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Google I/O 2017 to be held May 17-19 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California — In a somewhat non-traditional manner, Google has today made official the dates and location for Google I/O 2017. This year's developer conference will take place, once again …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Cisco acquires AppDynamics, which filed to go public last month and was most recently valued at $1.9B, for $3.7B — Cisco said today that it would acquire AppDynamics, which helps companies monitor application performance, for a whopping $3.7 billion. — And now, it would seem …
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| Agam Shah / Computerworld: |
HP recalls 101K laptop batteries for fire hazard in US, Canada, and Mexico, in brands including HP, Compaq, ProBook, Envy, Compaq Presario, and Pavilion — The move expands a recall first announced last year — HP is expanding its recall of laptop batteries with overheating issues that can cause computer damage and even fire.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Dell unveils 11-inch convertible Windows 10 Latitude and Chromebook 11 laptops for schools, available on February 7th — This year marks a first for Dell's education-focused computer family: 2-in-1 laptops. Like the company's other computers destined for schools, the Dell Latitude …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google releases Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 5 with iOS support, the final developer preview before a February launch — Google has delayed the launch of Android Wear 2.0 once, but it looks like the operating system may actually be on track for its early February release.
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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google's 2016 “Bad Ads Report”: 1.7B ads removed compared to 780M in 2015, 200 publishers banned from AdSense for fake news — In its annual “Bad Ads” report, Google says it took down more than double the number of ads in 2016 than it did in 2015 by removing 1.7 billion ads compared to the 780 million removed in 2015.| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple releases iOS 10.3 beta, adds AirPods to Find My iPhone app; AirPods must be within Bluetooth range of another iOS device signed into iCloud to be located — And the MacOS Sierra 10.12.4 developer beta brings Night Shift to Macs to change the displays to a warmer color.
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| Alexis Sobel Fitts / Backchannel: |
Facebook Live is increasingly being used by conservative media personalities instead of talk radio, where some video broadcasts get millions of viewers — How the rough-around-the-edges live-streaming tool became the perfect incubator for conservative news in the Trump age.
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| Ina Fried / Recode: |
Apple limits how often devs can prompt customers for reviews to 3 times/year in iOS 10.3, says it will include an option for users to turn off all such requests — With the next version of iOS, users will also be able to rate programs without having to go to the App Store.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG posts $224 million loss as ‘weak’ selling G5 smartphone drags it down once again — Samsung just recorded its best quarter of business for three years, but the same can't be said of fellow Korean electronics firm LG. LG just carded a KRW 258.80 billion ($223.98 million) net loss for Q4 2016 …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Connected doorbell startup Ring raises $109M Series D from DFJ, Goldman Sachs, Qualcomm, others; firm says its products are now on sale in 100 countries — From beds to fridges and beyond, the so-called Internet of Things took a giant leap forward in 2016, with consumers the world over encouraged …
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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Facebook is testing ephemeral Stories which sit at the top of News Feed in its main app in Ireland, mimicking Snapchat and Instagram — After successfully copying Snapchat with Instagram Stories, Facebook is at it again in its big blue app. — The same interface, which Facebook …
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MacRumors. Tweets: @rrhoover, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, and @stevekovach. Thanks:@redletterdave
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: Amazon expands into sea freight deliveries, acting as a freight forwarder for 150+ ocean freight deliveries from China to US since October 2016 — Amazon has begun shipping products from Chinese merchant partners to its U.S. warehouses via ocean freighters, the Wall Street Journal reports.| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
App integration startup Button raises $20M Series B led by Norwest Venture Partners, brings total funding to $34M — When you ask Button CEO Mike Jaconi what his company is going to spend a fresh $20 million dollars in funding on, his answer isn't the typical fallback on the overly-generic word “growth.”Sponsor Posts
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