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Sources: Apple has a Berlin office seeking engineers and partners for a car project; talks with BMW and Daimler ended, Magna believed to be current favorite — Exclusive: BMW, Daimler Reject Cooperation with Apple over “iCar” — German carmakers Daimler and BMW have ended talks with Apple …
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WeChat PM: chat apps succeed when they streamline high-friction processes like app installation, login, and payment, not when they rely on conversational UI — Bots won't replace apps. Better apps will replace apps. — Lately, everyone's talking about “conversational UI.” It's the next big thing.
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Pinterest execs and engineers discuss overhauling its underlying software, its new iOS app, plans to capture international audiences, more — Pinterest Reinvents Itself to Prove It's Really Worth Billions — It's a week before Pinterest will announce its biggest engineering and design overhaul ever … Thanks:@malliegator
| John Herrman / New York Times: |
Vox is launching a gadget blog, Circuit Breaker, on Monday, primarily as a Facebook page, with a section on The Verge's website as well — Vox Media Tries Something Old on Something New — Vox Media, the ambitious online news start-up that runs Vox, a politics site; SB Nation …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Toosheh lets Iranians use their ubiquitous satellite TV dishes to download videos, cirumventing the nation's slow, expensive, censored internet — The Ingenious Way Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet — Reza, a 20-something mechanical engineer working … | Bloomberg: |
Young fans of Valve's Counter-Strike flock to independent, unregulated sites to bet valuable virtual weapons on pro matches — Virtual Weapons Are Turning Teen Gamers Into Serious Gamblers — The boom in pro video gaming is fueled by $2.3 billion in online bets.| Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
Sources: Google plans an in-house startup incubator “Area 120” overseen by Don Harrison and Bradley Horowitz and located in San Francisco — Google has a new division called ‘Area 120’ where employees can build their own startups — Google is creating an in-house startup incubator … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
How FCC's reallocation of TV spectrum to the wireless industry over the next few years will work — How the FCC's massive airwaves auction will change America — and your phone service — The system that underpins wireless communication in the United States is about to dramatically change.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Sirin Labs says it raised $72M to launch Solarin, a $10K+ Android-based, privacy-focused “Rolls-Royce of smartphones”, alongside retail store in London this May — Sirin Labs nabs $72M to build the Rolls-Royce of smartphones: ‘Solarin’ goes on sale in May
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| Callum Leslie / The Daily Dot: |
PwC: eSports industry will make $463M in revenue in 2016, up 43% from 2015 — Esports will earn a half billion in revenue this year according to PwC report — Esports will earn $500 million in revenue this year, according to a new report by PwC, the latest major financial services firm … | Christie Smythe / Bloomberg: |
US Department of Justice drops appeal seeking Apple's help in unlocking iPhone in Brooklyn case after it obtains passcode — U.S. Drops Appeal Seeking Apple Help in Brooklyn IPhone Case — The U.S. government said it no longer needs Apple Inc.'s help to get into an iPhone used by a drug dealer …
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An unsecured database with 93.4M Mexican voter records found hosted on AWS, now taken offline — Personal info of 93.4 million Mexicans exposed on Amazon (UPDATED) — In today's installment of “Epic Infosecurity #FAIL,” more than 93.4 million Mexican citizens have had their voter … Sponsor Posts
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Zoho:
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
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