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Facebook rolls out new tools in the US for seeking friend's recommendations on local places or services, discovering local events, and interacting with Pages — People come to Facebook every day to connect and share experiences with friends and family. We share the great places we go and we ask … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Researcher says some Trump company email servers use unpatched, end-of-life software, including Windows Server 2003, and only use single factor authentication — In what might be one of the more delicious cases of irony to ever grace a presidential election, a researcher has found that a number …
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Sources: Snapchat to stop sharing ad revenue with media partners within weeks, will change to up-front flat licensing fee as it prepares for 2017 IPO — Evan Spiegel has a new deal for “Discover” publishers: We pay you up front, and we keep all the ad money. — Snapchat says it's done sharing with media companies.
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Source: Amazon weighs offering internet service in Europe in order to bundle broadband access with Prime Video — Amazon.com is considering offering internet service directly to consumers in Europe, said a person briefed on the discussion. That would allow Amazon to bundle internet access …
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Microsoft AI research group says its speech recognition tech has reached parity with human-level proficiency, with an error rate of lower than 6% — Microsoft: This marks the first time that human parity has been reported for conversational speech — Microsoft researchers say they have created …
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Leaked emails of board member Colin Powell show Salesforce listed 14 acquisition targets at May board meeting, including Adobe, Demandware, and Box — Salesforce eyed 14 companies as possible acquisition targets in May, according to leaked Colin Powell email
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Amazon Japan announces 32GB manga model of Kindle Paperwhite, priced at $118 for Prime subscribers, $157 for others, pre-orders open now — Amazon Japan has an unusual challenge with the Kindle: it not only has to cater to your typical bookworm, but to a local fondness for image-heavy (and thus storage-intensive) manga books.| Jason Tanz / Wired: |
Tim O'Reilly, Chris Dixon, Mark Zuckerberg, Yasmin Green, Mary Barra, and Satya Nadella offer ideas for Obama's six tech challenges — Ask not what the government can do for Silicon Valley; ask what Silicon Valley can do for the government. That's President Obama's tack, anyway.| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
T-Mobile fined $48M by FCC for mischaracterizing its “unlimited” plan and throttling user's data when they reached the limit — Federal regulators are slapping T-Mobile with millions of dollars in fines and other requirements after consumers complained that the wireless carrier misled …
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Microsoft to add single sign-on via Skype option for various Microsoft services, including Office, OneDrive, Xbox Live, and Outlook.com, starting this week — Microsoft will allow people to use their Skype names to sign into Office, OneDrive, Outlook.com and other Microsoft services starting next week.
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New report says top five US tech firms spent $49M on Washington lobbyists last year, as the five largest banks spent $19.7M — Big tech is outspending banks, alumni get government jobs — Wishlist from trade to antitrust poses challenge to regulators — A political weather map of America … | Ina Fried / Recode: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch new Macs at an October 27 event in Cupertino — Yep, that means some Sierra-powered computers are arriving right before the holidays. — Apple is planning to introduce new Macs at an Oct. 27 event, sources confirmed to Recode.
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Yahoo reports Q3 revenue of $1.31B, in line with expectations, as Verizon acquisition looms — Yahoo made slightly more money than Wall Street expected — and no one cares at this point. — The company reported its third-quarter earnings, basically falling a hair above what everyone … Sponsor Posts
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