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Amazon Prime Video app launches on Apple TV in 100+ countries, supports 4K HDR and Apple's centralized TV app — It's been six months since Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that Amazon Prime Video would be coming to Apple TV later this year, and now that app is officially beginning to roll …
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Mozilla countersues Yahoo Holdings and Oath, after they filed against Mozilla last week for switching the default search engine from Yahoo to Google — A suit and countersuit are related to a problematic agreement that former CEO Marissa Mayer crafted (badly).
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Google announces updates to Sheets, including auto-suggesting pivot tables and natural language search for Explore tab, rolling out in coming weeks — The spreadsheet gurus in your organization know how to use pivot tables to pull meaningful insight out of a morass of numbers.
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Microsoft rolls out its collaborative Whiteboard app for Windows 10 users, soliciting feedback while it is in preview — When it announced the new Surface Pro a few months back, Microsoft also used the opportunity to preview Whiteboard, a Windows 10 app designed to offer creative and business collaboration across devices.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast: |
A look at “niche memes”, personal clip art diaries teens post on Instagram to close-knit followers, a trend that took off when they returned to school this fall — Almost every day, while she's waiting for soccer practice to begin or for her mom to pick her up from school …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Facebook tops Glassdoor's list of best places to work for in the US in 2018, as rated by employees, topping the list five times in the last ten years — Career website Glassdoor today released its 10th annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 100 best companies to work for in the coming year.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Encrypted email service ProtonMail adds support for desktop email clients, including Outlook and Apple Mail, as it rolls out ProtonMail Bridge — Encrypted email service ProtonMail has come a long way since its global launch 18 months ago, having expanding into VPNs, started targeting small businesses …
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| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
San Jose-based Fetch Robotics, maker of automated warehouse robots, raises $25M Series B led by Sway Ventures — Fetch Robotics Inc. is announcing early Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in a new funding aimed at meeting accelerating demand for its warehouse robots.
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Contributing writers to publications including Mashable, Inc, Business Insider, and Fast Company say they accepted payments in exchange for promoting companies — An Outline investigation found that contributors to prominent publications have taken payments in exchange for positive coverage.
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| Michael Galvez / The Keyword: |
Google updates Search with expanded Featured Snippets and extra info for a single search term as well as queries spanning multiple related searches — Search is not just about answering your questions—it's also about discovery. We search to explore new topics of interest … | Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources detail Oracle's campaign against Google, which has included seeding info to reporters, praising legislation Google opposed, and buying billboard spots — Oracle has lobbied aggressively — and seeded negative stories about its search foe — as the two battle in court.| Yomi Kazeem / Quartz: |
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