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| 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.
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| 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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| Financial Times: |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on Twitter bid: “In this case we've walked away. It wasn't the right fit for us”; Twitter shares down about 6% on news — CEO Benioff says messaging platform is not ‘right fit’ for his cloud company — The boss of Salesforce.com has ruled out his company …
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See also Mediagazer| 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 … | Kellex / Droid Life: |
Verizon Introduces PopData, 30 and 60 Minute All-You-Can-Stream 4G LTE Sessions at $2 or $3 — Verizon took the wraps off a new pay-as-you-go data feature today called PopData that could be a decent option for those with small data buckets who need to access a bunch of data while on the go.
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| Eric Zeman / ProgrammableWeb.com: |
Amazon opens limited beta for Alexa List Skills API to manage lists; Any.do and Todoist to-do list apps now work with Echo — Amazon today announced a new API that will let developers integrate Alexa within their own list applications. The goal here is to make it as easy as possible …
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| Jemima Kiss / Guardian: |
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| 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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| 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.
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| 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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Naspers sells Polish eBay rival Allegro for $3.25B to consortium of private equity firms — Oct 14, 2016, 10:49 amOct 14, 2016, 11:30 am — Earlier this year, it was reported that Naspers, the media and internet holding company, was planning to sell off Allegro, its online auction business based … Sponsor Posts
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