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A behind-the-scenes look at two tumultuous years at Facebook as it battled with fake news, its impact on the election, global affairs, and users' minds — ONE DAY IN late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.
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Sources: Apple is changing its iOS development strategy, moving away from an annual schedule crammed with major features and prioritizing reliability — The company is shaking up its development program to focus more on key features and push back others to the following year.
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Sources: Android P to have deeper Google Assistant integration, better battery life, support for iPhone X-like notches, multiple screens, and foldable displays — Search giant tries again to win over valuable iPhone users — Android P to integrate more tightly with Google's Assistant
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
SEC filing: Apple, LG, Valve invest in $10M secondary share offering by eMagin, a NY-based manufacturer of OLED microdisplays, which can be used in VR headsets — A small company that makes OLED microdisplays is getting some attention from tech giants with big plans for virtual and augmented reality.
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| Dana Cimilluca / Wall Street Journal: |
Broadcom secures $100B of debt financing for its hostile Qualcomm bid; KKR and CVC join Silver Lake in providing $6B in convertible debt for the deal — KKR, CVC join Silver Lake in providing $6 billion in convertible debt for the bid — Broadcom Ltd. AVGO 2.58% secured as much as $100 billion …
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Sources: Amazon paid ~$90M to acquire security camera firm Blink late last year, for its energy-efficient chips that could extend battery life of other devices — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) paid about $90 million to acquire the maker of Blink home security cameras late last year …
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Source: Amazon is designing its own AI chip for use in Echo and other Alexa-powered devices, following its 2015 acquisition of chip maker Annapurna Labs — Amazon.com is developing a chip designed for artificial intelligence to work on the Echo and other hardware powered by Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
eMarketer says Facebook lost ~2.8M US users under 25 in 2017, predicts it will lose ~2.1M in 2018; Instagram's US users will grow 13%, Snapchat's by 9% in 2018 — That's according to research firm eMarketer. — Facebook is losing young users even quicker than expected, according to new estimates by eMarketer.
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Source: in a rare cutback, Amazon is laying off several hundred corporate employees in Seattle and hundreds elsewhere across its global operations — Amazon is cutting several hundred jobs in Seattle, and hundreds elsewhere, a rare layoff that appears to fall predominantly on its established consumer retail business.
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Snap Map now available on its own site and embeddable online as individual stories, a collection from a location or event, or stories from a specific area — WHEN HURRICANE HARVEY wreaked destruction in Houston last August, the country turned not just to cable television, but also to Snapchat.| Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
Google's Cloud TPUs, hardware accelerators custom-built to speed up TensorFlow ML workloads, are now available in beta, starting at $6.50 per Cloud TPU per hour — By John Barrus, Product Manager for Cloud TPUs, Google Cloud and Zak Stone, Product Manager for TensorFlow and Cloud TPUs, Google Brain Team| BBC: |
Berlin Regional Court ruled on January 16 that Facebook broke German privacy laws and did not sufficiently alert users to opted-in privacy settings — Privacy rights campaigners are claiming victory over Facebook in a German legal battle. — It follows a regional court ruling that found …
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YapStone has raised $71M in Series C financing, aiming for $100M+, to take on PayPal, Stripe, and more in marketplace payments — While a part of the fintech world remains abuzz with crypo-talk, a startup that's built a business around the more traditional world of payments has raised … Sponsor Posts
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