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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Samsung's head of mobile says the company will bring new features and tech to its mid-end smartphones first as it changes strategy to attract millennial users — - Samsung plans to overhaul its smartphone strategy at the mid-range price point in order to appeal more to millennials, the company's mobile CEO told CNBC.
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| Michael Corkery / New York Times: |
Retailers that have learned to match Amazon's ease and instant gratification of e-commerce shopping are flourishing as the pace of store closings has slowed — Malls are being hollowed out. Shops are closing by the thousands. Retailers are going bankrupt. — But it may be too early to declare the death of retail.| Nick Vivarelli / Variety: |
Streaming services like Netflix that operate in the EU will need to dedicate 30%+ of their catalogs to local content after new law comes into effect in December — Quotas obligating Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services operating in the European Union to dedicate at least 30% …
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| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
A look at the human cost of Facebook's rise in the Philippines: truth matters less, propaganda is ubiquitous, lives are wrecked, and some have died as a result — In August 2016, a handful of crude images began circulating widely throughout Facebook's Filipino community …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
A Google staffer hacked the Software House smart locks of Google's Sunnyvale offices last July and says fixing this make of lock means replacing onsite hardware — I cover crime, privacy and security in digital and physical forms. — Last July, in Google's Sunnyvale offices … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Experts say Facebook's public cleanup is pushing toxic content into private Facebook groups, WhatsApp, and Messenger, making it harder to monitor and moderate — Much of the empire built by Alex Jones, the Infowars founder and social media shock jock, vanished this summer when Facebook suspended …
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Amazon launches a Hindi website and apps to court India's 500M Hindi speakers — BANGALORE, India — Only 10 percent of India's 1.3 billion people know English. Yet most of the country's e-commerce services have been offered only in English, closing off online shopping to the vast majority of people here.
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| Google Cloud Blog: |
Ethereum's blockchain is made publicly available on Google BigQuery, including ETH transfers and transaction costs, after Bitcoin's was added in February — Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies have captured the imagination of technologists, financiers, and economists.| Bloomberg: |
Atlassian buys OpsGenie, an incident management platform for IT service disruptions, for $295M — Company will use $295 million deal, new product to boost efforts to sell programs for IT workers — Atlassian Corp., a maker of programs for coordinating software development …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Auterion, a Swiss startup that offers a drone operating system built on top of the popular P4X open source software, has landed $10M in seed funding — Auterion, a startup that offers a drone operating system built on top of the popular P4X open source software, has landed $10 million in seed funding.
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| Joel Gascoigne / Open: |
Buffer co-founder Joel Gascoigne explains why the company spent $3.3M, about half of all its cash, to buy out seven of its sixteen Series A investors — Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million - about half of all the cash we had in the bank - to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors.
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Interview with Microsoft's cloud EVP Scott Guthrie on streaming, Satya Nadella, and how the company could use Azure to power connected car software — - Meet Scott Guthrie, the executive VP of Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence business. — He's a long-time Microsoft exec …
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| Julie Creswell / New York Times: |
How Amazon has set its sights on the $88B online ad market, as companies like Verizon, AT&T, and Geico ramp up ad buys, despite not selling directly on Amazon — Verizon doesn't sell its mobile phones or wireless plans over Amazon. Nor does it offer Fios, its high-speed internet service.
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