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Apple says it plans a $350B “direct contribution” to US economy over next five years through repatriating overseas profits, new infrastructure projects, more — $350 Billion Contribution to US Economy Over Next Five Years — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced …
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Apple says it expects to make tax repatriation payments of ~$38B and plans to open new US campus later this year that will initially house customer tech support — Apple has previously pledged to invest more in U.S. manufacturing, telling CNBC's “Mad Money” that it would invest $1 billion fund …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Cloud AutoML, a service to build image recognition and other custom AI models for developers, including those with no ML expertise — Google today announced the alpha launch of AutoML Vision, a new service that helps developers — including those with no machine learning …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Project Fi now caps data bills at $60, entering the crowded market of “unlimited data” plans, will throttle speeds at 15GB — Google's Project Fi cell service never played the “unlimited data” game that most carriers in the U.S. like to play (and which is never truly unlimited).
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Anonymously-run cryptocurrency lending and exchange platform BitConnect, long suspected of being a Ponzi scheme, shuts down — Bitconnect, the lending and exchange platform that was long suspected by many in the crypto community of being a Ponzi scheme, has announced it's shutting down.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google to make page speed a factor in mobile search ranking starting in July, says change will only affect pages that “deliver the slowest experience to users” — Google today announced a significant change in how it ranks websites for mobile searches: it will now take page speed …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook begins testing Watch Party, a new feature for groups that lets members watch videos simultaneously while continuing to comment and interact — A new feature for groups — Facebook today began testing Watch Party, a new feature available to groups that lets members watch videos …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple opens Siri feature that plays a podcast from news orgs when asked for the news to all users in US, UK, and Australia with iOS 11.2 or later — Update: The feature is also rolling out in Australia, with ABC, SBS, and Seven Network as sources. — Earlier this month …
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| Brian Boucher / artnet News: |
Google's Arts & Culture app becomes the number one free app on the iOS App Store after its face-matching feature that was added in December goes viral — The search behemoth's app was all the rage on social media this weekend. — Googling yourself took on a whole new meaning this weekend.
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Podcast network TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and trademark infringement in connection with the distribution of audio and video content — TWiT, officially known as This Week in Tech, is suing Twitter. The audio and video media platform alleges breach of written contract … | Liz Hamren / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft brings 15-inch Surface Book 2 to 17 more countries starting today; both 15-inch and 13-inch variants will come to more countries over next two months — Surface Book 2 is the most powerful Surface we've ever built, and customers love that they can run their most demanding applications from anywhere.
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| Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal: |
Examining the arguments for antitrust regulation against Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon suggests they are safe for now, but history shows that could change — A few technology giants dominate their worlds just as Standard Oil and AT&T once did. Should they be broken up?
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9to5Mac and Axios
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| Zeynep Tufekci / Wired: |
Free speech online has grown even as Facebook, Google, Twitter control more attention; most effective censorship now is meddling with trust, not muzzling speech — FOR MOST OF modern history, the easiest way to block the spread of an idea was to keep it from being mechanically disseminated.
Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci. Tweets: @umairh, @zeynep, @shapshak, @codinghorror, @arikaokrent, @brendannyhan, @anthony, @noupside, @derekpost, and @digiphile
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Flurry data: overall app session activity grew 6% in 2017; shopping app usage grew 54%, media, music, entertainment apps grew 43%, lifestyle apps dropped 40% — The app economy is continuing to grow, with the worldwide revenue from app stores expected to top $110 billion this year, according to recent estimates from App Annie.
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: online polling company SurveyMonkey is preparing to go public later this year, as talks with banks accelerate; firm was valued at $2B in 2014 — It would be one of the most closely-watched IPOs of 2018. — The 19-year-old polling company SurveyMonkey is preparing to go public later this year …
Tweets: @gilliantan, @teddyschleifer, and @melodyhahm
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Cryptocurrency values decline sharply, with Bitcoin down 25%+, briefly below $10K, Ethereum down as much as 30%, and Ripple down 40% at one point on Tuesday — Bitcoin briefly plunged below $10,000 late Tuesday afternoon on Coinbase, after first topping the psychologically key level in late November.
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