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| Shareen Pathak / Digiday: |
Amazon's “other revenue”, mostly composed of ad sales, grew 58% YoY to $1.12B; net sales from physical stores, reported for the first time, was $1.2B in Q3 — Amazon is making good on its promise to eat advertising. — In its third-quarter earnings report today … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
As pre-orders open, Apple says iPhone X screen replacement will cost $279, compared to $169 for iPhone 8 Plus; other out-of-warranty repairs will cost $549 — The iPhone X went on sale today, and with it, Apple released some information about the phone's repair pricing — and like the phone itself, it gets expensive.
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| Rob Goldman / Facebook: |
Facebook's update on ad transparency: tests start in Canada in Nov., in US and elsewhere by summer, will show all ads running, archive US election ads, more — When it comes to advertising on Facebook, people should be able to tell who the advertiser is and see the ads they're running, especially for political ads.| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
WhatsApp starts rolling-out feature that lets you delete sent messages within 7 minutes — Message recalls have been rumored on WhatsApp for months now and every couple of weeks, we got a glimpse of the functionality in a beta version but it was always a false alert and never properly worked.| The Economic Times: |
Canalys and Counterpoint Research say India overtook US to become world's second largest smartphone market in Q3 — NEW DELHI: India has pipped the US to become the world's second-largest smartphone market at the end of the third quarter, according to two research firms …
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| Alison Snyder / Axios: |
Researchers at Vicarious AI have developed a new brain-inspired AI technique that can solve CAPTCHAs with less training data than other AI techniques — One of the ways computers distinguish humans from robots is with CAPTCHAs — that little box with a weird letter combination at the bottom of your online ticket or other transaction.
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| Michael Zelenko / The Verge: |
Survey of US sentiment toward big tech firms including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and others on trust, privacy, news accuracy, more — Illustrations by Garret Beard and William Joel — This year marked a sea change in our attitude toward tech's largest players — and not for the better.
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says people are watching YouTube on TVs for 100M hours/day, up 70% in the last year — YouTube viewing on actual TV sets is up 70 percent in the last year. — YouTube has been trying to position itself as a TV competitor for years.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Walmart testing robots in 50+ stores for repetitive jobs like scanning shelves for out-of-stock products, incorrect pricing, and mislabeling — The world's largest retailer has had a well-documented struggle with empty shelves in its stores. — Walmart is testing the use of aisle-roaming robots … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Google working on fix for Pixel 2 XL display issues and Pixel 2 “clicking” noise, will roll out software update within weeks; warranty extended to two years — Shortly after Google's new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL began shipping, some users noted that the devices seemed to have some... quirks.
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Android Police, Pixel User Community, Neowin, BGR, Gizmodo, International Business Times, TalkAndroid.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, and CNET. Tweets: @backlon
| Hamza Shaban / Washington Post: |
Uber hires PepsiCo's general counsel Tony West as chief legal officer; West served as a third ranking DOJ official between 2012 and 2014 — Uber announced Friday that it has hired Tony West, a former Justice Department official and the current general counsel at PepsiCo, as its chief legal officer …
| Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab: |
Civil, the blockchain-based system to fund journalism, has raised $5M from ConsenSys and has attracted its first publication, news and politics site Popula — One of the most confusing efforts to fund journalism in recent memory is inching closer to reality.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Analyst: iPhone 8 and 8 Plus accounted for 16% of all US iPhone sales in the past quarter, compared to 43% for 7 and 7 Plus during the same period last year — Purchase data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) suggests that the iPhone 8 is selling in smaller numbers than an ‘S’ model.| Microsoft Investor Relations: |
Microsoft Q1: revenue of $24.54B, up 12% YoY, vs. $23.56B expected; net income up 16% YoY to $6.6B; Productivity revenue hits $8.2B, up 28% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — October 26, 2017 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30, 2017:
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