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Pixel 4 will come with face unlock and radar-powered Motion Sense features, to let you skip songs, snooze alarms, and more by waving your hand over the device — As we shared last month, Pixel 4 is in the works1. Today we're giving you an early look at the technology behind two new features coming …
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ByteDance confirms it is working on its own smartphone after acquiring some patents and employees from Chinese smartphone maker Smartisan earlier this year — Chinese social media firm ByteDance Ltd said on Monday it is developing a smartphone, following a deal it made with device maker Smartisan Technology.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU's top court rules that sites with embedded Facebook Like buttons are responsible for data collected, must obtain user consent before data is sent to Facebook — Europe's top court has made a ruling that could affect scores of websites that embed the Facebook ‘Like’ button and receive visitors from the region.| TechCrunch: |
GitHub officially confirms it is blocking devs in Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Cuba, and Crimea from accessing private repositories and paid accounts due to sanctions — The impact of U.S. trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world's largest host of source code … | Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Sources: Amazon is exploring an ambitious new grocery chain, probably separate from Whole Foods, built for pickup and delivery as well as in-store shopping — SEATTLE — In early 2017, a memo circulated inside Amazon that imagined an ambitious new grocery chain.
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| Joe McKendrick / ZDNet: |
Deloitte study finds executives at most large organizations are not mature users of AI or advanced analytic tools, with 62% still relying on spreadsheets — AI and advanced analytic tools are present in most enterprises, but so are data silos and spreadsheets.| Benedict Evans: |
Amazon is increasingly good in helping us buy things we know we want, but it's not clear if it'll ever be good at helping us shop for things we don't know about — I sometimes think that if you could look in the safe behind Jeff Bezos's desk, instead of the sports almanac from Back to the Future …
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| Phil Wahba / Fortune: |
A look at Etsy's turnaround since Josh Silverman became CEO in 2017, largely focused on improving basic parts of the user experience, like search and shipping — When you type the term “bike jersey” into the search field at Etsy.com, most of the results you get are, in fact, bike jerseys.
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| Nivedita Bhattacharjee / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon is planning to launch a food delivery service in India in September with a local partner, Catamaran, and has begun hiring staff — BENGALURU (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is planning a foray into the burgeoning online food delivery business in India this year …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Grab says it will invest $2B in Indonesia over the next five years to help it compete with Gojek using funds it has raised from SoftBank — Grab — the on-demand transportation app worth $14 billion that is the Uber of Southeast Asia — today announced how it would be using some of the $7 billion …
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Grab SG, Crunchbase News, Reuters, KrASIA, Axios, ZDNet, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, and PE Hub Blog. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Sales enablement platform MindTickle raises $40M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, bringing its total raised $81M+ — MindTickle, a sales enablement solutions provider with offices in Bangalore and San Francisco, today announced that it's raised $40 million in series C funding led …
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| Julia Kollewe / The Guardian: |
UK's Just Eat is merging with its Dutch rival Takeaway.com in a £9B deal that will create one of the world's biggest online food delivery companies — British firm joins Dutch rival to form one of the world's biggest online food delivery companies — Just Eat is merging …
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Reuters, Silicon Republic, BBC, The Times & The Sunday Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Sky News
| Clay Chandler / Fortune: |
A profile of Ping An, China's second-largest insurer and biggest private-sector company by revenue, which is focusing on inventive uses of AI and big data — Ping An built an empire around safe and staid products like life insurance. Now it's betting its future on inventive uses of big data …
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