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Uber raises $3.5B from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, will add managing director of the fund to its board — SAN FRANCISCO — In its quest to build a global empire, Uber has turned to the Middle East for its biggest infusion of cash from a single investor.
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| Mary Meeker / KPCB: |
Meeker report: global internet users surpass 3B but adoption rate flat except in India; voice assistants' word accuracy, latency, usage rates continue improving — The 2016 edition of Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report covers today's Internet growth and an in-depth look at the following:
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Microsoft opens Windows Holographic, the platform behind HoloLens, for partners to create AR/VR devices, is working with Intel, AMD, HTC, Acer, and others — Microsoft is courting virtual-reality hardware makers with its Windows Holographic platform, hoping to grow the base of mixed-reality-capable devices.
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
OnePlus 3 to launch globally on June 14 without an invite system — When the remarkable OnePlus One arrived two years ago, it made people reimagine the $300 smartphone. But it also made everyone reimagine how they buy a phone, with an invitation-based system as frustrating as it was arcane.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce buys Demandware for $2.8B, taking a big step into e-commerce — Salesforce made its name originally with cloud-based software to help salespeople manage their leads and close deals; and today the company took a big step into the business of sales itself.
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salesforce.com, Demandware Blog, ZDNet, eWeek, Fortune, theWHIR.com, SiliconANGLE, FierceCIO News, AdExchanger, Marketing Land, Light Reading, VatorNews, SiliconBeat, INSIDER, Tech Trader Daily, Investor's Business Daily, VentureBeat, internetretailer.com, ZDNet, The Register, Silicon Valley Business …, USA Today and silicontap.com. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's My Account will now help both iOS and Android users find their lost phones — Google has announced an update to its “My Account” service launched last year which will now include a feature that helps users find their lost or stolen phone. You'll soon be able to find this new option …
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Official Google Blog, Android Authority, InfoWorld, 9to5Google, PCWorld, CNET, Digital Trends, The Huffington Post, TalkAndroid.com and The Next Web. Tweets: @google
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google brings Google Cast to Fiber TV boxes, enabling media and app streaming similar to Chromecast devices — Beginning today, Google is turning every single one of its Google Fiber cable boxes into Chromecasts. The company just announced that it'll be rolling out an update over the coming weeks … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Yahoo publishes three FBI national security letters previously under gag order from 2013 and 2015, making it one of the first companies to do so — Yahoo has just published three national security letters, controversial government demands for information usually accompanied by a gag order and rarely made public.
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Yahoo Global Public Policy, Wired, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Tweets: @wired
| Mike Murphy / Quartz: |
Facebook announces Deep Text, an AI engine to understand meaning and sentiment behind posts, so the platform's content can be categorized, searched effectively — Today, Facebook announced Deep Text, an AI engine it's building to understand the meaning and sentiment behind all of the text posted by users to Facebook.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Sheryl Sandberg says Peter Thiel will remain on Facebook's board and that Facebook had no knowledge of his actions against Gawker — Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, said today on stage at Vox Media's Code Conference that Peter Thiel would remain on the company's board … | Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters: |
Xiaomi to preinstall Office and Skype on all devices as it buys 1.5K patents from Microsoft, cross-licenses others — Software maker Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is selling about 1,500 of its patents to Chinese device maker Xiaomi [XTC.UL], a rare departure for the U.S. company and part …
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Digital Trends, Android Authority, The Tech Report, MobileSyrup.com, TechnoBuffalo, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, The Verge, Microsoft, FierceWireless, BBC, TalkAndroid.com, Tech Times, GeekWire, Forbes, Pocketnow, EE Times, Petri, Softpedia News, Android Police, CNET, WinBeta, Ars Technica UK, Trak.in, Computerworld, TechSpot, Liliputing, The Register, InfoWorld, Neowin, Inquirer, International Business Times, TechCrunch, INSIDER, TWICE, Mashable, ZDNet, Engadget, ZDNet, Android Beat, 9to5Google, MediaNama, Recode, Ubergizmo, Windows Central, BetaNews and PhoneDog.com
| Jennifer Lynch / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
FBI Wants to Remove Privacy Protections from its Massive Biometrics Database — EFF and 44 Other Organizations Call for More Time to Respond — Since 2008, the FBI has been assembling a massive database of biometric information on Americans. This database, called Next Generation Identification …
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The Intercept, Washington Post, Medium, Engadget, American Civil Liberties Union and The Hill. Tweets: @zephoria
| Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
A look inside Twitter since Jack Dorsey's return, amid growth issues, high churn, sliding stock, including how Evan Williams pitched Medium to Twitter for $500M — Less than a year into his return as C.E.O., one thing is clear: the company's fortunes are indelibly tied to those of its controversial co-founder.
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Dealbreaker, Business Insider and INSIDER
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