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| Day One: The Amazon Blog: |
Amazon selects New York City and Arlington, Virginia for its new headquarters, receiving $1.5B in performance-based incentives from NY and $573M from VA — Amazon to invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters, and announces Nashville as new Operations Center …
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| Washington Post: |
A look at the likely factors behind Amazon's decision to choose Crystal City, VA, as one of its HQ2 locations and how it may affect the region — Amazon will open major new outposts in Northern Virginia's Crystal City and in New York City, splitting its much-sought investment …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon says it has more than 10,000 employees working on its Alexa virtual assistant and Echo devices, up from 5,000 in September 2017 — Number of employees doubles the staff in that division a little more than a year ago — LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.— Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -.35% … | J. David Goodman / New York Times: |
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| Reuters: |
Nigerian internet provider Main One Cable Co says it accidentally caused the problem that misrouted some Google traffic through China on Monday — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nigerian internet provider Main One Cable Co took responsibility on Tuesday for a glitch that caused some Google traffic … | Tom Randall / Bloomberg: |
Source: Waymo plans to launch the world's first commercial driverless car service in December under a new brand that will compete directly with Uber and Lyft — Under a new name, the Google sibling plans to methodically build a futuristic rival to Uber and Lyft. This is how it will unfold.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Waymo CEO says its driverless car service will be available first in Phoenix and will charge individuals as well as businesses that want to shuttle customers — Waymo, which has been testing the program in the Phoenix area, has spent years and driven millions of miles to develop the technology
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
DeepMind's health subsidiary, maker of an app called Streams that helps with diagnosing specific conditions, is moving under the newly-formed Google Health unit — - DeepMind's health subsidiary is moving under the newly-formed Google Health led by former Geisinger CEO David Feinberg
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is finally re-released, after data loss bugs caused it to be pulled; Microsoft says it's focusing on improving code quality — October update, or November update? — Microsoft is releasing its Windows 10 October 2018 Update again today, after bugs forced the company to pull it offline last month.
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| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
EE says it will launch 5G in 2019 in the busiest parts of London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, and Manchester, and in 10 more cities later in year — EE's rollout to the 1,500 busiest sites in the UK will start in 2019, but don't expect 5G autonomous cars or smart cities just yet.| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Lime to launch a car sharing service in Seattle this week, starting with a fleet of 50 vehicles and quickly ramping that up to 1,500 cars by early 2019 — San Francisco-based startup Lime has spent the last year scattering an assortment of brightly colored scooters and bikes around American cities … | Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Spotify will roll out its Apple Watch app in the coming week but without key features like the ability to stream music on LTE or download songs — One of the big selling points of smartwatches is the ability to control apps without needing to pull out your phone.| Variety: |
Spotify launches in 13 markets across the Middle East and North Africa, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, with a fully Arabic user experience — As expected, today Spotify announced that it has launches its service in 13 new markets in the Middle East and North Africa, bringing the service to 78 markets in total.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft fixes a zero-day escalation of privilege bug in Windows after Kaspersky Lab researchers noticed multiple cyber-espionage groups exploiting it — Kaspersky: Windows zero-day exploited by multiple cyber-espionage groups. — Microsoft released today its monthly roll-up of security patches known as Patch Tuesday.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Bitmain claimed it had $1.25B in 2017 profits during the pre-IPO $400M+ Series B in June of 2018, while its IPO prospectus says it earned just ~$700M — Bitmain Technologies, the world's largest maker of cryptocurrency mining hardware, has stated significantly smaller profits … | AJ Dellinger / Engadget: |
Snapchat introduces Friendship Profiles highlighting close relationships, custom Bitmoji merchandise, and Bitmoji Stories — Snapchat is introducing new Friendship Profiles that will celebrate your relationships with your closest friends. The feature will dig up some of the highlights …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Yahoo Finance is launching a subscription service, Yahoo Finance Premium, in Q1 2019 that a source says will likely cost $100+/month — Yahoo Finance, the decades-old money brand now owned by Verizon, is launching a subscription service that aims to compete with Bloomberg for the cash … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zendesk announces Sunshine, a development platform that's free for its enterprise customers, and Sell, a CRM tool launching for $19 per user per month — Cloud customer-support software company Zendesk on Tuesday announced a new tool for salespeople and a compatible system for developing custom applications.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Ridecell, a SaaS platform for self-driving, ride-hailing, and other mobility companies, raises Series B extension, closing the round at $60M — Car-sharing, ride-sharing, and ride-hailing companies have something in common: They rely on fairly sophisticated backends to keep fleets up and running on time.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Learn with Facebook, a career development site with lessons on subjects like digital marketing, and improves its Mentorships and Jobs services — With the launch of a way for people to connect with each other in mentoring relationships, and to look for jobs … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google's G Suite Twitter account is the latest to get hacked to promote a crypto scam, joining companies like Target, which had its account hacked this morning — Another major account has fallen victim — Google's official G Suite Twitter account is the latest victim of an ongoing bitcoin scam …
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