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Dan Seifert / The Verge:
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.
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.
James Vincent / The Verge:
Huawei unveils its latest flagship Mate 9, with a 5.9-inch screen, 4,000 mAh battery, fingerprint sensor, rear dual-camera system, USB Type-C, 4GB RAM for $776  —  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 $130 Fit, a 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.
Dave Smith / Business Insider:
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.
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
MacBook Pro 13" without Touch Bar review: brilliant display, enormous trackpad, but only having two Thunderbolt 3 ports will lead to pricey dongle headaches
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook beats in Q3 2016 with revenue of $7.01B vs $6.92B expected, as MAUs grow 16% YoY to 1.79B and DAUs rise 17% YoY to 1.18B in September  —  Facebook had a wildly successful Q3, earning $7.01 billion in revenue and $1.09 EPS.  That's off of from 1.79 billion monthly users …
Sijia Jiang / Reuters:
Lenovo Q2 profit of $157M beats estimates thanks to a property sale of $206M; revenue falls 8% to $11.2B  —  China's Lenovo Group Ltd (0992.HK), the world's largest personal computer (PC) manufacturer by shipments, on Thursday said it returned to profit in its second fiscal quarter …
Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
Microsoft looks to leverage its 85M+ Office 365 install base as it launches Microsoft Teams to challenge Slack, which has about 4M DAUs

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Axios:
Sources: WH officials believe NYT's Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their upcoming book Regime Change

Max Tani / Semafor:
The NYT says it is reviewing columnist Nick Kristof's work that favorably mentioned former donors to his 2022 Oregon governor bid, including Bill Gates

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: BBC News will announce hundreds of job cuts next week, in the first part of a broader plan to cut ~10% of costs and ~2,000 jobs across BBC departments

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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Sources: YouTube Red has 1.5M subscribers with 1M signed up on a trial basis, underscoring the struggle of getting users to pay for a previously free service

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