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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.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google Home bests Amazon Echo & Alexa, for answering 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. It easily beats what Amazon Echo can do.| Dave Smith / Business Insider: |
Schiller says MacBook Pro lacks an SD card reader because it's a “cumbersome” slot best left to wireless transfers, but 3.5mm 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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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 … | Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs: |
Microsoft Teams is available today in preview for Office 365 commercial customers in 181 countries, with general availability in Q1 2017 — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. — Today, at an event in New York City …
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| 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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Uber streamlines app by grouping car types into a few categories, making pricing and ETA clearer, better predicting users' destinations before app loads, more — But it also added a lot of clutter — by Lauren Goode and Andrew J . — Uber is rolling out a major redesign of its app today — the most significant update since 2012.
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| 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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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.| 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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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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