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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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
ProPublica adopts Politwoops and four other Sunlight Labs projects using open gov't data from DC; other orgs are adopting several other projects from the labs — Politwoops, the service that preserves politicians' deleted tweets for posterity and to hold them to account, has a new parent …
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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) …
| 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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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google discloses actively exploited Windows vulnerability just 10 days after reporting it to Microsoft — Google today shared details about a security flaw in Windows, just 10 days after disclosing it to Microsoft on October 21. To make matters worse, Google says it is aware …
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| 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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| 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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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Study co-authored by MIT professor finds Uber drivers in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men — Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men.
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Tweets: @ananny, @emilydshaw, @joshboggs, @markmilian, @ericnewcomer, @mitsloan and @lydiadepillis
| Kori Schulman / The White House: |
New president to get @POTUS on Twitter, White House on Facebook and Instagram, with clean timelines; Obama's accounts will be archived and accessible to public — Summary: Take a look at how we plan to preserve and pass on the digital history of the Obama administration.
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