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Facebook hires Campbell Brown, ex-NBC News reporter and CNN prime-time host, to lead News Partnerships team, says she won't be involved in content decisions — Facebook is turning to a former television news journalist to help smooth over its strained ties to the news media …
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Apple missed internal revenue and profit goals in 2016, company's SEC filing says, the first miss since Tim Cook became CEO — Executives miss out on part of cash incentives as annual sales, operating profit fall short of goals — Apple Inc. said Chief Executive Tim Cook …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Intel's 94.5x55x5mm Compute Card with laptop level CPU can be inserted into all-in-one PCs, smart TVs, other devices; more details will be announced in June — Compute Card is intended as a more versatile replacement for the Compute Stick. — Intel mostly missed the boat on smartphones …
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| Michael Cooney / Network World: |
FTC sues D-Link over lax security in its routers and IP cameras, says D-Link used hard-coded logins, left private software sign-in key code online for 6 months — FTC: D-Link failed to take reasonable steps to secure its routers and Internet Protocol (IP) cameras, potentially compromising sensitive consumer information
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Google stops supporting Google+ Hangouts API; no new apps can be built as of today, and existing apps will stop working after April 25 — Draw with your face? Conference call ping pong? Not any more. Google today quietly revealed that it will shut down the Hangouts API …
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Nvidia and Mercedes-Benz announce partnership for AI car technology, with first product expected to roll out within 12 months — Nvidia already announced a partnership at CES to bring a AI self-driving car to production, and now Mercedes-Benz is also teaming up with the GPU-maker on a vehicle with AI on board.| Mehedi Hassan / MSPoweruser: |
Leaked screenshots show Project Neon, an upcoming incremental upgrade to Windows 10's design that will focus heavily on animations — Late last year we reported on Project NEON - the upcoming UI upgrade for Windows 10. Recently we managed a closer look at Microsoft's internal plans …
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Sources: DJI acquires majority stake in Hasselblad, the iconic Swedish camera company — Jan 5, 2017, 10:19 amJan 5, 2017, 11:04 am — Last year DJI took a minority stake in Hasselblad, the iconic Swedish camera company. The companies also announced a partnership to work together …
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Luminous Landscape, Yahoo! Finance, TechSpot, Digital Photography Review, The Verge, Silicon Republic, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Engadget, GeekTime, Photo Rumors, Ubergizmo, and PetaPixel. Tweets: @lamlux
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Tod Nielsen named CEO of FinancialForce, a Salesforce Platform-based ERP firm that raised $193M to date; Nielsen is the former CEO of Heroku, EVP at Salesforce — FinancialForce, a cloud ERP solution built on the Salesforce platform, announced today that Tod Nielsen, an experienced executive … | Alastair Sharp / Reuters: |
Canada's Competition Bureau closes 2-year-old probe into Apple's contracts with carriers, finding no evidence of anti-competitive conduct — Canada's Competition Bureau on Friday said it had not found sufficient evidence that Apple Inc had engaged in anti-competitive conduct, closing a two-year investigation into the iPhone maker.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Alpine announces iLX-107 aftermarket infotainment system with wireless CarPlay, available in February for $900 — While wireless CarPlay implementations have been supported since iOS 9, the functionality has so far been limited to a single BMW model. That will change next month, however …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Renault-Nissan is the first customer for Microsoft's Azure-based, rebranded Connected Vehicle Platform — Company shifts away from Windows in favor of flexible approach that lets automakers pick the tech they need — Microsoft Corp. is rebooting its push to sell software for cars …
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Fitbit CEO says the company plans to launch a wearable app store “as soon as possible” — Another giant sign that a smartwatch is in the works — Fitbit wants to launch its own wearable app store “as soon as possible,” the company's co-founder and CEO James Park said in an interview at CES earlier today.Sponsor Posts
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