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Google launches Accelerated Mobile Pages for faster mobile web, partners with Twitter, Pinterest, Adobe, LinkedIn, WordPress, and more — Introducing the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, for a faster, open mobile web — Smartphones and tablets have revolutionized the way we access information …
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Amazon Launches Snowball, A Rugged Storage Appliance For Importing Data To AWS By FedEx — Amazon surprised developers today with the launch of Snowball, a new physical appliance that will allow AWS users to ship huge amounts of data for import into AWS by shipping the device back and forth between …
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Amazon launches QuickSight, a cloud-based business intelligence tool — Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of QuickSight, a new business intelligence (BI) service based in the Amazon cloud. It's available in preview now. — It will be available for … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's AWS Is Now A $7.3B Business As It Passes 1M Active Enterprise Customers — Today Amazon's AWS business kicked off its big Re:Invent conference with some stats that speak to how the company's enterprise division continues to dominate the cloud-based data services space.
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Amazon launches Inspector, a tool that automatically finds security and compliance issues — Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced Amazon Inspector, a sort of bot service that looks for and identifies potential security and compliance vulnerabilities. — Amazon Inspector is available in preview today.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
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Jet.com Overhauls Business Model, Kills $50 Membership Fee to Broaden Appeal — Jet.com launched less than three months ago, but it's already pivoting its business model. — The startup shopping site, which gives discounts to shoppers who place large orders, has decided to do away …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Amazon weighs creating a live online TV service, holds preliminary talks with CBS, NBCUniversal — Amazon Said to Weigh Creating a Live Online Television Service — Amazon.com Inc. is exploring the creation of a live online TV service and has reached out to major media companies …
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Former Twitter CEO and one-time standup comic Dick Costolo consults in writers' room for HBO's Silicon Valley a couple days a week — Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Has His Next Gig: Writing for HBO's Silicon Valley — The technology executive and onetime stand-up comedian works a couple of days a week in the show's writers room.| Matthew Martin / Bloomberg Business: |
Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed ups stake in Twitter to about $1B, making his firm the second biggest investor — Saudi Arabian Billionaire Prince Alwaleed Boosts Twitter Stake — Prince now second biggest investor in micro-blogging site — Increased stake disclosed in week Dorsey named Twitter CEO| New York Times: |
State-affiliated Chinese hackers breached LoopPay's corporate network as early as March, no indication that consumer data was stolen — Chinese Hackers Breached LoopPay, a Contributor to Samsung Pay — WASHINGTON — Months before its technology became the centerpiece of Samsung's …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg Business: |
Facebook and Pro.com partner to let you use Messenger to find qualified contractors and get instant quotes for home projects — Facebook Plunges Into Home Repair Matchmaking Service — Social network expands Messenger app as e-commerce platform — Startup Pro.com will connect Messenger users, contractors
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP Spectre x2: 12-inch laptop/tablet hybrid with adjustable kickstand, starts at $800 with keyboard — The HP Spectre x2 is like the Surface Pro, but cheaper and lower-specced — What timing: Just a day after Microsoft announced the Surface Pro 4, HP is unveiling a similar-looking 2-in-1 of its own.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp for Android now lets you back up your chat history, voice messages, photos, and videos to Google Drive — Bitter rivals Facebook and Google today announced a partnership that may feel a bit odd at first glance. WhatsApp for Android is getting Google Drive integration … | TechCrunch: |
Pandora Acquires Ticketfly For $450M To Sell Concert Tickets — Pandora has a new tool in its belt to fight against Apple Music and Spotify. The music streaming just announced it will purchase Ticketfly, a Ticketmaster-type site, for $450m in cash and stock.| Sam Altman / Y Combinator Posthaven: |
Y Combinator starts a new nonprofit research lab, YC Research; researchers are full-time YC employees; IP to be made freely available over time — YC Research — Our mission at YC is to enable as much innovation as we can. Mostly this means funding startups.
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
How the Surface Book compares to the iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Surface Pro — Microsoft made a big deal today about going after Apple. And today more than ever, it's worth believing. There are two reasons why: first, Surface sales are on the rise. They accounted for $888 million …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Facebook now lets advertisers send leads to Salesforce, Marketo, and other CRMs — Facebook has done quite a bit with its ads that do more than its traditional cousins. Not only can marketers still direct users to their brand's website, but the social network offers other ad types based on the campaign's needs.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Windows 10 Mobile coming to existing Windows Phone devices in December after shipping with new Lumia 950, Lumia 950XL, and Lumia 550 — Windows 10 Mobile is coming to Windows Phone devices in December — Microsoft didn't talk much about Windows 10 Mobile at its big press event yesterday …
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Enterprise SaaS Marketplace AppDirect Raises $140M Series E Round Led By J.P. Morgan — AppDirect makes it easier for enterprises to buy cloud services from the likes of Box, Google, Symantec and others (and serves as a kind of referral service for these businesses).| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
FanDuel bans employees from playing fantasy sports for money, hires ex-US Attorney General Michael Mukasey for self-audit — FanDuel Hires Former U.S. Attorney General for Self-Audit, Bans Employees From Playing Fantasy Sports for Money — FanDuel says it has nothing to hide, and now it's trying to prove it.Sponsor Posts
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