Apple Music that better showcases video alongside the next version of iOS — The company wants to turn its music app into a one-stop shop for pop culture. — Subscribe Reprints — Will.i.am was shopping a reality show to TV networks …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UiPath raises $30M Series A led by Accel to help enterprises automate repetitive tasks with software robots — The world is awash with bots these days — applications the run either partly or entirely using natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision and other artificial …
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Sources: Lyft forecast a $130M loss and $800M in gross bookings for Q1, and booked 22.8M rides in February after #DeleteUber, up 137% YoY — The No. 2 U.S. ride-hailing provider has seized on Uber's recent troubles — Lyft Inc.'s bookings and ridership surged in the first quarter … CB Insights:Lyft
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
David Foster, Google's vice president of hardware product development, leaves the company, having been hired away from Amazon in 2016 — David Foster, a marquee hire working on Pixel and other devices, has left after six months. — David Foster, a key executive Google recruited … Sponsor Posts
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