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Instagram to test letting businesses tag products in their posts, so iOS users in the US can tap to learn more about them; 20 brands will participate — Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window. That's why today it will start …
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Lenovo starts shipping Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, the first Google Tango phone, for $499 — The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is shipping now — If it weren't for Pokémon Go, augmented reality might have stayed another forlorn futurist technology the public paid little attention to.
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Twitter adds Welcome Messages and Quick Replies to DMs to improve businesses' customer service response times — For all the talk of doom and gloom regarding Twitter's future, there are some things the platform does better than anyone. Recently it's been strengthening its position …
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| Dan Richman / GeekWire: |
Report: AWS has 45% share of worldwide public Infrastructure as a Service market, more than Microsoft, Google, and IBM combined — Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) — greater than Microsoft …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest makes Instapaper's premium features free, previously $3/month; features include full text search on all articles, speed reading, text-to-speech, more — Nearly three months after being acquired by Pinterest, Instapaper is making some changes that'll impact its users.| Michael Tsai: |
A roundup of the mostly negative reactions to the new MacBook Pros and the current state of the Mac by creative professionals and developers — I was really disappointed with today's Apple event. It seems like Apple has either lost its way, that it has lost touch with what (some of) …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Computerworld, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Chuq Von Rospach and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @pinboard
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google discloses actively exploited Windows vulnerability just 10 days after reporting it to Microsoft — Google today shared details about a security flaw in Windows, just 10 days after disclosing it to Microsoft on October 21. To make matters worse, Google says it is aware …
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Tweets: @brandonlive, @mohamedmansour, @kaepora, @ebellis, @dragosr and @scarybeasts
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology convenes semiconductor industry working group to advance US competitiveness — President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (PCAST) today announced the launch of a new Semiconductor Working Group …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Study co-authored by MIT professor finds Uber drivers in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men — Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men.
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NBER, Fortune, Sustainable Transportation Lab, Recode, Newser, USA Today, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, PR Newswire, Quartz, USA Today, Guardian, The Memo, The Register, GeekWire, Gothamist, Route Fifty, The Next Web, Motherboard, CNET, Salon, CNNMoney, Engadget, The Drum, TIME, New York Times, SiliconBeat, Business Insider, VatorNews, MobileSyrup.com and TechCrunch
Tweets: @ananny, @emilydshaw, @joshboggs, @markmilian, @ericnewcomer, @mitsloan and @lydiadepillis
| Kori Schulman / The White House: |
New president to get @POTUS on Twitter, White House on Facebook and Instagram, with clean timelines; Obama's accounts will be archived and accessible to public — Summary: Take a look at how we plan to preserve and pass on the digital history of the Obama administration.
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Macworld, FedScoop, Telegraph, The Next Web, Digital Trends, ValueWalk, Guardian, Federal Computer Week, VentureBeat, CNET, VatorNews, TechSpot, Engadget, The Verge, Fortune, Mashable, Wired, BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, Recode and Gizmodo
Tweets: @simonw, @digiphile, @gregorykorte, @anildash and @swheaton
| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba creates new digital media company, Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group, to consolidate media assets, announces $1.48B fund for new projects — Yu Yongfu, of UCWeb, will become CEO of new group under Zhang — Breaking out media assets is part of transparency efforts
| Suzanne Barlyn / Reuters: |
New York's aspirations to become a global hub for Bitcoin fade, as delays in licensing process and strict requirements drive companies away — New York's financial regulator had sights set on becoming a global hub for innovations like bitcoin when it adopted trailblazing virtual currency rules last year.
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CoinDesk, Digital Trends and CryptoCoinsNews
Tweets: @btcfoundation, @alextapscott and @erikvoorhees
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google is giving some users $50 Play vouchers after some Pixel handsets took longer than expected to ship — Google's new Pixel-branded smartphones have proven to be a little too popular. Already, Google statedthat pre-order demands had exceeded the company's expectations … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nitrous.io, an online development environment and IDE, to shut down November 14; company says it will release open source version of cloud IDE in future — Nitrous.io, an online development environment and IDE, today announced that it is shutting down its service on November 14.
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Nitrous Community, cloudcomputing-news.net and Tech in Asia
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