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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Report: Huawei hedges its bet on Android by developing a new non-Android operating system in-house — Like Samsung before it, Huawei hopes to have a “Plan B” should Android terms go bad. — A report from The Information (subscription required) claims that Huawei is building its own in-house OS as a possible “Plan B” to Android.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Google and Facebook start automatically blocking reposted extremist videos — Some of the web's biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process.
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The Verge, CNET, Digital Trends, Tech Times, teleread.org, BetaNews, Inverse, International Business Times, Engadget, The Hill, Gizmodo, CircleID, Ubergizmo and The Atlantic. Tweets: @hunterwalk
| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Nikesh Arora talks about his resignation, tenure at SoftBank, working with Masayoshi Son, and how he already sold his SoftBank stake to Son at a small loss — Nikesh Arora shocked the business world two years ago when he jumped from his role as Google's chief business officer to SoftBank SB …
Tweets: @kshashi
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Intel weighs sale of cyber security business created from its $7.7B McAfee acquisition in 2010 — Intel is looking at options for Intel Security, including potentially selling the antivirus software maker formerly known as McAfee which it bought for $7.7bn almost six years ago.
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SiliconANGLE, PCWorld, ZDNet and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @nikcub, @ahess247, @swiftonsecurity and @nikcub
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: dozens of new brands get Dash buttons this week; companies pay $15 for each branded button sold and 15% of each product sale, atop normal commission — Detergent, household-products makers join expansion as they try to stay close to Amazon, but consumer demand for gadgets has been cool| Mitch Smith / New York Times: |
Case in Wisconsin spurs debate about the use of proprietary algorithms that calculate defendants' recidivism risk in sentencing — CHICAGO — When Eric L. Loomis was sentenced for eluding the police in La Crosse, Wis., the judge told him he presented a “high risk” to the community and handed down a six-year prison term.| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DocuSign's CEO search drags on after losing leading candidate, Google's Rick Osterloh, in March; Bain's Enrique Salem being considered for the position — Unicorn company is said to have been spurned by Google exec — Bain's Enrique Salem emerges as candidate for chief executive
Tweets: @markmilian
| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Behind the race in Silicon Valley and Detroit to build a self-driving car — Silicon Valley and Detroit are in a race to create our driverless future. And for the first time ever, the car may take a backseat. — My brain knows that this demonstration has been carefully staged …
Tweets: @fortunemagazine, @fortunemagazine and @fortunemagazine
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
HP's 0.41 inch-thick Spectre laptop outperforms the MacBook but trails on battery life, and like MacBook makes too many sacrificies for thinness — As laptops go on extreme diets, you need to ask yourself what you're willing to sacrifice in ports, power and battery life
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The Verge, Mashable, PC Magazine, CNET, PCWorld, Laptop Mag and TechCrunch
| Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Huawei invests heavily in R&D and patents to challenge Samsung and Apple at home and overseas; source says Apple is paying royalties for some of Huawei's IP — Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo and others buy patents to challenge to Apple and Samsung — HONG KONG—China's smartphone makers increasingly …
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| Li Yuan / Wall Street Journal: |
In China, subscriptions accounted for 13% of the online video industry's 2015 revenue, up from 5.6% a year earlier — More users become paying subscribers; ‘Lost Tomb’ is a boon for Baidu's iQIYI — Online video in China is starting to look more like Netflix and less like YouTube, as more users agree to pay for subscriptions.| Bloomberg: |
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