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Facebook launches Messenger platform with chatbots — Facebook will now allow businesses to deliver automated customer support, ecommerce guidance, content, and interactive experiences through chatbots. By providing utility through its huge developer and business ecosystem …
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Facebook says it's testing allowing businesses to send sponsored messages in Messenger — Facebook starts allowing “Sponsored Messages” ads — Facebook launched its Messenger chatbot platform today, but how will it make money on it? By charging businesses to send re-engagement messages … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Facebook releases Bot Engine to help developers build more complex, machine-learning enabled bots, a further development from last year's Wit.ai acquisition — Facebook releases Bot Engine to create much smarter bots — Messenger is all about bots now. As expected, Facebook unveiled the Send and Receive API at its F8 conference.
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Facebook's David Marcus on the future of Messenger, how brands integrate into the platform, and how there are no plans for a bot store — Facebook Believes Messenger Will Anchor a Post-App Internet — The week before David Marcus will take the stage at Facebook's annual F8 developers' conference …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook has built a 360-degree video camera called Surround 360, open-sources its specs and design — This is Facebook's gorgeous, open-source 360-degree video camera — Hoping to dramatically increase the amount of 360-degree video on its platform, Facebook today unveiled a reference design …
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| Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld: |
Facebook launches Account Kit, offering new analytics and login tools for developers, allowing users to sign up or log in to apps with just a phone number — Facebook helps developers with new analytics and login tools — Soon, developers will be able to see what their users do for a living| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Facebook launches Live Video API, which lets developers broadcast directly to Facebook from any device — Facebook Opens Up Live Video to Developers to Allow Streaming from Any Device — Facebook just took video streaming on its Live platform beyond the mobile phone …
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| Aigerim Shorman / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook's Profile Expression Kit lets users update their Facebook profile with videos from third-party apps, like Vine — Enabling Self Expression with Facebook's Profile Expression Kit — With more than 4.5 billion views and nearly 30 million profile picture updates every day …
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HTC 10 launched with 5.2-inch quad HD display for $699, Snapdragon 820, 12MP camera, 3000mAh battery, AirPlay audio support, can pre-order now, ships next month — HTC 10 announced: a modern phone with familiar design — HTC is today formally announcing the 10, its flagship smartphone for 2016.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Box teams up with AWS and IBM for Box Zones, which lets firms store files locally in Europe, Asia — Box Teams Up With Amazon, IBM to Offer Local Storage Worldwide — Cloud storage company Box is making an effort to widen its appeal as the office file storage and sharing product … | Andy Weir / Neowin: |
Microsoft adds QR codes to Windows 10 ‘Blue Screen of Death’ to help troubleshoot crashes — It's always annoying when your PC crashes, but it's that little bit more frustrating when you have no idea why it's done so. — Even the updated Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Windows 10 …
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| Julia Fioretti / Reuters: |
Microsoft offers first major endorsement of new EU-U.S. data pact — Microsoft (MSFT.O) became on Monday the first major U.S. tech company to say it would transfer users' information to the United States using a new transatlantic commercial data pact and would resolve any disputes with European privacy watchdogs.
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