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Unilever acquires Dollar Shave Club, sources say for $1B; DSC founder and CEO Michael Dubin to continue running the company — Unilever announced on Tuesday evening that it is getting into the razor business, by agreeing to acquire Dollar Shave Club. — No financial terms were disclosed …
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Twitter permanently suspends Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos for repeated violation of rules regarding targeted abuse of users — After years of provocation, Twitter has permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its service. — After years of provocation, Twitter has permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its service.
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A history of Facebook Messenger as it reaches 1B monthly users five years after its debut; 17B photos are now sent through the service each month — Facebook's gamble of forcing users to download Messenger has paid off. Despite the backlash, Messenger has doubled its user count in 20 months …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft debuts Bookings, a new Office 365 service for online appointment scheduling — Microsoft this morning announced an expansion to its Office 365 suite with the debut of a new service called Bookings, which will allow customers to schedule appointments with a business using online software.
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| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Airbnb hires former Attorney General Eric Holder to help “craft a world-class anti-discrimination policy” — Airbnb has hired former Attorney General Eric Holder. — CEO Brian Chesky announced the hire in a blog post on Airbnb's website. Holder will help “craft …
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Seagate unveils three 10TB, helium-based 7200 RPM hard drives for the consumer market, with prices starting at $460 — Our recent interview with Seagate's CTO, Mark Re, gave us an idea about of the future of the hard drive market. As late as Q1 2016, Seagate had considered helium-based drives suitable for high-end applications only.| Jack Clark / Bloomberg: |
Google says DeepMind-powered AI has improved its datacenters' power usage efficiency by 15% — Game-playing AI coordinates data center tasks like cooling — DeepMind efficiencies cover part of cost of 2014 acquisition — Google just paid for part of its acquisition of DeepMind in a surprising way.
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| Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
Mining is underway for a new Ethereum blockchain, following a hard fork that refunds ether to original investors of the hacked DAO — Ethereum, a virtual currency and coding platform, passed one of the most important and potentially dangerous milestones for any piece of software on Wednesday …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
SwiftKey debuts its first product since Microsoft acquisition, emoji prediction keyboard Swiftmoji — Keyboard app maker Swiftkey, which was acquired by Microsoft for $250 million in February, has officially launched its first product since that acquisition — and it's an emoji-predicting keyboard app, called Swiftmoji.
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Report: global VC funding, propped up by mega deals, rose 3% from previous quarter to 27.4B in Q2 but number of deals fell by 6% to 1886, lowest since Q2 2013 — If you look at the investment dollars for the last quarter, you might be surprised to see an uptick in deal volume.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Source: Niantic postponed Pokémon Go Japan launch after internal communication from McDonald's Japan, the game's sponsor, detailing the launch leaked — Game-maker Niantic has postponed today's scheduled launch of Pokémon Go in Japan following an email leak.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Duolingo releases Tinycards, a free, game-like memorization app for iOS, that lets users create flashcards, or select from the hundreds currently available — Duolingo is probably the most popular mobile education app, but until now, the company's focus has been solely on language learning.Sponsor Posts
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