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| Owen Williams / Charged Tech: |
Apple's latest Macbook Pros show the company is turning its back on its core customers — Last night's Apple event was bizarre—I had been anticipating this show for a while, mostly looking forward to being able to stop telling people not to buy a Mac, because everything was so outdated.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Apple says developers should avoid using animation and displaying alerts on the Touch Bar, limiting potential uses — The Touch Baris serious business . Apple's interface guidelines warn against all kinds of fun things that developers probably started thinking about when the new MacBook Pros leakedearlier this week.
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| Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: |
CenturyLink to buy Level 3 Communications for $34B in cash, stock deal, which values Level 3 at 42% above its stock price before reports of acquisition surfaced — @sherman4949 More stories by Alex Sherman — CenturyLink Inc. agreed to buy Level 3 Communications Inc. for about $34 billion cash …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft PowerApps and Flow to be generally available November 1 — Microsoft's PowerApps and Flow development tools will be generally available on November 1, not coincidentally the same day that Dynamics 365 goes on the company's price list. — Microsoft will be making PowerApps and Flow …
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| Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi / Reuters: |
Swiss rail's 1,000+ ticket machines to exchange francs for bitcoins in two-year test from Nov. 11 — Switzerland's national railways firm SBB is branching out next month with the launch of a new service on its ticket machines to sell bitcoins, the web-based digital currency.| Tom Mendelsohn / Ars Technica: |
Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court rules that all drone cameras count as surveillance devices and can only be used with special filming permit — Only cops and users with special filming permits can attach cams to drones. — Cameras attached to drones fall foul of Sweden's strict surveillance laws … | Joseph Rosensteel / Unauthoritative Pronouncements: |
Apple TV: the only streaming media device without HDR above $90, and an app lacking integration with Netflix or cable providers, needs a total strategy revamp — The accessibility video at the start of Apple's October 27th event was the best thing in the event.
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Clarifai raises $30M from Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, and others for its AI-based image and video search API — Matt Zeiler grew up in a Canadian farming community — but fast forward a few decades and he's now running a startup that's looking to bring the same kinds …
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| Jason Costa / GGV Capital: |
Comparing how Twitter and Slack managed their API ecosystems, and why Twitter, which let developers replicate core functionality, stumbled — Opening up an API is a big commitment, one that needs to be managed well over time in order to ensure a healthy and thriving ecosystem.| Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
Many publishers say an AMP pageview generates half the revenue of a pageview on their full mobile website due to reliance on standardized banner ad units — Some publishers aren't generating as much ad revenue as they had hoped — Google is stepping up its efforts to serve speedy content …
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Search Engine Watch and Forbes
| Jamie Feltham / UploadVR: |
Starbreeze, maker of the StarVR headset, says it has acquired Belgian visual effects studio Nozon for about $7.75M — Over the past few months Starbreeze's StarVR headset has gone from an industry oddity to a genuine contender in the location-based VR scene.
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune: |
Vine co-founders Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll launch Hype, a live broadcasting app that lets users add music and animations to their videos — As Twitter continues its attempts to get its business back on track, the company announced on Thursday that it's shutting down Vine, a short-form video service it acquired in late 2012.
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