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Billboard's Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts to give more weight to subscription-based streaming services and paid tiers of hybrid services starting in 2018 — Billboard has announced that its Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts — which measure singles and albums, respectively … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: some employees feel Facebook is being used as a scapegoat for 2016 election outcome using flawed hindsight about factors mostly beyond FB's control — In the summer of 2015, a Facebook engineer was combing through the company's internal data when he noticed something unusual.
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Facebook Messenger now lets users send money to friends via PayPal, adds PayPal's first bot for customer service — PayPal users in the U.S. will now be able to send and receive person-to-person payments over Facebook Messenger, the company announced this morning.
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Atlas Informatics, a search engine for your digital footprint, says it is shutting down; Atlas raised $20M+ last November — Seattle startup Atlas Informatics, led by Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter, plans to shut down and stop offering its search technology as of Oct. 25 …
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Docs show Uber, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, others are forming “The Coalition for the American Dream” group to lobby for DACA; Uber confirms participation — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nearly two dozen major U.S. companies in technology and other industries are planning …
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SiliconBeat, Engadget, GeekWire, Vanity Fair, Silicon Republic, Silicon Valley Business …, and SiliconANGLE. Thanks:@sal19
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Flexible car ownership marketplace Fair.com raises up to $1B in venture and debt financing from BMW's iVentures, Penske Automotive Group, Sherpa Capital, others — Fair.com — an all-digital car marketplace that was co-founded by car industry vets Georg Bauer of BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Tesla … | Reveal: |
Only 22 big tech companies out of 211 surveyed revealed their government-mandated EEO-1 diversity data — When the popular messaging platform Slack won a fastest-rising startup award last year, the company sent four black female engineers to accept it. — Onstage at the TechCrunch awards show …
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Journalist Quinn Norton says author and tech evangelist Robert Scoble sexually assaulted her at an O'Reilly unconference in the early 2010s — Foo Camp, the original unconference thrown by O'Reilly every year, is one of my favorite events in the technology world.
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| Bloomberg: |
China-based Horizon Robotics, which makes chips that are optimized to run neural networks, is raising $100M Series A+ led by Intel Capital — Horizon Robotics, a startup that makes computer chips, is set to complete a $100 million funding round led by Intel Capital as it targets building …
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Review of Harman Kardon Invoke, a $199 smart speaker with Microsoft's Cortana assistant: great sound, sharp design, but it's twice as costly as Amazon's Echo — A smart speaker for Microsoft's world — For a company that makes a voice-controlled assistant, it has become table stakes …
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Digital Trends, Windows Blog, VentureBeat, Paul Thurrott, ZDNet, CNBC, GeekWire, USA Today, Digital Trends, SlashGear, CNET, Windows Central, AskWoody, and Engadget
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
CoinList, provider of ICO management and compliance services, spins out of AngelList into a separate company led by former Sidewire CEO Andy Bromberg — CoinList, a provider of financial services for staging and managing initial coin offerings (ICOs), is spinning out of AngelList …
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Cisco to acquire machine learning startup Perspica and integrate its real-time data processing tool into AppDynamics — Real-time data processing tool will be integrated with AppDynamics — Cisco today announced plans to acquire San Jose-based startup Perspica, a company that specializes … Sponsor Posts
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