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BlackBerry will stop in-house development of phones and outsource it to partners, as the company switches focus to software and security — The struggling company will cease on internal development of hardware, instead outsourcing it to partners. It will focus instead of security and software.
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| Jonathan Prynn / London Evening Standard: |
Apple planning new 500K sq. ft. UK HQ at London's Battersea Power Station, to open in 2021, where 1,400 staff will be moved from eight locations around London — “It has always been our clear objective to create one of London's most thriving new communities and this commitment from Apple will undoubtedly help us achieve this goal."
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| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
Google debuts YouTube Go app for Android with offline viewing, expands free Wi-Fi program Google Station beyond public transport sites in India — At an event in New Delhi, India, Google laid out plans to better serve users in the country. These efforts broadly focus on two areas: data usage and language support.
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Sources: after hacks and questions about security, Marissa Mayer denied Yahoo security team financial resources, rejected proposal to reset all user passwords — SAN FRANCISCO — Six years ago, Yahoo's computer systems and customer email accounts were penetrated by Chinese military hackers.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Twitter opens the creation and curation of Moments to all users via the web app, coming soon to mobile — Twitter Moments — those collections of tweets about certain subjects, often the ones that are in the news and are being discussed by lots of users — now make a lot more sense.
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See also Mediagazer| Abner Li / 9to5Mac: |
Google app on iOS updates with incognito mode, native YouTube playback, and Now cards renamed as “the feed” — Similar to Chrome, an update to the Google app for iOS today adds a new incognito mode that prevents search or browsing history from being saved.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Inside a two-year-old catfishing ebook scam on Amazon that has generated over $3M in revenue for its creator, Valeriy Shershnyov — For years, thousands were tricked into buying low-quality ebooks. — NEW YORK — Emma Moore could have been the health and weight loss guru you spent your life looking for.| Kellogg Brengel / WinBeta: |
Bank of America and Microsoft partner to create blockchain applications for trade finance — Today, Microsoft announced a collaboration with Bank of America to develop blockchain technologies for their trade finance transacting. The companies are developing a proof of concept using Microsoft's Azure-based Blockchain-as-a-Service.
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Amazon launches updated Fire TV Stick which comes with “Alexa” remote, upgraded internals including a quad-core processor, and costs $40 — Why pay extra for Alexa? — PIN — Amazon just announced that it's releasing a new streaming media player for the fall …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google Translate now converts Chinese into English with neural machine translation — Google today is announcing that web and mobile versions of Google Translate are now using a new neural machine translation system for all translations from Chinese into English — and the app conducts those translations about 18 million times a day.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Source: Walmart in advanced talks to invest $1B in India's largest online retailer Flipkart, recently valued at about $16B — The deal would help the companies battle Amazon.com in India — Investors most recently valued Flipkart at about $16 billion — Wal-Mart Stores Inc …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Periscope opens applications for VIP program, which will reward popular broadcasters with prioritization in search results, “care packages”, and more — Twitter-owned Periscope on Tuesday introduced a VIP program aimed at supporting the most ardent broadcasters of its livestreaming platform.Sponsor Posts
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