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Sources: Twitter no longer showing ads to some of its more valuable users in order to keep them engaged — Twitter Has Stopped Showing Ads to Some of Its Most Valuable Users — Twitter makes its money by showing ads to its users. — But not all of its users: For the past few months …
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Microsoft testing its Windows phone keyboard Word Flow for iOS with fanned layout for one-handed typing — Microsoft's iOS Word Flow Keyboard Supports A New One-Handed Layout — Share Tweet Pin it Reddit Share Share — A few days back, Microsoft began sending out invites to Insiders … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Amazon is reportedly asking OEMs to integrate retailer's services into Android phones at a “factory level”, but Google's contracts may limit the possibilities — Amazon reportedly seeks a bigger hand in Android phone software — Amazon is reportedly in talks with OEMs to “gain a bigger backdoor to Google's Android.”
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Sony merges PlayStation businesses into US-based Sony Interactive Entertainment — Sony has merged the entire PlayStation business into one new company called Sony Interactive Entertainment. As of April 1st, SIE's president and CEO will be Andrew House, and the business will be run out of San Mateo, California.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Uber Using Smartphone Gyrometer Data To Monitor Speeding Drivers — We've all been in an Uber where the driver seems to be in a little bit more of a hurry than need be. Once you hop out of the Uber and complete the ride, you're left with the app asking you how you'd rate your experience.
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Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 — Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist's thirst for knowledge with a philosopher's quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the personal computer and the Internet, died on Sunday night in Boston.
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| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google Offers More Details On Ads In AMP, Set To Launch In Search Next Month — With more than 20 ad tech vendors joining the initiative, publishers should be able to support most ad serving scenarios in AMP pages at launch. — Since Google announced that AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) …
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LG shipped 59.7M smartphones in 2015, 15.3M in Q4, while losing $36M+ in mobile division, promises 2 new flagships in 2016 — LG plans to launch two flagship phones in 2016 following 4th quarter mobile loss — LG announced its Q4 2015 earnings this morning and revealed that although …
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Sprint beats Q4 estimates on revenues of $8.1B, net loss of $836M, adds 500K postpaid subscribers while losing 491K prepaid customers, raises revenue forecasts — Sprint Stock Rises on Narrower Loss, Upbeat Forecast — Sprint on Tuesday posted financial results ahead of expectations …
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Confirmed: Twitter Appoints Longtime American Express Executive Leslie Berland as CMO — Here's some positive executive news coming out of Twitter: It has found its new Chief Marketing Officer. — Twitter has appointed longtime American Express executive Leslie Berland to CMO …
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San Francisco's Yellow Cab files for bankruptcy citing lack of resources to pay for lawsuits, plans to continue operations and restructure debt — Uber and Lyft didn't bankrupt Yellow Cab, and they could hit same pothole — It's easy to jump to the conclusion that the bankruptcy filing …
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200 Wikipedia editors call for removal of new foundation trustee, Arnnon Geshuri, due to his connection to anti-poaching case involving tech firms — Wikipedia editors revolt, vote “no confidence” in newest board member — As a Google HR exec, Arnnon Geshuri fired a recruiter who dared to call Apple.| Suhaib / Gizmochina: |
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