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| Sundar Pichai / Official Google Blog: |
Sundar Pichai lays out priorities for Google in his first Founders' Letter, with machine learning and AI playing a key role — This year's Founders' Letter — Every year, Larry and Sergey write a Founders' Letter to our stockholders updating them with some of our recent highlights and sharing our vision for the future.
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| AnandTech: |
Intel's Changing Future: Smartphone SoCs Broxton & SoFIA Officially Cancelled — The past two weeks have been a busy - if not tumultuous - period for Intel. Driven by continued challenges in various semiconductor markets, culminating in weaker-than-desired earnings in the most recent quarter …
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Thanks:@ryansmithat| Bloomberg: |
Internet retailers like Adore Me, JustFab, and Birchbox are placing customers into unwanted, hard-to-cancel subscriptions, leading to complaints and lawsuits — Trapping You in a Club You Didn't Know You Joined — A $19.95 set of lacy lingerie had already cost Hailee Taylor more than $300 … | Scott Gilbertson / Ars Technica: |
Vivaldi browser review: ultra customization and clever tab management great for power users, but no mobile version and some glitches in version 1.0 — Even at 1.0, Vivaldi closes in on the cure for the common browser — Review: Ultra customization, clever tab management breaks from Chrome, Firefox.| Michele Chandler / Investor's Business Daily: |
Report: Yahoo reaches deal to sell 48.6-acre undeveloped site in Santa Clara to Chinese tech firm LeEco — Yahoo Reportedly Selling Huge Silicon Valley Site To Chinese Firm — Yahoo (YHOO) has reached a deal to sell a 48.6-acre undeveloped site in Santa Clara, Calif. … | Neil Mawston / Strategy Analytics: |
Smartwatch shipments grew 223% year-over-year in Q1 2016; Apple had 52% marketshare, down from 63% in prior quarter — STRATEGY ANALYTICS: Apple Watch Slips to 52% Global Smartwatch Marketshare in Q1 2016 — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch …
| Olivia Zaleski / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Postmates in talks to raise $100M-$150M, aims to avoid setting too high a valuation target — Postmates Seeks Up to $150 Million as Food Delivery Competition Heats Up — Food delivery startup aims to avoid overpromising on valuation — Financial docs show revenue forecast of $225 million for '16| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
YouTube responds to music industry's complaints about low artist payments, says it is more like radio than Spotify — YouTube hits back at ‘noise’ around its music payouts — It's been a bruising month for YouTube as labels, music industry bodies and artists have attacked Google's video service …
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YouTube Creator Blog, RAIN News, Digital Music News, International Business Times, Tubefilter and hypebot. Tweets: @musically. See also Mediagazer
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
GCHQ Has Disclosed Over 20 Vulnerabilities This Year, Including Ones in iOS — Earlier this week, it emerged that a section of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK's signal intelligence agency, had disclosed a serious vulnerability in Firefox to Mozilla.
Tweets: @infosecplaya
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
New Google Trips app is a smart assistant for your vacations, currently in beta testing — One of Inbox's most convenient features are Travel bundles that organize reservations and other related emails in an easy to read manner. Google is now testing (via Androidworld) … | Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Cypress Semiconductor buys Broadcom's IoT business for $550M as Cypress CEO steps down — Cypress Semiconductor Losing Its CEO While Gaining a New Business From Broadcom — Cypress Semiconductor announced on Thursday that its chief executive officer, T.J. Rodgers, is stepping down.| Grant Gross / PCWorld: |
TV stations agree to sell 126MHz of spectrum in FCC auction, paving the way for fast, reliable 5G — FCC wireless auction hits spectrum target, paving way for fast, reliable 5G — Television stations have volunteered to sell off 126MHz of “beach front” wireless spectrum to mobile carriers … Sponsor Posts
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