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Amazon Prime Video app starts rolling out on Apple TV, including in the US, UK, Canada, some European countries, and elsewhere — It's been six months since Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that Amazon Prime Video would be coming to Apple TV later this year, and now that app is officially beginning … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils ARM LTE-enabled Windows 10 PCs with “all-day” battery life, including $599 Asus NovaGo with 4GB RAM, HP Envy x2; HP coming in spring, Asus TBD — A fresh challenge to Intel's PC dominance — Microsoft and Qualcomm are officially unveiling the first ARM-powered Windows 10 laptops today.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Mozilla countersues Yahoo Holdings and Oath, after they filed against Mozilla last week for switching the default search engine from Yahoo to Google — A suit and countersuit are related to a problematic agreement that former CEO Marissa Mayer crafted (badly).
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube says it's pulling support for Amazon Echo Show today, will cut access to YouTube on Amazon FireTV starting Jan. 1; Amazon stops selling new Nest devices — New Nest devices have mysteriously disappeared from Amazon — Three months ago, YouTube pulled its programming …
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| Michael Galvez / The Keyword: |
Google updates Search with expanded Featured Snippets and extra info for a single search term as well as queries spanning multiple related searches — Search is not just about answering your questions—it's also about discovery. We search to explore new topics of interest … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft rolls out its collaborative Whiteboard app for Windows 10 users, soliciting feedback while it is in preview — When it announced the new Surface Pro a few months back, Microsoft also used the opportunity to preview Whiteboard, a Windows 10 app designed to offer creative and business collaboration across devices.
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| Jon Christian / The Outline: |
Contributing writers to publications including Mashable, Inc, Business Insider, and Fast Company say they accepted payments in exchange for promoting companies — An Outline investigation found that contributors to prominent publications have taken payments in exchange for positive coverage.
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Tweets: @felixsalmon, @joshuatopolsky, @nbj914, @om, @marshallk, @dannysullivan, @jasongay, @kemc, @jank0, and @benjihyam
| Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
Unicode Consortium announces beta version of 2018 emoji, introducing ability to flip direction of emoji, removal of proposed “Frowning Pile Of Poo” emoji, more — Unicode last night announced the beta version of next year's emoji release. [1]
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Tweets: @r4dyc, @chrismessina, @emojipedia, and @notwaldorf
| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Cyberscoop: |
Belarusian police arrest man suspected of operating a sprawling botnet network called Andromeda, which had been around since 2011 before its takedown — The prolific hacker behind the Andromeda botnet was brought down by open source intelligence, according to the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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Europol, Fortune, Recorded Future, SiliconANGLE, theWHIR.com, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Cyberscoop, HackRead, IT PRO, and The Independent
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Unsecured database of keyboard app AI.type leaks 577GB of data from 31M users and all of their contacts, includes 374M+ phone numbers, 10M+ email accounts, more — The app maker's database wasn't protected with a password, leaving exposed its users' most private information.
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Tweets: @doriantaylor, @zackwhittaker, @passy, @zackwhittaker, @paul_furley, @jamesrbuk, and @faris
| Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast: |
A look at “niche memes”, personal clip art diaries teens post on Instagram to close-knit followers, a trend that took off when they returned to school this fall — Almost every day, while she's waiting for soccer practice to begin or for her mom to pick her up from school …
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| Catherine Clifford / CNBC: |
Twitter releases 2017 annual data through Nov. 20: Trump most-tweeted-about global leader in the world, Obama had two of the three most-liked tweets of the year — Twitter, founded in 2006, has gotten a lot of attention in 2017, thanks largely to President Donald Trump.| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
San Jose-based Fetch Robotics, maker of automated warehouse robots, raises $25M Series B led by Sway Ventures — Fetch Robotics Inc. is announcing early Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in a new funding aimed at meeting accelerating demand for its warehouse robots.
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VentureBeat, Fetch Robotics, and Forbes
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple introduces a new pay-per-install App Store ad product called Search Ads Basic, changes the existing pay-per-click product name to Search Ads Advanced — Apple today is introducing a new way for app developers to acquire users for their apps: it's launching a pay-per-install advertising product called Search Ads Basic.
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Search Engine Land, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and Seeking Alpha
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Magna: digital ad spend surpassed TV worldwide in 2017 for the first time, with digital taking $209B, 41% of the market, and TV taking $178B, 35% of the market — You knew it was coming. — We've been headed here for a while. But this was the year it actually happened: Advertisers spent more on digital than traditional TV.Sponsor Posts
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