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Google's Daydream VR headset is coming to stores in US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia on November 10, available to pre-order now — Last month, we announced Daydream View, a comfortable and easy-to-use virtual reality headset and controller powered by any Daydream-ready phone.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram testing shopping feature, to let 20 brand partners add buttons to photos leading to product details, will send users to retailer's site for checkout — Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window.
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Tweets: @sarahfrier, @brianroemmele, @joshconstine, @mdudas, @besvinick and @delrey
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest makes Instapaper's premium features free, previously $3/month; features include full text search on all articles, speed reading, text-to-speech, more — Nearly three months after being acquired by Pinterest, Instapaper is making some changes that will impact its users.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Lenovo starts shipping Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, the first Google Tango phone, for $499 — The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is shipping now — If it weren't for Pokémon Go, augmented reality might have stayed another forlorn futurist technology the public paid little attention to.
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Twitter adds Welcome Messages and Quick Replies to DMs to improve businesses' customer service response times — For all the talk of doom and gloom regarding Twitter's future, there are some things the platform does better than anyone. Recently it's been strengthening its position … | Michael Tsai: |
A roundup of the mostly negative reactions to the new MacBook Pros and the current state of the Mac by creative professionals and developers — I was really disappointed with today's Apple event. It seems like Apple has either lost its way, that it has lost touch with what (some of) …
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Tweets: @dsilverman, @onejarednewman, @vladgeorgescu, @johnpaczkowski, @dhh, @nelliebowles, @pinboard, @mattk and @jesse_squires
| Dan Richman / GeekWire: |
Report: AWS has 45% share of worldwide public Infrastructure as a Service market, more than Microsoft, Google, and IBM combined — Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) — greater than Microsoft … | Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Uber partners with GM's car-sharing service, Maven, for a 90-day car rental pilot program for drivers in San Francisco — The pilot program with Maven, which looks a lot like Lyft's partnership with Maven, will only be available in San Francisco for 90 days.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Square beats with Q3 revenue of $439M vs $431M expected, says it processed 35K+ business loans for about $208M, up 70% YoY — While Jack Dorsey's other company Twitter might be struggling, Square continues on a roll that's keeping Wall Street happy. — There's going to, as always … | Stefan Nicola / Bloomberg: |
YouTube strikes deal with German royalty-collection group Gema, ending seven years of legal battles and unblocking thousands of music videos in the country — @StefanNicolaBBG More stories by Stefan Nicola — Video service to pay licensing fees for clips shown in Germany
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Microsoft says Fancy Bear exploited the recently reported Windows flaw; patch coming November 8 — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday that a hacking group previously linked to the Russian government is behind recent cyber attacks that exploit a newly discovered flaw in its Windows operating system.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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Google Online Security Blog, Engadget, ZDNet, Ubergizmo, BBC, Business Standard, New York Magazine, Geek.com, Windows Central, Digital Trends, WinBeta, Guardian, Inquirer, TechSpot, Silicon Valley Business …, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, Softpedia News, Silicon Republic, Computerworld, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, CNET, International Business Times, Business Insider, The Next Web, CSO, Ars Technica UK, The Register, Neowin, MSPoweruser and Tech Times
Tweets: @brandonlive, @mohamedmansour, @kaepora and @ebellis
| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics says it's investing $1B+ by the end of June 2017 to boost system chip production at its Austin, Texas facilities to meet growing demand — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday it plans to invest more than $1 billion by end-June 2017 to boost production of system chips …
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512tech, Engadget, Samsung Global Newsroom, Tech Times, Wall Street Journal, Salon, CNET, eWeek, PCWorld, TechSpot, KVUE-TV and Fortune. Tweets: @benbajarin
| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
Roku TV updates to let users pause live TV delivered via OTA antennas for up to 90 minutes, listen to TV audio from smartphone, and more — A free software update brings the ability to pause, and subsequently rewind and fast-forward, on TV shows that come via an antenna.
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The Verge, Digital Trends, Variety, SlashGear, Engadget, Pocket-lint and PC Magazine. Tweets: @onejarednewman
| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Tableau Q3 revenue of $206.1M misses expectations but rises 21% YoY; stock down 13%+ after hours despite company generating its highest quarterly revenue — The first earnings report with new CEO Adam Selipsky at the helm was a mixed bag for Tableau Software, as the Seattle-based visualization …
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Tableau Software, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE and Tech Trader Daily
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology convenes semiconductor industry working group to advance US competitiveness — President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (PCAST) today announced the launch of a new Semiconductor Working Group … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Self-driving car startup Otonomo founded in Tel Aviv in 2015 raises $12M Series A, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Stageone Ventures — Self-driving car startup Otonomo has closed a $12 million series A round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Stageone Ventures, with participation from Maniv Mobility and LocalGlobe.
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iOS app Talkshow, which let groups have text conversations in public, will shut down on December 1, six months after launching — Talkshow, which launched about six months ago, will be shutting down effective December 1st. The service allowed groups to have text-based conversations in public.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
HipChat integrates with Echo via VoiceMyBot, letting Alexa start and join in conversations, tie-in with Hipchat room notifications, more — A new skill for Amazon Alexa-enabled devices gives you access to the Atlassian-owned HipChat platform, a first for the enterprise team chat app.
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The Next Web, HipChat Blog, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Business Insider and ZDNet
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