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Sources: Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky to rejoin Y Combinator as partner; Fitbit close to buying Pebble software assets, has sent job offers to 40% of Pebble staff — Pebble CEO Migicovsky said planning to join Y Combinator — Fitbit Inc., the fitness band maker, is close to buying software assets …
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Fitbit confirms Pebble software assets acquisition; Pebble is shutting down, cancels Pebble Time 2 and Core, and will issue Kickstarter refunds — Wearables are in a precarious state — Digital health and fitness-tracking company Fitbit has just officially announced that it is buying key assets …
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SoftBank CEO meets with Trump, says firm will invest $50B, create 50K jobs in US; source says money to come from SoftBank's previously announced $100B tech fund — President-elect says investment will create 50,000 jobs — Son was thwarted in attempts to merge Sprint with T-Mobile
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| Jethro Mullen / CNNMoney: |
Foxconn confirms discussions with US officials about investment to expand US operations, says details will be announced when talks conclude — One of Apple's biggest suppliers is in talks to invest in the United States. — Taiwan-based Foxconn is a giant contract manufacturer that plays …
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Microsoft announces Windows 10 Creators Update enterprise features: better IT tools, security, more — Microsoft plans to add more security and manageability features to Windows 10 Creators Update before its debut in Spring 2017. Here's what's coming. — Microsoft's coming Windows 10 …
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Jack Dorsey announces Square's virtual payment cards now work with Apple Pay — Square Cash is expanding again. — Back in September, Square rolled out virtual payment cards: Digital debit cards that pull directly from a user's Square Cash account. — Now those payment cards work with Apple Pay.
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Pandora unveils its on-demand, personalized music streaming service Premium, with launch expected in Q1 2017 — That Pandora was planning to launch a full fledged Spotify competitor was no secret. The company said as much last year when it bought the ashes of Rdio, which had filed for bankruptcy.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Kantar: iPhone market share up 7 percentage points to 40.5% in US, likely due to Samsung Galaxy Note7 troubles — Missing headphone jack is apparently a ‘non-issue’ for Americans — The US smartphone market is dominated by two big brands, Apple and Samsung, and when one of them flubs its lines …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple debuts single sign-on for iOS and tvOS with 9 partners including Dish, DirecTV, Sling TV, but is missing big names like Comcast, Charter, Verizon FiOS — But the list of companies supporting the feature at launch is pretty weak — The days of having to enter your cable account login details …
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Chrome 55 for Android allows you to download music, video, and web pages for offline viewing on mobile devices; rolling out now — Chrome 55 for Mac, Windows, and Linux was a major update that has the browser default to HTML5 in a bid to further kill Flash usage.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Glassdoor: Facebook dethrones Airbnb as the best tech company to work for in the U.S. — Career website Glassdoor today released its ninth annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 50 best companies to work for in the coming year. Facebook was crowned as the number one tech company to work for in 2017, displacing Airbnb.
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| Kyle Chayka / The Verge: |
Google AMP, Facebook's Instant Articles, and Apple News make articles from fake news sites look the same as those from Bloomberg and The New York Times — If you asked Google who won the popular vote just after the election, there's a chance you would have been sent to a conspiracy blog with bogus results.| USA Today: |
President-elect Trump to host roundtable summit for tech industry leaders on Dec. 14; invitation was sent by Reince Priebus, Jared Kushner, and Peter Thiel — SAN FRANCISCO — President-elect Donald Trump has invited technology industry leaders to a roundtable next week in New York.Sponsor Posts
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