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New Facebook and Messenger apps launched for Windows 10; Instagram comes to Windows 10 Mobile, with video support — Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps — There are many people using Facebook, Messenger and Instagram on Windows, so today we're excited … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
HP announces ultra-thin Chromebook 13, the first with an Intel Core M processor, starting at $499 — HP today unveiled its all-new Chromebook at an event in New York. — The new HP Chromebook 13 sports a 13.3-inch screen and comes replete with a QHD+ (3200 x 1800) resolution display …
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Steam is now accepting Bitcoin payments through processing service BitPay — Gaming Platform Steam Now Accepting Bitcoin — Confirming a long-rumored move, gaming and digital media platform Steam is now accepting bitcoin payments through processing service BitPay.| Dave Gershgorn / Popular Science: |
Elon Musk and Sam Altman's OpenAI releases Gym, a toolkit for developers to test reinforcement learning algorithms — Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Group Opens A ‘Gym’ To Train A.I. — In any scientific arena, good research is able to be replicated.
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Comcast to Buy DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 Billion — DreamWorks shareholders to get $41 in cash for each share they own — Comcast Corp. on Thursday said it agreed to buy DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. for about $3.8 billion, a deal that could make the cable giant a rival to Walt Disney Co …
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The first Apple CareKit health apps are out, and CareKit becomes available on GitHub today — Apple's First CareKit Apps Are Here — Developers can use CareKit to build apps that track patients' health between doctor's visits. — How often do you visit your doctor's office? Three, four times per year?
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Source: Alphabet in late-stage talks with Fiat Chrysler on self-driving car technology partnership — Fiat Chrysler, Alphabet in Partnership Talks — Alphabet has been seeking auto-industry partnerships, offering to sell self-driving car technology under development for several years
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Priceline CEO Darren Huston resigns due to relationship with employee, gets replaced temporarily by Chairman and former CEO Jeffery Boyd — Priceline CEO Resigns After Relationship With Employee — Huston was CEO of both Priceline Group and Booking.com — Chairman Jeffery Boyd replaces Huston as interim CEO
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Samsung reports Q1 net profit of $4.6B, reversing 40% dip in previous quarter, helped by early release of Galaxy S7 — Samsung Profit Beats Estimates as Early S7 Smartphone Release Pays Off — Latest smartphone model fuels gains in net income, sales — Common, preferred share repurchase of 2.03 trillion won| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone relaunches Jelly as an anonymous Q&A platform — Twitter cofounder Biz Stone launched a startup, then pivoted it, and now he's launching the original idea all over again — In 2013, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and former Twitter executive Ben Finkel set out to launch a startup called Jelly.
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Sources: Snapchat hits 10B daily video views, up from 8B in February; over a third of daily users create Stories — Snapchat User Content Fuels Jump to 10 Billion Daily Video Views — More than a third of daily users said to create snap stories — Daily video views increase from 8 billion in February
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Oracle buys Textura for $663 million, eyes engineering, construction cloud services — The move highlights how it's becoming increasingly important to target cloud services at specific industries. — Oracle said it will buy Textura, which provides contract and payment cloud services … | Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
LG's mobile unit lost about $170M in Q1, shipped 1.6M G5s in the first month, expects to ship 3M in Q2 — LG Electronics Profit Growth Powered by TV Business — South Korean electronics maker looks to new G5 smartphone to spur turnaround at its mobile business| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook reports Q1 revenue of $5.38B up 51% YoY; net income of $1.51B, up from $512M last year; 1.65B MAUs, adding 60M from Q4; stock up over 9% — Facebook Revenue Soars on Ad Growth — Social network also announces proposal to create new class of nonvoting stock
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