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Google News rolls out “fact check” tag for stories on web and mobile apps, starting in the US and UK — Launched today, fact check will now appear as a label among news search results alongside other labels such as opinion, local source and highly cited
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See also Mediagazer| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google to launch new mobile-only search index within months, says it will eventually become primary index, but a separate desktop index will still be maintained — Google is going to create a separate mobile index within months, one that will be the main or “primary” index that the search engine uses to respond to queries.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung expects to lose about $3B in operating profit from Q4 2016 through Q1 2017 due to Note7 recall — The cost of playing with fire — Samsung says the Galaxy Note 7 discontinuation will cost it around $3 billion over the course of the next two fiscal quarters.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Facebook updates Instagram Windows 10 app to support PCs and tablets, requires touchscreen and rear-facing camera to upload photos and videos — Facebook today updated its Windows 10 app for Instagram to support PCs and tablets. You can download the new version now from the Windows Store.
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Instagram Blog, GeekWire, Windows Blog, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Verge, The Fire Hose, Mashable, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Lifehacker, SlashGear, The Next Web, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Yahoo re-enables the auto-forwarding feature in Mail, says it was temporarily disabled due to a platform upgrade — Last month, Yahoo removed the auto-forwarding feature from Yahoo Mail. — Since automatic email forwarding is often used when switching email accounts … | John Cook / GeekWire: |
Morningstar to acquire PitchBook shares it didn't already own for $180M, valuing the venture capital, IPO, and M&A data provider at $225M — PitchBook specializes in compiling venture capital, IPO and M&A data on tens of thousands of companies, offering investors, journalists and analysts …
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PE Hub Blog, Chicago Tribune, Seeking Alpha, StreetInsider.com and PitchBook. Thanks:@natjlevy
| Washington Post: |
Verizon general counsel says there's a “reasonable basis” to believe Yahoo hack will have a “material” impact on deal — Verizon on Thursday said that it was leaning toward declaring as a “material” event the massive data breach disclosed three weeks ago by Yahoo …
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Tweets: @b_fung, @jeremiahg, @stevekovach, @ivanthek and @jaycuthrell
| Reuters: |
SoftBank to invest $25B into new tech fund over next five years, with Saudi Arabia's The Public Investment Fund possibly contributing up to $45B as lead partner — Saudi Arabia and Japan's SoftBank Group (9984.T) will create a technology investment fund that could grow as large as $100 billion …
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SoftBank Group, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Forbes, Tech City News, Nikkei and VentureBeat. Tweets: @danprimack. Thanks:@davemcclure
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
VMware and Amazon partner to bring VMware's infrastructure software to AWS starting in 2017 — It's been an open secret that Amazon's AWS division and VMware were going to announce a partnership at a press conference in San Francisco later today. Thanks to VMware mistakenly posting its announcement early …
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The New Stack, Business Wire, GeekWire, AWS Blog, ZDNet, Fortune, Silicon Valley Business …, The Register, SiliconANGLE, VMware vSphere Blog, Network World, PCWorld, IBM, Wall Street Journal, Light Reading, Tech Times, Business Insider, eWeek, Financial Times, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, ITworld.com, Recode, ZDNet and VentureBeat
Tweets: @charlesfitz, @charlesfitz and @inafried
Thanks:@ron_miller| Mark Hilliard / The Irish Times: |
Oculus acquires Irish startup InfiniLED for its low-power display technology — Deal will see Irish-developed LED technology applied to virtual-reality devices — Cork-based InfiniLED, which develops low powered LED technology, has been acquired by California-based virtual-reality company Oculus VR.
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VentureBeat, Silicon Republic, RTÉ, Independent.ie and Tech.eu
| Patrick Moorhead / Forbes: |
Google, IBM, HPE, and others, create new OpenCAPI standard to boost data center server performance; products expected to be released by 2H 2017 — While there has been a lot of debate on what “open” means, what everyone in technology can agree on is that open standards are one of the key drivers of industry growth and prosperity.
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| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
Shazam launches in-app music video channels as it partners with video monetization firm Vadio — Shazam has come a long way since its beginnings as a service for identifying songs: in 2016, it has a number of features designed to persuade music fans to spend more time using its app.Sponsor Posts
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