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Facebook announces Messenger now allows payments natively in its 30K chat bots, adds support for webviews in bot conversations — Sep 12, 2016, 9:22 amSep 12, 2016, 12:00 pm — Facebook today filled the biggest hole in its chatbot platform. Messenger bots can accept payments natively …
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Facebook's head of Messenger David Marcus says that out of Messenger's 1B users, 300M are active users of its audio and video calling features — Phase 1: Kill SMS. Phase 2: Kill Skype, FaceTime, and your phone. Phase 3: Profit? Facebook is making strides towards becoming … | TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds optional filter to hide “inappropriate” comments, and users can also make their own filters; comments from friends will now be shown first — Sep 12, 2016, 8:00 amSep 12, 2016, 8:00 am — Instagram today is rolling out a feature to all its users that will allow everyone … | Melanie Ehrenkranz / Mic: |
Mic publishes email from Apple, which began with “off the record”, that was in response to criticism of the lack of diversity at Apple's keynote last week — Get Mic daily: — O n Friday, I published an article about the gender divide in Apple's last two iPhone events.
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The Next Web, New York Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog and Fortune
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A week after “voluntary recall”, Galaxy Note7 owners still can't get info from Samsung or carriers about how and when their phones can be exchanged — Samsung's exchange program for Galaxy Note 7 has been a nightmare for customers so far. — A week after Samsung's “voluntary” …
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HP Inc. to acquire Samsung's printer business and some printer-related patents for $1.05B; Samsung will invest $100-$300M in HP when the deal closes — Silicon Valley company sees deal with South Korean major as bid for expansion into high-volume printer-copier device business
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HP, Fortune, Samsung Newsroom, Quartz, Engadget, Digital Trends, BetaNews, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Associated Press, Silicon Valley Business …, Liliputing, TechSpot, Petri, Tech Times, Tech Trader Daily, TWICE, Inquirer, Ubergizmo, Neowin, The Register and TechCrunch
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google's Cardboard Camera app for creating 360-degree VR images launches on iOS — The odds of you using Cardboard Camera, Google's simple app for creating 360-degree VR images, just got significantly higher. The tool, which has so far only been available on Android, is now available on the iOS App Store.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
TiVo debuts Bolt+ DVR for $499, with six tuners, 450 hours of HD recording with 3TB hard disk — As soon as TiVo unveiled its Bolt Unified Entertainment System last year, the company's biggest DVR fans started asking “what about us?” That's because despite its new design …
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eBay launches Quick Sale, a smartphone trade-in site that guarantees sellers a minimum price, powered by eBay Valet to make the service more convenient — eBay today is launching a new program that aims to capitalize on the large number of older iPhones and other mobile devices poised to hit …
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eBay Newsroom and CNET
| Davey Alba / Wired: |
Google's Project Sand Hill tracks hot startups, helps with Android apps, Google services, more, and now serves about 130 startups including Lyft and Eventbrite — Google calls it Project Sand Hill. — Since 2012, Suman Prasad and his team have worked with various Silicon Valley venture capital firms … | Kwame Opam / The Verge: |
Twitter partners with finance news startup Cheddar for its first daily streaming show, “Closing Bell”, which is a Twitter exclusive focusing on market analysis — Twitter is doubling down on live-streaming content, this time focusing on business news.
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HP announces it is moving from Salesforce and Oracle products to Microsoft CRM to manage its sales and post-sales processes — HP Inc. plans to use Microsoft Dynamics customer relationship management (CRM) software to run its sales processes, the two companies said Monday.
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Video ad tech leader Teads acquires interactive video startup Brainient — Fresh off raising $47 million in debt financing, video ad tech leader Teads announced today that it has paid an undisclosed sum for interactive video startup Brainient. — New York-based Teads is known …
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