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Instagram Builds Its Own Version of Snapchat Live Stories — Instagram is taking cues from Snapchat and Twitter with its latest update — curated content streams for specific events, in this case, Halloween. — If you open the Instagram app in the U.S. on Saturday, you'll see a new prompt …
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| Keith Naughton / Bloomberg Business: |
Inside GM's fight against Google to win the multibillion-dollar race for driverless cars — Inside GM's fight to get to the future first. — “I like to drive cars,” says Mark Reuss, product development chief at General Motors, “so this is a little funny.” Not funny-ha-ha, Reuss clarifies, but funny-odd.| Monica Anderson / Pew Internet: |
Report: 68% of US adults now own a smartphone, up from 35% in 2011, 45% own a tablet, no growth in ownership of other digital devices in recent years — Technology Device Ownership: 2015 — 68% of Americans have smartphones; 45% have tablet computers. Ownership of other digital devices has not grown in recent years.
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Twitter's TV Commercial Is Just Like Twitter: Full of Content That's a Little Hard to Follow — Twitter has a new television commercial that perfectly sums up Twitter. The problem is, that might also mean few regular people will understand it. — For the past two nights …
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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Proposition F, on the ballot Tuesday in San Francisco, threatens to limit short-term rentals and could cost Airbnb $6M in lost revenue each year — Airbnb is fighting a critical war in its own back yard this week — Airbnb is on an “inexorable march towards history,” says its head of global policy, Chris Lehane.
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Why adaptive learning software is seeing increased adoption in US schools and colleges and may completely replace textbooks — Adaptive learning software is replacing textbooks and upending American education. Should we welcome it? — Eighteen students file into a brightly lit classroom.| Haze Fan / CNBC: |
Huawei hires former Apple creative director Abigail Brody as chief user experience designer — Huawei hires Apple's former creative director Abigail Brody — Chinese smartphone maker Huawei is hires a former Apple creative director as it plans to set up a user experience design studio in the US.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Hands-on: Facebook M, powered by humans, excels at carrying out real-world tasks, unlike pure AI virtual assistants like Siri or Cortana — Hands-on with Facebook M: the virtual assistant with a (real) human touch — There's something eerie about realizing you live in a time people once considered a sci-fi fantasy.| Sarah Halzack / Washington Post: |
How QVC became the fifth-largest US mobile retailer on the strength of its digital strategy — QVC: The unlikely juggernaut of mobile shopping — WEST CHESTER, PA. — In Control Room A at QVC's 58,000-square-foot studios, line producer Sean Hagan is perched behind five computer screens …
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
With rating systems, companies like Uber and TaskRabbit turn customers into ruthless middle managers — The rating game — Soon, you'll be able to go to the Olive Garden and order your fettuccine alfredo from a tablet mounted to the table. After paying, you'll rate the server.
Tweets: @carnage4life, @akardell, @startupljackson, @jstrauss and @stoweboyd
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Line gained just 7M monthly active users in the last six months as it fails to catch on outside core markets of Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia — Chat App Firm Line Focuses On Services After Adding Just 1M MAUs In 3 Months — Line, one of Asia's top messaging app companies … | James Crabtree / Financial Times: |
CEO: After Alibaba's investment, India's PayTM plans to spend $764M over three years to expand through mobile sales, payments, services like banking, insurance — India's Alibaba-backed PayTM plots $755m 3-year expansion — PayTM, the Indian payments start-up supported by Alibaba of China … Sponsor Posts
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