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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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Tweets: @jack, @leslieberland, @nytimesbusiness, @marshallk, @sub8u and @raju
See also Mediagazer| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Inbox By Gmail Gets Smarter Search With Quick Answer Cards — Inbox by Gmail, Google's next-gen email client for mobile and the web, is getting a nice little update today that will make it easier to find information like addresses, membership numbers and package tracking numbers in your emails.| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple building paywall system to let publishers offer subscription content through the News app — Apple plans to offer subscription content through News app — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is working to make subscription content available through its News app, giving publishers with paywalls …
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MacRumors, The Next Web, iMore, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @bernsteind, @brianroemmele and @mikeisaac
| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google offers more details on ads in AMP, which is set to launch in search early February with more than 20 ad tech vendors including AOL, AdSense, and OutBrain — 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 …
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Digital Trends, Accelerated Mobile …, 9to5Google, WebProNews and DoubleClick Publisher Blog. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@viranchdamani
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Periscope integrates with GoPro to bring live streaming to action cameras — Periscope just took its first steps away from the smartphone. The Twitter-owned live-streaming app announced an integration with GoPro that will let users broadcast to their followers from an action camera for the first time.
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Periscope, GoPro, Computerworld, The Next Web, CNET, Digital Trends, Macworld, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, iMore, 9to5Mac, Engadget and Seeking Alpha
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces first technical preview of Azure Stack, which puts Azure on-premises, to launch January 29 with full release slated for Q4 — Microsoft Announces The First Technical Preview Of Azure Stack — With Azure Stack, Microsoft wants to bring its Azure cloud computing services into its customers' data centers.
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Microsoft Azure, InfoWorld, ZDNet, The Fire Hose, ZDNet, VentureBeat, InfoWorld, Network World, WinBeta, Petri, Microsoft News and WebProNews. Tweets: @jeffsand
| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Waze announces Transport SDK to let apps integrate driver guidance data, launches with six partners including Lyft, JustPark, 99taxis — Waze to Scoop up More Data through New Partnerships — Waze changed how millions of people drive by convincing them to share their locations in return for real-time …
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Lyft Blog, Waze, TechCrunch, VatorNews, Android Police, iMore, The Verge, CNET News, VentureBeat, Consumerist and SlashGear
| Cam Bunton / 9to5Google: |
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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LG Newsroom, The Verge, CNET, ZDNet, PhoneDog.com, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, GSMArena.com, Engadget, The Next Web, Mashable, Android Central and CNBC
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
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.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
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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Macworld, Here & Now, Inquirer, Matt Gemmell, Marketing Land, Search Engine Watch, The Verge, Tech Times, The Register, blog.chron.com, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Cult of Android, App Advice, WebProNews, Engadget, Gizmodo, Gizmodo UK, The Next Web, AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, Los Angeles Times and Scripting News
Tweets: @martinbeck, @brentbeshore, @marcoarment, @dannysullivan, @stroughtonsmith, @spacerog, @brianstelter, @mathewi, @andrewwrites, @benthompson, @benthompson, @fmanjoo, @kantrowitz, @samfbiddle, @fromedome, @allygreer, @howardlindzon and @waxpancake
See also Mediagazer| Bloomberg Business: |
Sony agrees to buy Israel's Altair Semiconductor, maker of LTE communication chips for IoT, for $212M — Sony to Buy Chipmaker Altair in Internet of Things Push — Sony to pay $212 million, close deal in early February — Semiconductor firm makes chips for ‘Internet of things’
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| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
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 …
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The Verge, The Next Web, Telegraph, Fortune, International Business Times, PCWorld, Redmond Pie, Tech Times, MacNN, SlashGear, TechSpot, Gizmodo UK, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, App Advice, Pocket-lint, Neowin, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Windows Central, The Next Web, FierceMobileIT News and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @nchan
| Glenn Rifkin / New York Times: |
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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Tweets: @valdiskrebs, @novaspivack, @xeni, @pkedrosky, @mit_csail, @medialab, @carlmalamud, @nickbilton, @stevenlevy and @peretti
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin Moves To A New Role, To Be Replaced By Current COO — There's a major leadership shakeup happening at your second-favorite crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo. — After eight years at its helm, Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin is stepping down from his role as CEO … | Kristen V. Brown / Fusion: |
Uber was sued 50 times in US federal court last year, way more than other gig economy firms: 17 suits filed by drivers, 15 by taxi companies, 12+ by customers — Uber is facing a staggering number of lawsuits — Last year, 50 lawsuits were filed against Uber in U.S. federal court.| Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal: |
Canada's Vidyard raises $35M Series C at, source says, $350M valuation to expand its business video streaming and analytics platform — Canada's Vidyard Raises $35 Million to Help It Expand — Financing gives the video-software startup a valuation of about $350 million
| 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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The Information, ZDNet, Consumerist, Android Beat, The Register, Android Authority, TeleRead, TechFrag, Gizmodo UK, PhoneDog.com, Good E-Reader, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, 9to5Google, BGR, Seeking Alpha, Engadget and The Digital Reader. Tweets: @theromit
| Facebook Developers: |
Facebook expands its Audience Network ad product to serve the mobile web in addition to apps — Audience Network for Mobile Web Brings More Value to Publishers & Advertisers — Today the Audience Network is expanding to include support for mobile web, bringing the value of native ad formats …
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International Business Times, TechCrunch, Business Insider, WebProNews, The Tech Portal, SocialTimes and Digiday
Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine and @jasonlbaptiste
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Launches A Bing-Powered News App For iOS Devices, News Pro — Microsoft today unveiled yet another application aimed at iOS users, with the launch of a news application that greatly resembles Apple's own News application that comes built into iOS 9.
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Business Insider, Microsoft News, iPhone in Canada Blog and WinBeta
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Backblaze, the cloud backup service, will now loan you a hard drive full of your data — Backblaze, my preferred cloud backup service for a few years now, is today making it a bit easier and cheaper to restore all of your data if your computer should ever crash or get lost / stolen.
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Macworld and The Next Web
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 44 arrives with ability for sites to send notifications after webpage closed with the user's permission and RC4 encryption support discontinued — Firefox 44 arrives with push notifications that sites can send even after users close the page — Mozilla today launched Firefox 44 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.
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TechCrunch, Mozilla Hacks, The Next Web, Softpedia News, OMG! Ubuntu! and BetaNews
| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
French drivers from taxi unions clash with police in nationwide strike calling for an end to ride-hailing apps like Uber — French taxi drivers clash with police in anti-Uber strike — French taxi unions have once again staged a nationwide strike, shutting down roadways across Paris … Sponsor Posts
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