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Google announces AMP for Email, with Gmail developer preview available today, to make emails more interactive with content like appointments and questionnaires — For the past few years, we've worked to make mobile pages load faster through an open-source framework called Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).
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| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Google launches AMP stories developer preview for publishers today with Snapchat-like swipeable text, photos, videos, considers integrating stories into search — The format doesn't support advertising yet, which could slow its adoption among publishers — Alphabet Inc.'s GOOGL .79% Google unveiled …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Uber says Q4 net revenue was $2.22B, up 61% YoY, total value of fares was $11B, UberEats is ~10% of its business, and it lost $4.5B on $7.5B sales in 2017 — Uber Technologies Inc. had a painful 2017, but the business managed to grow. — Adjusted net revenue increased 61 percent in the fourth quarter from the same period in 2016.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple shareholders meeting recap: wearables business approaching Fortune 300 size, iPhone X has 99% customer satisfaction, Cook “not a fan” of special dividends — As scheduled, Apple's annual shareholders meeting took place at Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park today.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's Area 120 incubator announces Reply, a project that brings Google's Smart Reply feature to other chat apps, initially available only on Android — Smart Reply, the clever A.I.-powered technology that automatically creates responses to your inbound messages, first debuted …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Injong Rhee, Samsung Electronics' CTO, says he has left the company to lead Google's IoT business under cloud boss Diane Greene — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google this month hired Injong Rhee, who recently resigned as Samsung Electronics Co's chief technology officer … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
IDC data shows Google doubled shipments of Pixel devices to 3.9M in 2017, but they still represent a small portion of the 1.5B smartphone market — Less than a week's worth of iPhone sales — In the 16 months since its initial release in October 2016, Google's Pixel family of phones …
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
ARM unveils Project Trillium, a new mobile AI chip family, with a ML chip design coming in mid-2018 and an object detection chip design coming in Q1 — Today's Arm announcement is a bit out of the norm for the company, as it's the first in a series of staggered releases of information.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft hires founder of education collaboration platform Chalkup, which will close down in June, will integrate some of its features into Teams for Education — Microsoft is beefing up its Slack-like collaboration software, Microsoft Teams, with the technology-know how and the founder from collaboration software startup Chalkup.
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| Kyle Torpey / Forbes: |
Microsoft says it will embrace decentralized identity systems based on Bitcoin and other public blockchains through the Microsoft Authenticator app — In a new post today, Microsoft announced their embrace of public blockchains, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, for use in decentralized identity systems.
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Digital Trends, Enterprise Mobility + Security, Tom's Hardware, Computerworld, BGR, Cointelegraph.com News, NFC World, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, CoinDesk, On MSFT, Bitcoinist.com, and NewsBTC
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| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Baidu reports Q4 revenues of 23.6B yuan, or $3.62B, up 29% YoY, confirms it has filed preliminary documents for an IPO in the US for its iQiyi video service — Internet search provider delivers fourth-quarter profit and revenue beats — Baidu Inc. BIDU 1.79% is considering listing online-video unit iQiyi …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Skype update installer found to be susceptible to DLL hijacking, potentially giving system-level privileges; Microsoft says fix will come when app is rewritten — The bug grants a low-level user access to every corner of the operating system. — A security flaw in Skype's updater process …
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