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Twitter says it does not block or remove controversial tweets of world leaders because it would hide important information people should see and debate — There's been a lot of discussion about political figures and world leaders on Twitter, and we want to share our stance.
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Amazon announces Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit for wearables and Alexa Premium Voice Development Kit to improve far-field voice reception in third-party hardware — Amazon wants to bring Alexa to more devices than smart speakers, Fire TV and various other consumer electronics for the home, like alarm clocks.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google says Assistant is available on 400M+ devices, while it sold more than one Home every second since Home Mini Oct. launch, which translates to 6M+ speakers — Google Assistant is now available on 400 million devices, including more than 6 million Home smart speakers sold since the Home Mini first became available last October.
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Sources: Benchmark Capital will sell $900M worth of Uber shares, or 14.5% of its stake, to SoftBank-led consortium; Benchmark tried to sell about 25% — The firm at the center of the Uber power struggle tried to part with 25 percent of its shares. — Benchmark Capital will end up selling …
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What to expect at CES 2018: from energy efficient laptops, high-end TVs, and self-driving car tech to AR/VR gaming, robots, and smart home tech — It's January, which means that Las Vegas, or the bit that pretends not to be Las Vegas for tax reasons, will play host to CES.
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Intel faces at least three class action lawsuits over Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, while additional claims may come from big cloud service providers — Plaintiffs claim compensation for security flaws and alleged slowdown that fixing computers will cause, while corporations count cost of corrections| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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Spotify's Chief Content Officer Stefan Blom is leaving ahead of its IPO; the company hasn't named a successor yet — Stefan Blom's departure may raise questions. — Spotify's top content executive is leaving, just ahead of the streaming music company's planned public offering.
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Internet Association, representing Amazon, Facebook, Google and others, says it will join upcoming lawsuit against net neutrality repeal as an intervening party — The companies will intervene in a coming lawsuit through their trade group, the Internet Association.
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Nielsen: 54% of all US music is now streamed, surpassing all formats for the first time; on demand audio hit 400B streams in 2017, up from 252B in 2016 — U.S. album sales declined in 2017 as streaming continues to grow, according to Nielsen's year-end music report released this week.| TechCrunch: |
Sources: GoPro is cutting 200-300 jobs, largely impacting its Karma drone division — GoPro is in the process of laying off around 200-300 employees this week, TechCrunch has learned from sources close to the company. The hits to the company were largely concentrated in its aerial division …
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Sources on how Snap's hub-and-spoke org structure, with Evan Spiegel at the center of all decision-making, has employees on edge amid major overhaul of Snapchat — This fall, employees on Snap's product team received a surprising message from CEO Evan Spiegel: stop what you're working on, they were told.| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Google invests undisclosed sum in Chinese game streaming service Chushou, which has now raised $120M+; Chushou claims ~8M streamers and 250K live streams a day — BEIJING (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google has joined an investment in Chinese live-stream mobile game platform Chushou … Sponsor Posts
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