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Profile of Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and how the social network is building Reactions, rolling out in “next few weeks”, to go beyond the Like — Inside Facebook's Decision to Blow Up the Like Button … Photographs by Adam Amengual
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Google speeds up Chrome for iOS by using Apple's WKWebView, reducing crashes by 70%, and launches Data Saver extension out of beta for desktop — Google speeds up Chrome for iOS with Apple's WKWebView, launches Data Saver extension out of beta — A week after launching Chrome 48 for Windows …
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results — CUPERTINO, California — January 26, 2016 — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 first quarter ended December 26, 2015. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $75.9 billion and record quarterly net income of $18.4 billion, or $3.28 per diluted share.
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Microsoft reassigned half of its research arm to MSR NeXT, which has worked on products including Skype Translator, HoloLens, and more — How Microsoft Plans to Beat Google and Facebook to the Next Tech Breakthrough — The company behind Windows and Office is remaking its research arm … | Shira Ovide / Bloomberg Business: |
Twitter's revenue growth rate better than almost every company that had $2B in sales over the past year — Changing the Twitter Conversation — Shira Ovide is a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering technology. She previously was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
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Apple says it's fixed an issue that caused its Safari browser on iOS and Mac OS X to crash when users typed into address bar — Apple Says It Has Fixed The Bug That Was Crashing Safari — Apple has fixed the bug that caused the Safari browser to crash on iPhones, iPads, and Macs around the world, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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| Clay Bavor / Official Google Blog: |
Google says 5M+ Cardboard viewers have shipped, 25M+ installs of Cardboard apps from Play store, and 350K+ hours of YouTube videos have been watched in VR — (Un)folding a virtual journey with Google Cardboard — A year and a half ago we introduced Google Cardboard …
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Sources: Twitter's former VP of product Kevin Weil joins Instagram as product head — Former Twitter Product Head Kevin Weil Is Joining Instagram — Kevin Weil, Twitter's former VP of product who was among the group of executives who left the company over the weekend, has a new job: Head of Product at Facebook-owned Instagram.
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC to propose new rules giving cable and satellite customers more choice over set top boxes, 40 telco and media groups are expected to oppose the plan — FCC to Propose Overhauling Rules on Set-Top Boxes — Measure, aimed at cutting cable bills, likely would let consumers choose among competing devices
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Starry aims to deliver gigabit wireless internet service using millimeter waves, beta tests this summer around Boston, $350 Wi-Fi router ships in March — Aereo dared to take on the broadcast industry by streaming over-the-air TV channels on the internet — that is, until the Supreme Court ruled that its technology was illegal.
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Twitter is eyeing Apple veteran Natalie Kerris for top communications job — Twitter Eyeing Apple Veteran for Top Communications Job — Twitter is close to hiring Natalie Kerris, the longtime and high-profile Apple communications exec, to run its communications unit …
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| Tracey Lien / Los Angeles Times: |
Lyft settles California lawsuit by paying $12.25M, without granting drivers employee status — Lyft settles worker misclassification lawsuit for $12.25 million — Lyft has settled a lawsuit over worker misclassification. — Lyft has settled a worker misclassification lawsuit for $12.25 million …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Branch Metrics Snags $35 Million More For Its Deep Linking & App Discovery Business — One of the problems in the early days of the mobile app era was that it wasn't possible to link to the pages within apps the same way you could link to pages on the open web.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AppDirect Acquires Tech Support Platform Radialpoint — AppDirect, the well-funded marketplace for selling cloud services, today announced that it has acquired the Montreal-based tech support company Radialpoint. Based on this acquisition, AppDirect also today announced the launch of a number of premium support options.
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