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Black Friday online sales reach an estimated $3.34B, up 21.6% from last year; mobile sales rise 33% to $1.2B — Black Friday online shopping is continuing to grow, and this Friday was another record-breaking day. According to a new report out this evening from Adobe …
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Google says its Neural Machine Translation System shows signs of “interlingua” common representation, translating language pairs never seen by the system — Posted by Mike Schuster (Google Brain Team), Melvin Johnson (Google Translate) and Nikhil Thorat (Google Brain Team)
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Marc Andreessen talks about sectors tech is disrupting next, flying and autonomous cars, IoT, AR, VR, and more — Marc Andreessen may be the most dedicated optimist in Silicon Valley. During a year when the public's attention was often focused on international conflict, mass shootings … | Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Android Nougat's new file-based encryption is a move in the right direction, but Google's efforts to achieve lock screen security are still six years behind iOS — Over the past few years we've heard more about smartphone encryption than, quite frankly, most of us expected to hear in a lifetime.
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| Sheera Frenkel / BuzzFeed: |
How the rise of the Internet, Facebook, and fake news has fueled anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar — YANGON, Myanmar — The internet brought Donald Trump to Myanmar. Or, at least that's how Shar Ya Wai first remembers hearing about the Republican president-elect. — “One day, nobody knew him.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
One of Trump's advisers on FCC, Mark Jamison, argued last month that the agency should only regulate radio spectrum licenses, scale back all other functions — FCC should handle spectrum licenses, but nothing else, Trump advisor wrote. — A Donald Trump advisor who will help set … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
After pivoting from app sales to app analytics and intelligence, Apptopia raises another seed round of $2.7M, led by Sound Ventures — Apptopia, a startup that began its life as a marketplace for reselling apps before morphing into the app intelligence provider that's now used by Google …
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| The Economic Times: |
Sources: India's Ola is seeking to raise at a $3B to $4B valuation, down from its $5B valuation from November 2015 round — NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: India's largest ride-hailing app Ola is preparing to bite the bullet and accept fresh funding at a lower valuation as it seeks to shore … | Bloomberg: |
Work on Apple's $1B Irish data center delayed until after court hearing in March; locals fear Apple will back out as some contest environmental, economic impact — Objections to Irish data center approval to be heard by judge — Tiny village in west of country fears investment may be lost
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Payments provider Stripe raises $150M Series D at a $9B valuation led by General Catalyst and CapitalG, bringing total amount raised by Stripe to about $440M — Stripe — the company that lets websites and apps incorporate payments services by way of an API and a few lines of code … | Christoph Steitz / Reuters: |
Report: BMW's i Ventures VC fund increased to $500M from $100M, to relocate from NY to Bay Area — BMW (BMWG.DE) is increasing the size of its venture capital fund, BMW i Ventures, to 500 million euros (425 million pounds) from 100 million, German business daily Handelsblatt said on Sunday …
| Neal E. Boudette / New York Times: |
US auto safety regulator NHTSA proposes voluntary guidelines calling on phone makers to limit functionality in their software while users are driving — Apple iPhones and other hand-held devices have long had an airplane mode that shuts off wireless communications to prevent interference …
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