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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter may cut 8% of workforce, or 300 people, as soon as this week — Twitter Inc. is planning widespread job cuts, to be announced as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter. — The company may cut around 8 percent of the workforce, or about 300 people …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Twitter to report 2016 Q3 results pre-market instead of post-market on Thursday October 27 at 4am Pacific Time — A lot of the industry watchers that follow Twitter are out here on the West Coast, where the company is based. And for good reason! The Twitter diaspora exists in a large force …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Xiaomi debuts 6.4" all-ceramic Mi Mix flagship phone with edgeless screen, Snapdragon 821, and 4,400mAh battery, which goes on sale in China November 4 for $516 — The Mi Mix is a 6.4-inch lucid dream that's going on sale in China next month for $520 — Nothing says sci-fi like a bezel-less screen …
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| Alex Davies / Wired: |
Uber's Otto self-driving truck makes its first delivery of 50K beer cans in a 120-mile run across Colorado — Walt Martin is kneeling, legs folded behind him, butt resting on his heels. “I've got to practice my yoga,” he says, clearly joking. Never mind that we're in the cab … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
What to expect at Microsoft's October 26 event: Surface all-in-one PC, details of upcoming Windows 10 updates, Microsoft Paint app with 3D, new HoloLens demos — Microsoft is returning to New York City this week to host a special press event on October 26th.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
IHS estimates Pixel XL 32GB model, which retails for $769, has a total materials and manufacturing price of $285.75, beating Apple's margin on the 32GB iPhone 7 — Google's new line of Pixel phones have the shape, pricing, and some of the features of Apple Inc.'s iPhone, but critically for investors, they also have Apple-like margins.
Tweets: @business
| iFixit: |
Google Pixel XL teardown reveals little HTC branding, a 6/10 repairability score due to fragile screen, but most components are modular and easy to replace — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — Today marks our first ever teardown of a phone designed entirely by Google: the Pixel XL.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Google announces Jamboard, a 55" stylus-enabled 4K touchscreen device with built-in HD camera, debuting in first half of 2017 for under $6K for G Suite users — It's hard to recall today, but being able to edit a document at the same time as others was a transformative feature for Google's suite of online office apps.
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Navdy's smartphone-connected heads-up display for cars starts shipping for $799 — We got our first glimpse of Navdy's smart heads-up display for cars back in 2014, when the company crowdfunded its way to around two and a half million dollars. — Two years and around $26 million …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Wi-Fi Alliance begins certification process for short-range WiFi standard WiGig, also known as 802.11ad, which supports transmission speeds of up to 8 Gbps — The superfast wireless tech hasn't caught on widely, but that could change as ordinary Wi-Fi clogs up. — Enlarge Image
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| Jason D. Rowley / Mattermark: |
Google acquires Eyefluence, an eye-tracking tech firm for AR and VR — tl;dr: Google has acquired Eyefluence, which has developed a suite of eyeball-sensing technologies for AR and VR, for an undisclosed sum. — Today, Eyefluence quietly announced on its website that it has been acquired by Google.
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Eyefluence, PCWorld, TechCrunch, Engadget, Silicon Republic, ZDNet, The Drum, Business Insider, UploadVR, Fortune, NDTV Gadgets 360 and The Verge. Tweets: @daniellemorrill
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, and Harj Taggar's VC firm Initialized Capital raises $115M for its third fund for early stage startups — Initialized Capital, an early stage venture capital firm started by former Y Combinator partners Alexis Ohanian, Harj Taggar, and Garry Tan, has raised $115 million for its third fund.
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Initialized Capital and FinSMEs. Tweets: @garrytan, @hunterwalk, @albertwenger, @greggretsch, @harjeet, @msuster, @markbao, @rrhoover, @ycombinator and @ashrust
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
MasterCard links MasterPass to Android Pay, Samsung Pay, Microsoft Wallet to let cardholders more easily complete purchases online using device authentication — The integration means users of Android Pay, Samsung Pay, or Microsoft Wallet will be able to complete online transactions at any merchant site that accepts MasterPass.
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The Keyword, Windows Blog, Pocketnow, PYMNTS.com, ARC, The Fire Hose, NFC World and Android Police
| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung: South Korean customers who exchanged their Galaxy Note7 for an S7 will be able to trade for Galaxy Note8 or S8 next year at 50% of the cost of their S7 — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it is offering an upgrade program to Galaxy Note 7 customers in South Korea who trade …
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| Blaise Zerega / VentureBeat: |
Paxata gets $33.5M Series D led by Intel Capital for machine learning for information management, with Microsoft Ventures, In-Q- Tel, Accel, more participating — Paxata today announced it has raised $33.5 million to bolster the machine learning and semantic analysis foundations of its enterprise information platform.Sponsor Posts
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