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Twitter partners with Bloomberg Media to create a 24/7 ad-supported Twitter-exclusive live video news channel, expected to start in fall — New Service Comes as Social-Media Firm Fights for Video Ad Dollars — Twitter Inc. TWTR -0.78% has found its first partner for its push into round-the-clock streaming television: Bloomberg.
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Trump is launching a new tech group, the American Technology Council, to “transform and modernize” the US government, led by ex-Microsoft exec Chris Liddell — He'll consult with executives — we don't yet know who — in June. — U.S. President Donald Trump intends to huddle …
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's cash reserve has topped $250B, which is greater than Walmart or P&G's market value, and exceeds the foreign-currency reserves of UK and Canada combined — Tech giant's unequaled stash draws calls for buybacks, acquisitions as corporate tax shift looms
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung debuts Bixby voice command feature for the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus in South Korea, a month after launching the flagship smartphones — Samsung Electronics has rolled out the voice command feature for its Bixby virtual assistant that was missing for the launch of Galaxy S8.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's “Speech Synthesis Markup Language” now lets Alexa developers add personality to Skills' responses by controlling pronunciation, pitch, timing, and more — Amazon's Alexa is going to sound more human. The company announced this week the addition of a new set … | CNNMoney: |
Sales of ebooks in US dropped 19% during first 9 months of 2016 and declined 17% in UK for all of 2016, as physical books sales rose, say publisher associations — Coloring books help adults de-stress — Are physical books the new vinyl? — New data suggest that the reading public … | Mark Scott / New York Times: |
A look at how computer scientists, tech giants, and startups are using algorithms and big data to combat fake news during election season in Europe — LONDON — In the battle against fake news, Andreas Vlachos — a Greek computer scientist living in a northern English town — is on the front lines.
Tweets: @nytimesworld
| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
How Obama's intervention on Title II sparked hyper-partisanship at the FCC, and Ajit Pai's public stance on regulations changed as chance to be chairman opened — The answer - because net-neutrality slayer Ajit Pai wants to stay in charge — Special report This week, Ajit Pai … | Bloomberg: |
Profile of ex-Googler Colin Huang whose WeChat-embedded social commerce app Pinduoduo has raised $100M+ valuing company at $1.5B+, say sources — Ex Googler Colin Huang created Pinduoduo, a fast-growing Shanghai unicorn that lets people shop together online and earn group discounts.
Tweets: @bloombergasia
| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
A look at exclusive social networks and dating apps like Best of All Worlds and The League, which cater to the world's one percent — On the internet, no one can see your Rolex — The social network Best of All Worlds is five years old (ancient by Silicon Valley standards) … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Developer scraped 40K Tinder selfies from Bay Area and uploaded dataset to machine-learning platform Kaggle; Tinder says terms of service violated — Tinder users have many motives for uploading their likeness to the dating app. But contributing a facial biometric to a downloadable data set …
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Gig, a car-sharing app made by roadside assistance service AAA, launches in Bay Area, is like Zipcar but doesn't require cars be returned at specific locations — Gig, a new car-sharing app created by the emergency roadside assistance service AAA rolled out to the Bay Area today.
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