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Amazon Game Studios announces BreakAway, the first game to use Twitch's Stream+ currency; teaser shows viewers will be able to wager on matches — New sports-brawling game Breakaway will “integrate directly” with Twitch in many ways. — TwitchCon, the annual convention dedicated …
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Amazon Game Studios unveils first three games that feature deep Twitch integration — Amazon Game Studios, the gaming development arm of Amazon, today revealed its first titles that feature deep integration with Twitch, the live streaming company that Amazon acquired for $1 billion in 2014.| Andrew Dalton / Engadget: |
Google opens Waze Rider pilot program to all San Francisco users; drivers and riders limited to two trips per day, with drivers making $0.54/mile — Waze Rider, the ride-sharing version of the popular Google-owned navigation app, is now open to the general public in the Bay Area.| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon unveils “Alexa Prize”, an annual university competition to advance conversational AI; first challenge is to build a bot conversing coherently for 20 mins — Amazon will award up to $2.5 million in prizes and sponsorships in a new annual competition called the “Alexa Prize” … | Killian Bell / TechnoBuffalo: |
HTC's Viveport VR marketplace focused on non-gaming content for the Vive expands beyond China to 30 new countries — Viveport, the marketplace where you can buy virtual reality apps and games for your HTC Vive headset, is now available worldwide. HTC is celebrating its launch with big discounts …
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Facebook tests “Messenger Day”, an in-app feature for sharing ephemeral photos, in Poland, where Snapchat isn't popular — Josh Constine, Natasha Lomas and John Biggs — Sep 30, 2016, 9:10 amSep 30, 2016, 10:39 am — Facebook is stealing the Stories format and invading countries where Snapchat isn't popular yet.| Sruthi Shankar / Reuters: |
Data center provider Nutanix raises $238M in IPO, valuing the company at $4.05B — Shares of Nutanix Inc (NTNX.O), an unprofitable provider of enterprise data storage, soared more than 80 percent in their market debut on Friday, highlighting demand for tech offerings in what has been a generally quiet year for IPOs.
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AT&T ends its Internet Preferences program, which analyzed user browsing habits to better target ads — Controversial traffic scanning program, Internet Preferences, meets its demise. — AT&T is getting rid of Internet Preferences, the controversial program that analyzes home Internet …
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The CW TV Network releases new Apple TV app that eliminates cable subscription login, but limits content to only five episodes from most recent season of shows — As promised last week, The CW network today released a new Apple TV app that allows all fourth-generation Apple TV owners to watch …
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9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, AppAdvice.com Latest, Six Colors and AppleInsider. Tweets: @ginnymarvin
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Music app Shazam announces 1B downloads, turns an operating profit as more brands use its audio and visual identification software — A business model shift to advertising has helped music discovery company Shazam turn a profit. The London-based firm on Thursday announced that revenue …
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Google Apps for Work rebranded as “G Suite”, to get several machine learning-powered features; “Team Drive” brings team-level content management to Google Drive — Google announced today that its now ten-year old service Google Apps for Work (formerly Google Apps for Your Domain) …
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Digital Trends, Google Cloud Platform Blog, CSC Blogs, Tech Times, Neowin, Global, CIO.com, Small Business Trends, Ausdroid, Android Police, Silicon Republic, Ars Technica UK, diginomica, G Suite Update Alerts, Google Developers, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, InfoWorld, MobileSyrup.com, ZDNet, theWHIR.com, eWeek, The Tech Portal, Quartz, Engadget, Petri, AndroidGuys, The Next Web, Google Drive Blog, Gmail Blog, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Tweets: @carnage4life, @johnmu, @jennybryan and @panzer
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Data Center Knowledge, TechCrunch, cloudpro.co.uk, Quartz, Business Insider, Fortune, Pocketnow, Official Google India Blog, cloudcomputing-news.net, MediaNama, Business Wire, Ausdroid, Engadget, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Bloomberg, Google Developers, GoNintendo, Light Reading, CircleID, The Register, VentureBeat and ITworld.com. Tweets: @tdsynan
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
European food delivery startup Takeaway.com raises $368M in IPO, valuing it at $1.1B — And it's off to the races for another takeout food delivery business going public. Today, it was Takeaway.com's turn, an Amsterdam-based company with operations across Europe, which listed on Euronext Amsterdam.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Stock app Robinhood launches Robinhood Gold, a $10/month set of features including ability to buy on credit, make instant deposits, more — Robinhood says it will never charge commissions to trade stocks, but the $66 million-funded startup is finally ramping up monetization with the launch of “Robinhood Gold” premium features.
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Howard Lindzon, TalkAndroid.com, Under the Hood, Robinhood Help Center, VentureBeat and Business Insider. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Mozilla accuses Chinese certificate authority WoSign of back-dating SHA-1 certificates and other violations, proposes no longer trusting WoSign certificates — Mozilla has accused a Chinese Certificate Authority of back-dating SHA-1 certificates to get around restrictions barring deprecated certs …
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