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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.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google Home's assistant outshines Amazon Echo's Alexa assistant as it can answer complex as well as a variety of 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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| 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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| 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.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
| 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 … | Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Facebook CFO David Wehner reiterates ad load may hit limit in News Feed by mid-2017; shares drop 7% after hours — Facebook Inc. again crushed Wall Street earnings estimates today, thanks to all those video ads you're watching on your smartphone. But investors worry if the good times will last.
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| 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 …
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Twitch starts selling its own video ads in partners' live streams via SureStream, its new video technology, and says the ads bypass adblockers — Twitch, the Amazon-owned video streaming platform which is today used by over 2 million broadcasters, announced today its plans to begin selling video ads in its partners' live streams.| 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 …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rocket Internet's food delivery business Foodpanda sells Russian takeout business Delivery Club, which it acquired in 2014, to Mail.Ru for $100M — Rocket Internet-backed food delivery business Foodpanda is divesting yet more of its international holdings.| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Marvell Technology to cut about 900 jobs, nearly 17% of its workforce, and sell off non-core assets in an effort to reduce costs by about $190M a year — Marvell Technology Group said Wednesday that is will cut about 900 jobs and sell off non-core assets in an effort to bring its costs down by about $190 million a year.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Teams hands-on: clean UI manages a ton of information well; good integration with Microsoft services like Skype and support for third party tie-ins — Microsoft Teams throws a lot of you, right out of the gate. That's because competitors like Slack already have a sizable head start … | Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
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