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Sources: Facebook has quietly built a tool to enable monitoring and suppression of posts based on location, to get back into China; Zuckerberg defended effort — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, has cultivated relationships with China's leaders, including President Xi Jinping.
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Strategy Analytics: smartphone profits hit $9B in Q3 2016, Apple captures 91% share of global profits, Huawei takes second place with 2.4% — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone profits reached US$9 billion in total during the third quarter of 2016.
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Report: Microsoft offers to allow rivals access to Outlook add-ins in bid to win EU approval of LinkedIn deal — Microsoft has reportedly offered concessions to the European Union to try and secure approval of its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn. The Wall Street Journal reports …
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HPE reports Q4 revenue of $12.5B, down 7% YoY, and full year 2016 revenue of $51.1B down 4% YoY — Revenues missed the mark in the fourth quarter of HPE's first year as a standalone company. — HPE reported its fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2016 results on Tuesday.| S Prabhakaran / FactorDaily: |
Ola unveils in-car system, Ola Play, to allow riders to stream via Apple and Sony, tweak settings like air conditioning, plans rollout to 50K cars by Mar. 2017 — Ride hailing company Ola has launched Ola Play, an in-car system that lets users take control of features inside the car, like entertainment and air conditioning.
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| Amina Elahi / Chicago Tribune: |
Social media monitoring firm Geofeedia lets 31 of 60 employees go after losing access to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram data streams earlier this year — Twitter has cut off Geofeedia's access to its data after a report found that law enforcement has been using Geofeedia to monitor activists and protesters.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches its redesigned Google Sites out of beta, with collaborative editing — For the longest time, Google Sites felt like the forgotten app in Google's productivity suite. Earlier this year, though, the company announced that it would finally give Sites a full overhaul.
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| Jethro Mullen / CNNMoney: |
Twitter briefly suspended CEO Jack Dorsey's account due to an “internal mistake”; reasons for the error are not clear — Twitter has been left red-faced after it briefly suspended its own CEO's account. — For a while late Tuesday, attempts to reach Jack Dorsey's profile produced … | Hal Hodson / New Scientist: |
Google's DeepMind and University of Oxford create lipreading AI that annotated 46.8% of spoken words without error, compared to 12.4% by a professional — Artificial intelligence is getting its teeth into lip reading. A project by Google's DeepMind and the University of Oxford applied deep learning …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Telegram launches Telegraph, a long-form publishing tool similar to Medium and Quip; no account is needed to publish posts — Telegram is branching beyond being a messaging app into something more well-rounded. The company on Tuesday launched Telegraph, a publishing platform with striking similarities to Medium and Quip.
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Oculus Rift will be able to stream Xbox One games via Windows 10 starting December 12 — At Xbox, we're continuously exploring new ways for you to get the most out of your gaming experiences by providing the choice to play how you want, where you want and with whomever you want.| WABC: |
Madison Square Garden Co. says credit card data of visitors to five venues may be compromised due to a breach that lasted from November 2015 to October 2016 — Madison Square Garden disclosed Tuesday it was involved in a massive credit card breach at five of its venues in New York City that lasted almost a year.Sponsor Posts
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