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New Burger King ad for prime time TV aims to trigger Google Home by asking “OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?”; Google intervenes to stop Home responding — Oh no, Google — Burger King is unveiling a horrible, genius, infuriating, hilarious, and maybe very poorly thought …
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Google launches a hub for WebVR content and adds support for its Cardboard headset — Today, Google made some WebVR updates to Chrome, adding support for Cardboard while also building a home for all of its online VR web content. — WebVR Experiments is a bit of a storefront for online VR experiences …
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Internet Association, which represents Google, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and others, tells FCC chairman Ajit Pai to keep Obama-era net neutrality rules — The D.C. lobbying group for Facebook, Google and others tells FCC Chairman Ajit Pai they have their doubts.
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
BlackBerry awarded a preliminary $815M in arbitration dispute with Qualcomm over royalty payments, with final award to be determined on May 30; stock up 15%+ — BlackBerry said Wednesday it has been awarded a preliminary $814.9 million in royalty overpayments made to Qualcomm.
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft announces an event on May 2 in New York City; sources say the focus will be on education and creativity, with new high-end Surface devices unlikely — It's official: Microsoft is holding a big Windows event in New York City on May 2nd. This event was first reported by Mary Jo Foley at ZDnet …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says Messenger now has 1.2B MAUs, up from 1B in July 2016 and 900M in April 2016 — Normally adding 200 million users in 8 months to a product that already has a billion would reduce the average engagement, but most apps don't have Facebook Messenger's network effect.
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Wide ranging interview with Mark Zuckerberg about his 2017 open letter, Facebook's mission, global culture, the spread of misinformation, more — In a candid, wide-ranging interview, the CEO shares thoughts on where his company is headed. — When Fast Company first wrote about Mark Zuckerberg …
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| Li Tao / South China Morning Post: |
Huawei's CEO Eric Xu Zhijun questions the future of smartwatches, says even though the company has released two watches to date he will never use one — It turns out even people at the very cutting edge of technical innovation are entitled to a “technophobe” moment.| Scott Rosenberg / Backchannel: |
A look at how 15-year-old Google Book Search has shrunk in ambition and scope, after prolonged legal battles — Google Books was the company's first moonshot. But 15 years later, the project is stuck in low-Earth orbit. — Books can do anything. As Franz Kafka once said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's FreeTime subscription service gets a parental dashboard to monitor kids' usage of tablets, discussion cards to interact with kids, and more — Amazon FreeTime, the subscription service offering kid-friendly books, videos, apps and games, is today rolling out a feature called Discussion Cards …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Internal Uber email says Rachel Whetstone, SVP of global public policy and communications, will leave the company and be replaced by deputy Jill Hazelbaker — The longtime PR pro is being replaced by her deputy Jill Hazelbaker. — According to an internal email from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Payment processing company Adyen, whose clients include Spotify and Uber, says 2016 revenue grew 99% YoY to $727M and the company has no IPO plans — Adyen, the global payments processor that enables merchants to accept most kinds of payments online, on mobile, and in-store …
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