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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Security engineer at Google says she was fired from the company last week after two years for sending internal browser pop-ups about labor rights — The latest termination at the company — Google has fired another employee following a showing of internal activism, marking the latest …
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| Bret Kinsella / Voicebot.ai: |
Report: Amazon had revenue of $1.4M from Alexa's in-skill purchases in the first ten months of 2019, which was well short of its target of $5.5M — The Information published (N.B. paywall) an article this morning saying that Amazon earned $1.4 million Alexa skill revenue through the first 10 months …
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| Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon blocks marketplace sellers from using FedEx Ground for Prime shipments indefinitely over FedEx's “delivery performance” — Amazon cites a decline in FedEx performance heading into the final holiday push — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .47% is blocking its third-party sellers …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Dave Clark, global logistics chief at Amazon, where he oversees shipment of 2.5B packages/year and delivery of 46% of US packages bought on Amazon — Shortly after being named Amazon.com Inc.'s global logistics chief in 2013, Dave Clark held a conference call with his new reports.
Tweets: @business, @rrpre, and @shiraovide
| Luke Jones / WinBuzzer: |
Microsoft opens up the Microsoft Edge Addons store for submissions ahead of Chromium Edge's launch; existing Chromium extensions to be migrated automatically — Developers can now submit to the Microsoft Edge Addons Store, with existing Chromium extensions migrated automatically.
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LogMeIn to be acquired by affiliates of PE firm Francisco Partners and Elliott Management for $86.05/share in cash, valuing the company at about ~$4.3B — All-Cash Transaction Valued at Approximately $4.3 Billion — LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM), a leading provider of cloud-based connectivity …
| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
WhatsApp fixes bug that allowed a rogue group member to render the app unusable, forcing a reinstall and loss of group chat content — Researchers detail security flaw that allowed hackers to crash WhatsApp and permanently delete contents of group chats - and urge users to update the app to protect against attacks.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources describe Peter Thiel's expanding influence at Facebook, where he advises Zuckerberg on White House dynamics and holding firm on the political ads policy — Billionaire investor thinks political-ad policy shouldn't change; some directors and executives disagree
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands its fact checking efforts by hiding false content behind warnings, except for politicians, and removing it from Explore and hashtag pages — Instagram is giving politicians the same free reign to spread misinformation as its parent company Facebook.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Skyryse demos its Skyryse Flight Stack tech, enabling existing helicopters to be flown autonomously, says it's raised $38M, with $13M in new funding — Skyryse is a three-year old transportation startup that is approaching the future of aviation from a different angle when compared to most.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Lime launches a weekly subscription service for frequent riders that waives the unlock fee on renting the company's e-scooters and bicycles — LimePass waves the unlock fee on your rentals — Lime just announced LimePass, a weekly subscription service that waves the unlock fee on renting …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Survey: 50% of companies integrating AI into their workflows spend between 8 and 90 days deploying a single machine learning model, with 18% taking even longer — Incorporating AI and machine learning technologies into everyday workflows isn't as easy as the testimonials would have you believe.
Tweets: @jeffnolan and @ozaiane
| Adithya Venkatraman / App Annie: |
Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, all belonging to Facebook, were the most downloaded apps worldwide of this decade — Mobile Has Been at the Heart of Major Changes in Consumer Behaviour This Decade Throughout the 2010s we have seen our world transform.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches Alexa Knowledge Skills in preview, a new skill type that organizations can use to create internal FAQs, glossaries, and more without coding — In yet another step toward the enterprise side of the burgeoning conversational intelligence segment, Amazon today launched Alexa Knowledge Skills … Sponsor Posts
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