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Amazon announces Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit for wearables and Alexa Premium Voice Development Kit to improve far-field voice reception in third-party hardware — Amazon wants to bring Alexa to more devices than smart speakers, Fire TV and various other consumer electronics for the home, like alarm clocks.| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: Benchmark Capital will sell $900M worth of Uber shares, or 14.5% of its stake, to SoftBank-led consortium; Benchmark tried to sell about 25% — The firm at the center of the Uber power struggle tried to part with 25 percent of its shares. — Benchmark Capital will end up selling …
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Sources: Kalanick plans to sell ~29% of his 10% Uber stake, worth about $1.4B, to SoftBank consortium after offering 50%, the maximum allowed for board members — Former Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick, who has long boasted that he's never sold any shares …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Spotify's Chief Content Officer Stefan Blom is leaving ahead of its IPO; the company hasn't named a successor yet — Stefan Blom's departure may raise questions. — Spotify's top content executive is leaving, just ahead of the streaming music company's planned public offering.
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
What to expect at CES 2018: from energy efficient laptops, high-end TVs, and self-driving car tech to AR/VR gaming, robots, and smart home tech — It's January, which means that Las Vegas, or the bit that pretends not to be Las Vegas for tax reasons, will play host to CES.
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Bloomberg, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Windows Central, New York Times, CNET, Telegraph, CES, TechCrunch, CNET, Nextgov, Tom's Guide, eWeek, mirror, and ABC News. Tweets: @yoda
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google says Assistant is available on 400M+ devices, while it sold more than one Home every second since Home Mini Oct. launch, which translates to 6M+ speakers — Google Assistant is now available on 400 million devices, including more than 6 million Home smart speakers sold since the Home Mini first became available last October.
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Sources: GoPro is cutting 200-300 jobs, largely impacting its Karma drone division — GoPro is in the process of laying off around 200-300 employees this week, TechCrunch has learned from sources close to the company. The hits to the company were largely concentrated in its aerial division …
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SiliconBeat, The Verge, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Digital Photography Review, DroneDJ, TechSpot, Silicon Valley Business …, InvestorPlace, CNBC, Engadget, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @johnmccrea. Thanks:@mjburnsy
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nielsen: 54% of all US music is now streamed, surpassing all formats for the first time; on demand audio hit 400B streams in 2017, up from 252B in 2016 — U.S. album sales declined in 2017 as streaming continues to grow, according to Nielsen's year-end music report released this week.| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Internet Association, representing Amazon, Facebook, Google and others, says it will join upcoming lawsuit against net neutrality repeal as an intervening party — The companies will intervene in a coming lawsuit through their trade group, the Internet Association.| Tony Romm / Recode: |
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Techdirt, Federal Communications …, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, Motherboard, FCC, Fight for the Future, FCC, FCC, GeekWire, FCC, FCC, and Engadget. Tweets: @jrosenworcel
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| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Google invests undisclosed sum in Chinese game streaming service Chushou, which has now raised $120M+; Chushou claims ~8M streamers and 250K live streams a day — BEIJING (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google has joined an investment in Chinese live-stream mobile game platform Chushou … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Apple's App Store revenue was $38.5B in 2017, up 34.7% YoY, while Google Play's revenue was $20.1B, up 34.2% YoY — Global app revenue climbed 35 percent in 2017 to reach nearly $60 billion, according to a new report today from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower …
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Sources: Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August, a time believed to coincide with the full vesting of his Apple stock — His planned departure is likely timed to his shares fully vesting, sources tell Billboard. — Look for Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August.
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Bloomberg, Ars Technica, SiliconBeat, Hits Daily Double, Macworld, Fortune, CNBC, Recode, Seeking Alpha, Mashable, Tubefilter, TechSpot, ValueWalk, The Mac Observer, Tech Times, Silicon Republic, Business Insider, RAIN News, Digital Trends, hypebot, Firstpost, Highsnobiety, BGR India, PYMNTS.com, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, CNET, Patently Apple, Silicon Valley Business …, TechCrunch, Recode, The Verge, MacRumors, Axios, The FADER, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @pkafka
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud announces Preemptible GPUs in beta at 50% discount, says they can only be used for 24 hours and may be shut down with no more than a 30-sec warning — Google Cloud today announced the launch of preemptible GPUs. Like Google's preemptible VMs (and AWS's comparable spot instances) …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Apple says all Mac, iOS devices affected by Meltdown and Spectre; Meltdown defense added in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2; Spectre patch for Safari coming within days — After more than a day of silence, Apple confirmed Thursday that the Mac, iPhone and iPad are all affected by the recently disclosed massive chip vulnerability.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, Computerworld, Dashlane Blog, O'Grady's PowerPage, BGR India, Tom's Hardware, Security Affairs, Intel Newsroom, BGR, BetaNews, CNBC, SecurityWeek, Axios, The Register, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Engadget, and CNET. Tweets: @snowden
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