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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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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, 10:53 am — 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 now lets everyone filter comments using blocklists, will show friends' comments first — Sep 12, 2016, 8:00 amSep 12, 2016, 9:54 am — Instagram today is rolling out a feature to all its users that will allow everyone to decide for themselves how they want to moderate comments on the photo-sharing service.
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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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| Christina Warren / Gizmodo: |
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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| 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.
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| 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 … | 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 … | Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Jaunt, a virtual reality startup that has raised $100M from investors including Disney and Sky, hires Hearst exec George Kliavkoff as its new CEO — Jaunt has raised more than $100 million from Disney, Sky and other media backers. — You don't need more signs that virtual reality … | Niklas Pollard / Reuters: |
Volvo Cars and auto safety group Autoliv are forming a joint venture to develop autonomous driving software, with about 200 initial staff from parent firms — Chinese-owned Volvo Car Group and auto safety group Autoliv said on Tuesday they would form a joint venture to develop autonomous driving software …
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Volvo Car Group Global …, Investor's Business Daily, ValueWalk, Fortune, Dice Insights, TechSpot, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, TechCrunch and TIME. Tweets: @lindholmen. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
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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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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