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Google Home review: attractive design and good sound quality, but works with only one Google account at a time, and its assistant is not proactive — Help me, Google — For over a decade, Google search has been indispensable. It's the first place we go whenever we need to find information on virtually anything.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google Home's assistant outshines Amazon Echo's Alexa assistant as it can answer a variety of complex questions — Google has a winner with Google Home, for those who want a hands-free assistant that can answer a broad range of questions that come up during day-to-day activities in the house.
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Huawei unveils the Mate 9, a $776 flagship smartphone with a 5.9-inch screen, 4000 mAh battery, fingerprint sensor, rear dual-camera system, USB-C, and 4GB RAM — A capable beast of a phone, with a 5.9-inch screen and 4,000 mAh battery — Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has unveiled its latest flagship device — the Mate 9.| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Huawei debuts Fit, a $130 basic fitness tracker with a continuous heart-rate monitor and a six-day battery life; initial use suggests it is overpriced — It's almost gift-giving season, and companies are scrambling to release products that will fill your loved ones' stockings later this year.| Linda Sui / Strategy Analytics: |
Report: Android captures record 88% share of global smartphone shipments in Q3 2016; iOS dips to 12% share worldwide — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments reached 375 million units in the third quarter of 2016.
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
Google responds to EU allegations that Google skewed shopping search results to favor its own services, saying the revised case “doesn't fit the reality” — Search giant responds to EU statements of objections — Says EU fails to see Amazon and EBay are key competitors
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yelp is laying off 4% of workforce, or 175 people, mainly in international sales and marketing, after failing to grow its business outside of North America — Yesterday, when local ratings and reviews site Yelp posted strong quarterly earnings with a surprise profit of $2.1 million …
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YouTube rolls out new comments system allowing creators to pin a comment to the top of the feed, and give hearts to acknowledge their favorite comments — YouTube today is rolling out an upgrade to its comments system, with the goal of putting creators more in control of which comments … | TechCrunch: |
Intel acquires Voke VR, which makes VR camera hardware and software for delivering VR sports content to a range of devices — Nov 3, 2016, 9:00 amNov 3, 2016, 9:40 am — Intel has made another acquisition to build out its virtual reality strategy and business: the chip giant … | Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Samsung's bigger Gear S3 smartwatches launch in the US on November 18 starting at $349; pre-orders begin November 6 — The latest Gear smartwatches up the features, but also the price. — Samsung's new Gear S3 watch line — which comes in both a Frontier and Classic model … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says its desktop ad revenue growth doubled to 18% YoY, largely due to thwarting of ad blockers, with desktop ad sales reaching $1.1B in Q3 — Facebook's recentworkaround for Adblock Plus and other ad blockers is already earning it money. On today's blockbuster Q3 earnings call … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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Schiller: MacBook Pro lacks an SD reader because it's a “cumbersome” slot and newer cameras have wireless transfer, but audio jack is needed for “pro machines” — Lots of people were furious when Apple killed off the headphone jack in its latest iPhone, the iPhone 7.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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