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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.| Reuters: |
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 … | 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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Coda, a collaborative editor with word processor and spreadsheet tools, launches in private beta, reveals $60M in funding over two rounds, Reid Hoffman on board — From rows and columns to custom apps — When Shishir Mehrotra worked at YouTube, he was struck by the relatively pedestrian tools that kept the site running.
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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 … | Quinn Norton: |
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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Twitter unveils user safety roadmap through Jan. 2018: expand definitions of non-consensual nudity, update policy around hate, add info for suspended accounts — As we said last week, we're updating our approach to make Twitter a safer place. This won't be a quick or easy fix, but we're committed to getting it right.
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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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources say launch of Verizon's new live online TV service, which is separate from Go90, is delayed until Spring 2018 at the earliest — Programming deals still in negotiation, strategy seen adrift — Online streaming TV is ‘absolutely critical,’ CEO said| 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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Intel and Amazon partner to release a new development kit enabling Alexa voice-control capabilities in third-party smart home devices — Intel Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday they're teaming up to deliver a new development kit that allows developers to embed Amazon's Alexa voice-control capabilities …
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Founders of company that owns Tezos code seek to oust head of the Swiss foundation set up to manage its $232M ICO, putting project at risk — Anna Irrera, Steve Stecklow, Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi — ZUG, Switzerland/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just three months ago, a tech project called Tezos …
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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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