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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Google announces Google Home, an always-listening small speaker to compete with Amazon Echo, coming out later this year, price unknown  —  For the past year and a half, the tech world has been recovering from Amazon's surprise announcement of the Echo.  Now, Google is finally doing what everybody wanted it to do: release a competitor.
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Google announces Allo, a messaging app with smart replies to image and text messages, Google Assistant, Incognito mode, available this summer for iOS, Android  —  Google is announcing a new messaging app today.  It's called Allo and its main feature is a Google assistant that's built right in.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Google announces Duo, a one-on-one HD video-calling app, coming to iOS and Android later this summer  —  Some have criticised Google for falling behind when it comes to social networking and new communications services, but the company is how working hard to catch up.
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Google unveils Google Assistant, a conversational virtual assistant that's a big upgrade to Google Now  —  Google today said it was unveiling a virtual assistant tool at its annual Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View called Google Assistant.  —  This appears to be similar …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft selling feature phone business to Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile for $350M, to transfer 4.5K employees  —  Microsoft is selling its feature phone business to FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of Foxconn, for $350 million.  The deal will see 4,500 employees transfer over to Foxconn's subsidiary …
Nokia Corporation:
Nokia-branded phones and tablets returning to market as HMD Global acquires rights to Nokia brand and IP to sell new devices made by Foxconn's FIH Mobile  —  Espoo, Finland - Nokia has announced plans that will see the Nokia brand return to the mobile phone and tablet markets on a global basis.
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Google reveals plans for new VR headset and motion controller slated for this fall, to be part of Daydream, Google's VR platform that's baked into Android N  —  At its annual I/O developer conference today, Google is showing off a reference design for a new virtual reality headset that builds …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Daydream is Google's VR platform, for new Android N phones only, which offers Android VR Mode, a full ecosystem that optimizes phone performance for VR  —  Following months of speculation, Google is diving deeper into virtual reality.  Today at its I/O keynote, the company announced Daydream …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
117M LinkedIn user emails and passwords from 2012 hack offered for sale on dark web marketplace; LinkedIn is contacting affected users  —  A LinkedIn hack from back in 2012 is still causing problems for its users.  The company announced this morning that another data set from the hack …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Google unveils Android Instant Apps that launch immediately, no installation required, also works on some older versions of Android  —  Google today unveiled Android Instant Apps, a new project the company is experimenting with that offers users a subset of an existing app.
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Google is crowdsourcing name suggestions for Android N, reserves right to pick winner
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
iOS 9.3.2 update bricking some 9.7-inch iPad Pro devices with “Error 56” message, Apple looking into the issue  —  iOS 9.3.2 is causing problems for some 9.7-inch iPad Pro owners, with multiple MacRumors readers and Twitter users reporting issues shortly after installing the update over the air.
Apple:
Apple announces new iOS app design and development accelerator in Bengaluru, to open in early 2017  —  First-of-its-kind Center to Support Developers Creating Innovative Mobile Apps in India  —  Apple® today announced a new initiative to support engineering talent and accelerate growth in India's iOS developer community.

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Bloomberg:
The stock market briefly surged Monday after CNBC, Reuters, and others picked up an erroneous X post that Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs

New York Times:
A majority of 300+ WaPo tech workers sign union cards and plan to formally request recognition, WaPo's first public union drive since Bezos' 2013 acquisition

Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Sources: Evan Gershkovich is not cooperating on WSJ's documentary and book about his imprisonment, and plans his own film and book, sparking tensions

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