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| Amazon.com: |
During record-breaking holiday, Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa remote were #1 and #2 top sellers with “tens of millions of Alexa-enabled devices” sold — Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote were the #1 and #2 top-selling products across all categories on Amazon
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9to5Mac, Business Insider, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, GeekWire, CNET, Firstpost, Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle, BGR, Ubergizmo, BGR India, Retail Dive, 500ish Words, PhoneDog.com, Tech Times, Axios, CNBC, ZDNet, Android Central, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, Android and Me, Seeking Alpha, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @mcwm, @shiraovide, @stevekovach, @danrayburn, @mdudas, @gauravshukla, @joshelman, @jeffawilke, and @shiraovide
| Rick Webb / NewCo Shift: |
The vision of internet pioneers that a globally connected, transparent world with free access to information is inevitably good turned out to be wrong — I'm sorry I was wrong. We all were. Last night, as I was falling asleep after a lovely Christmas, a thought popped into my head.
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Gizmodo and Simon Willison's Weblog
Tweets: @anildash, @nicknotned, @a_w_gordon, @tomcoates, @cindygallop, @jacksmithiv, @moorehn, @mjgault, and @adrjeffries
| Chris Hamby / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Safran, which sells fingerprint-analysis software used by FBI, 18K+ US law enforcement agencies, didn't disclose some code was from Kremlin-linked firm — In a secret deal, a French company purchased code from a Kremlin-connected firm, incorporated it into its own software … | Washington Post: |
Sources: years after FBI began tracking Russian disinformation efforts and US intelligence agencies drew up counter operations, the US still equivocates — The first email arrived in the inbox of CounterPunch, a left-leaning American news and opinion website, at 3:26 a.m. — the middle of the day in Moscow.
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Washington Post and Axios
Facebook: Greg Jaffe. Tweets: @senblumenthal, @nakashimae, @tomcottonar, @sam_vinograd, @thebeatwithari, @andreachalupa, @kimdozier, @kimdozier, @ericgarland, @adamentous, @elilake, @propornot, @profcarroll, @omriceren, @yashalevine, @omriceren, @sashaingber, @ilvestoomas, @michaeldweiss, @cjcmichel, @maerroshan, @ericgeller, @adamentous, @gregjaffe, and @gregjaffe
| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
US Library of Congress will no longer archive the text of every tweet, will instead archive tweets on a “very selective basis”; the archive has yet to go online — The Library of Congress just announced some changes to its long-running plan to archive all of Twitter.
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Library of Congress Blog, Gizmodo, ABC News, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, and Engadget
Tweets: @palewire, @john_overholt, @dancohen, @mhintzesq, @eiratansey, @raffi, @jessienyc, and @raju
| David Kline / Wired: |
How Xiaomi's investment in 100 startups making cheap connected gadgets like air purifiers and rice cookers, sold in new Mi Home Stores, helped firm's turnaround — A YEAR AGO, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi (sha-oh-me) had fallen from the world's most valuable unicorn to a “unicorpse.”
Tweets: @alexosterwalder
| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
iPhone X's Face ID inexplicably can't approve family purchases as Touch ID could, requiring users to enter their passwords — Touch ID could be used before, but iPhone X owners must enter their passwords. — iPhone X owners have found that Face ID isn't available as an authentication method for the …
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SlashGear, BGR India, Digital Trends, CNET, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, Tech Times, BGR, Neowin, and Gizmodo
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp will drop BlackBerry OS and Windows Phone support on December 31 — WhatsApp has detailed its plans for older mobile operating systems, with less than a week before the end of the year. The Facebook-owned app will end support for BlackBerry OS (including BlackBerry 10) and Windows Phone 8.0 (and older) on December 31, 2017.
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BetaNews, Engadget, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Fone Arena, and Seeking Alpha
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber to sell US subprime auto-leasing business, Xchange Leasing, to car marketplace Fair.com; net book value of Xchange's 30K+ vehicles was ~$400M — Ride-hailing firm had planned to wind down the business after losses — Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to sell …
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Reuters, Washington Post, Ubergizmo, Reuters, TechSpot, Business Insider, Crunchbase News, The Verge, Mashable, CNET, Fortune, and socalTECH.com. Tweets: @tweetermeyer
| Rick Tetzeli / Fortune: |
History shows Apple's success since 1998 has rarely hinged on initial designs but on innovation and improvement over time — A generation of peerless products made Apple the world's most valuable company. Now some in the i-universe are questioning if the magic—in the post-Steve Jobs era—is still there.
Tweets: @mrinaldesai
| Dave Smith / Business Insider: |
HQ Trivia arrives on Android in limited beta and says its goal is full availability by January 1 — - The app's makers say they are working to get HQ Trivia in the hands of all Android users on January 1, 2018. — HQ Trivia, the hottest iPhone game of 2017, previously said it would release an Android version in time for Christmas.
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, International Business Times, Tom's Guide, Droid Life, Android Beat, and AndroidHeadlines.com
Tweets: @hqtrivia and @kantrowitz
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon plans to expand ad offerings in 2018, especially on search and video products, and increase off platform ad sales, with ad tech firms like Kargo — - It also has plans to increase advertising sales off its platform, including partnering with third-party technology companies to sell partnered TV and mobile ads.
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Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @mkatz0630, @mikeisaac, @mdudas, @kantrowitz, and @haydencapital. Thanks:@mattrosoff
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