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Facebook says it has invited “about a dozen” conservative leaders to meet Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, including Glenn Beck — “It would be interesting to look him in the eye.” — Mark Zuckerberg is hosting a summit for conservative leaders on Wednesday. — So says Glenn Beck, who says he will attend.
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Source: Google plans big expansion of Project Tango with focus on indoor mapping and VR, seeks eventual ubiquity for the technology, to showcase progress at I/O — Tango to give phones new sense of their immediate surroundings — Project is crucial part of Google's virtual reality efforts
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| Alex Dobie / Android Central: |
Google I/O 2016 preview: Android N news, Android VR headset, Chromebook Play Store, progress update on project Tango, and more — What to expect from the biggest Google conference ever. — It's Google I/O time! The 2016 installment of Google's annual developer conference kicks off Wednesday …
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| Christopher Williams / Telegraph: |
Sources: EU may announce €3B fine against Google in shopping search case as early as next month — Google faces a record-breaking fine for monopoly abuse within weeks, as officials in Brussels put the finishing touches to a seven-year investigation of company's dominant search engine.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Amazon to debut new lines of private label products, including perishable foods and household items, for Prime members only in coming weeks — The first of the brands could appear on the company's website in coming weeks — Amazon.com Inc. in the coming weeks is set to roll … | Sarah Jeong / Motherboard: |
Oracle v Google trial, which is based on the notion that APIs are copyrightable, hinges on a judge and jurors who don't have a firm grasp of FOSS philosophy — The problem with Oracle v. Google is that everyone actually affected by the case knows what an API is, but the whole affair …
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| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
Profile of Maksym Igor Popov, a Ukrainian hacker turned FBI mole who later tried to scam EMC, AT&T, and the FBI — I'm sorry; your browser does not support HTML5 video in WebM with VP8 or MP4 with H.264. — Typography by Michiel Schuurman — O — One Thursday in January 2001 …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: group led by Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, backed by Warren Buffet, and advised by former senior Yahoo executives bids for Yahoo — Former execs Dan Rosensweig and Tim Cadogan are also helping in the Yahoo sweepstakes. — Apparently, once you bleed purple, you never stop.
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| Rahul Bhatia / Guardian: |
How Facebook, oblivious to India's concerns, used heavy-handed tactics and failed with Free Basics — ntil Mark Zuckerberg arrived in a bright orange helicopter in October 2014, Chandauli had never seen a celebrity visitor. One of 44,795 villages in the state of Rajasthan …
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| Janelle Nanos / The Boston Globe: |
Kayak co-founder Paul English launches Lola, a chat-based travel planning app, with $19.7M in funding — For Paul English, the rage had been building, almost subconsciously, for years. — The serial entrepreneur, who cofounded Kayak.com in 2004 and sold the company 10 years later for $2.1 billion …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Acer partners with Starbreeze on StarVR headset with 210-degree field of view for arcades and theme parks — Acer is joining forces with the game studio Starbreeze to develop a high-end virtual reality headset designed for arcades and theme parks. Starbreeze has already been showcasing the headset …
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Business Wire, SlashGear, Road to VR, Blue's News and Engadget
| Mark Bergen / Recode: |
How Google Fiber is aggressively competing with cable companies: better service, faster speeds, neighborhood outreach, maybe wireless, and cheaper prices — Forget self-driving cars and drones. Five years later, where is Google's broadband business going? — It's a crisp spring Friday in Kansas City and Jim is upset with Google.
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