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Sources: Snap Inc. has filed confidentially for its IPO, could go public as soon as March at valuation of $20-$25B — Snapchat has filed for an initial public offering, sources familiar with the situation said on Tuesday, which puts the messaging app a step closer to the biggest U.S. stock market debut since 2014.
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Facebook says it miscalculated more metrics including Organic Reach, Instant Articles time spent, adds more third-party verification, forms Measurement Council — Facebook is also adding more third-party verification and forming a Measurement Council to stay in step with evolving products and metrics.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google incorporates neural machine translation into Google Translate app for eight languages, increasing accuracy and allowing for entire sentence translation — The search giant says it's made a “leap” in giving you more natural translations. — World travelers, language nerds and everyone in between, you're in luck.
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google debuts PhotoScan app for iOS and Android, which makes it easy to digitize old print photos; Google Photos updated with more advanced image editing tools — On the surface, Google Photos has a simple mission: to store all your pictures. Specifically, Google says it wants the service …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Donald Trump's digital director, Brad Parscale, says Facebook helped generate most of the campaign's $250M in online fundraising — Mark Zuckerberg is trying hard to convince voters that Facebook had no nefarious role in this election. But according to President-elect Donald Trump's digital … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
HP announces Z2 Mini, a workstation-class Intel Xeon-powered mini PC, to ship in December starting at $699 — HP has unveiled the Z2 Mini, a mini PC that packs workstation-class parts, including an Intel Xeon CPU, NVIDIA Quadro mobile M620 graphics and M.2 SSD tech.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Unlike the 2016 13" MacBook Pro with function keys, MacBook Pros with Touch Bar have non-removable SSDs, leaving users unable to upgrade their storage — The first MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models are arriving, and if you were encouraged by the removable SSD OWC found in the entry-level machine, there's bad news.
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Samsung acquires NewNet Canada for its Rich Communications Service technology — The company buys a provider of Rich Communications Services, which add more features to SMS text messaging. — The texts you send from your Galaxy phone may soon look a lot like Apple's iMessages.| Lauren Johnson / Adweek: |
Snapchat partners with Foursquare to provide better geofilters, giving Snapchat advertisers access to Foursquare's data points for 90M+ locations — Opens up more specific location-based advertising — Snapchat ads are getting a bit more targeted. The mobile app has inked a deal …
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Google Cloud will finally add GPU services in early 2017 — Surprisingly late, Google Cloud will add GPUs (graphics processing units) as a service early next year, according to a blog post today. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM's Bluemix all already offer GPU as a service.
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Lyft replaces mustache with Amp, a Bluetooth-enabled, dash-mounted LED device that displays a specific color indicated in riders' app — Meet the Lyft Amp — Lyft has outgrown its pink mustache. Today, the ride-hail company says it will retire the oversized facial hair logo that has defined …
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Thanks:@selviano| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google announces new AI group, to be headed by former head of Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab Fei-Fei Li and former head of research at Snapchat, Jia Li — During a media briefing at a Google office in San Francisco today, Google announced that it will launch virtual machine (VM) … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts a unified inbox for businesses on Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram in its Pages Manager app — Facebook is unveiling a new feature that should make it easier for businesses to stay on top of conversations across Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram.
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Intel Capital will invest $250M over the next two years in autonomous vehicle technology — Chipmaker Intel's venture capital arm will invest $250 million over the next two years into autonomous vehicle technology. — Intel CEO Brian Krzanich made the announcement while on stage at AutoMobility LA … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
DJI's new Inspire 2 drone for professional filmmakers has two cameras and starts at $2,999 — More drone than most of us will ever need — DJI has a chokehold on the consumer drone market, and it's leveraging that dominance to try and establish itself as the clear leader for commercial drones used by professionals as well.
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