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Zuckerberg's manifesto is a sign Facebook's power should be checked — It is certainly possible that, as per recent speculation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to run for President. It is also possible that Facebook is on the verge of failing “just like MySpace”.
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Verizon and Yahoo reduce price of acquisition deal by $350M, now valued at about $4.48B, and will evenly split cost of data breaches — NEW YORK, NY and SUNNYVALE, CA - Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced that they have amended …
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
KGI: Apple's 2017 OLED iPhone to have front-facing camera with 3D sensing abilities; depth sensing could be used in facial recognition and games — The rumored “iPhone 8” with an edge-to-edge OLED display will gain a “revolutionary” front-facing camera system that consists of three modules … | Business Insider: |
Sources: Snap faced tough questions from potential investors in a meeting Tuesday, focusing on the deceleration of user growth and the threat of Facebook — Snapchat executives in New York were peppered with questions on Tuesday about competition from Facebook, user growth for the disappearing-message app …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Kubernetes orchestrator now available on Microsoft's Azure Container Service; preview of Windows Server Containers with Kubernetes also available now on ACS — It's an open-source love fest: The Kubernetes container cluster manager is now generally available on Microsoft's Azure Container Service.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Jay Z is launching a VC fund, which will partner with Sherpa Capital, though it will have a separate brand, and investments won't be led by Sherpa — Rapper and ubiquitous mogul Jay Z is launching a venture capital fund, according to multiple sources.
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| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Google to discontinue Site Search on April 1, its search tool for publishers' websites, according to email to customers and partners — This spring, Google plans to discontinue Google Site Search, a product it has sold to web publishers that wanted to apply the industry's leading search technology to their own sites.| Jessica Toonkel / Reuters: |
Sources: Facebook is in talks to live stream one MLB game per week during upcoming season — Facebook Inc is in talks with Major League Baseball to live stream one game per week during the upcoming season, which could be a key win as the social media platform works to offer more live sports … | Luciana Lopez / Reuters: |
UPS tests drone deliveries in rural Florida, aiming to make delivery routes more efficient, will wait for regulatory environment to mature before larger rollout — Package delivery company United Parcel Service Inc tested home delivery by drone in Lithia, Florida, on Monday … | Jim McGregor / Forbes: |
ARM buys European lightweight cellular tech firms Mistbase and NextG-Com as part of new initiative to offer cellular modems for IoT — Through a recent blog post, ARM made major announcements both in its efforts to enable new applications and to offer its first cellular modem.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Instagram hires Kristina Schake, formerly head of communications for Hillary Clinton's campaign and Michelle Obama, as communications chief — Kristina Schake is joining Instagram to lead comms, and current comms boss, David Swain, is leaving after almost a decade at Facebook.| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
Google will let Media Rating Council audit YouTube ad data, as well as ads displayed on non-Google sites purchased via AdWords, DoubleClick Bid Manager — Third party data collection partnerships will be vetted to boost marketers' confidence in ad viewing measurementsSponsor Posts
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