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Sources: Amazon in late-stage talks with several cities including Crystal City, Va., Dallas, New York for HQ2, may place smaller operations in runner-up cities — The tech giant's decision, which may be announced in November, could include multiple locations involving smaller sites
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Source: Apple will launch an iPhone with Intel's 8161 5G modem chip in 2020; Intel will likely be the sole modem supplier for that year's iPhones — Apple's 5G iPhone will come to market in 2020, a source with knowledge of Apple's plans says. — Apple plans to use Intel's 8161 5G modem chip in its 2020 phones.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
A look at HQ Trivia as it deals with its app's fading popularity, races to publish its next game, and has its new CEO facing an HR complaint from an HQ employee — A boardroom battle and more alleged management issues have raised new questions about HQ's future. — HQ could use another win.
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A look at Unfold, whose templates app for Instagram Stories has 11M+ users including celebs like Selena Gomez, as it launches a design agency focused on Stories — Alfonso Cobo saw the potential in Stories early on. Today, his template app has 11 million users, and he's launching a design agency focused on Stories alone.| Bloomberg: |
A look at a Bancor-funded pilot program in Kenya that aims to transition paper vouchers used as credit in local commerce to blockchain-based digital tokens — At the Sifa Children's Center, shacks made of corrugated metal serve as classrooms for some 300 pupils, circling an expanse of dusty … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
PropertyGuru, which operates real estate rental and sale listing sites in Southeast Asia, raises $144M Series D from KKR bringing the total raised to ~$320M — Global investment giant KKR is warming up to Southeast Asia after it made a third high-profile investment.| TechCrunch: |
Facebook reorganized AR and VR team from a divisional structure focused around products to a functional structure focused around technology areas of expertise — Facebook is again looking to whip Oculus into shape for its 10-year journey towards making virtual reality mainstream.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
New research from OpenAI shows how an AI agent with a sense of curiosity outperformed its predecessors playing the classic 1984 Atari game Montezuma's Revenge — This question is perhaps too broad to yield a single answer, but if you had to sum up why you accept that next quest … | Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Programming on Facebook Watch has evolved as it focuses on sports, news, and high-profile stars/creators and funding for shows by digital publishers dries up — Facebook says it wants Facebook Watch programming that's unique to its platform — with big names and built-in distribution, if possible.| Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal: |
How companies use customer lifetime value scores to differentiate prices, services offered; unlike FICO scores, CLVs aren't regulated or accessible to consumers — Retailers, wireless carriers and others crunch data to determine what shoppers are worth for the long term—and how well to treat them| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Inside Uber's deal with Saudi Arabia, from David Plouffe's first meetings with local officials to the 10%+ stake that, sources say, the kingdom now owns — Even as Uber's lawyers finalized the details of the deal, they still couldn't quite believe it would really happen.
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Pixel 3 review: fastest Android device with impressive computational photography features, but the phone's build quality and gaming performance lag competition — The Pixel 3 is Google's third generation in-house design, meant to showcase the company's own view of what an Android device should be … Thanks:@iancutress
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