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November 14, 2018, 6:10 AM
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| Day One: The Amazon Blog: |
Amazon selects New York City and Arlington, Virginia for its new headquarters, receiving $1.5B in performance-based incentives from NY and $573M from VA — Amazon to invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters, and announces Nashville as new Operations Center …
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| Washington Post: |
A look at the likely factors behind Amazon's decision to choose Crystal City, VA, as one of its HQ2 locations and how it may affect the region — Amazon will open major new outposts in Northern Virginia's Crystal City and in New York City, splitting its much-sought investment …
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Facebook: Congressman Adriano Espaillat. Tweets: @ocasio2018, @wsj, @byrosenberg, @_waleedshahid, @buzzfeednews, @theharryshearer, @juddlegum, @chimeracoder, @tonyromm, @buzzfeednews, @joshuamound, @digiphile, @byrosenberg, @alexrkonrad, @dkthomp, @mekosoff, @anandwrites, and @ryan_wichman
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon says it has more than 10,000 employees working on its Alexa virtual assistant and Echo devices, up from 5,000 in September 2017 — Number of employees doubles the staff in that division a little more than a year ago — LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.— Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -.35% …
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| J. David Goodman / New York Times: |
Amazon to receive incentives of $1.5B+ over ten years based on creating 25K jobs in Queens, but politicians object, with some saying they will fight the deal — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio sat together Tuesday to announce that they had emerged victorious from a nationwide competition … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources provide a behind-the-scenes account of Amazon's HQ2 selection process, say the company made the decision to split HQ2 in two in September — For months, cities vied for Amazon's second headquarters while some executives were realizing that no single place would fulfill its requirements
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| Reuters: |
Nigerian internet provider Main One Cable Co says it accidentally caused the problem that misrouted some Google traffic through China on Monday — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nigerian internet provider Main One Cable Co took responsibility on Tuesday for a glitch that caused some Google traffic …
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| New York Times: |
Tyler Barriss, the serial swatter responsible for the fatal Kansas hoax call, pleads guilty to federal charges, will serve between 20 and 25 years in prison — A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to making dozens of hoax phone calls during which he reported fake crimes … | Alison Frankel / Reuters: |
Snap says it's responded to subpoenas from the DOJ and SEC about its IPO, following a suit alleging Snap misled the public on how Instagram affected its growth — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission have subpoenaed Snap Inc (SNAP.N) …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
DeepMind's health subsidiary, maker of an app called Streams that helps with diagnosing specific conditions, is moving under the newly-formed Google Health unit — - DeepMind's health subsidiary is moving under the newly-formed Google Health led by former Geisinger CEO David Feinberg
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is finally re-released, after data loss bugs caused it to be pulled; Microsoft says it's focusing on improving code quality — October update, or November update? — Microsoft is releasing its Windows 10 October 2018 Update again today, after bugs forced the company to pull it offline last month.
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| Clive Thompson / Wired: |
AI needs to be taught everyday common sense, not just pattern recognition, to overcome the limits of deep learning and produce safer, more useful devices — FIVE YEARS AGO, the coders at DeepMind, a London-based artificial intelligence company, watched excitedly as an AI taught itself to play a classic arcade game.| Wall Street Journal: |
Waymo CEO says its driverless car service will be available first in Phoenix and will charge individuals as well as businesses that want to shuttle customers — Waymo, which has been testing the program in the Phoenix area, has spent years and driven millions of miles to develop the technology
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| Variety: |
Spotify launches in 13 markets across the Middle East and North Africa, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, with a fully Arabic user experience — As expected, today Spotify announced that it has launches its service in 13 new markets in the Middle East and North Africa, bringing the service to 78 markets in total.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Israel-based XM Cyber, which provides an automated service to simulate, validate, and remediate advanced persistent threats, has raised a $22M Series A — There's a reason that by 2021, the number of unfilled cybersecurity jobs worldwide is expected to reach 3.5 million.
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / Vox: |
Most period-tracking apps are designed more to aid marketers and medical companies in collecting health data for ad targeting than for women — The golden age of menstrual surveillance is great for men, marketers, and medical companies. — A cartoon cloud told me I might be pregnant.
Tweets: @kait_tiffany, @taylorlorenz, and @jamespmcleod
| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Lime to launch a car sharing service in Seattle this week, starting with a fleet of 50 vehicles and quickly ramping that up to 1,500 cars by early 2019 — San Francisco-based startup Lime has spent the last year scattering an assortment of brightly colored scooters and bikes around American cities …
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The Verge, Digital Trends, Investor's Business Daily, GeekWire, and Engadget. Tweets: @stanhoraczek
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
IAB data shows digital ad spending in the first half of 2018 reached $49.5B, up 23% YoY, with mobile accounting for 63% of the total, up from 54% last year — The online advertising business continues to grow at double digit rates, according to the latest report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Bitmain claimed it had $1.25B in 2017 profits during the pre-IPO $400M+ Series B in June of 2018, while its IPO prospectus says it earned just ~$700M — Bitmain Technologies, the world's largest maker of cryptocurrency mining hardware, has stated significantly smaller profits … | Kevin Martin / Facebook: |
Facebook, Google, and Twitter are partnering in a new coalition, Tech Together to Fight the Opioid Crisis, to help those struggling with addiction — The opioid crisis continues to scourge families and communities. Everyone can play a role to help those in need and tech companies are no exception.
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