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Apple accuses Spotify of asking for “preferential treatment” after app rejection complaint, says Spotify is “publicly resorting to rumors and half-truths” — “We find it troubling that you ... are publicly resorting to rumors and half-truths about our service."
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Microsoft didn't have highest bid for LinkedIn, another bidder, likely Salesforce, offered $200/share in cash and stock, but Microsoft's all cash bid prevailed — We knew that before Microsoft paid $26 billion for LinkedIn, the social network was also reportedly in talks with Salesforce, which ultimately couldn't afford to compete.
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SEC filing says LinkedIn drew interest from as many as five possible buyers, source says Google and Facebook were among them — LinkedIn had more suitors than we thought. — Google and Facebook were among the suitors that looked at buying LinkedIn, which ultimately sold to Microsoft for $26 billion last month.| Mikhail Larionov / Messenger Platform News: |
Facebook announces 11K bots on Messenger, updates Messenger Platform with star ratings, quick reply buttons, more content types, and other features for bots — Since the launch of the Messenger Platform in April of this year, over 11,000 bots have launched.
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Sources: larger HTC Nexus will have 5.5-inch QHD AMOLED display, 4GB of RAM, 3450mAh battery, 12MP rear and 8MP front camera, quad-core Qualcomm CPU — You know about Google's smaller new Nexus phone, Sailfish, but what about Marlin? Everyone's keen to know what the bigger … | Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
How a handful of Chinese companies that control a majority of the Bitcoin network are playing a central role in the community's civil wars — A delegation of American executives flew to Beijing in April for a secret meeting at the Grand Hyatt hotel, just blocks from Tiananmen Square.
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Senate tells staffers it will no longer issue Blackberry smartphones — This is the way the world ends. Not with a clickity keyboard, but with a swipe. — Senate staffers will no longer be issued official Blackberry smartphones. — The reign of the Blackberry lasted a good decade …
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Google adds WebVR and VR Shell to beta and dev versions of Chrome on Android, potentially allowing all websites to be viewed in VR — Google is working to add fully immersive browsing capability to Chrome, allowing users to browse any part of the web in VR, not just those sites that are specially built for VR.| Mark Bergen / Recode: |
Profile of Mario Queiroz, VP of product management at Google, and the man behind Google Home — The man behind Google Home. — Six years ago, Mario Queiroz, a VP of product management at Google, stood onstage at the company's Mountain View headquarters holding the first hardware device bearing the company's name.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon now lets you purchase millions of Prime qualified products via Alexa — Now you can talk into your friendly little home AI tower to order toilet paper. And deodorant and batteries. And tens of millions of other Amazon Prime qualified products, because no one does synergy quite like the good people at Amazon.
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| Brian Crecente / Polygon: |
Xbox Play Anywhere, which delivers participating games to Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs with a single purchase, launches September 13 — PLAY ANYWHERE ... AS LONG AS IT'S AN XBOX OR PC — Xbox Play Anywhere, which delivers certain games to the Xbox One and Windows 10 PC with a single purchase … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
eBay starts using Google's AMP technology on its mobile site to load pages faster; around 8 million AMP pages are now live — Ecommerce company eBay today announced that it has started using the Google-led open source Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) technology for more quickly displaying webpages on end users' mobile devices.
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