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| Davey Alba / Wired: |
Facebook Messenger's home tab on mobile now organizes the app into recent messages, favorites, active users, messages awaiting a response, and birthdays — Facebook wants to make Messenger the app to anchor a post-app Internet that lets you do everything within a chat. Need an Uber?
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| Bloomberg: |
Salesforce was a rival suitor for LinkedIn, says Benioff; sources say LinkedIn reached out to Microsoft — Microsoft agreed to buy networking website for $26.2 billion — Salesforce competes with Microsoft in corporate cloud software — Salesforce.com Inc. was a rival potential bidder …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Microsoft acquires messaging app vendor Wand Labs to bolster its chat intelligence products as part of larger “conversation as a platform” strategy — The startup, which ties together an array of services through a conversational interface, will help build out Satya Nadella's vision.
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The Official Microsoft Blog, VatorNews, GeekWire, Fone Arena, Tech Times, ITworld.com, TechSpot, ZDNet, SlashGear, Fortune, Engadget, Silicon Valley Business …, VentureBeat, Recode, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, CNET, Digital Trends, Neowin, BetaNews, WinBeta and Windows Central. Tweets: @maryjofoley. Thanks:@mariedomingo
| Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times: |
VR startup Vrse changes names to Within and announces $12.56M funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz and including Fox, WME, and Vice — A shot from Chris Milk's ‘Evolution of Verse’ (Within) — For virtual-reality entertainment, the money keeps coming.
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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Lucasfilm's ILMxLAB and Magic Leap partner to produce mixed-reality Star Wars content — You're used to C-3PO being diplomatic and prissy, wringing his droid hands over any and every little setback. You're used to him sticking close to R2-D2. What you're probably not used to, though …
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VentureBeat, Engadget, Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, The Technology Chronicles, VRFocus, Geek.com, TechSpot, The Daily Dot, TechnoBuffalo, GeekWire, Light Reading, Quartz, Business Insider, BGR, International Business Times, Vanity Fair, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, The Verge, Motherboard, TechCrunch, Recode, The Next Web and VRHeads
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See also Mediagazer| George Slefo / Ad Age: |
Twitter will now let advertisers target users based on the emoji they have tweeted — It's Exactly What You Think It Is — Advertisers will either cry with laughter or happiness following Twitter's announcement of emoji based-targeting. — The company's move is in time for next month's World Emoji …
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The Twitter Blog, CNET, Marketing Land, BetaNews, Gizmodo, The Daily Dot, Engadget, TIME, Social Media Today, The Next Web, VentureBeat and SocialTimes
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| Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
Asus announces ZenPad Z8 7.9-inch tablet for $250, with Snapdragon 650 SoC, exclusive to Verizon, available for pre-order now, shipping June 23 — As a part of Asus' continued commitment to the tablet market today Asus is launching a new tablet for Verizon, called the ZenPad Z8.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces experimental “containers” feature that lets Firefox users log in to sites using different identities within the same browser — Mozilla's Firefox browser is getting a new experimental feature today that aims to help you segregate your online identities and allow …
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The Mozilla project, SlashGear, Techdows and Tom's Hardware
Tweets: @chrismessina and @_jamesward
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Marc Andreessen forecasts a surge in M&A in tech in 2016 and 2017, is seeing more M&A in the pipeline than in last four years — Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen spoke at the Bloomberg Technology conference this afternoon, and he said he expects far more M&A than the tech industry has seen in recent years.| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Apple confirms iPad can be used as a hub for HomeKit — Apple's update for HomeKit may make the Apple TV even more important, with its addition of remote access to control things from afar, but it turns out you don't actually need the set-top box. In an ideal setup - and certainly … | Jay Greene / Wall Street Journal: |
Oracle posts revenue of $10.59B, beating estimates, with total cloud revenue up 49% YoY to $859M while profit rose to $2.81B — Rising cloud operations offset continuing declines in conventional software business — Oracle Corp. earnings rose 2% in the fourth quarter as growth …
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SiliconANGLE, Oracle, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, Fortune, Investor's Business Daily, Forbes and CNBC
| Katherine Noyes / PCWorld: |
Google opens dedicated machine learning research center in Zurich to focus on machine intelligence, natural language processing, and machine perception — It will focus primarily on machine learning — Google has made no secret of its AI ambitions, and on Thursday it announced the next step …
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