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Facebook launches Marketplace on mobile for buying and selling items, initially in US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, won't facilitate payment or delivery — By Mary Ku, Director of Product Management — Facebook is where people connect, and in recent years more people have been using Facebook …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Marketplace replaces Messenger shortcut in the main navigation tab bar on Facebook for iOS and lacks a way to rate sellers and provide feedback on sold items — 450 million people already visit “buy and sell” Groups on Facebook each month, and now the company is launching a whole tab in its app dedicated to peer-to-peer shopping.
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
What to expect at Google's Oct. 4 event: two new flagship devices without Nexus branding, more details about Home, Google Wi-Fi, Android-Chrome OS hybrid, more — So. Much. Hardware. — PIN — Now that Apple has had its big fall phone event, it's Google's turn to show off its goods.
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Source: Huawei sacked Honor US team, refused deal for Google's 2016 phones after carriers failed to stock Nexus 6P and learning of new Google-only branding deal — According to a source familiar with Huawei's operations, the Chinese smartphone and telecoms giant's device division has been having … | Tad Friend / New Yorker: |
Profile of Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, which has invested in companies collectively worth $80B — Is the head of Y Combinator fixing the world, or trying to take over Silicon Valley? — One balmy May evening, thirty of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs gathered in a private room …
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| Tom Mulcahy / Facebook: |
Facebook launches Messenger Lite on Android for slower internet speeds, initially in Kenya, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela — By Tom Mulcahy, Engineering Manager for Messenger Lite — Furthering our goal to empower people all over the world to stay connected …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft to build its first Azure data center in France this year, as part of a $3B investment to build its cloud services in EU — Companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google continue to compete fiercely in the area of cloud services for consumers, developers and enterprises …
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Microsoft on the Issues, VentureBeat, PCWorld, USA Today, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Petri, New York Times, Fortune, GeekWire, Fortune, Windows Central, MSPoweruser and VentureBeat. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Dog-sitting platform Rover raises $40M Series E round led by Foundry Group, bringing its total funding to date to $91.5M — What started as a fun project born at a Startup Weekend event has turned into a potential billion-dollar company that is gearing up for an IPO.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft pulls Band listings from its Store and admits there are no plans for a new Band device this year — Microsoft officials say there are no plans to introduce a new Microsoft Band fitness device this year and that they've sold through the existing Band 2 inventory.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Telegram launches bot-powered gaming platform for integrated HTML5 games inside chats, starting with 30 free games — The messaging wars are really a battle for attention. It's all about which comms app giant can embed the stickiest and most addictive features into their platform …
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| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
USB Implementers Forum publishes Audio over USB Type-C specification enabling hardware makers to eliminate traditional 3.5mm jacks — The USB Implementers Forum this week published the USB Audio Device Class 3.0 specification, which standardizes audio over USB Type-C interface.
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| Priya Anand / BuzzFeed: |
Uber will get subsidies from Summit, NJ, for residents' rides to and from the local train station in a pilot program starting Monday — Summit, New Jersey, a bedroom community to New York City, will begin subsidizing Uber rides for residents traveling to and from the local train station starting Monday … Sponsor Posts
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