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Walmart partnering with Uber, Lyft for a pilot grocery delivery program in Denver and Phoenix, following Sam's Club pilot with Deliv in Miami since March — Wal-Mart is testing a new way to bring products to your front door. — At the company's annual shareholders meeting in Bentonville …
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| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram starts rolling out its algorithmic feed for all, says that on average users missed 70% of their feeds before — In March, we announced a new way of ordering posts in feed so you'll see the moments you care about first. On average, people miss 70 percent of their feeds.
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google launches business-friendly tool that tests your website mobile-friendliness & page speed — Google announced on the Google Small Business blog that they have released a new landing page to test your website's mobile-friendliness and page speed for desktop and mobile all in one place.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft's HoloLens now has apps for email and your calendar — Augmented reality promises many things, from turning your living room into a video game to transforming how we see and experience the world. But first, it has to do the basics, and no company knows this better than Microsoft.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi announces Mi Band 2 water-resistant activity tracker, with heart-rate monitor, display, 20-day battery, on sale in China June 7 for about $23 — Xiaomi just unveiled a brand new wearable device, the Mi Band 2. Despite the name, it's the company's third fitness tracking device after the Mi Band and Mi Band Pulse.
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Xiaomi MIUI Official …, eWeek, Android Authority, BetaNews, Engadget, Android Police, Neowin, TechSpot, CNET, The Daily Dot, PhoneDog.com, 9to5Google, Tech Insider, The Verge, Tech Times, Softpedia News, Liliputing, TalkAndroid.com, Android Central, TechnoBuffalo, and Pocketnow. Tweets: @bryce
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Samsung Pay enters Europe with launch in Spain — Samsung Pay continues to expand with a launch today in Spain. This marks the first country in Europe that's able to use Samsung's mobile payments platform, following launches in the US, South Korea, and recently China.| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Snapchat bought 3D selfie startup Seene for its computer vision tech about two months ago — Jun 3, 2016, 8:05 amJun 3, 2016, 9:38 am — Snapchat has acquired 3D photo app maker Seene (also known as Obvious Engineering) a couple of months ago, TechCrunch has learned.| Timothy Torres / PC Magazine: |
Hands-on: Samsung's $179 Gear Fit2 band and $199 Gear IconX wireless earbuds have heart-rate tracking, 4GB storage; Gear Fit2 has GPS and arrives June 10 — Samsung has a new fitness band and fitness earbuds, which I tried on for size at a recent event in New York City.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Glassdoor raises $40M led by T. Rowe Price Associates at a valuation of over $1B — As the job market becomes more competitive in some industries and unemployment holds steady and even drops in certain regions, job site Glassdoor is reaping some of the rewards.
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Lenovo tells users to uninstall its Accelerator app, says it's vulnerable to MITM attacks after Duo Labs report on insecure bloatware in top PC vendor laptops — Lenovo has waved the white flag on a vulnerable component of its pre-installed software updater and recommends that users uninstall …
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Laptop Mag, Lenovo Support, Computerworld, Fortune, SC Magazine, Help Net Security, Softpedia News, WinBeta, Inquirer, CSO and ZDNet. Tweets: @duo_labs
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook to shut down its Notify app for news alerts, will absorb the app's technology into Messenger and other products — Facebook is shutting down Notify, the 7-month-old app that let you subscribe to push notifications from your favorite publishers. More than 70 partners used the app …
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Tweets: @mgsiegler, @jandawson, @arainert, @rrhoover, @coryweinberg, @coryweinberg, @scranecolt, @kessler, @mobile_reach and @caseynewton
See also Mediagazer| Julien Genestoux / Superfeedr Blog: |
Medium acquires Superfeedr, maker of an API for generating and pushing RSS feeds — The web is very different from what it was 8 years ago. We've said it several times: publishing and consuming content are new frontiers for most of the web giants like Facebook, Google or Apple.
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