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Apple's new music service to push subscriptions but could also offer a free trial and samples — Apple's New Music Service Will Push Paid Subscriptions, With Free Samples — Apple wants people to pay for its streaming music service. But that doesn't mean it won't let people listen for free, too.| Google: |
Google enables ordering and delivery from restaurants directly from mobile search results in US, via Seamless, Grubhub, Eat24, and other providers — Whether you're craving deep dish pizza or pad thai, starting today you can order food from some of your favorite restaurants directly from Google search results.| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
Filing shows mobile shopping app Wish is now valued at $3B+ after possibly raising more than $500M — Mobile Shopping App Wish Possibly Raised More Than $500 Million, Now Valued At $3 Billion — Earlier this week, startups including human resources software provider Zenefits … | Angela Chen / Wall Street Journal: |
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Alibaba in talks to buy $1.2 billion stake in India phone maker Micromax: sources — Alibaba Group Holding (BABA.N) is in talks with India's Micromax Informatics (IPO-MINF.NS) to buy an about 20 percent stake in the smartphone maker, helping the Chinese e-commerce giant expand … | Rachel Emma Silverman / Wall Street Journal: |
About 14% of Zappos employees accept severance as Zappos continues its months-long transition to holacratic management structure — At Zappos, Some Employees Find Offer to Leave Too Good to Refuse — About 14% of workers accept severance as retailer adopts a new management structure| New York Times: |
Sources: Uber has submitted a bid for Nokia's HERE mapping service, for as much as $3B — Uber Joins the Bidding for Here, Nokia's Digital Mapping Service — Uber is best known for allowing people to book a taxi through its smartphone application. But the fast-growing company has far broader ambitions.| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Gear VR for Samsung Galaxy S6, available for $199 at Best Buy today and other stores in the coming weeks — Looking at the future of mobile gaming with Samsung's new Gear VR — If you just got yourself a Samsung Galaxy S6 (or its curvier sibling, the S6 Edge) … | Noah Robischon / Fast Company: |
SimCity creator Will Wright unveils Thred, an app for creating stories with multiple images — Will Wright Unveils Thred, A Mobile Storytelling Tool For Visual Culture Vultures — The first thing you need to know about Thred is that it's a storytelling app created by Will Wright … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 described as “the last version of Windows” because it will receive regular, incremental updates rather than big releases — Why Microsoft is calling Windows 10 ‘the last version of Windows’ — “Right now we're releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Developers release source code on Github of new Linux rootkit that runs in the dedicated memory of GPUs, making it harder to detect — GPU-based rootkit and keylogger offer superior stealth and computing power — Proof-of-concept malware may pave the way for future in-the-wild attacks.| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Nintendo to release five smartphone games by March 2017 with the first introduced by the end of this year — Nintendo Targets Five Mobile Games by March 2017 — Japanese gaming giant will seek quality over quantity — TOKYO— Nintendo Co. plans to release five videogame titles … | TechCrunch: |
AOL Q1 Beats With $625.1M In Sales, EPS Of $0.34 On Back Of Ad Growth — Amid a challenging market for tech stocks this quarter, AOL today reported its most recent earnings. For the quarter that ended March 31, the company posted revenues of $625.1 million and adjusted earnings per share of $0.34.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
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Facebook's news polarization study is flawed because it only counted users self-reporting their ideological affiliation — The Facebook “It's Not Our Fault” Study — Today in Science, members of the Facebook data science team released a provocative study about adult Facebook users in the US …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
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