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Instagram to test letting businesses tag products in their posts, so iOS users in the US can tap to learn more about them; 20 brands will participate — Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window. That's why today it will start …
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Tweets: @sarahfrier, @besvinick, @mdudas, @joshconstine, @brianroemmele and @delrey
| Mike Jazayeri / The Keyword: |
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.| 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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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) …
| 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 …
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BetaNews, Synergy Research Group, Mattermark and Business Insider
| 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 …
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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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| 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.| 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 …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Square beats with Q3 revenue of $439M vs $431M expected, as losses reach $32M, up from $54M last year — 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, be a big question mark … | 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, Wall Street Journal, Samsung Global Newsroom, Salon, eWeek, Computerworld, KVUE-TV and CNET. Tweets: @benbajarin
| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
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.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Minecraft: Education Edition launches in 50 countries and 11 different languages; game costs $5 per user annually or less through volume licensing — Following months of testing and free trials for early adopters, Microsoft announced this morning that its learning-focused version …
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The Verge, GeekWire, MacRumors, Mojang, Windows Blog, CNET, VentureBeat and TechSpot
Tweets: @satyanadella and @minecraft
| 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, TechCrunch, Business Insider and ZDNet
| 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.| 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.
Tweets: @fmanjoo
| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba creates new digital media company, Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group, to consolidate media assets, announces $1.48B fund for new projects — Yu Yongfu, of UCWeb, will become CEO of new group under Zhang — Breaking out media assets is part of transparency efforts
| Suzanne Barlyn / Reuters: |
New York's aspirations to become a global hub for Bitcoin fade, as delays in licensing process and strict requirements drive companies away — New York's financial regulator had sights set on becoming a global hub for innovations like bitcoin when it adopted trailblazing virtual currency rules last year.
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CoinDesk, Digital Trends and CryptoCoinsNews
Tweets: @btcfoundation, @alextapscott and @erikvoorhees
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
ProPublica adopts Politwoops and four other Sunlight Labs projects using open government data; several other Sunlight projects are headed to other organizations — Politwoops, the service that preserves politicians' deleted tweets for posterity and to hold them to account, has a new parent … Sponsor Posts
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