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NFL ratings: over 2M watched Thursday's game stream on Twitter, with an average of 243K at any one time, compared to 15.4M on average on TV — And 48 million watched it on regular TV. — More than two million people watched Thursday night's football game between the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets for free on Twitter.
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See also Mediagazer| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Google acquires Urban Engines to bring its location-based analytics to Google Maps — Google has acquired Urban Engines, a provider of location-based analytics for urban planning. The team will be joining the Google Maps team in a bid to “help organizations better understand how the world moves.”
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 7, 7 Plus teardowns reveal 2,915 mAh battery, 3GB RAM for Plus, bigger Taptic Engine where headphone jack used to be, Intel modem in some iPhone 7 models — As it does every year, device repair site iFixit is putting all of Apple's new devices through the teardown process.
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
21st Century Fox sues Netflix for poaching employees, seeks injunction against interfering with employee contracts and damages — The film studio seeks an injunction to prevent contractual interference. — 21st Century Fox is accusing Netflix in a lawsuit of running a …
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Associated Press, Vice Media, and Gannett sue FBI for information on how the agency broke into San Bernardino shooter's iPhone — Three news organizations, including USA TODAY's parent company, filed a lawsuit Friday seeking information about how the FBI was able to break into the locked iPhone …
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
After enabling movie ticket sales through Apple's iMessage, Fandango will start selling tickets through Facebook this weekend; sales on Snapchat coming soon — LOS ANGELES — By making it easy for people to buy movie tickets online or through a smartphone app, Fandango has experienced breakneck growth over the last two years.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Behind Twitter's efforts to move away from being known as a social network, rebranding itself as a central destination for news and live events instead — Can the company's move to stream major events right inside its app, including Thursday night NFL games, woo the masses?| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Microsoft to close Skype's London office, making close to 400 employees redundant, as part of its global restructuring — Microsoft will shut down Skype's London offices, making most of its employees redundant, and terminating the headquarters of a rare European technology champion.
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft now has the most open source contributors on GitHub, surpassing Facebook and Google with 16.4K — Over the course of the 90's and '00's, Microsoft became notorious for competing aggressively with the very concept of open source — free software, developed by teams of volunteer programmers from all over the world.| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
US Consumer Product Safety Commission formally recalls about 1M Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones after 26 reports of burns and 55 reports of property damage in US — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission officially recalled the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 in a Thursday announcement.
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
| Tim Wrobel / Droid Life: |
SwiftKey publicly launches neural network-powered keyboard for Android, available now on Google Play — Last year in October, SwiftKey unveiled an alpha build for the world's first keyboard powered by a neural network. Since then, big things have been happening at SwiftKey, namely the company being acquired by Microsoft.
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Apple's latest hires, an Oculus researcher and a Magic Leap engineer, hint at push into AR — Apple continues to stockpile talent in augmented reality, an area that CEO Tim Cook has said is “incredibly interesting”, as it looks like the company is working on some kind of display or technology … | Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Profile of Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat, an ex-Wall Street exec who is overseeing a fiscal tightening of the Other Bets divisions, prompting concern among Googlers — CFO Ruth Porat is pushing Google “creatives” to bring their costs under control. — Subfreezing temperatures didn't stop Ruth Porat … Thanks:@katiefehren
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